Category: Cloud Computing

Are You Ready to Move Beyond Email? Warning Signs and Key Considerations

Posted on by Sanjeev Aggarwal

(Part 2 of a 3 part blog series "Are You Ready to Move Beyond Email?" which focuses on Online Collaboration Suites for SMBs. Click here for Part 1, which provides an overview of the online collaboration suite area.) Effective collaborat...

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

Posted on by Sanjeev Aggarwal

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 year at

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Recent Vendor Briefing Highlights: IBM’s Cast Iron Acquisition

Posted on by Sanjeev Aggarwal

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, I

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What is Hybrid Computing, and Why Should You Care?

Posted on by Sanjeev Aggarwal

(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

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Workingpoint’s New Twist on SaaS Pricing for Small Businesses

Posted on by Sanjeev Aggarwal

In a post earlier this month, I raised the issue that SaaS vendors targeting small businesses need to start experimenting with different pricing options if they want to create a true volume market for their solutions (Prescription for Subscription Fatigue? Time for New ...

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