Powering this vision is a suite of IBM products such as Lotus Notes for email, contacts, and calendaring, Lotus Connections, the social networking environment, Lotus Quickr, the document repository, and Lotus Sametime for unified communications and real time collaboration such as web conferencing and instant messaging.

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Applications that have been or are being moved to the cloud include email and Web services (77%), storage (74%) and collaboration solutions such as Web conferencing and instant messaging (72%).

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Office 365 offers Office Web Apps plus access to hosted versions of Outlook e-mail, Sharepoint collaboration, and Lync instant messaging (formerly Office Communicator), as well as the ability to download the full version of Office 2010 Professional Plus.

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Prior to Extreme Networks, Oscar served as the CEO of Movius Interactive Corporation, a messaging, collaboration and mobile media solutions company.

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From award-winning IP communications to mobility, customer care, Web conferencing, messaging, enterprise social software, and interoperable telepresence experiences, Cisco brings together integrated network-based collaboration solutions based on open standards.

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Over the past couple of years, IBM has been working on technology for collaboration that include not just email but instant messaging, web meetings, blogs, wikis, Facebook-type communities and Twitter-like activity streams.

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Complementing a central HR system implementation, products like SharePoint server can act a central hub for collaboration and information management, while Yammer can facilitate social networking and performance management, and Lync can enable VoIP, instant messaging, teleconferencing, and more.

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