The “search” for a unified view of private and public information.

The recent growth in cloud computing has been significant.  As an alternative approach to shared infrastructure of linked systems, cloud computing yields cost savings, flexibility, and efficiency in the delivery of IT services.  The need for such an environment is being fueled by an explosion of data, devices, and social computing.  Whether public, private or hybrid, a major driver of cloud computing is the need for companies to get new ideas, products and services to market faster and more efficiently.  An emerging source of that creativity and innovation is social networks, where conversation-driven collaboration is taking place.  What if work teams could find and aggregate relevant content wherever it resides – in formal, defined, and casual networks?  Join us for a discussion about the available tools and techniques for leveraging information from cloud-borne, social, and internal applications to aggregate ideas, impact thinking, and drive business decisions.