Store Info in the Cloud

New business models for managing enterprise storage offer small and medium size businesses an opportunity to save on information technology costs and/or to shift the infrastructure operating expense savings to value-added IT investments. ...

... "Mr. Dolan calculates that a company with $100 million in annual revenue, for example, spends about $7 million a year on information technology. We can reduce that cost by 25 percent, he said ... " ...

Via New York Times: Profiting from Information Storage Services

Microsoft Cloud Computing Predictions

In order to seecure a foothold into the future of computing beyond desktops and servers, Microsoft appears poised to make eye-popping investments in a cloud-computing infrastructure that rivals peer companies in the space. ...

... "Microsoft has the resources and, it appears, the will to invest many billions in the physical infrastructure necessary to secure a place ... " ...

Via Nicholas Carr Blog: Microsoft data-center investment likely

Portfolio Management Software Offered in SaaS Model

HP moves to offer PPM software in a SaaS model, like salesforce dot com. If the pricing is competitive, this is a nice way to buy by the drink and show value of project portfolio management before expanding to a large enterprise deployment. ...

... "Project and Portfolio Management Center – Standardizes, manages and captures the execution of project and operational activities, and provides critical information to assist real-time decision making. " ...

Via HP: HP Strategy to Expand Its Software-as-a-Service Offering

SaaS Empowers Business Use of IT

SaaS could revive business interest in IT as the threshold for projects is lowered through a pay-by-the-drink approach to systems implementation. ...

... "With SaaS, line-of-business heads, ranging from the vice president of sales to the director of human resources (HR), can single-handedly own the purchase decision by taking advantage of free trial offers on Web sites to evaluate solutions and paying a monthly or quarterly rate low enough to stay off the corporate radar screen for requiring approvals. " ...

Via Supply and Demand Chain Executive: SaaS