The voluntary FedRAMP program for private and public cloud services, expected to begin in the first quarter of 2011, would standardize security accreditation and certification.

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada Sramana: More than 125% growth, fantastic. Mark, what else should I have asked you about your process that I didn’t ask? Mark: We talked a lot about...

...IT service management platform combines ITIL v3 process support and SaaS delivery to provide a flexible, intuitive and self-managing, cloud-based application. Founded in 2004, Service-now.com uses...

Like Ive said before, I get the privilege of meeting with all sorts of IT organizations that span just about any categorization axis youd care to imagine. A precious few of these IT organizations have...

Advanced Analytics was a big topic at the IBM IOD conference last week. As part of this, predictive analytics was again an important piece of the story along with other advanced analytics capabiliti...

About a year ago, (October 2009) Google inked a $15 million Twitter deal to include tweets in search and finally, the day has come where AdWords advertisers can take advantage of real time Twitter fee...

Google has been obsessed with speeding up the web for quite a while now. The company's most recent efforts towards this goal include Google Instant for speeding up search, the Page Speed tool for deve...

How does an Internet search giant named Google tell users that it agreed to a settlement of $8.5 million over privacy breaches related to its Buzz social networking program.  By Gmail, of course. Bu...

Tweet…ReTweet Like Share Check-in Group buy QR code scan Augmented reality RFID What may sound like buzz words or mere hype, is actually the beginning of the end of business as usual. Welcome to th...

If you search Google for IT failure, about a zillion different pages come up. That zillion is a technical term that means a whole of discussion takes place around failure. But, filter out the noise an...

Have you seen the changes to the LinkedIn Company Pages?  There is now a Product and Services tab that lets you feature everything about your company and what you sell.  I highly recommend you take...

It’s time for another interview with a contributor to Focus Experts’ Guide: Sales and Marketing Pipeline and Funnel Models. Meet Adam Needles, Vice President of Demand Generation Strategy at Left...

You keep hearing about this social customer relationship management (CRM) thing, right? It’s definitely been a hot topic. Here are some important points to consider when thinking ab...

This post was written by Mirna Bard, a blogger, speaker and consult. She serves as the social-media chairwoman of the Orange County chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners, and sh...

From Commodore to iPad, the members of Generation X saw some incredible advancements in technology and computing. This techno-lution shaped them into the mass-consuming technophiles we know them as to...

Dell is buying Boomi, an SaaS provider that provides services for moving applications to the cloud. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Boomi has made a name for itself in that sweet spot where c...

Amazon.com is working closely with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide cloud computing services for the space agency's The Mars Exploration Rover project, NASA announced today. Although...

If you are a government agency considering using VMware vSphere 4.0, get ready for some good news. VMware announced it has received the Common... Read more at VMblog.com.

Blekko, The “Slashtag” Search Engine, Goes Live, Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land (Oct 31) Detailed review that will make you even more intrigued. "One of the most encouraging things about Blekk...

Can the iPad save the magazine star? It might, if Portland, Oregon startup Urban Airship has anything to say about it. For all their dreams of success in a medium that privileges big pictures, mul...