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  • U.S. Army tries out Salesforce.com in recruiting

    Posted February 4, 2009 - 1:04 pm

    The U.S. Army is using the customer relationship management software of Salesforce.com in a pilot program to help it recruit for Uncle Sam.

  • 3Tera brings Windows to its cloud

    Posted February 3, 2009 - 6:25 pm

    3Tera has added support for Windows applications and appliances to version 2.4 of its cloud-computing platform AppLogic, the company announced Tuesday.

  • Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz on the hot seat

    Posted February 3, 2009 - 10:52 am

    Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz thinks that the economic downturn and the Wall Street meltdown will make IT managers more open to change than they have ever been before. And that is going to benefit Sun and its open-source strategy, contends Schwartz, who is also the company's president and a high-profile blogger.

  • McAfee builds SaaS arm

    Posted February 2, 2009 - 5:36 pm

    McAfee on Monday announced that it has rolled its SaaS security offerings into a new business unit.

  • The Case Against Cloud Computing, Part Two

    Posted February 2, 2009 - 10:44 am

    In speaking with a number of people involved with cloud computing, I found that they (rather paradoxically) discussed with great vigor all the barriers to enterprises adopting cloud computing. One such barrier: Cloud computing imposes legal, regulatory, and business risk.

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    Route 128 VC Firm Favors SaaS

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 3:11 pm

    Ever wonder where so many Software As A Service companies have come from lately? One reason is they have big fans in important places, like venture capital firms. I spoke to Mike Fitzgerald, founder and managing general parter of Commonwealth Capital Ventures, about his fondness for SaaS companies. One big reason he likes them? An early one he funded, Constant Contact, has become a leader in e-mail marketing.

  • IBM expands SaaS ecosystem

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 11:31 am

    IBM on Friday detailed a new ISV partnership, a move which, on the heels of cloud-related agreements penned last week with several universities, advances the company's cloud and SaaS realm.

  • Tips for safe cloud storage

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 11:21 am

    Entrusting enterprise data to a storage provider's online cloud may be no more risky than putting it in a proprietary storage platform in your own data center, according to some analysts and users. But there are specific steps you should take to prevent problems.

  • What if my storage cloud turns stormy?

    Posted January 30, 2009 - 10:53 am

    Services that store enterprise data in a "cloud" on the Internet raise questions that organizations are just beginning to ask, but for all their limitations, they may be no more risky than on-site storage platforms.

  • Oracle takes aim at Salesforce with on-demand CRM update

    Posted January 27, 2009 - 6:29 pm

    Oracle is making a renewed push against Salesforce with a new version of its on-demand CRM application.

  • Intacct cuts entry-level costs, adds global consolidation

    Posted January 26, 2009 - 9:51 pm

    Intacct, maker of on-demand accounting software, is accelerating its attempt to snare customers who are outgrowing Intuit's popular QuickBooks product by slashing entry-level pricing and adding advanced features.

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    Application performance in a SaaS environment

    Posted January 26, 2009 - 3:06 pm

    There are three metrics jostling for the position of most important when considering SaaS implementations: SAS 70 Type II compliance, business continuity and resiliency, and application performance. Each of these measures is of substantial importance to firms; determining which is the most important is nearly impossible.

  • The Case Against Cloud Computing, Part One

    Posted January 26, 2009 - 11:44 am

    I've had a series of interesting conversations with people involved in cloud computing who, paradoxically, maintain that cloud computing is -- at least today -- inappropriate for enterprises. I say paradoxically because each of them works for or represents a large technology company's cloud computing efforts, and one would think their role would motivate them to strongly advocate cloud adoption. So why the tepid enthusiasm?

  • GE Gets in the Cloud for New SaaS Supply Chain App

    Posted January 26, 2009 - 11:34 am

    In 2008, GE bought the application of a little-known software-as-a-service vendor that would ultimately become the largest SaaS deployment to date.

  • Open source developers ride the cloud

    Posted January 20, 2009 - 1:37 pm

    Nearly half of developers working on open source projects plan to offer applications as Web services offerings using cloud providers, according to results of an Evans Data open source development survey.

  • The Cloud: What Clayton Christensen Can Teach Us

    Posted January 20, 2009 - 12:24 pm

    Given that cloud computing leverages virtualization, and virtualization is a sustaining innovation, does that mean cloud computing is also a sustaining innovation? Perhaps, but it's just as likely to be a disruptive innovation, both to established technology vendors, but also, crucially, to technology users, i.e., IT organizations.

  • IBM intros Lotus cloud suite, partners with Skype, SF.com

    Posted January 19, 2009 - 3:00 pm

    IBM has unveiled a new portfolio of cloud services called LotusLive for collaboration and enterprise social networking.

  • IBM buying SaaS e-mail to bolster Bluehouse platform

    Posted January 16, 2009 - 1:14 pm

    IBM is planning to buy the SaaS email assets of Hong Kong-based Outblaze to help beef up its Bluehouse social-networking and collaboration platform.

  • Forrester: Be careful negotiating SaaS contracts

    Posted January 15, 2009 - 5:13 pm

    As SaaS (software as a service) applications continue to gain momentum, customers should take certain precautions when negotiating contracts, a Forrester Research analyst said on Thursday.

  • Salesforce launches Service Cloud

    Posted January 15, 2009 - 11:24 am

    Salesforce has repurposed the customer-service software acquired through its August 2008 purchase of InstraNet into a new offering called the Service Cloud, the company announced Thursday.

  • Microsoft refreshes Azure cloud tools

    Posted January 15, 2009 - 10:47 am

    Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday refreshed versions of its Windows Azure software development kit and Azure tools for Visual Studio, which support the planned Windows Azure cloud services platform.

  • Joyent to buy open-source Google App Engine competitor

    Posted January 14, 2009 - 5:51 pm

    Cloud-computing provider Joyent is buying a Web application framework that competes with Google App Engine.

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    Pure SaaS

    Posted January 14, 2009 - 5:41 pm

    What, exactly, does a software as a service provider look like? Here's a hint: The physical level infrastructure should never, ever, nada, nope, never come up in a SaaS conversation.

  • Engine Yard powers SOA for the cloud

    Posted January 14, 2009 - 3:15 pm

    Engine Yard, which has specialized in Ruby on Rails application-hosting, is introducing Wednesday a platform to extend SOA to the cloud. The company also is extending its Rails stack to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, for quicker deployment of Engine Yard customer applications.

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    Buzzword: New Hosted Word Processor

    Posted January 14, 2009 - 1:56 pm

    Joining Google Docs and the Zoho Suite and ThinkFree Boundless and who knows who else tomorrow is Buzzword from Adobe. Does the world need another online word processor? Doesn't everybody love paying a few hundred extra dollars for Microsoft Office on every new computer? Yes, and no.

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