IBM announced last week their entry into the lofty realm of cloud computing with the introduction of a program called "Blue Cloud" for corporate data centers. Blue Cloud, running on (what...

As reported here last week Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) service is now out of beta and available for general use; now, a new service is out which begins the mind-bending journey of...

Amazon's EC2 virtual computing resource service has ended its beta phase and is now available to all developers, according to Dan Farber at ZDnet. The service, particularly in combination with...

Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to expand their Software as a Service offerings this week under their Business Technology Optimization umbrella. The BTO offering covers a variety of IT service...

I wasn't aware of it when I posted yesterday, but apparently Amazon's new SLA for S3 followed on the heels of a similar offer from Nirvanix, and is due to be followed shortly by an even more...

Amazon announced yesterday that, effective October 1st, they are offering a 99.9% uptime service level agreement for their Simple Storage Service (S3). The full text of the SLA can be found here....

Google announced today that they have completed their integration of Postini's e-mail compliance and security features to the Premier edition of their Google Apps service. Postini was acquired...

Microsoft's "online" office offering, Office Live Workspaces is now accepting sign-ups for beta testing. I have "online" in quotes because it's not what most of us have...

Longjump, this time, with a free trial period going through the end of the year. No word on pricing-looks like they are hoping to hook you and then spring the bad news after you're already into...

I'm ashamed to say I don't have any good coverage myself on SAP's new mid-market SaaS solution Business ByDesign, but I am happy to instead point you toward Michael Krigsman's concise...

eXpresso Online Spreadsheet Manager for Excel, that is. eXpresso is delivering a Software as a Service offering which promises to ease collaboration issues with Excel spreadsheets, a problem of...

As an aside... does anyone actually use the term "ASP" anymore? I don't really care, SaaS, ASP, it's all the same to me, but I think the blog categories should probably be...

Computer World has a special report on Outsourcing, Here are some data points specificall on ASPs. Almost 1/3rd of US Companies currently use an ASP, And further 22% indicated that they will in the in...

Today I while catching up on my blog reading and I came across a slew of interesting posts on SAAS at Amy Wohl blog, here are few key exceprts from the multiple posts, this is going to be a long......

Do you believe in the old saying there is no smoke, when there is no fire? On a possible offering of hosted CRM solution by SAP there has been a lot of smoke, Recently NEWS.com is carrying a piece...

There has been a lot of talk about Software as a Service and one of the poster children in this space has been SalesForce.com, But in a recent note published on June 22, analysts from JMP Securities...

With the announcement of 24H Laundry and the sponsored posts I have been doing on support center stuff with HDI, I was reminded about a company call White Pajama (now Contactual) that provides...

TripleTree, an investment banking firm, and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIAA), in a prescient report released last year identify among the key factors of success of Software...

SaaS Spending Exceeds Expectation.As IDC report indicates that the Worldwide spending on software as a service (SaaS) reached $4.2 billion in 2004, an increase of 39% over 2003 according to a recent...

Continuing on the earlier post with the same name, Excerpts from the Sandhill Blog entry nobody can fully agree on what the idea of software-as-a-service really is. Some see it as a delivery method,...

More on Software as a Service Was reading the Sandhill Blog entry on Software as a Service, It is a really interesting entry which covers a lot of aspects of the SaaS model, must read if interested in...

Following up on our series of entries on the Software as a Service industry we have conducted the following interview with Steve Savignano, CEO of Ketera Technologies. Q1: What does Ketera do? Please...

Torsten Jacobi recently kicked off some of the Software as a Service coverage (SaaS) at Creative Weblogging. On a related subject to SaaS, Torsten also pointed me to an interesting presentation (note...

My past includes setting up business development and technology demonstration meetings for high-stakes client prospects. It takes a lot of time, sweat, and a bit of luck to get meetings set up. When...

A different viewpoint: The CIO On the panel: - Stephan Schambach, CEO, Demandware- Edward Shenderovich, CEO, Quantum Art- Axel Schultze, CEO, Blue Roads- Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO, QualsysHighlights: -...

Engineering Best Practices On the panel: - N.N., VP Engineering, Jotspot- Mike Myer, VP Product Development, RightNow- Nagi Prabhu, VP Engineering, Intacct- Jacob Taylor, VP Engineering,...

Gerry Mooney, IBM VP Corporate Strategy, Keynote Session Highlights: - Gerry sees the on-demand era as a growing one in a hardly growing market - Who survives big climate changes during ice age?...

Winning Formulas On the panel: - Greg Gianforte, CEO, RightNow Technologies- Subrah Iyar, CEO, Webex- Jeffery Lunsford, CEO, Websidestory- Michael Topolovac, CEO, Arena SolutionsHighlights: - Subrah...

Back in February I provided some context about the growth of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model in my post entitled, "The Enterprise Software World is Getting Sassy-SAAS". This gist of...

CNET informs me of the announcement by Salesforce.com to expand the war front. They have announced a service that extends beyond their traditionally known customer relationship management (CRM)...

Prashanth Rai had a great post at the beginning of this month covering Sun Microsystems new pricing model for getting computing power by the hour. A couple of days after that post, Sun announced that...

For those who dont follow Jonathan Schwartz's, - SUN Microsystems COO's, blog, His post this week is on the subject(his present favourite) of "commodity business - computing", In...

The term "sassy" was etched into my brain as a loose synonym for "sexy" or "hot" by the late Phil Hartman from Saturday Night Live episodes. Although I'm not sure...

InfoWorld just released a nice review of hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions by NetSuite, RightNow Technologies, Salesforce.com, and Salesnet. Nice comparison tables and by vendor...

If you haven't heard of Grand Central Communications before, there are some interesting things going on there. Now I've always taken a mental shortcut to thinking about Grand Central. I have...