The convergence of web delivered IT services - Cloud Computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Hosted Applications, Software-as-a-Service, Virtualization - will continue to redefine and add value to the SMB/mid-market IT services landscape, especially in the current economic climate.
Author: Sanjeev Aggarwal
Demandbase—Can it Turn Your Web Traffic Into Treasure?
Like most analysts, my schedule is usually chockfull of briefings from vendors. Some of these are boring, some are interesting, and once in a blue moon, a vendor comes along with a solution that everyone should know about. Demandbase (www.demandbase.com) is one of these solutions. I initially came across the vendor late last fall, when I was judging for the Destination CR...
IBM Dynamic Infrastructure Announcement and the Mid-Market Enterprise
With today's 'Dynamic Infrastructure' initiative announcement, IBM is positioning itself as a holistic technology solution and service provider and partner. It combines all the element of separate cloud delivered services (cloud based, managed, and on-premise) and also traditional on-premise hardware, software and services. Managed Services Cloud Computing Soft...
Reading the Top Trends Barometer at the 2009 Small Business Summit
Just got back from Small Business Summit 2009—an awesome event put on by Ramon Ray (www.smallbiztechnology.com) and Marian Banker (www.primestrategies.com ) at the Digital Sandbox in New York City. Turn out for the Summit was terrif...
SMB’s turning to Conferencing Solutions in tough economic times
In today's tough economic times, driven by higher travel costs, staff reduction, and tight credit – SMB are turning to solutions that will reduce costs and provide clearly identifiable short-term ROI. In the past year, conferencing solutions service providers that provide ho...
SMB/Mid-Market Key IT Initiatives in the Current Market Environment
Recently (December'08), I had the opportunity to participate in a CFO/CIO panel with participants from New England SMB/mid-market businesses, organized by Managed Technology Partners. The topic of the panel discussion was 'What key IT initiatives that are still being considered and issues to be consi...
2009 Small Business Trends: No Longer Business as Usual
In 2009, it’s no longer business as usual. The sharp economic decline has led many small companies to slash operating costs and cut staff to the bone. In the wake of small businesses’ initial shock and awe, uncertainty has become the new normal. With little fat left to trim, smal...
Cloud Computing and Services – Can this provide the market disruption in the current economic environment!
Cloud computing and services include any subscription-based service that is delivered over the internet in real time, providing flexibility by extending an enterprises internal IT resources, staff and expertise. It encompasses several of the we...
My Top Takeaways from Lotusphere 2009
As always. IBM’s Lotusphere has been chock full of announcements about new products, upgrades and partnerships. At Lotusphere, “resonance” was the overarching theme, framing the benefits of having multiple applications work in harmony to amplify the benefits of individual solutions, and create better business outcomes (or something like that, I’m paraphrasing here!). One level down from that, ...
It’s a Small World
It’s a Small World Well, it’s about time—I’m taking my first leap into the blogosphere. It took a good-natured push from my new colleagues at Hurwitz & Associates, who helped overcome my concern that the last thing the world needs is another blog and reassured me that I’ll add something useful to this big bowl of talk soup. Let me start with a quick introduction. I’ve been in the IT indus...