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  SaaS offering provides detailed analysis of your software portfolio

  Are you faced with the need to do a software portfolio analysis but find the prospect daunting given the scattered nature of your operation? A new SaaS-based offering from Cast might fit the bill.

  By John Dix | 04 May, 2012 05:46

  Tags: Software as a service, software analysis, software, SaaS, Rapid Portfolio Analysis, internet, Intel, cloud computing, Cast, applications, Application Intelligence Platform

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  Oracle quietly plotting ambitious cloud computing plan

  During a series of analyst briefings this week, Oracle has provided additional details of how it plans to play in the cloud moving forward.

  By Brandon Butler | 19 April, 2012 07:39

  Tags: cloud computing, internet, oracle, Oracle cloud, paas, SaaS, Software as a service

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  Finally! An Office cloud service for iPad worth using

  For some reason, 2012 is shaping up to be the year of Cloud-based Windows 7 and Microsoft Office offerings, including scarily bad services such as OnLive Desktop, which was a media darling in January based on nothing more than demos. The real product is all but unusable - you lose your connection when you switch to other apps, for example, and you can't use the iPad's native keyboard. Plus, the company violated Microsoft's Windows 7 licensing terms, offering an essentially illegal desktop-as-a-service product. (That issue has since been resolved.)

  By Galen Gruman | 12 April, 2012 20:12

  Tags: applications, cloud computing, hardware systems, internet, iPad, Microsoft, mobile apps, mobile technology, Office Software, OnLive, QuickOffice, SaaS, software, Software as a service, tablets

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  IT pro rethinks infrastructure from the ground up, ends up in clouds

  Mark Adams, vice president of IT at HireRight, is living the dream -- the chance to completely rethink the infrastructure for a $300 million software-as-a-service employment screening service company. While the nucleus of the 1,600 employee company has been around for 30+ years, a three year acquisition spree resulted in data center sprawl, leaving the company with 10 facilities, including company owned and collocation and disaster-recovery sites, some of them overseas. Now HireRight is three quarters of the way through a consolidation effort with a heavy emphasis on cloud. Adams gave an update on the company's modernization progress to Network World Editor in Chief John Dix.

  By John Dix | 05 April, 2012 05:39

  Tags: cloud computing, Configuration / maintenance, consolidation, Data Center, data centers, Ethernet Switch, hardware systems, hireright, internet, LAN & WAN, Mark adams, SaaS, security, Software as a service

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  Cloud services face taxing dilemma

  States are having a hard time keeping up with the cloud, especially when it comes to taxing it.

  By Brandon Butler | 29 March, 2012 06:39

  Tags: cloud, cloud computing, cloud services, Grant Thornton, internet, SaaS, sales tax, Software as a service, tax policy, The Cloud

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  IBM user group: 75% of companies aren't collecting social media information

  A recent survey of the IBM SHARE user group found just 25% of respondents were collecting data from social media networks for business purposes, though many more are apparently planning to do so in the near future.

  By Jon Gold | 13 March, 2012 04:46

  Tags: applications, business intelligence, cloud computing, IBM, IBM Share, internet, networking, SaaS, software, Software as a service, unified communications

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  5 signs that you've lost control over your Cloud apps

  CIOs are waking up to the reality that they've lost control over access to data stored in software-as-a-service applications purchased by other departments.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 March, 2012 21:28

  Tags: access control, Business Management, cloud computing, compliance, Google, governance, identity management, information security, internet, it management, networking, regulatory compliance, SaaS, SailPoint, security, Software as a ervice, workday

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  SaaS seeds ready to bloom

  One expected benefit from the shift to the cloud is the emergence of a refreshing new crop of innovative software suppliers.

  By John Dix | 12 March, 2012 21:28

  Tags: Capita, cloud computing, enterprise software, internet, SaaS, SaaS startups, Software as a service

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  Cloud consultants Cloud Sherpas, Global One merge

  Cloud Sherpas and GlobalOne, which advise clients in implementing cloud-based Software as a Service applications, have merged in what is a sign of the continually busy M&A activity in the SaaS market.

  By Brandon Butler | 06 March, 2012 10:30

  Tags: acquisitions, business issues, cloud computing, cloud consultant, Cloud Sherpas, corporate issues, Global One, Google, internet, mergers, mergers and acquisitions, oracle, SaaS, SaaS consultant, salesforce.com, sap, Software as a service

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  Riverbed teams with Akamai to boost SaaS performance

  Anyone who has endured the painful wait of a slow-loading application is familiar with the frustration and lost productivity that follows. That's the problem that motivated Riverbed and Akamai to join forces for a new SaaS acceleration offering, with the objective of resolving SaaS application performance issues that were previously untouchable.

  By Colin Neagle | 01 March, 2012 03:37

  Tags: akamai, application performance, cloud computing, Gartner, internet, LAN & WAN, management, networking, riverbed, Riverbed Akamai partnership, SaaS, Software as a service, Traffic management, wan optimization

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  NaviSite wants to host your virtual desktops

  Seeking to capture a slice of market share in the emerging field of virtual desktop services, NaviSite, a Time Warner Cable managed service provider of cloud-based products has announced its next major endeavor: a desktop as a service (DaaS) offering aimed specifically at enterprise customers.

  By Brandon Butler | 28 February, 2012 07:33

  Tags: cloud computing, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, desktop services, hardware systems, internet, NaviSite, SaaS, Software as a service, time warner, Time Warner Cable, virtual desktops, Virtualization

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  Bullish on PaaS

  As early as 2008, Bullhorn Inc., a fast growing Boston-based provider of front-office staffing and recruiting management software, was considering the cloud to help streamline development and distribution of its Software as a Service (SaaS) products to over 2,500 customers and 25,000 users in 35 countries.

  By Christine Burns | 27 February, 2012 16:36

  Tags: CloudBees, cloud computing, ecs. enterprise computing services, IaaS, internet, paas, php, SaaS, Software as a service

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  CA offers new disaster recovery option

  CA Technologies has launched a disaster-recovery software-as-a-service offering that combines on-site data protection with a cloud-based service, using Microsoft Azure's infrastructure.

  By Brandon Butler | 25 February, 2012 04:29

  Tags: applications, CA Technologies, cloud computing, data back up, disaster recovery, infrastructure management, internet, management, Microsoft, networking, SaaS, security, software, Software as a service

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  (Fill in the blank)-as-a-service

  IaaS, SaaS and PaaS are the obvious as-a-service offerings, but there are plenty of others. In fact, just about every letter of the alphabet has an "as a service."

  By Brandon Butler | 22 February, 2012 05:34

  Tags: at&t, cloud computing, cloud services, computer services, internet, SaaS, Software as a service, symantec

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  Building an IDPS without big iron

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

  By Livio Ricciulli, president and chief scientist at MetaFlows Inc. | 14 February, 2012 07:31

  Tags: BotHunter, cloud-based IDPS, cloud computing, data breach, flow monitoring, honeypots, IDPS, IDS, insider threat, internet, intrusion detection and prevention systems, Intrusion Prevention, IPS, log management, network security, OS fingerprinting, packet logging, SaaS, SaaS-based IDPS, security, Software as a service