cloud computing posts, articles, and infographics

Marketing Cloud Computing to Non-Believer CIOs

February 3, 2012 by Ardath Albee with 18 views

Cloud computing is a pretty big deal. It's one of the top priorities for many CIOs. So, it should be a pretty easy process to build a B2B content strategy that helps CIOs make a purchasing decision. Or is it? I subscribe to a lot of newsletters and have a ton of Google Alerts to help me mine for information I use to learn more about the... [read more]

#Cloud Computing for Businesses – The Place to Be.

October 30, 2011 by Andrew Wright with 134 views

The cloud is no longer just a buzz word, it’s a part of our daily lives. [read more]

4 Steps to Selecting the Software That is Right for Your Business

July 14, 2011 by Manju Bansal with 105 views

There are literally hundreds of software vendors out there offering thousands of ERP solutions and/or business management solutions. Truth be told, picking the one that is right for you is not likely to come easy. That is why knowing precisely what you want the software to do is as important as knowing what you can live without, or which may be something you add later on. [read more]

FinancialForce.com Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award

April 4, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 127 views

THINKstrategies, Inc., the leading strategic consulting company focused on the business implications of the on-demand services market, announced today that FinancialForce.com has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business ... [read more]

TrackVia Wins THINKstrategies’ Cloud Computing Business Value Award

March 21, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 127 views

THINKstrategies, Inc. announced today that TrackVia has been named the latest winner of THINKstrategies’ new Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today’s cloud computing solutions. The CCBV Awards... [read more]

HP Shoots for the Clouds

March 16, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 24 views

HP’s new CEO, Leo Apotheker unveiled the company’s latest corporate strategy yesterday with plenty of fanfare, but little flourish. The theme of his talk and HP’s new mantra is providing “connectivity” to the Cloud to move “Everyone On”. While the picture he painted of this new world order and HP’s strategic... [read more]

The U.S. Cloud Work Revolution

March 7, 2011 by Steve King with 578 views

It's popular these days to talk about a decline in U.S. innovation and competitiveness. Because of this, it's nice to see examples of U.S. companies winning. John Dovorak's The U.S. Smartphone Revolution at PCMag.com describes the ascendancy of the U.S. smartphone industry, which he describes as "one of the... [read more]

Research Shows That Growing Companies Adopt Cloud Computing Faster

March 3, 2011 by Bob Apollo with 459 views

Recent research by MarketBridge confirms that migration to the “Cloud” is accelerating - and that some fascinating patterns are emerging about the people and organisations - fast-growing companies and younger executives - that are adopting the technology most quickly... The survey, conducted in December 2010, covered 1,000 North... [read more]

SaaS Blows Storm Clouds over the Channel

February 18, 2011 by Bob Apollo with 266 views

It’s been obvious for a while to anyone involved in developing or reselling B2B software that the move to SaaS is having a profound effect on the role of the IT solution provider channel, on the services they can expect to provide, and on the margins they can expect to earn. In a presentation given last week at the Distree XXL... [read more]

Constant Contact Bantam Live Acquisition Redefines Cloud-Based Marketing Automation

February 17, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 1,228 views

Social networking is one of the big three themes of 2011, along with Cloud Computing and Mobility. Salesforce.com has been pushing its Chatter social networking platform for the corporate class with the new public service, Chatter.com, promoted with two ads during the Super Bowl halftime show. Today, Constant Contact... [read more]

Cloud Computing Trends

February 16, 2011 by Jim Estill with 534 views

I thought the following press release was of interest. I invested in Hatsize and sit on the board.Hatsize releases first annual Cloud Automation Trends Survey results. Landmark survey identifies 2011 cloud automation trends and indicates cloud automation will spur sales growth. Hatsize conducted anonymous survey of 181 North American... [read more]

Pardot Wins THINKstrategies’ Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award

February 14, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 577 views

THINKstrategies announced today that Pardot has been named the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards program, which is aimed at promoting the measurable business benefits being delivered by today’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program of... [read more]

Back-Office Cloud Solutions Soar

February 3, 2011 by Jeffrey Kaplan with 847 views

A series of announcements over the past week clearly indicates that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) financial management and enterprise resource management (ERP) solutions are taking hold among organizations of all sizes worldwide. The first was Intacct’s announcement that it had grown its customer subscription base 68% in 2010 and added... [read more]

Combine SaaS Apps with Facebook, Twitter for Increased Sales

November 15, 2010 by Eric Richard with 1,147 views

Incorporating SaaS applications such as online appointment-scheduling into your Facebook and Twitter pages can add a new dimension to your sales and marketing strategy. [read more]

First Look – ADAPA 3.0: Decision Management in the cloud

May 4, 2010 by JamesTaylor with 227 views

Business rules and analytics on the cloud! Finally! Seriously, the folks at Zementis have long had their PMML deployment engine running on the amazon.com compute cloud and have had an on-premise solution that combines business rules (based on Drools) and PMML. ADAPA – Adaptive Decision and Predictive Analytics – is the Zementis... [read more]

Three Cloud Hosting Methods to Increase Profitability

April 30, 2010 by Bill Ives with 231 views

Here is a guest post by Charles Homes who is a consultant at Hosting.com. For more information on Charles and his firm check out their web site. I am pleased to have guest posts on occasion and thank Charles for this one. As a disclaimer, he provided me with nothing more than useful content. In turn I simply offered the space. The union... [read more]

Why we’ll never be able to define Cloud Computing

April 28, 2010 by Editor Bloggertone with 246 views

Don’t worry if you don’t understand what Cloud Computing is. You’re not meant to. By its nature a cloud of any type is something vague or ill-defined. Were it any different, Cloud Computing would simply evaporate. The origin of the term Cloud Computing derives from early network design where a cloud represents what Douglas Adams once... [read more]

SIP Phones and Voice In The Cloud

April 22, 2010 by Fred Wilson with 210 views

Yesterday evening, I got a SNOM M3 phone that I had ordered from Amazon. I unpacked it and charged the phone. While it was charging, I pointed my web browser to onsip.com and set up a 30 day free trial account. It took me about five minutes to set up an account, one user, and get a phone number. I then took down the sip... [read more]

Software Is Media

April 15, 2010 by Fred Wilson with 247 views

I've made this point in several talks I've given recently so for those of you who attended or watched the talks on video aren't new to this meme. But I thought I'd share it with the AVC community. As software has moved from running on local machines to running in the browser a number of important things have happened. One of the most... [read more]

The iPad and Apple's Lacking Cloud Strategy

April 6, 2010 by Albert Wenger with 182 views

We were on family vacation through Sunday, so when our iPad arrived via UPS on Saturday nobody was home, which meant that we had to wait until Monday for it to be re-delivered. I wish I could share first impressions this morning, such as Bijan did this morning, but we frankly didn’t get that far. The iPad appears as a... [read more]