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Will the Appliance Approach Gain Traction in the Wake of Recent Cloud Outages?

Posted on June 17, 2010 by lauriemccabe

This week’s service outage at Intuit is fueling a new round of speculation about the dark side of cloud computing–and whether businesses can depend on cloud-based services to run their businesses. Intuit’s problems come on the heels of other service outages this month at WordPress and Sage, and as well as service outages earlier this [...]

Filed under: cloud computing, SMB, Software as a Service, Uncategorized | Tagged: appliance, cloud, cloud computing, Intuit, SaaS, Sage, Salesforce, small business, SMB | 1 Comment »

Recent Vendor Briefing Highlights: IBM’s Cast Iron Acquisition

Posted on June 17, 2010 by lauriemccabe

We are publishing recent vendor highlights on the SMB Group web site. As time permits, we discuss our key take-aways from more interesting briefings. I will try to remember to post them here as well. Here is the most recent one. Highlights: In May of this year, IBM acquired Cast Iron Systems (for an undisclosed sum) [...]

Filed under: cloud computing, Software as a Service, Uncategorized | Tagged: appliance, Boomi, Cast Iron, cloud, cloud computing, hybrid, hybrid computing, IBM, integration, Pervasive, SaaS, SMB | 1 Comment »

There’s an App Store for That!

Posted on June 14, 2010 by lauriemccabe

App stores focused on the needs of small and medium businesses (SMBs) seem to be proliferating quickly as cloud computing takes off. As discussed in “What is an App Store, and Why Should You Care,” a marquee SMB vendor, such as Google or Intuit typically builds the app store and serve as the anchor tenant [...]

Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: app store, channel, cloud, cloud computing, GetApp.com, marketplace, SaaS, small business, SMB, trends | 1 Comment »

What is Hybrid Computing, and Why Should You Care?

Posted on June 10, 2010 by lauriemccabe

(Originally published on June 9, 2010, in Small Business Computing) What is Hybrid Computing? A hybrid computing platform lets customers connect the packaged small business software applications that they run on their own internal desktops or servers to applications that run in the cloud. As discussed in What is Cloud Computing and Why Should You [...]

Filed under: cloud computing, SMB, Software as a Service, Uncategorized | Tagged: cloud, collaboration, connected services, email marketing, hybrid, hybrid computing, Intuit, Microsoft, on demand, platform-as-a-service, QuickBooks, SaaS, Sage, small business, SMB, software + services | 4 Comments »

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