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On-demand software squared: Coupa launches SaaS e-procurement system running on Amazon's EC2 service

Coupa will launch an on-demand e-procurement software suite on Monday that is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud Web service. For those keeping score at home that makes the Coupa suite an on-demand service running on an on-demand service. The launch also makes Coupa one of Amazon's early corporate...

Tags: Software, SLA, Software-as-a-service, E-procurement, On-demand, Amazon.com Inc., Pricing Strategy, Service, Coupa, Enterprise Class Uptime, Purchasing & Procurement, Service Level Management, Business Operations, It Operations, It service Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-19

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What is cloud computing?

What is cloud computing?Cloud = Virtual Private Server HostingThe Cloud is not new.Virtual Private Server Hosting has been around for years.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_serverIt's just the breadth of resources has turned it into a quasi-utility of sorts and pricing has come down sufficiently to make Cloud not only affordable but attractive to SMBs...

Tags: Windows Azure, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

10 reasons IT certification will be important in 2009

10 reasons IT certification will be important in 2009AMEN!I'm a 15 year IT veteran managing Windows machines (and I'm even RHCE on 4.0) without any MS Certs.I'd bet my paycheck on my real world skills are better than most MCSE's when it comes to Windows technologies. You see it's...

Tags: Quality, training and certification, Strategy, NETWORKING, Network administration, IT-certification, information technology, certification

Discussion threads 2009-01-02

CRM 2009 - Companies to Watch For - Part Tree, er...Three

To Recap We're heading into the homestretch.  Which is why the Giants need to beat the Panthers....last night.  Oh, snap. This isn't my NFL blog. I don't have one. This is the final episode in that hilarious sitcom, Greenberg's Fools Gold.  For those of you who missed the previous...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, CRM, Greenberg, Connectbeam Management, Zuora, LucidEra, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Hosting Company Expands Services, Ensures Uptime, and Slashes Costs With Virtualization

Santa Barbara Web Hosting SBWH provides enterprise-class managed services to nearly 4,000 small and medium-sized customers. Like many hosting providers, SBWH was challenged with rising power costs, limited resources, and long build times. The company, which was in danger of having to turn away new customers, or losing existing contracts,...

Tags: Uptime, Microsoft Corp., Hosting Company, Santa Barbara Web Hosting, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Managed Hosting, Virtualization, It Services, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software

Case studies 2008-11-01

Amazon's S3 outage: Is the cloud too complicated?

Over the weekend Amazon's S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites. Since enterprises haven't totally jumped on the bandwagon Amazon's outage didn't have broader ramifications. But Amazon's latest outage--the second big one...

Tags: S3 Inc., Web, Amazon.com Inc., Outage, Om, Cloud Computing, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-21

HP launches data center as a service; The cloud meets outsourcing

Hewlett-Packard on Monday plans to launch an effort to offer data center as a service to large enterprise customers. The move is notable for the following reasons: Cloud infrastructure has been primarily focused on small- to mid-sized businesses that have been leveraging companies like...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Outsourcing, Service, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-17

What happens when the cloud doesn't work?

Update below: Cloud services sound great. A company can host their infrastructure with a large player like Amazon and Google, spend little and grow the business. Data center investment? Why would you do something like that? Those theories are being tested today as Michael Krigsman is on...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Manufacturing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Web 2.0 in the enterprise: Are you prepared?

One of the big takeaways from IBM's powwow over collaboration tools was that Web 2.0 technology is easing its way into the enterprise. First, companies like IBM and Cisco will adopt mashups that combine enterprise applications with external applications. Then CIOs will slowly adopt Web 2.0 approaches. These executives...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, IBM Corp., Mashup, Luba Cherbakov, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-20

SAP SRM, another brick from the wall

The contrast could not be more stark between yesterday's launch of Coupa's Amazon-hosted SaaS e-procurement system and SAP's decision on Friday to cancel the upcoming release of its spend management product. Another beneficiary of SAP's misfortune is SaaS vendor Ketera, which earlier this month added a new supplier management application...

Tags: SAP AG, Amazon.com Inc., Wall, Coupa, Ketera, Amazon Web Services, Service Level Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), It Operations, It service Management, Emerging Technologies, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-10-23

LongJump debuts Web applications catalog

LongJump has joined the parade of companies building development platforms and marketplaces for collaborative, Web-based business applications aimed at SMBs. At DEMOfall 07 the company launched 14 applications ranging from customer service to human resource management. User can customize applications and offer them through LongJump's catalog. To...

Tags: Application, Web Application, Data Sharing, LongJump, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Human Resource Management (HRM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-24

Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowded

Microsoft naysayer bandwagon gets crowdedI agreeSaying "Microsoft is dead" is like saying "the Earth is square".Chanting that all day doesn't make it so.Microsoft may not currently have the momentum and power that they once enjoyed. That doesn't mean they are down for the count.The MS challengeappears to be where...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Narratives, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Study: SOA shaves costs five percent a year

Lately on this site, we have been discussing the investments necessary to get SOA going, and where the money will come from.A new study of 120 companies out of Aberdeen says organizations can shave off at least five percent a year off integration costs with SOA methodologies. Aberdeen looked...

Tags: SOA

Blog posts 2006-07-14

Mainframes, IFL, and Linux

Mainframes, IFL, and LinuxMainframes suckand if UNIX hadn't been Balkanized and Gerrymandered, it would have knocked mainframes out of the IT world forever. Mainframes have one advantage that UNIX doesn't - there's no forking . . .Black & WhiteIf there isn't a high level of blogging response, it's probably because...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Linux, mainframe

Discussion threads 2006-05-16

Webcast: File System Replication for Data Protection Solutions

Data center managers must deal with a host of complex issues when it comes to protecting and recovering mission-critical applications and data. Their challenge is to maximize systems uptime while safeguarding precious data—even in the wake of a natural disaster, power outage, terrorist act, or other business disruption. ...

Tags: Data Protection, Webcast, File System, Replication, File System Replication

Webcasts 2006-05-03

Six Apart adds business class service

You can tell that blogging is becoming a real part of businesses when the blogging tool makers start getting seriously about enterprise requirements and service level agreements. Anil Dash gave me the details on Six Apart’s tweaks on new enterprise versions of TypePad (the company's hosted service) and Movable Type...

Tags: Six Apart Ltd.

Blog posts 2006-03-07

Help needed on Sun POD design and cost

I think 2006 will go down in history as a year of phenomenal change in IT: more dramatic and more through going than anything we've seen before. By the end of the year we'll probably have seen the end of Apple's Intel affair, IBM will have publicly committed to moving...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Deacon

Blog posts 2006-01-03

Salesforce.com outage --the mea culpa

Yesterday, Salesforce.com posted a more complete explanation and a mea culpa for its Dec. 20 outage. The gist of the recent explanation is that there is no explanation, at least not yet. The database clustering error "just appeared" and wasn't a previously known problem. The salesforce.com statement said:We have deep...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., software

Blog posts 2005-12-24

Without T-1 QoS, consumer VoIP winners will be enterprise losers

Without T-1 QoS, consumer VoIP winners will be enterprise losersIt's not the service, it's the network that they are used over.Every enterprise class company that I have ever worked for had DS1 or better connections which did support QoS.Are you so sure that it is Vonage, Broadvoice etc. that does...

Tags: Telephony, NETWORKING, Network technology, QoS, T1, VoIP, network, service provider

Discussion threads 2005-09-26

Dell servers most deliberated

Dell servers most deliberatedDell Servers!I wouldn't wish a Dell Server on Microsoft.Dells servers are great in overall valueThe make some great servers and decent prices.Most of the people who say they avoid Dell, is doing it only on the standpoint that it is Dell. Ive talked to numrous people...

Tags: Servers, Dell Computer Corp., server, Dell Server

Discussion threads 2005-08-26