usinesses of all sizes are now embracing SaaS, but IT managers continue to grapple with the challenge of scaling their cloud infrastructure to effectively meet changing demands. Access this Infographic to learn how SaaS differs from other software delivery models, the history of SaaS, SaaS growth drivers, and the future of cloud computing.

Also, download our SaaS case study featuring SchoolBrains,  a global provider of sophisticated data management, analytical, and assessment solutions for PreK-12 school districts, who moved to Cloud-based delivery to reduce IT expenses and offer a high-performance user experience.

“Cloud Computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and specifically ProfitBricks, allows me … Read more

Cloud hosting provides a lower-cost solution for small business IT needs, bringing you powerful software that you might not be able to afford otherwise. But finding the right provider can be a confusing and frustrating prospect. Here’s what you need to know:

Benefits of Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting lets you access your data from just about anywhere there’s an internet connection. This flexibility can save you a lot of time and hassle, especially if you or your employees spend a lot of time in the field, away from your desks.

Cloud hosts also provide excellent backup services, keeping you from … Read more

If the future is a networked world, then we may well find that the future belongs to sourcing vendors. No other category of vendors has had its landscape transformed so fundamentally by the advent of the Web, to the extent that leading vendors such as Concur and Ariba took early decisions to wholly rearchitect their products to become cloud-native, while an entire new breed of cloud vendors have grown up alongside them.

They knew that the only way to tap into the sourcing and spending patterns that were evolving as the world went online was to become cloud-native. In the … Read more

Cloud and Big Data specialist Cloudera has announced the availability of its first developer kit, catering to Apache’s open source software framework Hadoop (CDH). Cloudera has long been a champion of Hadoop development, and the kit is designed to help developers to build apps in Hadoop environments faster and more easily than ever before.

Hadoop was initially inspired by papers from Google outlining its approach to handling an avalanche of data, and has since become the de facto approach for storing, processing and analyzing hundreds of terabytes, and even petabytes of data. It’s certainly causing a stir in the … Read more

Last year, when Google combined the privacy policies for more than 60 services into a single policy governing most of the company’s services, the company assured lawmakers that its consolidated privacy policy would allow for a more seamless user experience and information sharing across different products.

On Monday, Google extended that policy merger into the product realm. The company broke down the wall that separated Gmail from Drive and Google+ Photos. Henceforth, Google users have access to 15 GB of free online storage that covers Gmail, Drive and Google+ Photos. Previously, Gmail came with 10 GB of free storage and … Read more

Adam Selipsky, VP of marketing and product management at Amazon Web Services, is tired of seeing headlines that announce another competitor has emerged to challenge Amazon. Selipsky won’t name specific competitors, but in a recent interview with InformationWeek, he didn’t hesitate to lay down the gauntlet to them.

“Many old guard companies” are now talking about cloud products and cloud services. These are the same companies that are “threatened by the model we’ve brought to market” of low-cost compute cycles distributed from cloud data centers and charged for by the hour, he said.

he old guard might be Oracle … Read more