Archive for the 'Software As A Service (SaaS)' Category

Ballmer previews ‘Windows Cloud’

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Speaking to developers in London, Steve Ballmer says Microsoft will announce a cloud-based operating system within a month–with a catchy new name. Microsoft will launch an operating system for the ‘cloud’ in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates at a Microsoft-sponsored developer conference in London….
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SaaS market will ‘collapse’ in two years

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Lawson’s CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at “on demand” in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two–to oblivion. Lawson’s CEO, Harry Debes, doesn’t believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. …
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What SaaS can teach us about customer service

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

In the SaaS model, the power is with the customer and vendors need to take a very different approach to both sales and service, here’s how to do it says Archie Black, President and CEO of SPS Commerce. Commentary–Software-as-a-Service SaaS is one of the fastest growing segments of…
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New hybrid delivery security architecture

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Secure Computing’s Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. ?In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid…
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IBM AlphaWorks: From software theory to fact

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Laura Bennett, senior engineering manager at IBM’s software development community, discusses how the group helps turn research concepts from the labs into practical products. Semantic Web, rapid application development, data visualization, and health care applications are just some of the emerging software types being investigated by IBM’s AlphaWorks…
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EMC pushes online backup services

Monday, January 28th, 2008

The storage specialist is pushing hard to become a leader in hosted storage and backup services with its MozyEnterprise offering. EMC has launched a new strategy and a product for businesses looking to make use of online storage and backup. Announced late last week, MozyEnterprise is the…
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