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Online Software Sales Forecast Defies Recession
Even as hardware sales are in decline in 2009, software as a service is forecast to grow 21.9 percent over last year to $9.6 billion. That’s according to research company Gartner, which says the SAAS market will show consistent growth through 2013, when the revenue will total $16 billion for enterprise applications. "The adoption of…
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Search Comes to Managed Services
The two biggest issues with managed services for most solution providers is the cost of creating the service and then dealing with the process by which the multitude of devices in the customer environments actually become managed. While there has been no shortage of managed services platforms to use as a service, the issue that…
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Managed Services Survival Guide
If you are reading this article, you’re probably in one of two groups. The first group can best be described as companies who, while they wish the economy would get better faster, are seeing an increase in revenue and their margins are staying steady if not increasing. The second group, feeling the same about the…
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Cablevision’s 101M-bps Broadband a Boon to Hosted Services
One of the biggest barriers to adopting hosted services has been bandwidth. Most businesses have had to pay through the nose to get the bandwidth needed to effectively use a hosted service, while others have found that the speeds needed are out of financial reach. Cablevision, in a roundabout way, is solving that problem for…
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Agent-Driven Managed Services
The tide is finally turning in the managed services market as the convergence of market acceptance and economic conditions is making it more palatable for end users to adopt remotely delivered infrastructure management and hosted applications. Troubling to some solution providers is that they will not be the ones delivering the actual services. Managed services…