In last week’s blog entry, Rene’ aptly termed 2011 as the Year of Me; the year when social media and a wide range of other personal applications were used in abundance on corporate networks. We predict that the usage patterns will continue and we need look no further than the latest edition of our Application [...]

Yes, the year of me. The year of: I will use whatever app I want and you can’t stop me. Social networking, Google apps, streaming media, web mail, instant messaging, and file sharing of all types – are all running rampant on our networks – right beside SAP, Jive, salesforce.com, and GoToMeeting.

There is a view in some IT circles that any non-work related application should be banned. Social networking is their poster child and the rationale is that these apps are time wasting, bandwidth hogging, threat inducing etc.. The common reaction is to ban them all! The contrarian view is that social networking is used, as [...]