MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of IDC’s new report “Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2010-2015 Forecast and Trends” to their collection of Internet Applications market...

In what can only be described as a stunner of a move, Google has released a new plug-in (Google Cloud Connect Office) which 'cloud-enables' Microsoft Office. Beating Microsoft to the punch with their...

Just days after Google upgraded its Social Search including shared content from Twitter, Flickr and Quora, Bing announces that it will include URLs, liked and shared by users on Facebook, in its sea...

We've spent the past few days at the Parallel Summit, talking with people about the hosting industry and the small business market. Parallel executives have reiterated that the cloud's future is in...

Floyd Strimling is one of our senior technical evangelist here at Zenoss.  To say Floyd keeps an eye on the tech industry would be a major understatement. Floyd has been following the Cloud computing...

If you're a CIO thinking of migrating to Google Apps for your business, Microsoft would like a word with you about what questions to ask your potential cloud provider.

Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Learn more. Sponsor: The Open Group.Welcome to a special discussion on predicting how cloud co...

As Google describes it, the Social Search feature is a way to help you “discover relevant content from your social connections, a set of your online friends and contacts.” Google launched Social S...

Moderated by Lisa Buyer, we have Massimo Burgio and Liana (Li) Evans Li is up first to talk mainly about organic marketing and also some FB ad tips. First thing to remember is that FB...

I saw this Tweet from Scott Mersy (@smersy) yesterday and it got me thinking about the skills that marketers need to be successful in a buyer-driven world. This said, the idea translates to pretty muc...

(This guest post by Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, previously CEO of MySQL AB, has originally appeared @ opensource.com) An open source company is naturally a company that produces op...

Gartner has predicted that the market for social CRM software will be over $1 Billion by 2012. According to the research firm, social CRM spending will rise exponentially in 2011 and a 3 year shakeout...

One of the biggest stories of my career — as someone who covered telecom industry — happened fifteen years ago: The 1996 Telecom Act was the start of the liberalization of an industry that had...

It’s easy to forget about the importance of a strong site architecture when so much focus is put on other on and off-page SEO efforts. When your site was being designed you might have built a sitema...

As indicated in my previous retail blog post, there are a number of differences between retail websites and other websites. Technology adoption is one area that is especially poignant. Consider the...

hdr_dmf11_turnupheat.jpg The MarketingProf’s Digital Forum held in Austin, TX was greeted by a very snowy and icy landscape locally but the...

My last day of live blogging at Search Engine Strategies 2011 here in London. I'm speaking later today. First thing in the morning and I'm in the main room for "Video Search Optimisation". It's a b...

Today Parallels, the worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software, announced the introduction of a new cloud infrastructure, and hosted PBX solutions, as well as support for Microsoft Of...

While there are MANY enterprise customers who are virtualizing mission critical apps, some who are virtualizing clients in all shapes and forms, some who have functioning internal self-service ITaaS p...

Infrastructure operations executives have shown a tremendous interest in looking for opportunities to take advantage of the cloud to provision email and collaboration services to their employees - in...