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  • New Zimbra suite could shift competitive balance in virtualization, cloud

    Posted February 7, 2011 - 3:14 pm

    VMware wants to refocus the virtualization market away from the strengths of Citrix and Microsoft with suite collaboration aimed at end users.

  • Getting back to basics

    Posted February 26, 2009 - 2:50 pm

    Look closely at the most recent technologies that offer competitive advantages. The common thread is that each one is an application or suite of applications. The business advantages of technology no longer rest with the physical infrastructure.

  • Study: Lower cost of ownership main reason for adopting SaaS

    Posted December 16, 2008 - 4:03 pm

    Lower cost of ownership, more than ease of use and management, is the most significant reason for adopting software-as-a-service (SaaS) for enterprises, according to a recent study by Springboard Research.

  • Making Business Mash-Ups Work

    Posted November 10, 2008 - 8:42 pm

    Forrester projects that adoption of enterprise mash-ups will break 10 percent in 2012, so CIOs need a plan for how to address them within their organization.

  • Sold on SaaS

    Posted September 30, 2008 - 12:04 pm

    Four companies who have done their SaaS homework weigh in on the pros and cons, successes and shortcomings, as well as some less obvious issues.

  • eXpresso to expand online access to Office files

    Posted August 13, 2008 - 4:13 pm

    While Microsoft considers whether it will release a version of its Office suite as an online service, a California-based startup is giving business users a way to view and share Web-based versions of Office documents through its own hosted service.

  • Hooking your apps into Amazon Web Services

    Posted August 13, 2008 - 1:20 pm

    Connecting your application into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) isn't complicated, particularly if you've done Web service programming on other projects.

  • Mashup uses SaaS apps to staff hospitals during hurricanes

    Posted August 7, 2008 - 9:41 am

    Doug Menefee, CIO of the Schumacher Group, a company that provides staffing to hospitals, is a fan of software as a service (SaaS). More than 50 percent of the company's software runs on a SaaS model, and he is using both Salesforce.com to track the contact information of providers and is in the process of rolling out Google Apps to give employees basic productivity tools from any work station with a Web-browser in any hospital.

  • Google pushing software to low-cost Linux PCs

    Posted August 6, 2008 - 9:05 am

    With an eye for larger adoption of Linux, Google is actively working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in the OS, a Linux developer said on Tuesday.

  • Online office apps get real

    Posted July 22, 2008 - 2:17 pm

    Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other tools associated with desktop office suites -- were extolled not because they did these things well, but because they could do them at all. But the three major competitors, Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps.
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