Enterprise 2.0 to double

The adoption rate for Enterprise 2.0 will nearly double in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and Russia over the next 18 months, according to a new survey from technology research company IDC, reports IT Wales.

Presenting its findings at its annual European ICT Forum in Berlin this week, the analyst revealed that 47% of respondents believe Enterprise 2.0 uptake will be because of Web 2.0 solutions used to enhance internal collaboration.

An additional 31% attributed increased growth to the growing importance of customer services, while 26% believed it would be due to the enhancement of external collaboration.

VMware hopes to make virtualisation software as common in data centres as ketchup is on hamburgers, via a "thin hypervisor" that IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Dell all plan to embed in their x86 servers, reports Computer World.

Building VMware's new ESX Server 3i into systems should make it easier to set up virtual servers, said Joe Whorton, a software engineer at a financial services firm that he asked not be named.

Systems could just be "stacked and racked", he said at VMware's user conference in San Francisco.

The US Navy Department CIO's office is trying to make it easier for programme managers to position IT initiatives within the Global Information Grid, reports FWC.

The Navy recently issued Version 2 of its enterprise architecture, which provides a management view that aligns the service's various architecture projects with the Navy's goals and objectives.

The document introduces the concept of architecture federation. Rather than strive for a single architecture, the service seeks to create relationships among existing and divergent service architectures and maximise the re-use of their common components.