In fact, many corporations are already allowing their employees to access and carry corporate data on their personal devices.
Postini sells spam filtering software to corporate data centers.
Corporate data centers are the slowpoke laggards of information technology.
Aid noted that many civil libertarians find corporate data troves to be similarly problematic.
But economic and corporate data from the United States have a much bigger effect, they said.
"If you want to build a corporate data network, Microsoft may have the widgets you need".
The site's database of members, as well as a huge amount of internal corporate data.
They might even hold real estate used for corporate data centers or for self-storage facilities.
Besides, corporate data can be loaded into Yammer's networks by each user, he said.
That is, he said, about 10 times faster than the speed of many corporate data systems.
The idea of combining proprietary corporate data with public data is hardly new.
