software as a service
$695m MessageLabs deal launches Symantec into cloud
News Symantec will pay about $695m for the software as a service company and Symantec CEO John Thompson said it will hasten the introduction of its backup, storage and remote... [08 Oct 2008]
Symantec to take Europe into the cloud
News Thompson said the bulk of Symantec's security, back-up and archiving software would be offered as software as a service (SaaS) by March... [07 Oct 2008]
SAP sales drop as credit crunch looms large
News SAP said preliminary data for the third-quarter ended 30 Sept show non-GAAP software and software-related service revenues of €2.01-2.02bn euros, a gain of 20 to 21 per... [07 Oct 2008]
Marc Benioff
AS Profile Marc Benioff is one of the keenest evangelists of software as a service and has continued to drive Salesforce.com - a company he founded in 1999 -... [07 Oct 2008]
IBM follows Microsoft into the cloud
News The concept of cloud computing incorporates other recent developments in internet-based computing, such as software as a service (SaaS) and the rich... [06 Oct 2008]
Is Nokia losing its enterprise mojo?
Comment The release goes on to say: "The appropriate technologies and expertise will be reallocated to Nokia's new consumer push email service," adding that from now on the mobile maker will "form its enterprise solutions... [06 Oct 2008]
Chrome future, vintage PCs and credit crunch IT
News As banks across the world started shedding staff, silicon.com's Heath explored ways the global financial crisis could affect IT - from causing pain for FS divisions and hardware and software vendors, to... [03 Oct 2008]
More wisps of Windows Cloud from Ballmer
News Microsoft has already unveiled its Live Mesh, a consumer-based service that synchronises data across multiple devices. The software maker has promised that application developers will... [03 Oct 2008]
Cheat Sheet: The semantic web
Cheat Sheet In the longer term this kind of technology could be applied to improve things like service oriented architecture and make it easier to search for online services in the cloud. Newswire Thomson Reuters recently launched... [02 Oct 2008]
Ballmer: 'Windows Cloud' on the horizon?
News Ballmer's comments, reported on Wednesday by IDG News Service, are the latest in a series of mentions of a cloud-based developer platform. Ballmer was asked at last week's Churchill Club... [02 Oct 2008]
Capitalizing On the Sea of Change in Enterprise Resource Planning
White Paper On-Demand software (aka Software as a Service or SaaS) provides the type of visibility and fast response that enables a broad set of... [01 Oct 2008]
Multicast-VPN - IP Multicast Support for MPLS VPNs
White Paper This Multicast-VPN - IP Multicast Support for MPLS VPNs feature allows a service provider to configure and support multicast traffic in a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Virtual... [01 Oct 2008]
Revealed: Which IT jobs will survive the credit crunch
News Other effects of the credit crunch on the IT industry are expected to include longer hardware refresh cycles, increased use of software as a service and... [29 Sep 2008]
Businesses still clueless over SaaS
News Many businesses are still not warming to software a service (SaaS), according to BT. Speaking to silicon.com, general manager of SaaS at BT Business, Chris Lindsay, said: "One of the... [29 Sep 2008]
Data Protection Strategies Leveraging Replication
White Paper As dependence on continuous access to critical data grows, so does the importance of avoiding service interruption. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to protect... [26 Sep 2008]
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