Cloud Computing

Once again, Microsoft and Google are locking horns in the office apps space, releasing their latest products within days of each other. Google unveiled a more feature-rich Google Docs on April 12, and Microsoft announced that Office 2010 had been released to manufacturing three days later. Their pro...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as...

Eva Chen, CEO of security vendor Trend Micro, wears many hats. She's a mom, a chief executive, a philosopher, an idealist and a highly savvy technologist who's guided the development of several award-winning security technologies while serving first as the company's executive vice president, then as...

A year ago, I suggested that the Software as a Service and cloud computing industry was entering a new stage in which vendors would begin putting greater emphasis on expanding their sales channels to broaden the addressable market for their solutions. Anyone following the SaaS/cloud computing indu...

Cloud computing and SaaS are on the rise in a big way, but for some companies, there's an issue that is starting to come up in a lot of conversations with their service providers: the geographical location of their data. While it may not seem a big deal to some, conflicts with national privacy laws ...

Companies have often focused on projects that save costs -- both operational and capital -- across a wide range of IT functions. The one area where companies have generally shied away from making any drastic changes has been in the area of data center buildout and operations. This area, in most case...

One of the biggest questions facing companies today is what to make of cloud computing. Does it signal a major shift in how we approach IT -- and the business -- or is it just another ride on the hype wave that will disappear if we just wait it out? HP tackled this question this month with a series ...

IT professionals should embrace SaaS and cloud computing because they deliver tangible, measurable business benefits to organizations of all sizes. IT departments are relieved of many of the hassles associated with implementing and administering traditional, on-premise software and supporting the ap...

You've got apps for your phone. You'll soon have apps for your digital video recorder. Now, you can have apps for your Apps, as in Google Apps. Google has launched its new Apps Marketplace for its Google Apps line of cloud-based productivity services. Initial participants include about 50 companies ...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer extolled the benefits of cloud computing and spoke about the software giant's increasing commitment to it in a speech at the University of Washington on Thursday. Microsoft has clearly been moving toward the cloud over recent years. All of its products, including Windows,...

It was inevitable. With the new year have come indications that, at least to some degree, cloud euphoria is beginning to ebb and is being replaced with perspectives that range from cynicism to realism. It is true that in the past year cloud hype managed to get ahead of the reality. Recent surveys ...

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Paglo, a remote support service provider. The purchase signals Citrix Online's entrance into the IT management sector. Citrix Online has relaunched the Paglo service as GoToManage. That service is an integrated We...

No software company has been more threatened by the rapid growth of SaaS and the broader cloud computing phenomenon than Microsoft. After decades of dominating the technology industry, Microsoft isn't even the most important player in Seattle anymore. That honor goes to Amazon, which single-handedly...

Naturally, much is being made of what this next decade will mean for technology and what those technological shifts will mean for all of us, at work and at play. As Bessemer Venture Partners puts it in a recent paper: "The gig is up. Pandora's box is open. Your customers all now know that software d...