Akamai moves into application hosting
News Marketed as "Akamai EdgeComputing Powered by WebSphere," the service marks Akamai's expansion into the application hosting business. The Web hosting service will utilise IBM's Java-based WebSphere software.
[May 2, 2003, 8:33]
Salesforce.com moves into custom application hosting
News At its user and developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, Salesforce.com announced it has updated sforce -- an application development utility -- to enable its customers to develop their own applications, host them on Salesforce.com's...
[November 11, 2003, 15:30]
Reader's Digest Leverages the Internet With Verizon IP Application Hosting
White Papers When the relationship between Verizon Business and Reader's Digest first began in 1998, the company was faced with the task of managing a complex, multi-platform e-operation with limited in-house technical staff to handle the multitude of...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
IBM hunts for the hosted dollar
News IBM's application hosting business, part of its Global Services division, crossed $1bn mark in revenue in 2003 and is growing, according to company executives. The company has assembled financial incentives and technical resources to entice third...
[February 23, 2006, 17:05]
Managed Hosting Service Provider Improves Scalability and Availability of Customer Solutions Using Application Center 2000
White Papers Digex is a leading provider of managed Web and application hosting services, meeting the needs of customers who rely on the Internet as a critical business tool. To aid in the deployment and management of customer solutions, Digex provides managed...
[December 6, 2008, 0:23]
Oracle wants new slice of hosting pie
News Oracle is looking to a new area for additional profits: hosting and managing customers' database and application-server software over the Web. For the latest news on Web hosting, plus comment, analysis, briefing papers, help and our events guide...
[April 2, 2002, 10:57]
Web Hosting
White Papers Web hosting, then, is a means of hosting the Web-server application on a computer system through which electronic content on the Internet is readily available to any Web-browser client. This tutorial will provide a basic overview of the main...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Cisco Technology and Architectures Combined in SAVVIS' Global Network, Data Center Infrastructure and Management Systems to Provide a New Breed of IT Services for Business and Government Applications
White Papers With an IT services platform spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, SAVVIS leads the industry in delivering secure, reliable, and scalable hosting, network, and application services. This new network enhanced SAVVIS' global application...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
Microsoft considers renting software
News FutureLink is only one of a number of ASPs, or, as Microsoft prefers to call them, "commercial service providers" working on closed application hosting pilot tests with the company. Consequently, the company is in the midst of several different...
[June 4, 1999, 7:01]
Siebel tries again to rent out CRM
News Application hosting services promise to remove the hassle and start-up costs of purchases such software by handling installation, maintenance, support and updates. For its part, IBM has application hosting agreements with several software companies...
[July 21, 2003, 9:00]
Compaq takes wraps off 8-processor server
News Enrico Pesatori, newly appointed senior vice president and group general manager of the Enterprise Solutions and Services Group, said at the product launch here that the ProLiant 8000 and 8500 servers will help the company expand its role in Web...
[August 18, 1999, 9:02]
Restaurantes Toks S.A. De C.V. Improves Customer Service With Integrated Applications
White Papers Since then, the situation has changed for Restaurantes Toks which implemented E-Business Suite applications for financial, order, and inventory management, to its operations, using Oracle On Demand for application hosting.
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
IBM looking for hosted package partners
News Indeed, the potential for boosting the number of its application hosting customers, particularly to midsise companies, drove IBM to buy Corio. Though still under development, the project is meant to simplify the process of procuring a full suite of...
[January 28, 2005, 12:20]
CRM on demand: A host of problems?
News Following the demise of the first generation of Application Service Providers (ASPs) the industry realised that hosting would die unless companies settled on standard interfaces and integration tools.
[December 8, 2003, 11:05]
IBM wagers on utility computing
News Instead of simply housing a customer's servers in IBM data centres, UMI allows IBM to offer a broader suite of offerings, from full-scale application hosting to a hybrid arrangement under which its data centres can remotely manage applications and...
[March 23, 2004, 10:50]
Oracle pins hopes on hosted software
News Oracle can handle as much as the complete package -- hosting the application and the hardware that supports it -- or offer other options such as hosting the software for the company while the customer runs the servers and hardware.
[June 26, 2001, 7:23]
Star ASP wears on-demand clothing
News ASPs first appeared during the dot-com boom when they promised to relieve companies from the costs of hosting and managing their own applications by allowing them to "rent" applications instead. IBM's hosting services, which give customers the...
[March 26, 2004, 15:55]
MS revisits Internet strategy
News On a related note and simultaneous with Monday's Web development announcements, Microsoft announced that its Complete Commerce hosting program for Application Service Providers is now in general availability.
[September 14, 1999, 9:16]
CRM right here - RightNow
News The second piece is that in the first generation, application service providers tended to be third parties that were hosting somebody else's technology. Thanks in part to the firm's loquacious chief executive Marc Benioff and its "no-software...
[November 12, 2004, 15:20]
Opera Unite turns browser into door to PC
News While the user hosting the content needs to be running a particular version of Opera 10, those viewing the content can do so from within any browser, including Internet Explorer or Firefox. Greg Day, a McAfee principal security analyst, said Opera...
[June 16, 2009, 14:06]



