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The Architect and the CSO: Enterprise Security's Dynamic Duo July 24, 2010 
Welcome to a panel discussion that examines the need for improved common defenses -- including advancing cooperation between enterprise architects and chief security officers -- to jointly defend against burgeoning cyber security threats. The risks are coming from inside enterprises, as well as myriad external sources.
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The CIO's Guide to Business-Class Video July 09, 2010 
As the enterprise progresses toward the goal of proving fully immersive and collaborative capabilities to remote individuals, it is important to realize the value of video not only as a technological achievement, but as a practical business enhancement.
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A Note-Slinging Dynamic Duo July 07, 2010 
The drawback with using most note-taking applications on any platform is that they are limited in the type of data you can put into them. For instance, simple text editors ignore Internet and content links. Plus, you cannot import graphics. Even word-processing programs, which overcome the links and graphics deficiencies, lack the tree structure that makes storing and viewing notes quick and useful.
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App Development: New Rules for a New Game, Part 3 July 01, 2010 
Application development in the cloud requires special data models such as schema-less and sometimes typeless databases, and that could lead to a new battleground in which the major players such as Microsoft, IBM and HP will come out with their own data models and back-end platforms.
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The Real Killer App Inside Chatter June 29, 2010 
They say we have big brains because we have all needed to work better together over the past 150,000 years. The more people work together, the more tools they need to make collaboration a productive art, rather than a befuddled mess. Rather than wait for human evolution to keep up the pace, Salesforce.com recently delivered its Chatter cloud-based collaboration service.
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The CIO's Perspective on Unified Communications June 26, 2010 
The top pressures and strategic actions identified by Aberdeen's study of Best-in-Class companies indicate that unified communications must support both internal and external business pressures. Although companies have traditionally used a bifurcated approach of external-facing contact center and internal-facing telecom deployment for employees, this approach is increasingly irrelevant.
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Let the Collaboration Era Begin June 24, 2010 
Tell them what you are going to say, say it, and then tell them what you told them. The rule of three, that's the Salesforce.com approach to its market outreach, and it has served them well over the last decade. Tuesday was part three of the Chatter cycle, in which the company culminated nearly a year of activity by announcing general availability of the product.
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Salesforce.com Pushes More Chatter in the Workplace June 22, 2010 
Salesforce.com has made its latest product, Salesforce.com Chatter, generally available for its 77,300 customers. First unveiled as a private beta earlier this year, Chatter is a real-time social collaboration application and platform for the enterprise. It allows employees to send feeds and status updates about projects, account and clients, as well as maintain profiles.
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The End of Project Failure June 22, 2010 
More than ever before, project managers are looking to technology help mitigate the risk of project failure. According to a recent list of Top 10 Project Management Trends, "the implementation of new PPM solutions [in 2010] will soar. The reason is clear: Project failure rates continue to climb.
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The New Business Sustainability Paradigm June 18, 2010 
Enterprise 2.0 came to Boston this week, and that made me happy because it is one of a very small number of events that I don't fly to. Being a native, it's nice to take the train into the city and to be able to sleep at home. Despite this convenience, I was only able to attend on Tuesday, and I concentrated on the vendor show floor at the expense of missing some very good keynotes and sessions.
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App Development: New Rules for a New Game, Part 2 June 16, 2010 
Social networking is becoming increasingly important as a business tool, with businesses moving toward concepts like Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0. This requires a new approach to application development, where capabilities for feeds and profiles are incorporated into apps during coding; apps become push, not pull; and the interface becomes touch, not click.
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Juggling Risk in the Cloud Security Circus June 12, 2010 
Today's headlines point to more sophisticated and large-scale and malicious online activities. For some folks, therefore, the consensus seems to be that the cloud computing model and vision are not up to the task when it comes to security. But at the RSA Conference earlier this year, a panel came together to talk about security and cloud computing.
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The New Social Business Model: Reaping the Benefits of Online Communities June 11, 2010 
A lot of folks look down their noses at the prospect of Facebook penetrating the corporate world in a meaningful fashion. In fact, many people believe that the IT community will do everything possible to resist this prospect because of the security, privacy and compliance issues surrounding the social network.
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The Power of Enterprise-Wide Brainstorming Tools May 28, 2010 
On May 3, SuccessFactors, a business execution solution, purchased CubeTree for $20 million in stock and a $30 million cash payment, contingent on the performance of SuccessFactor's stock over the next three years. This article will analyze this purchase, provide contextual background on this deal, and provide recommendations to companies seeking to improve their corporate collaboration.
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A Red-Letter Week for CRM May 26, 2010 
Last week was busy in a good way, and also in ways that we have not seen in a while -- and at least some of that busy-ness showed promise for the economy and our industry. In no particular order, Cloud9 Analytics announced it closed its C round financing, SAP held its user meeting in Orlando, Sage held its partner meeting in Denver, and Microsoft sued Salesforce.
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The Reinvention of VoIP May 26, 2010 
Voice over IP technology is getting a makeover, and service providers hope it will reinvent the industry. There's a shift away from VoIP toward hosted unified communications -- that is, integrated voice, instant messenger, email, workflow applications, CRM and procurement.
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Google Street View's Wandering WiFi Eye May 22, 2010 
To create its Street View service, Google sends fleets of cars to drive around cities all over the world and take pictures with the 360-degree cameras they have strapped to their roofs. The result is many things to many people: a convenient source of information, a depressing reminder that your home is ugly, an enduring memento of that time you ducked into an alley and thought nobody was looking, etc.
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When to Give Customers What They Didn't Ask For: Q&A With Salesforce.com CMO Kendall Collins May 17, 2010 
Over the years, Salesforce.com has gradually transformed itself from being a CRM company to a cloud services provider. Along the way, it partnered with leading-edge Web 2.0 companies such as Google and Facebook, and most recently, it teamed up with virtualization giant VMware to offer VMforce, a new platform for application developers.
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Will Verizon's Gooblet Be a Droiblet or a Chroblet? May 15, 2010 
When it became clear that the iPad was seriously going to take off, some very important people at some very large companies made a decision: You are going to buy a tablet computer whether you like it or not. It doesn't have to be an iPad. Might be Windows, Android, webOS, or something not even invented yet, but you'll have one.
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Court Defeat Puts LimeWire Back in the Limelight May 14, 2010 
Is it 2005 or 2010? That's what many music industry observers may be asking themselves after U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood ruled Wednesday that online file-sharing software provider LimeWire has been infringing on the copyrights of creative artists in general, and recording industry companies, specifically.
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