Welcome to Collaborative Strategy Guild Where insights are transformed into actions at the intersection of collaboration, information management, security, and business strategy.
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The Collaborative Strategy Guild™ comprises independent analysts and thought leaders. For more about our individual work, please click on the links to our individual websites below.
We’re a collective of seasoned professionals, each with decades of experience in our discipline. We have extensive backgrounds working with the largest end-user enterprises and top-tier vendor solution providers. We “get” collaboration. We “get” information management. And we “get” security and risk. We’ve been go-to experts for Fortune 500 organizations and top technology media such as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times for years. Now we’re… Continue reading: Welcome!
from an upcoming article series by Char Sample,
from Karen Hobert’s Connecting Dots by Karen Hobert Since its announcement of the Software+Services strategy in 2006, Microsoft has been steadily refining and growing it’s online offerings. Over the last two years Microsoft has unveiled it’s strategy at regular intervals. Thus far we’ve been taken from the S+S strategy in the summer of 2006 through the general availability of US-based consumer and business grade hosted messaging, communications, and collaboration services in November 2008. Last week Microsoft’s cloud got bigger with the general availability of worldwide Microsoft Online Services for any sized company. According to Microsoft’s press release:
…the Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Services, is now available for trial to businesses of all sizes in 19… Continue reading: A Bigger Microsoft Cloud
As noted by many, the phrase “cloud computing” is ambiguous enough to encompass everything (and therefore nothing). I think at the very least we should be discussing the cloud in terms of connections that terminate there. That is, we should think of cloud computing as providing services for either the connection source (e.g. virtual desktop infrastructure) or a connection destination (target servers). If the service happens in the cloud, but operates on traffic that is just passing through the cloud, I don’t think it should be a part of “cloud computing.” That means that proxies and other inline security functions are not “cloud” proper since the termination points… Continue reading: Just Passing Through the Cloud
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