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• Application streaming gets a new face with Cloudpaging

  By Thor Olavsrud | 06 March, 2012 04:53

  Delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud was the great promise of application streaming technology. But Osman Kent, CEO of startup Numecent (formerly known as Endeavors Technologies) says that promise was tarnished. Kent believes it's time the technology delivered.

• Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream

  By Julia King | 23 February, 2010 08:56

  Customer relationship management applications are still the largest segment of the ballooning software-as-a-service market.

• SaaS BI will be big in 2010

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 February, 2010 22:00

  Mounting evidence suggests that in 2010, the hottest segment in BI (business intelligence) software will revolve around offerings delivered from the cloud, thanks to increased product sophistication, strained IT budgets and other factors.

• NASA building cloud service for climate modeling

  By Jon Brodkin | 02 February, 2010 03:57

  NASA is aiming to improve its climate research capabilities by creating a software-as-a-service interface for scientists and students who need to build complex climate models.

• Cloud security: Try these techniques now

  By Elisabeth Horwitt | 02 February, 2010 03:59

  For Logiq the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a matter of cost and flexibility.

• The challenges of managing SaaS projects

  By Gary Hamilton | 22 October, 2009 02:36

  Even experienced developers can run into problems developing and deploying custom applications for software-as-a-service platforms because SaaS vendors don't always embrace the accepted corporate processes for build, test and release. The trick is to adapt your configuration management processes to meet SaaS challenges.

• Dell slams netbooks, says Windows 7 is our savior

  By James Niccolai | 14 October, 2009 18:46

  Michael Dell has given netbooks a big thumbs down, but he thinks Windows 7 can restore our faith in PCs.