An April 2008 Forrester report predicts that the Enterprise Web 2.0 and social computing market will grow from $455M in 2007 to $4.6B in 2013. This paper summarizes: 1) Why Companies Are Pursuing Social Computing 2) What Enterprise Social Computing Really Is 3) How To Implement Social Computing Successfully 

This paper builds a model of enterprise social computing by analyzing business goals. It builds the architectural components and the relationships between them by starting from a basic definition of social computing and the most common goals. 

This paper examines whether cloud computing makes good business sense for your company. Ultimately, you may find that moving your data to the cloud actually improves security, scalability, access, and disaster recovery. 

This presentation transcript explores the business benefits of upgrading to a flexible computing environment. Discover how you can help your customers transition to this environment by providing application virtualisation, profile virtualisation and centralised management tools. 

In this expert E-Guide you will gain insight into the origins and benefits of cloud computing. Learn which key questions that should be asked when planning a cloud architecture, and explore the important network considerations that should be taken into account when beginning a cloud initiative. 

This podcast explores the business benefits of upgrading to a flexible computing environment. Discover how you can help your customers transition to this environment by providing application virtualisation, profile virtualisation and centralised management tools. 

While there has been much hype around cloud computing, it is critical for executive staff of competitive enterprises to understand and begin planning for internal cloud services. IT executives must own and drive enterprise-wide cloud computing strategies. 

Tune into this podcast for expert insight into the impact of cloud computing on your IT infrastructure. Hear from cloud computing expert, Jeff Kaplan, as he explains the basic pressures driving cloud computing. Learn about Amazon's influence on the cloud market and discover the 3 elements that attract enterprises to the cloud. 

Oracle's vision of the next-generation data center is the Oracle Grid Computing architecture, which provides the software building blocks for creating a service-oriented, shared-resource environment. Read this paper to discover more of what Oracle has to offer. 

The current economic climate is forcing more systematic thinking about costs in general, including those associated with overall complexity and the security and resiliency of large distributed infrastructures. These trends intersect in powerful ways; a new wave of computing is gathering momentum as a result. And open source is playing a major role. 

Some pundits foresee a future in which all data center computing is done in the "cloud," but that future is a long way off. Most organizations have just begun to venture into the cloud. Many others remain skeptical because of security and quality-of-service concerns. Read this ebook to learn what CIOs can to do now to prep their own environments. 

Hear from Forrester Research experts to learn about 5 key business and technology trends that are enabling companies to reduce costs AND ensure web application performance.