Although Steve Ballmer claims that within 10 years all software will be delivered as a service, current application service providers struggle to make their businesses work. Heavy maintenance and ...

But while on one hand there's nothing new about hosted applications, on the other hand everything is new as enterprises of all sizes begin migrating more and more mission-critical technology to the ...

Hosted systems such as salesforce.com and UpShot have seen staggering growth. Salesforce.com made it into AMR Research’s Customer Management Application Spending Report, debuting at number 29 in the ...

With appropriately drafted SLAs (service-level agreements), health-care company The Schumacher Group has used hosted applications successfully for over two years. Unlike many of his peers who remain ...

As it becomes more popular to have applications hosted by an external service provider, what implications does this have for integrating those applications with your other systems? The integration of ...

I’ve been hosting applications on local hardware for years and have come across numerous tools during this time. Media streaming platforms, photo managers, game servers, ebook organizers, and a host ...

As part of its shift in business model, Microsoft is rewriting many of its applications to make them support multitenancy so that they may be offered in a hosted fashion Microsoft is rewriting many of ...

The terms “cloud hosting” and “cloud computing” are often used interchangeably, but they are not really the same thing — though in most cases, both approaches are modeled on a client/server ...