Cloud
Jun 02, 2009 Google is Getting the Enterprise
In this week's JargonSpy post, Dan Woods explores how Google's recent partnerships help "provide real support for Enterprise computing."
The Google partnerships Woods examines are with Cast Iron Systems, Cordys, and Salesforce.com.
To read the article, go here.
Jan 27, 2009 Three-Way Software
Following up on his two recent JargonSpy columns about different aspects of mulit-tenacy, this week, Dan Woods focuses on "three-way software." In this week's column, Woods says that "several large and small software vendors are now offering software products that can be used in three different ways based on a multi-tenant architecture." More »
Jan 20, 2009 Disruptive Appliances
In his Forbes JargonSpy column, Dan Woods talks about how the current global financial crisis "will lead to a change in IT" and how companies like Google and Dataupia will start working toward a new open-mindedness in which the unthinkable will become thinkable. More »
International Research Forum 2008
In May 2008, top researchers from around the world gathered near Potsdam, Germany for the International Research Forum sponsored by SAP Research. For two days, these thinkers from business, academia and government examined a topic that will increasingly become part of our vocabulary: the Internet of Services. The discussion illuminated how the Internet of Services will change enterprise computing. It will help businesses leverage core strengths, find partners in new business networks, collaborate and tap new global markets. Software as a service, cloud computing and other trends are democratizing innovation as never before. The infrastructure barriers to doing business in the Internet of Services are falling away. Yet, as this book shows, this new world also poses challenges different from anything we have seen before.