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by Scott Wilson on May 03, 2008
IBM yesterday announced its intention to develop and deploy a web-based application marketplace called the "Blue Business Platform" targeted primarily at the SMB market. The...
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by Scott Wilson on April 24, 2008
In the mad rush to offer things called "SaaS" to the market, IBM is now offering "Security as a Service" to mid-sized businesses via it's X-Force division. This comes as part...
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by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2008
Perhaps it was only a matter of time after significant PR damage from outages earlier this year, but Amazon's Web Services have finally been accompanied with some real support options from the...
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by Scott Wilson on April 21, 2008
© One_From_RM IBM announced last week that they have acquired Diligent Technologies, a Framingham, Massachusetts based company which specializes in developing software for de-duplicating backup data,...
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by Scott Wilson on April 15, 2008
Google and Salesforce announced yesterday the introduction of a joint product called "Salesforce for Google Apps" which combines Salesforce's chocolate with Google's peanut butter...
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by Scott Wilson on April 08, 2008
I thought I would give a brief overview of other reactions to Google's announcement today of its App Engine cloud computing offering, first mentioned here. As expected, most of the discussion...
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by Scott Wilson on April 08, 2008
The hidden force behind Google's dominance of search and advertising has always been their back-end server farms. The company has been historically reluctant to discuss in much detail the massive...
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by Scott Wilson on April 07, 2008
I mean, I get that it can be as valuable to define something by what it isn't as by what it is. But I am struggling to understand the recent he-said/she-said debates over what does and does not...
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by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2008
CIO Magazine is reporting that over the course of the next three weeks, Google will be rolling out the long-awaited offline access feature for its Apps suite of business productivity applications....
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by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2008
Last week we heard Larry Dignan posit that perhaps Google's best chances to penetrate the much sought-after enterprise applications market would be by using some variant on their existing search...
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by Scott Wilson on March 31, 2008
Cohesive Flexible Technology (FT) has announced that they will open registration to their Elastic Server On Demand's (ESOD) free Community Edition today. ESOD, discussed here earlier, is a...
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by Scott Wilson on March 27, 2008
Amazon's Web Services have announced some new features for their Elastic Computing Cloud service today which expand its utility and flexibility for the enterprise. The Elastic IP address is,...
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by Scott Wilson on March 10, 2008
With all the thunder and lightning between Google and Microsoft on the Saas/S+S front, it's easy to lose track of some of the other, very competetive, players in the SaaS office market. Of these,...
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by Scott Wilson on March 03, 2008
Software+Service is all well and good, but Microsoft has long known that their unique packaging of online services with client-side software isn't a universal bromide for businesses looking to...
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by Scott Wilson on February 28, 2008
EDIT: Well, it looks like the server ate my post again... which I don't have time to re-type from scratch at the moment. My apologies to those of you who saw just a link to Mosso here for however...
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by Scott Wilson on February 20, 2008
Something we have seen with the widespread adoption of virtualized computing platforms, be they in-house or based in the cloud, is that one of the most complicated aspects has proven to be the...
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by Scott Wilson on February 16, 2008
It's been quite a week for SaaS providers, in between the Salesforce and Salesboom problems and today's Amazon S3 failure which left countless other SaaS companies in the (virtual) dark as...
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by Scott Wilson on February 15, 2008
On top of the problems earlier this week at Salesforce and Salesboom, the competing SaaS CRM providers, today Amazon's S3 storage service was down for around three hours this morning, dealing an...
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by Scott Wilson on February 12, 2008
It's been a while since Salesforce.com had a significant service disruption, so it made the news that several of their server clusters were out, on and off, over the course of about six hours...
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by Scott Wilson on February 07, 2008
Traditionally, software vendors have relied heavily on partnerships with VARs and consultants as a reliable marketing channel to woo customers to their products. This had the worthy advantages of...
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by Scott Wilson on January 08, 2008
Mary Jo Foley brought up the interesting point yesterday that Microsoft's ongoing problems with the popular XBox Live service might have implications for the company's other Live or hosted...
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by Scott Wilson on January 05, 2008
The Google Docs team has posted an update discussing some recently released features for their Presentations component and a few minor updates to their core document management components. If you are...
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by Scott Wilson on January 03, 2008
A curious fact (or maybe not so curious) that I have noticed in the inevitable spate of new year prognosticating is that everyone seems to believe that the field about which they are prognosticating...
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