SaaS

Riding the downturn: Network vendors eye new markets in ’09

ITworld staff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:44:52 -0500

Today's rough economy hasn't put the breaks on vendor ambition. Here's a look at what you can expect this year from Microsoft, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Avaya, and other key IT vendors, including their most pressing 2009 priorities and potential stumbling blocks.

Consortium tackles cloud computing standards

ITworld staff — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:17:41 -0500

The Open Cloud Consortium (OCC), a newly formed group of universities, aims to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically disparate data centers and promote open frameworks that will let clouds operated by different entities work seamlessly together.

Social networking, ROI, pricing among '09 CRM trends

ITworld staff — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:00:21 -0500

Big changes are coming to the CRM (customer relationship management) application market this year, with significant financial, strategic and technical implications for customers, say analysts who track the space.

Salesforce suffers system wide outage

ITworld staff — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:59:39 -0500

Salesforce.com was down for under an hour on Tuesday, but users were left in the dark about the outage.

SaaS fundamentals

Martha Young — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:24:57 -0500

The goal in 2009 is to rein in costs while growing the company. Here's how SaaS can help:

SOA gets an obituary

ITworld staff — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:20:38 -0500

SOA is dead but services remain alive, according to a prominent analyst who published an obituary for SOA in a blog post on Monday.

Best iPhone apps: SFA, CRM, and BI

ITworld staff — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:02:26 -0500

The surprise among business applications that support the iPhone is how many of them have gone native. Of the seven business apps on our list, only one -- SugarCRM -- reaches the iPhone via the Safari Web browser. Native apps that tap Salesforce.com, Oracle CRM, Oracle BI, QuickBooks, and SiteCatalyst come from the App Store.

Google comes in third on top 10 list of spam enablers

ITworld staff — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:58:13 -0500

Google hasn't stopped a rising number of spammers from abusing Google Docs, its Web-based collaboration and spreadsheet application, according to Spamhaus.

Year In Review: Jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon

ITworld staff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:42:51 -0500

Hype around cloud computing reached a peak in 2008, with numerous vendors embracing the technology and touting its benefits. Amazon Web Services evangelist Jeff Bar even coined the phrase "cloudbursting" to explain how cloud computing can be used to periodically manage an organization's peak loads without actually putting the entire infrastructure to the cloud.

EMC buys parts of SourceLabs to bolster cloud strategy

ITworld staff — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:26:50 -0500

In an attempt to bolster EMC's cloud computing business, the storage vendor has acquired assets from SourceLabs, a maker of support and management tools for Linux and open source software.