Kathleen Lau

Using Second Life as a business collaboration tool has garnered a bad reputation with previous public failures. But analyst firm ThinkBalm and vendor Forterra Systems finds real use cases are beginning to emerge that are driving enterprise acceptance

The intent is not for IBM

At Lotusphere 2010, IBM focuses on collaboration and the cloud with its Collaboration Agenda for helping customers define collaboration strategies; LotusLive Labs; and its vision for the evolution of collaboration in Project Vulcan. William Shatner makes an appearance, IBM takes shots at Microsoft

ABI Research expects a fivefold increase in smart phones protected by advanced security software in the next five years. Now, there

Master Data Management (MDM) has many hurdles to overcome in the enterprise not the least of which is a mosaic of IT systems and inefficient data flow between users. How to include legacy apps in an MDM blueprint

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are investing US$250 million over three years towards an integrated infrastructure to application approach for customers. But one IDC Canada analyst said the strategy is not that unique

The Indianapolis.-based school management services provider has rolled out desktop and server virtualization and data storage technologies to tackle a computing infrastructure buckling at the knees. The IT challenges specific to the education sector