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Office 365: Cheat Sheet

Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word: Microsoft gets serious about software as a service... 365? I didn't realise there had been so... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

DDoS attack takes down Atlassian's SaaS platform

...of-service attack against Atlassian's hosting provider took the company's Software-as-a-Service platform down for a few hours on Monday. Sydney... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Renai LeMay

Sita's cloud plan covers airline industry

On-demand ATI Cloud will give airline staff infrastructure, platform and software as a service... The ATI Cloud goes live in June, using Sita... Read more

6 April, 2011 by Mark Samuels

Sage launches first SaaS app

...Sage has released its first software-as-a-service application, Sage One, an accounting tool for small business... Read more

20 January, 2011 by Tim Ferguson

EMC pushes Documentum into the cloud

The first releases under EMC's OnDemand effort to tweak existing software to run in hybrid clouds are Documentum, Document Sciences and Captiva, though customers will have to buy anew rather than upgrade Read more

1 November, 2011 by David Meyer

FCO taps Huddle for secure cloud collaboration

...FCO Services has unveiled the first software-as-a-service platform cleared for use with sensitive data on its... Read more

22 July, 2011 by Mark Say

ERP: Long, difficult, expensive. Is cloud ERP's next big thing?

...other varieties of business software such as customer relationship management. But as software as a service (Saas) becomes a standard part of many companies' IT... Read more

10 June, 2011 by Steve Ranger
Inside public and private cloud management

Inside public and private cloud management

...important tasks. The three sorts of service you get from clouds are Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), which is application based; Platform-as-a-Service... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Staff

SAP pins hopes on Business ByDesign ERP platform

...the success of plans to almost double revenue by 2015 on its software-as-a-service ERP platform, Business ByDesign. SAP co-chairman Jim Hagemann... Read more

3 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Cisco axes corporate cloud email

...Cisco has decided to discontinue its Cisco Mail software-as-a-service product, saying customers are now interested in social collaboration... Read more

23 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Blue Coat Systems launches cloud security service

...and wide area networking (WAN) optimisation company said its first foray into software-as-a-service (SaaS) will revolve around the Blue Coat Cloud Service... Read more

7 February, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Citrix optimises XenServer for AWS cloud

...AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), according to Citrix, which specialises in virtualisation, software-as-a-service and networking products. "We are excited to extend our... Read more

27 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Oracle takes office suite to the cloud

...can be delivered on an on-premise, on-demand or on a software-as-a-service basis. Cloud Office will be priced at $40 (£25... Read more

16 December, 2010 by Ben Woods

Force.com 2 brings new clouds to Salesforce

...Salesforce.com's transition from software-as-a-service to platform-as-a-service has taken a step... Read more

9 December, 2010 by Simon Bisson
Cloud outages: Why storage is the real villain

Cloud outages: Why storage is the real villain

Amazon's EC2 suffered a four-day outage in April but the cloud itself is not at fault, says Lori MacVittie Read more

29 May, 2011 by Lori MacVittie

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J.A. Watson

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JW, Thanks as always for the great review on these new releases. One thing that I've also read is that Fedora 17 will include GIMP 2.8 which is...

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"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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