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Students Turn Social Media Skills into Social Business Strategy

San Jose State University and IBM partner in a real-world project to help students translate their Facebook and Twitter prowess into powerful business strategies. Full Story »
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TD Bank Gets Social for Better Business

When TD Bank Group made a lot of acquisitions a few years ago, executives knew they needed to find a way to help employees span international borders and work together.

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Enterprise Social Software: What Businesses Need to Do Next

A Forrester Research report says that while social software is gaining steam in the marketplace, businesses are nowhere near close to seeing a social revolution. Here's a look at the report's key findings, plus five tips for mapping out the next steps.

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What to Look for in Secure Collaboration Tools

Despite monumental enterprise efforts to secure information, data breaches continue to top headlines, in part because of the way employees collaborate and share data. What's needed are enterprise-level secure collaboration tools.

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Unified Communications Success Depends on Changing Employee Habits

CIOs offer tips for getting employees to change their most ingrained habits and adopt new unified communications tools.

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TIBCO CEO: How Real-Time Computing Will Change the Landscape

Tibco CEO Vivek Ranadive talks with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about why your company needs to move to real-time computing and how TIBCO's 'two-second advantage' can change your business.

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Collaboration's Fragility

We all want every collaborative effort to be an ideal experience, but we get disasters much more often. Here are some of the obstacles we must overcome.

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CIO Alert: Five Cures for What Ails IT

IT groups often struggle to stay efficient as a business grows and evolves. Here are five tips for CIOs needing to improve budgeting and vendor relationships and align IT and business priorities. First step: Go to lunch.

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Cisco Buys Microsoft Office Collaboration Company

Cisco Monday announced that it has acquired privately held Versly, a maker of collaboration software for Microsoft Office applications.

Expert View

How To Improve Collaboration with Development and Operations

IT managers struggle with getting development and operations (DevOps) teams working together more efficiently. Here are six ways infrastructure and operations (I&O) can improve collaboration.

How To

Workplace Conflict: How to Deal with Difficult People

We've all run into at least one of these four types of troublesome co-workers. Teambuilding expert Kaley Klemp explains how to handle them.

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Polycom Unveils Videoconferencing System That Supports Lync

Polycom today unveiled a $10,000 room-size videoconferencing system that integrates with Microsoft's Lync collaboration tools.

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Microsoft Matches Google Docs with Collaboration in Word Web App

Microsoft closed the gap between its Office Web Apps and Google Docs somewhat today by adding co-authoring to the free Word Web App, letting multiple users edit a document simultaneously in the Web browser.

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How Random House Overcame 3 Common Enterprise Collaboration Obstacles

Enterprise collaboration tools can foster better communication and elicit transparency from business units. Here's how Random House implemented an enterprise collaboration suite, encouraged adoption and is measuring its success.

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Geo-Replication, a Tool for Maximizing Collaboration Solutions for Distributed Teams

As teams become increasingly dispersed and mobile, you must ensure every team member can efficiently access up-to-date, centralized information and share updated documents, even over slow or intermittent Internet connections.

 
Forrester Research makes recommendations on best practices to optimize branch virtualization and consolidation initiatives. See how a "thin" branch architecture, with key servers, services and applications in the data center that relies on a high-performing WAN connection, can offer the greatest efficiencies.
The Box KnowledgeVault is an interactive resource for busy IT professionals who want insights on important technology trends, insights they can use to make their IT infrastructure deliver greater business value and transform their organizations. This KnowledgeVault is dedicated to the mission-critical theme of collaboration and document sharing. You'll find a series of brief videos and presentations packed with useful information, as well as related tools and resources.
Most collaboration and document sharing solutions in use today don't span the entire organization or surface all the information users want, let alone do it securely. There is a better way.
Box provides cloudbased content storage, access and collaboration services that require virtually no user training and supports file access and delivery on almost all popular PC and mobile devices. The services of Box let companies rapidly implement a cost-effective and secure content storage and sharing system that can easily expand to accommodate any size and number of files.
According to a new study by IDG research, which surveyed more than 260 large-enterprise IT managers, the vast majority of knowledge workers (86 percent) placed a very high level of importance on collaborating with internal coworkers and external stakeholders, and having access to the most up-to-date corporate information.
Learn about the importance knowledge workers place on having the latest technologies and tools, access to the most up-to-date corporate information, and having the ability to collaborate securely within and beyond organizational boundaries.
Download this webcast to learn about the design considerations for virtualizing SQL workloads, performance and scalability information and high-availability options, as well as support considerations
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business
Applications are changing - they're increasingly web-oriented, global in nature and run from multiple device types. Additionally, the volume of data is growing exponentially every year. How do you ensure your applications have fast, accurate, up-to-date information in this new world? Modern applications are data-intensive; delivering data the old way using monolithic databases isn't working. What's needed is a modern approach to data. One that scales-out as needed and delivers predictable high performance, but without sacrificing data consistency or integrity.
VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control.

View this webcast and find out how VMware View 5 can help you:
- Deliver the highest fidelity experience of desktop services across any device and any network
- Simplify and automate IT management, security and control of desktop services
- Reduce the costs associated with your desktop environment
IT professionals are being asked to deliver faster "time-to-value" than ever before. An IDG Research survey found that CIOs are eager to invest in technologies that will enable them to get new applications and services up quickly, achieving faster time-to-value.
Learn how to reduce IT management overhead, ease revision control, guarantee data security, scale systems more quickly and reduce server and software costs.
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