News

• Movideo migrates to Windows Azure for APAC growth

  By Nermin Bajric | 28 March, 2012 11:45

  As past of a four-year agreement with Microsoft, software-as-a-service (SaaS) online video platform business, Movideo, is migrating its integrated online video platform to Windows Azure to attract business growth across APAC.

• Clearswift to benefit substantially from its acquisition by Lyceum

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 01 December, 2011 15:40

  UK-based capital firm to leave security specialist as business-as-usual, but provide substantially improved financial backing

• SAP plots aggressive channel strategy

  By Julia Talevski | 10 October, 2011 15:33

  Enterprise software vendor, SAP Australia, is seeking to extensively expand its channel partner community. This comes on the back of the vendor’s plans to have about 40 per cent of its global business revenue delivered through the channel in the next few years.

• Avaya changes tack as it guns for growth in 2011

  By Julia Talevski | 07 December, 2010 18:47

  Unified communications vendor, Avaya, has outlined its strategy for 2011, announcing a shift in company direction and channel investment.

• Leader of the pack: Kwok steers Asia Pac ship

  By Jennifer O'Brien | 24 November, 2010 09:11

  Bernard Kwok is Symantec's senior vice-president of the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) geography, responsible for driving its sales and business development across more than 17 countries. He is no stranger to leading a team – wearing the 'boss hat' at a host of tech companies. He caught up with ARN to reflect on his professional achievements, some of the hurdles along the way and the way forward.

• SaaS provider takes on Telstra with new managed exchange product

  By David Ramli | 26 May, 2010 17:30

  Software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, Manage Protect, has launched its new managed exchange product.

• Symantec ups SaaS partner ante

  By Julia Talevski | 23 April, 2010 09:05

  Symantec is looking to get partners on-board software-as-a-service by revamping its global Hosted Services channel program.

• Beyond CRM: SaaS slips into the mainstream

  By Julia King | 23 February, 2010 08:56

  Customer relationship management applications are still the largest segment of the ballooning software-as-a-service market.

• SaaS BI will be big in 2010

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 February, 2010 22:00

  Mounting evidence suggests that in 2010, the hottest segment in BI (business intelligence) software will revolve around offerings delivered from the cloud, thanks to increased product sophistication, strained IT budgets and other factors.

• NASA building cloud service for climate modeling

  By Jon Brodkin | 02 February, 2010 03:57

  NASA is aiming to improve its climate research capabilities by creating a software-as-a-service interface for scientists and students who need to build complex climate models.

• Cloud security: Try these techniques now

  By Elisabeth Horwitt | 02 February, 2010 03:59

  For Logiq the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a matter of cost and flexibility.

• The challenges of managing SaaS projects

  By Gary Hamilton | 22 October, 2009 02:36

  Even experienced developers can run into problems developing and deploying custom applications for software-as-a-service platforms because SaaS vendors don't always embrace the accepted corporate processes for build, test and release. The trick is to adapt your configuration management processes to meet SaaS challenges.

• Dell slams netbooks, says Windows 7 is our savior

  By James Niccolai | 14 October, 2009 18:46

  Michael Dell has given netbooks a big thumbs down, but he thinks Windows 7 can restore our faith in PCs.

• Start-up unveils storage platform for large-scale Web applications

  By Jon Brodkin | 24 September, 2009 06:36

  A storage company emerged from stealth mode this week with software designed to efficiently manage the file serving needs of Internet applications such as social networks, online ad serving and software-as-a-service. 

• Gartner study: Australia catching up to early SaaS adopters

  By Andrew Hendry | 06 December, 2008 12:00

  Nearly 90 per cent of 258 organisations worldwide intend to maintain or grow their software-as-a-service (SaaS) usage, a Gartner survey has found.