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Phil Wainewright's Software as Services blog

Phil Wainewright, who founded ASPnews.com and now runs Loosely Coupled, a specialist website covering enterprise adoption of Web services and business process automation, has joined ZDNet's blogger network. Phil's blog covers 'software as services', which he has described as net-native, on-demand software managed by ISVs who own and operate the...

Tags: Phil, software, Software as Services

Blog posts 2005-08-22

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Remote access and virtualization: Not one and the same

Some of you may have seen me tweeting recently about a little experiment that I have going on where I'm using a small PC (perhaps we can call it a netbook, but that's a semantics issue) â€" the Nokia Booklet 3G â€" as my primary computing device outside of the...

Tags: Remote Access, Cloud Computing, Telecommunications, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Chris Silva

Blog posts 2009-12-02

Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloud

RE: Ruby on Rails becomes latest open-source offering to run on Microsoft's Azure cloudI still don't understand what in Azure is different for the better or worst than Amazon's or Rackspace's or other instant-server-on-demand cloud offerings.Interesting. Let's see if fellow ZDNet bloggers will acknowledge this..The more offerings, the better, as...

Tags: Blogging, Ruby on Rails, Ruby, dev, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Rackspace, Azure, open source, Google Inc., Microsoft Azure

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

Comcast keeps promise, launches data usage meter

THERE SHOULD BE NOOOO CAP.PERIOD. If less than 1% are using that much bandwidth... WHO CARES?They are just trying to impose a limit on "UNLIMITED" service. They should be forced to stop calling it "UNLIMITED" if there is a 250GB cap and they should have had this in place...

Tags: Backups, Cable, Comcast Corp., bandwidth user, data usage

Discussion threads 2009-12-01

FireDaemon Pro 1.9.2405 (Windows)

FireDaemon is a system utility that allows you to install and run any 32-bit or 64-bit application EXE or DLL or script (BAT CMD, .NET, Perl, Java, Python, TCL TK) as a Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 or 7 service. FireDaemon enables complete configuration of the installed service, which can...

Tags: Business Productivity, Service, FireDaemon Technologies, Microsoft Windows, Strategic Planning, Collaboration, Programming Languages, Scripting Languages, Operating Systems, Software, Strategy, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2009-12-01

SmartCode VNC Manager Standard Edition 5.0.15 (Windows)

SmartCode VNC Manager is a powerful remote administration and monitoring software. It is typically used for remote network management, remote system administration and in helpdesk environments. The application allows you to take remote control of any computer running VNC, Remote Desktop Services, or Telnet servers. It also includes VNC thumbnails...

Tags: Remote System, VNC, Monitoring, Microsoft Windows, Computer, SmartCode Solutions, SmartCode VNC Manager, Productivity, Telnet, Help Desk, Remote Administration, Networking, It Operations

Software downloads 2009-12-01

R&D bursts onto the Bangalore scene

Not long ago the world pictured Bangalore as an outsourcing hub full of call center agents and paid-by-the-hour software workers. How that has changed. Years ago, when the world pictured Bangalore they imagined an outsourcing hub full of call center agents and paid-by-the-hour software workers. How that has changed....

Tags: Bangalore, R&D, Research & Development, Managed Hosting, Call Centers, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, outsourcing, Saritha Rai silicon.com

News items 2009-11-30

RationalPlan Single Project 3.15.7 (Mac)

RationalPlan Single Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. You can use RationalPlan in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even for a simple student...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management

Software downloads 2009-11-30

RationalPlan Multi Project 3.15.7 (Windows)

RationalPlan Multi Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. If you are working in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even working on a simple...

Tags: Project, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Software Development, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-30

RationalPlan Multi Project 3.15.7 (Mac)

RationalPlan Multi Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload. If you are working in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even working on a simple...

Tags: Project, Apple Macintosh, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Software Development, Strategy, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-11-30

Will the Adult Industry Drive Android Adoption?

Oh come on Jason.Porn can be received on the iPhone/iPod Touch to. Try going to www.youporn.comon your browser or mobile web browser.Not as apps.Web sites, sure. But not as apps.The "Vibrator" appSimply adjusts the rate of haptic feedback, so there is little reason for apple to reject it.ACTUAL Adult content...

Tags: Smart phones, Web site development, Web technology, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Web application

Discussion threads 2009-11-29

Jacknife 1.3.2 v1 (Mac)

Jacknife is versatile enterprise software for businesses and organizations. It includes several specific types of programs and you may choose which to use simply by selecting a program type in settings. Jacknife Studio is ideal for studios of all kinds, including dance, gymnastics, and karate studios. It...

Tags: Shareware, Apple Macintosh, Roster, Health Care, Jacknife, Jacknife Studio, Jacknife Medical, Insurance, Financial Planning, Vertical Industries, Document Management, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-29

Does Chrome OS mean anything for schools?

Benefits of the ChromeOS approachOne of the features of HTML5, that commentors on other posts seem to forget, is that HTML5 web apps can be "installed" in app cache, for offline use (Google "HTML5 manifest").If web apps can be used offline AND made to perform like desktop apps, with web...

Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Desktops, NOW IT, HTML5, operating system, Chrome OS, Does Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-28

Jacknife 1.3 (Mac)

Jacknife is versatile enterprise software for businesses and organizations. It includes several specific types of programs and you may choose which to use simply by selecting a program type in settings. Jacknife Studio is ideal for studios of all kinds, including dance, gymnastics, and karate studios. It...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Roster, Health Care, Jacknife, Jacknife Studio, Jacknife Medical, Insurance, Financial Planning, Vertical Industries, Document Management, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-26

PRTG Network Monitor 7.2.3.4990 (Windows)

An advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly auto-discover and configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for...

Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensor, Microsoft Windows, Paessler, PRTG Network Monitor, Commercial Editions, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-26

MyConnection Server 8.8d (Windows)

MyConnection Server MCS broadband testing software enables businesses to test connections for bandwidth speeds and connection quality for time critical applications such as VoIP, Video conferencing and IPTV. MCS helps organizations to assess networks for deployment of new/additional services, and identify and resolve last mile customer connectivity problems with little...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Last Mile, Visualware

Software downloads 2009-11-26

Samsung partners with NYT for Go netbook and digital subscription deal

Me - NoAssuming I were interested in paying for news (the article does not state the length of the subscription - kind of a key piece on info) I would look for the best device for me AND the best news source for me. I just don't get the bundling...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., netbook, NYT, advertisement

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Death of the black box EULA

Nonsense. Just look at Psystar.They died by the EULA. The judge even brought that up.And open source software has an EULA of its own, telling you exactlly what you can and must do to be able to use the software.Any failure to follow the EULA/GPL allows the owner of the...

Tags: EULA, black box, software

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Does virtualization equal cloud computing?

I would say yesThere is no need to buy 'stand alone' servers any longer in functionality when you can put it in a Blade 'name your flavor' chassis.Virtualization with VMware/RHEL or some vendor is the best way to get it off bare-metal...Doing baremetal rebuilds is time consuming and it takes...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Utility computing, server, cloud computing, virtualization, cluster

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

Invent Upshot 1.1.0.60 (Windows)

Invent Upshot is a new, feature rich and low TCO, agent-free network discovery, hardware & software inventory and remote tool, with which you can manage a single PC to several home and corporate networks in a few minutes hard wired or wireless. This software is not just another network inventory...

Tags: Software, Network, UpShot, Microsoft Windows, Aplixio, Networking

Software downloads 2009-11-25