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IT budgets for 2009

We have just wrapped up two major surveys of organizational decision makers - one with midsized and large organizations and the other with small to midsized businesses. Included in the surveys for both groups were the following questions: * What will ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  15 Dec 2008

Some predictions for 2009

Lots of people offer predictions at this time of year. Not to be left out of the plethora of voices offering their predictions for 2009, here are my educated guesses as to what we'll see in the new year: * Just as retailers get more creative and ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  10 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Are your e-mail policies adequate?

We have just published a major study on messaging policy management among midsized and large organizations. One of the key findings of the study was that only about one-third of organizations have what they consider to be a detailed and thorough e-mail ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  8 Dec 2008

A hard disk failure puts critical business information at risk

I had an interesting discussion recently with DriveSavers, one of the leading hard disk recovery firms in North America. The company has 82 employees and is headquartered in Novato, Calif., just north of San Francisco. We talk a lot about ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  3 Dec 2008

Moving on from Network World

I have been writing for Network World newsletters since late 1999 when I was vice-president of market research for Creative Networks, one of the leading market research and consulting firms in the messaging space at that time. After starting ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  1 Dec 2008

Managing processes more effectively

E-mail is a fantastic tool for communicating with others, sending and receiving files (albeit with limitations) and managing personal tasks. E-mail is less useful for things like managing projects, particularly when multiple people are involved ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  24 Nov 2008

Unified communications and the economic slowdown

An economic slowdown is an interesting phenomenon. While there are some structural elements of a slowdown that are real, much of a slowdown is a self-fulfilling prophecy: people are afraid of their economic future so they slow spending, which ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  19 Nov 2008

The spam problem was mostly solved last Tuesday

McColo - which is based in San Jose, but much of whose management is located in Russia and Eastern Europe - was reportedly a major hosting service for spammers, botnet operators and others in the spam industry. The sudden drop in spam is a major ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  17 Nov 2008

Would you pay $1 million for an archiving system?

The mayor of Detroit resigned his position in September, his chief of staff resigned in January and the mayor will be spending four months in jail. Part of what precipitated these events was a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by three police ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  12 Nov 2008

CMIS promises easier information sharing

Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) has been proposed as a standard by IBM, Microsoft and EMC as a way of using Web services for sharing content between a variety of content repositories. While the process of turning CMIS into ...

From MICHAEL OSTERMAN, NetworkWorld,  10 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  IBM

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