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Sharing your login is a criminal offence

It looks like security-as-a-service is going to be one of the themes I cover here next week, and meanwhile I'm mulling a new post about SaaS and software pricing. So it seemed like a good moment to relay a comment that I heard from one of the panelists speaking back...

Tags: Software, Commoditization, Pricing Strategy, Software As A Service (SaaS), Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Marketing Research, Emerging Technologies, Marketing, Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-05-30

Does it blend? Zoho and Google

The announcement earlier today that Zoho has added an import capability for those using GoogleDocs to its Writer apps is great news. It is something I asked for a short while ago and is an excellent example of how an agile cloud computing vendor can respond to a need when...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Commoditization, Abundance, Zoho Writer, Business Services, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), OpenOffice, Management, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-28

The commoditization of systems management

The commoditization of systems managementHyperic and systems management commoditizationHi Phil,Don't write off agents entirely ;)Hyperic has addressed many of the issues you bring up.http://www.hyperic.org/blog/hyperic/?p=38-John MarkCommunity DevelopmentHyperic, Inc.Big Vendors also are AgentlessPhil,I agree that traditionally companies like BMC Software PATROL, Tivoli, CA and HP provided agent based systems management solutions. But...

Tags: IT Services, Network administration, Software as a Service (SaaS), systems management, agent, commoditization, BMC Software Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-09-26

Gartner: User-controlled content delivery to set enterprise expectations

Following his explanation of why commoditization in the consumer sector would wag the enterprise IT strategy dog, Gartner research chief and distinguished analyst Steve Prentice talked a bit about how software componentization and ease of user control over those software components might have a similar effect on IT strategy. ...

Tags: broadband

Blog posts 2006-05-15

Gartner: Commoditization means consumers will wag the enterprise IT dog

As one of the four major pairs of themes underlying Gartner Symposium/ITxpo here in San Francisco, Gartner research chief and distinguished analyst Steve Prentice explained to attendees why the commoditization and consumerization of technology is not to be ignored an an enterprise's strategic information technology roadmap. Prentice's presentation was...

Tags: Steve Prentice

Blog posts 2006-05-15

Virtualization and SOA

"The word architecture is generally quite misleading for describing what most companies have today," write John Hagel and John Seely Brown in their new book The Only Sustainable Edge. "Architecture calls forth images of the neat schematics of an architect who is carefully thinking through in advance all the needs...

Tags: commoditization

Blog posts 2005-07-05

Additional Resources

Dell Inspiron 1525-139B

Note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Dell's Inspiron 1525 is an excellent mainstream choice for basic computing, especially because the direct-from-Dell version is highly flexible, offering extensive configuration options. For those...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Inspiron 1525, Dell 1525, Dell Inspiron, laptop computer, Intel Pentium, Dell Computer Corp.

Product reviews 2008-10-02

Appistry targets cloud computing

If we consider suppliers that have embraced the cloud computing concept and have offered something to help organizations use this approach to gain additional scalability, performance or reliability as needed, they are, for the most part, suppliers of processing virtualization software, virtual access software and management software for virtualized environments....

Tags: Appistry, Supplier, Defintion, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-09-29

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With Digging

2011, A News Odyssey: Digg-ing Meets Up With DiggingThere are better ways to monetize and support great news writersThe problem, as I see it, is that News hasn't really found its "business voice" in the internet. Sure, news is powerful and one of the main things people do online. And,...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, public relations, media

Discussion threads 2008-09-06

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?

Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?Microsoft is also airing the Mojave experiment ads. nt.RE: Forget Seinfeld. Can Windows gurus help the Windows brand?That add is really stupid . . . but, if you're totally incapable of building a quality operating system, why not try comedy?Best marketing for...

Tags: Operating systems, Branding, Microsoft Windows, advertisement, Windows Gurus, Windows brand, Microsoft Corp., brand, Seinfeld

Discussion threads 2008-09-05

The Neosploit cybercrime group abandons its web malware exploitation kit

The end of the Neosploit web malware exploitation kit? RSA's FraudAction Research Labs recent monitoring of ongoing communications between Neosploit team members and their potential customers indicates so. The Neosploit malware kit has been around since the middle of 2007, with prices varying between $1000 and $3000, whose main differentiation...

Tags: Web, Malware, Neosploit, Neosploit Malware Kit, Malware Kit, Neosploit Team, Web Malware Exploitation Kit, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-29

How much is a unit of cloud computing?

Could Mosso's concept of a compute cycle be the first step towards a standard, negotiable unit of cloud computing? Or is that a step too far towards commoditization for vendors to stomach? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Pricing Strategy, Computing, Mosso, Cloud Computing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-07-16

VMware: The Hyper-V assault is underway, but the war is a long one

Microsoft's Hyper-V--that long awaited virtualization effort from Redmond--is off and running and the analysis on it falls into three generic buckets: Hyper-V is spin; it's a real virtualization player; and Microsoft is going to crush VMware or be crushed by the incumbent. While those of us in...

Tags: VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V, Dan Kusnetzky, Paula Rooney, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-01

iPhone aims for pole position

It's astounding how far Apple has come in the phone space in a very short amount of time. Already, the iPhone browser is the number one source of mobile phone-originated web requests, a number made easier because competitors had done almost nothing to make web browsing actually usable from mobile...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Hardware, Omnia, Zunephone, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-06-10

Scaling the cloud, deflating the price of software

After a week of intensive usage last December getting his company's application to run against Amazon's SimpleDB cloud database, DreamFactory founder and CTO Bill Appleton wondered how big a bill he'd run up. To his amazement, what had seemed like a week's heavy usage had cost just a few cents....

Tags: Software, Database, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, DreamFactory, Bill Appleton, Pricing, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2008-06-05

How PaaS pulls software pricing down

How PaaS pulls software pricing downMinor Errata CorrectionPhil:In your last paragraph, you state that customers would need to stay tuned into email in order to learn about service updates. That's incorrect. Actually, within their Bungee Connect developer accounts, customers will see available updates for their registered Bungee Application Server appliances....

Tags: PaaS, software pricing, Bungee Connect, pricing strategy, software

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Desktop as a service era ramps up as Citrix marks May delivery of XenDesktop at a tough price to beat

Heralding a new era for desktop as a service DaaS, the long-awaited XenDesktop line from Citrix Systems will become available during the Citrix Synergy 2008 conference in mid-May. The XenDesktop product line is the latest entry in the effervescent virtualization market and will be co-marketed with Microsoft....

Tags: Citrix Systems Inc., XenDesktop, XenDesktop Product Line, Delivery Protocol, Desktops, Hardware, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-04-16

Who's interested in a non-Apple Mac?

Who's interested in a non-Apple Mac?Apple the hardware companycan not afford to lose business to a clone as they make little money off of the OS itself.[i]Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war![/i]wrong priceYou cannot compare the $399 fo this system with the $599 for mac mini...

Tags: BIOS, Desktops, Operating systems, non-Apple Mac, Apple Inc., hardware

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing?

Based on recent comments by top Redmond strategists, it appears that Microsoft has no credible vision for the future of desktop computing. Apple appears to have skirted this strategic black hole and despite the distractions of its OS X-based mobile clients, keeps delivering powerful desktop hardware, a robust OS...

Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Computing, Surface, Desktop Strategy, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Who should be thanked for the return of Mr. Jobs to Apple?

News of Singularity, a non-Windows operating system from Microsoft, sparked my interest in OSes past and present. It got me thumbing though the back issues of MacWEEK for memories of OSes that were built from scratch and now forgotten. But in the research, I found some ironic gold regarding NeXTstep,...

Tags: Strategy, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Macintosh, MacWeek, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTstep, Singularity OS, Operating Systems, Software, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-07