Cisco Systems announced its plan to acquire ScanSafe for $183 million. The networking giant plans to integrate the Web security company's cloud-based service into some of its existent products. Headquartered in San Francisco, but with offices in London and Tokyo, ScanSafe is a global provider of Web and Messagi... |
28 October 2009
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The recently created high-profile venture capital fund Andreeseen Horowitz isn't wasting any time and has already closed the first investment deal with Seattle-based enterprise software startup Apptio. The latter got $14 million in funding in its second round, which it plans to use to spur solid growth in the co... |
18 August 2009
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McAfee has recently announced its plans to acquire Web and Email security provider and cloud-based technology pioneer MX Logic for $140 million. The deal is expected to be finalized by the third quarter of 2009, with the MX Logic team reporting to McAfee's Software-as-a-Service business unit. MX Logic is a comp... |
3 August 2009
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Intuit, an open-source software maker, has announced it will launch a new open-source community site, code.intuit.com, which aims to supplement the partner platform it launched earlier in the year. The new site will provide partners with sample code, toolkits and documentation aimed especially at SaaS projects. Intui... |
28 July 2009
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IBM is launching a series of new cloud computing-related products and services aimed at enterprises, starting with Smart Business and IBM CloudBurst. The company claims it has learned from its previous attempts and the new move would give a much more focused experience with products built for very specific computing ... |
16 June 2009
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As SaaS tends to become very popular, Gartner decided to provide fact checks for five of the most common SaaS myths. The aspects that have been analyzed include the cost-effectiveness of this delivery model, as well as implementation procedure, the ability to interact with on-premises applications and the SaaS config... |
20 February 2009
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With Ray Ozzie at the helm as the new Chief Software Architect, Microsoft, while still anchored to the desktop, is embracing the cloud with a variety of new services. Defining its own Software plus Services strategy, the Redmond company's efforts are not limited to Windows Live and Windows Azure solutions, and a... |
11 December 2008
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With Chairman and Co-founder Bill Gates out of his day to day role at Microsoft, and with Ray Ozzie firmly in the seat of Chief Software Architect, the Redmond company is veering in a new direction as far as software development is concerned. In this context, the future strategy is defined not by bridging the softwar... |
10 July 2008
09:22 GMT |
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The SaaS (Software as a Service) technologies seem to represent today's solution for remaining secure on the Internet, as the attackers attempt to exploit every flaw discovered in the traditional downloadable software. In case you haven't heard about SaaS, it is "a software application delivery model where ... |
30 November 2007
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There is a dichotomy between Microsoft's own business vision and the strategies that the Redmond is building. Although Microsoft revealed that it will play exclusively by the Software plus Services tune, it has announced a partnership with KDDI designed to focus on Software as a Service. For itself Microsoft has... |
28 June 2007
13:07 GMT |
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Although not a big fan of SaaS, Microsoft has debuted an international program designed to bridge independent software vendors to the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model. By comparison, Microsoft's own strategy is focused on the Software plus Services approach. ISVs and hosting providers are invited into... |
16 April 2007
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