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  • What's Your Outsourcing Vision?

    March 03, 2010 12:37 PM | Michael Healey

    We've just wrapped up our latest InformationWeek Analytics survey on business outsourcing, and there are a few interesting trends worth mentioning before the full report comes out.

  • Piper Jaffray Sees Gold Rush In Cloud Software

    February 23, 2010 04:47 PM | Charles Babcock

    Investment advisor Piper Jaffray interviewed 100 CIOs and IT managers, then wrote up its conclusions in a 320-page report, neatly summarized by its title: "The Future Is In the Cloud." Spending on software as a service and cloud computing will grow from 5.7% today to 13.5% of all software spending in five years, it predicts.

  • Is HP's Mark Hurd Worth $30 Million?

    January 13, 2010 10:36 AM | Paul McDougall

    Tech execs are flying under the radar at a time when Washington is threatening to claw back Wall Street's eight-figure bonuses. But it's not like Silicon Valley is paying peanuts. New records show HP CEO Mark Hurd got $30 million last year. Did he earn it?

  • Forrester Data Signals Hot Tech Stocks

    January 12, 2010 03:38 PM | Paul McDougall

    Forrester predicts worldwide IT sales will increase 8.1% in 2010, putting an end to the rotten recession in which the industry's been mired for at least the past 18 months. But which vendors will benefit the most from the rebound?

  • Salesforce.com's Wizard Was Parker Harris And Team

    December 29, 2009 04:47 PM | Charles Babcock

    Much has been recorded about the rise of Salesforce.com and how Marc Benioff's clever marketing brought the company to the forefront. Today, with its stock reaching new highs, I wanted to pay tribute to a giant of cloud computing, Parker Harris, the technology magician behind the marketing who made Benioff's story possible.

  • Ready To Launch? Lack Of Scalability A Killer

    December 04, 2009 09:39 PM | Charles Babcock

    Yahoo Pipes is a way to mash up RSS feeds and Web pages into combined information, apply rules and filters, and publish it. When it launched Feb. 7, 2007, the Pipes API worked fine in principle. But as "Daniel" said from the audience at a San Francisco panel this week, Pipes wasn't ready to scale.

  • Next For India? Business Analytics

    November 09, 2009 10:57 AM | Paul McDougall

    Accenture is adding 8,000 positions to its Indian operations, a move that will push the outsourcer's total headcount on the subcontinent to about 50,000. Many of the new employees will work on business analytics tools. Last week, IBM opened a biz analytics lab in the country. Smell a trend yet?

  • Benioff Discloses All In 'Behind the Cloud' Except...

    October 29, 2009 09:05 PM | Charles Babcock

    Five copies of "Behind the Cloud" have arrived at my desk, two intended for fellow IW staffers and three for me, an embarrassment of riches. It's Marc Benioff's book on how Salesforce.com was created and built into a successful company. I am reading it avidly… but some disclosures will apparently have to wait for the sequel.

  • InformationWeek SMB Virtual Event: Dealing With Data Centers

    October 19, 2009 10:04 PM | Fredric Paul

    Whether your company's data center is a couple of servers stashed in a closet or a gleaming, state-of-the-art climate-controlled facility, you're still facing the same set of challenges: how to keep the IT lights on while controlling costs, take advantage of new technologies to stay competitive, and position your company for an economic recovery in the midst of the toughest times for IT that many of us can remember. On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, help is on the way.

  • IBM Preparing Self-Service Software Infrastructure

    September 29, 2009 03:56 PM | Charles Babcock

    IBM has been investing in cloud computing for several years, although Willy Chiu, VP of IBM Cloud Labs, acknowledges it may be difficult for those outside IBM to develop a picture of what its cloud initiative will finally look like.

  • Dell's Acquisition Of Perot Helps Healthcare Push

    September 21, 2009 02:39 PM | Marianne Kolbasuk McGee

    Dell's $3.9 billion acquisition of Perot Systems will help fortify Dell's pursuit of new customers in the healthcare industry, a sector that's been getting a lot of attention from Dell--and its competitors--in recent months.
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