Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Sound Planning for Deployment of Cloud-Based Solutions Ensures Success for SMBs

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Tavishi Agrawal

IT projects are notorious for running over budget and time frames. This is especially true for implementation of new technologies, whether on-premise or in the cloud. Therefore, SMBs should carefully plan for the deployment of new cloud solutions. Develop a … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing Levels the Playing Field for SMBs

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Tavishi Agrawal

Since the emergence of the Internet in early 90s, experts have been predicting the use of software applications over the Internet, whereby users did not need to install any applications software and servers on their own premises. Instead, they could … Continue reading →

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SAP & SuccessFators: There is still no “S” in SAP

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Anurag Agrawal

SAP has agreed to acquire cloud-based human capital management (HCM) offerings provider SuccessFactors for $3.4 billion. Under the acquisition, SuccessFactors’ team and technology will be added to SAP’s cloud assets and the combination of SAP and SuccessFactors will establish an … Continue reading →

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Intel’s SMB Strategy: Time to Re-ignite, Reboot?

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Anurag Agrawal

SMBs are going through a Transformation, moving from a building block IT adoption to Flat IT in a virtual era. And within this Transformation, PC is still important in its role as the center of IT universe. SMBs need only … Continue reading →

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SMB Business Intelligence Spend & Adoption: Market Ripe for Growth

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Tavishi Agrawal

Global SMB Business Intelligence spend is estimated to be US$2.9 Billion in 2011, a little more than half of estimated spend by Enterprises at US$5.7 Billion. However, confusion abounds because of proliferation of front-end analytics tools and back-end Business Intelligence … Continue reading →

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Dell’s Transformation: A New New Company

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Anurag Agrawal

Solutions. Cloud. Mobility. Datacenter. Solutions again. Dell is a new company. It was evident at the recent Dell World 2011 held in Austin. There was a distinct zip in Michael Dell’s walk and what was most exciting about the event … Continue reading →

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Vendor Actions Needed to Overcome SMB Cloud Adoption Barriers

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Anurag Agrawal

Techaisle SMB surveys in multiple countries are showing that SMB cloud computing non-users will increasingly get comfortable with the idea of Cloud based services once there are enough proof points in the market. The question remains though whether there are actions … Continue reading →

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Salesforce.com Strategy: Dreamforce ’11 Announcements Are Equally Relevant for SMBs

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Anurag Agrawal

Pilgrimage Salesforce.com held its annual customer and partner pilgrimage last week called the Dreamforce 2011. This mega event had a whopping 45,000 registered attendees and at least 15,000 were present for the opening keynote by Marc Benioff. The much anticipated … Continue reading →

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Dell SMB Cloud Strategy: Dell Cloud Business Applications steps into the Promised Land

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Anurag Agrawal

Announcement Dell just announced its full intention to assist SMBs with their Cloud Computing adoption by launching Dell Cloud Business Applications, a family of integrated SaaS applications with cross-application cloud analytics supported by end-to-end Dell services specifically for SMBs. Key benefits … Continue reading →

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Channel Partners and SaaS Vendors should Verticalize their Applications

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Tavishi Agrawal

SMB SaaS is of high interest to the Vendors and the Channels as well as the SMBs themselves. This high interest has been fed by the promise of lower cost of ownership, avoiding software upgrade cycles and licensing fee and … Continue reading →

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