Category: medium-sized business

Taking security to the Cloud

by Norman Email

A constant theme of our postings on Cloud has been the security issues that customers perceive as so significant in this area. So what about the security issues of delivering security products from the Cloud? This is the latest development to come al… more »

Cloud through the Data Center

by Norman Email

If you’re not IBM or Amazon or Google but a mid-size IT company, how do you ‘sell‘ Cloud computing? The problem – if it were one – arises from the notion of Cloud computing being a diffuse, amorphous presence within which resides all means of performi… more »

IBM's desktop in the cloud

by Norman Email

At the end of August, IBM announced it was introducing what it called “the industry's first public desktop cloud service”. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28292.wss After the usual PR guff about the benefits to Mankind of cloud computi… more »

On-demand CRM – does it work for SMB?

by Norman Email

SAP bestrides the customer resource management (CRM) sector like a colossus. For most small and medium businesses (SMBs), SAP is still seen as some master of the universe - remote, expensive and beyond the reach of modest-sized firms. SAP www.sap.… more »