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4 Considerations When Shopping the Google Apps Marketplace

March 19, 2010

Guest Post by Nalneesh Gaur Late last year in a post titled “The Future is Partly Cloudy,” Chris Curran and I wrote about the future of cloud computing where we explored pathways for cloud adoption. In this post, I explore consideration when buying SaaS applications. Is the vision of business purchasing all its software as a service (SaaS) over the web finally taking shape? The recent launch of Google Apps Marketplace would suggest that is ...

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Is the Cloud a Key to Sustainability?

May 20, 2009

The MIT Industrial Liaison Program holds an annual conference for its sponsors focused on technology and telecommunications.  This year’s event had excellent breadth, featuring Esther Dyson, the CTO of Blue State Digital (developers of Obama’s online social media platform), the director of MIT’s game development lab in Singapore and several others.  The one presentation that really got me thinking was by the IT Energy Coordinator for MIT’s own infrastructure, Laxmi Rao. Her presentation centered on ...

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Is the Open Source Conversation Dead?

May 15, 2009

One of my partners was asked by the Chief Information Officer of a major financial services organization for some help thinking through his open source strategy.  Honestly, the open source conversation has not come up much lately. Is open source in the enterprise a dead issue? Have companies already tapped into the open source apps and tools and exhausted the options?  Or, maybe consideration of open source software is fully integrated into companies’ software selection ...

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