Despite the financial climate, the technology torrent hasn't slowed
And the impetus is in the consumer space: mobile technologies, Apple's iPad,
Skype,
Facebook,
Twitter,
Yammer,
and the rest of the iceberg. Should the enterprise explit public infrastructure, or keep its internal conversations on private platforms?
New collaborative tools create options within and beyond your enterprise. But today's distributed information resources and connected ways of working also challenge architecture, management and security.
Sometimes, the security of a strong established vendor is imperative. But at other times, a tactical investment in a novel technology can create competitive advantage. The key is to understand and exploit the difference – set out in this ITasITis blog post from 2011.
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