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Hardware: Software-Defined Network (SDN) Technology Threatens Hardware Giants

By Dick Weisinger

Software-defined networks (SDN) are networks created by software that abstracts and controls basic networking hardware components.  It’s similar in philosophy to how virtualized servers can be abstracted with software from the component physical machines.  SDN is expected to make networks…

Enterprise Social: A Slow Revolution in How Businesses Operate

By Dick Weisinger

About half of employees say that the use of social tools boosts their productivity at work.  But the problem is that many organizations don’t know how to formally respond to or to take advantage advantage of these tools.  Businesses worry…

Virtualization: No Traction from Open Source Alternatives

By Dick Weisinger

VMWare continues to lead the virtualization market.  Open Source alternatives just aren’t getting any traction. A recent survey by OpsView of IT managers looked at how IT shops are using virtualization technology.  75 percent of businesses report that they’ve now…

Enterprise Content Management: ECM at the Crossroads

By Dick Weisinger

A recent report by the AIIM looks at the current state of the ECM industry.   The AIIM report found that businesses are typically using ECM today for:   78 percent use it for standard document management or a file-share…

ECM: Alfresco Workdesk: Focus on Transactional Content and Case File Management

By Dick Weisinger

Alfresco has recently acquired and begun selling the ECM application called Alfresco Workdesk. Formtek, a Gold-Integration partner of Alfresco since 2007, is now trained on WorkDesk and has added it to the list of Alfresco technologies which they support. What is WorkDesk? Alfresco…