Younger employees -- like that new batch of college grads hitting the market right now -- are going to be pushing employers to use Web 2.0 technologies on the job. And if their companies don't start adopting them, younger workers will most likely just start using them on the sly.
"The upcoming generation is going to have a major impact on business. She will expect to have access to her tools in the workplace," said Marthin De Beer, a senior VP with Cisco Systems. "It would be like someone from my generation not having access to e-mail and instant messaging. If they don't get this stuff, they probably won't be there for a long time."
De Beer was one of the keynote speakers focusing on what became a common theme Tuesday at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. IT managers better start preparing to deal with Web 2.0 technologies, like wikis, blogs, mashups, and social networking sites, because sooner or later -- and it'll probably be sooner -- they're going to have to deal with it.
And that means adopting technologies, managing them, and securing the network from the people who use them.
"People are bringing from home an expectation of how computing should be," said Dennis Moore, a general manager with SAP, who also gave a keynote presentation Tuesday morning. "Ten or 20 years ago, people did not bring computing expectations to the office. Now people have better computer technologies at home. ... People want to use their favorite technologies at work. They're satisfying themselves and not waiting for IT."
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
