In search of understanding
David Gurteen wonders whether better knowledge necessarily makes for wiser decision making.

News: Citrix invests in Contendo
Citrix Systems has announced its investment in Cotendo, a provider of mobile content acceleration and optimisation processes.

News: Productivity drain
Collaboration and social tools designed to increase productivity are costing businesses £57.8bn per year in lost productivity.

News: Cloud comfort
The cloud is creating a greater sense of capability and collaboration, which could result in contractual and operational ambiguity, according to research by the Cloud Industry Forum.
Published in the third of a series of white papers scoping cloud adoption attitudes and trends, the findings point to a transformation in the way that IT services are procured. It shows that end users seek comfort, reliability, control, integration and security of hosted services.

Added support
Standing Cloud has added the cloud providers OpSource, Altantic.Net and Peak Colo to its application management service.

Plain sailing
Stena has migrated the web content management systems of four of its customer facing websites over to SharePoint 2010.