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Archive for June, 2009
The Box.net vs SharePoint Challenge
29 Jun 2009The good folks at Box.net contacted me regarding their “Box.net vs SharePoint” challenge that was kicked off at Enterprise 2.0 last week in Boston. Many will recognize box.net as one of the more mature yet fledgling “online file sharing and backup” providers, so it is good to see these types of vendors move on from [...]
The “Reverse Network Effect” - Part One
In: Conferences| Network
25 Jun 2009This article is part one of two in the series.
What happens when Web 2.0 technologies are so pervasive that everybody is online all the time and everywhere? At any given conference, you have people catching up on work (email), killing time (aka surfing), or working on a document. The bane of a laptop user’s existence [...]
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- Tags: E2Conf, Network
Humor 2.0: Facebook in Reality
In: Humor
24 Jun 2009I spoke to a CIO a few months ago about her thoughts on the “social networking phenomenon” in the enterprise as it is changing the issues and concerns she has to deal with in her daily job. She pointed out one interesting factoid: She neither knows, nor can find out her assistant’s Facebook account. The [...]
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- Tags: Facebook
Clouds Are Still On-Premise (For Somebody)
In: Conferences| General
23 Jun 2009At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference last night, Google showed the picture of a “Real Google Cloud” below. There was no mention of where it is physically located, but the sheer size and scale makes the “Google Cloud” seem really, really heavy (once you think about how many datacenters Google really has).
The Google presentation showed that while [...]
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- Tags: E2Conf, EMC, Google, Security
Enterprises and Cloud Computing - Where do we start?
In: General
22 Jun 2009Say “Cloud Computing” to any random group of people at your organization and you will have enough definitions, interpretations, and expectations to ensure that no one is really sure what it means anymore. It is just “Web 2.0” technologies, hosted environments, virtualization, community and “crowdsourcing”, or just the next step in the continual evolution of the computing?
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- Tags: contribute, digital natives, industry
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Ashish C. Morzaria is a Senior Product Manager at SAP, Business Objects Division. He is responsible for an enterprise product line that leverages emerging strategies such as Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, and decision making. This blog is not endorsed by SAP nor does it constitute any official communication of SAP.
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