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CIO Magazine April 2008 talks to Phil Pavitt, CIO of Transport for London on how he aims to harness technology to serve Londoners, travellers and visitors to the Olympics in 2012. Outsourcing guru Dr Richard Sykes discusses the future of cloud computing and its ability to provide a service revolution, dubbed Service 2.0.
Latest News
Apple targets Blackberry with enterprise iPhone plans
Microsoft Exchange support added later this year
Sun Acquires MySQL: Impact on the CIO?
Sun Microsystems announced this week that it will acquire MySQL in a £509 million ($1 billion) deal.
SaaS gets own version of open source licence
GPL for web services
Citigroup signs 30,000 seat deal with Salesforce.com
FInancial services giant jumps into online CRM
Gartner ITxpo: SaaS purchasing decisions 'are bypassing IT'
Get involved in the decision, warns Gartner
CIOs say SaaS enables quick change; but security concerns remain
Strong opinions voiced at major CIO event
Software-as-a-Service opportunities and threats:
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Latest Blog Entries
Stuart Lauchlan
Stuart invites CIOs to read and interact with this dedicated Blog that will focus exclusively
on Software as a Service (SaaS), service-oriented software and all things Web 2.0.
Saas milestone shows surging interest
Five years ago software as a service (SaaS) firm Salesforce.com held its first user conference in the ballroom of a hotel in downtown San Francisco; this year it hosted the 2007 Dreamforce conference and needed to take over the giant Moscone Convention Centre in order to house the 7,000 attendees who poured through the doors.
Salesforce.com's musical chairs
A high level reshuffle allows Benioff to target financial services
And they all rolled over... but no one fell out this time. More top-level shuffling within Salesforce.com with the news that long-time CFO Steve Cakebread is to be bumped up to president and chief strategy officer early next year. Cakebread nearly quit the firm before and made an at-the-time unexplained reversal of his decision. Guess that's been explained now... Cakebread's a Salesforcecom veteran, much liked by the analyst community, so hanging on to him is all to the good for the company.
Recent Articles
Eleven cloud computing vendors to watch
A Forrester report reveals the benefits of cloud computing and the eleven vendors topping the competitive cloud landscape, says Laurianne McLaughlin
Cloud computing: Tales from the front
While CIOs begin to embrace the emerging technology of cloud computing, experts say IT staff will be more likely to resist, says Bill Snyder.
On the right side of the law
Miya Knights talks to two firms that are keeping on the straight and narrow while still speeding towards greater business advantage
Forum views prove SaaS benefits
Users and vendors on specialist panels give a resounding thumbs-up.
The next bit of Dave's next thing
Workday CEO, Dave Duffield, talks SaaS strategy
SaaS and the CIO: The benefits and challenges of a 21st century computing model
Wednesday 31st October
If your organisation isn’t already evaluating the SaaS option, then the time is right to do so. With SaaS firmly embedded among small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the model is increasingly being deployed among forward-thinking enterprises. SaaS is set to become a top issue on the CIO agenda in organisations of all sizes.
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7 Essential Steps of Vulnerability Management
Every week at least 155 risks from newfound software to operating system vulnerabilities, threaten the security and availability of networks and applications. Now is the time to be prepared.
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