The Crowd helps Microsoft customers “envision” Office 365 operating in their organizations A couple of weeks ago I visited the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) located just outside of Boston in Kendall Square, a hub for technology start-ups that has developed…
Six SaaS monitoring myths that can kill your chances for success in the cloud There’s been plenty written and predicted about the future of cloud and Software-as-a-Service, and it’s hard to argue with its benefits – for both organizations and…
Why Service Provider Dashboards Fall Short for Enterprise IT Last week Google experienced a service disruption that affected nearly a third of the users of Gmail. Such outages have been fairly infrequent, but when they do happen they generate quite…
The crowd can help IT, but only if the right information is shared A few weeks ago I was trying to update some files I have stored on a cloud storage service (that will remain nameless). I had moved my…
Organizations of all sizes are recognizing that with Microsoft Office 365 they can improve agility and operational efficiency by eliminating the burden and cost of deployment and management of complex on-premise email and collaboration infrastructure. However, many hesitate to…
10 SaaS Companies to Watch By Beth Schultz, Network World 4. Company Name: Exoprise Systems Headquarters: Waltham, Mass. What it offers: CloudReady, a SaaS application suite for evaluating the readiness of on-premises systems, orchestrating cloud migrations and providing real-time performance monitoring…
At the risk of violating an unwritten blogging code of conduct, I wanted to talk a little bit about CloudReady Insight, Exoprise's flagship product, and why Total Cost of Ownership should only be one of the factors that determines whether…