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Software and Saas

Increasing Revenues for SaaS

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Increasing Revenues for SaaS

Gartner forecasts WW SaaS revenues will reach totals of $12.1Bn (with 20.7% Y-o-Y growth) in 2011, up from  2010's revenues  of $10Bn, with healthy growth to go on all through the next 5 years. 

The analyst's report predicts revenues will reach $21.3Bn by 2015.

The push towards SaaS will come due to increasingly tighter budgets demanding leaner alternatives, toegether with increasing familiarity with the "software as a service" model. 

As more enterprises adopt SaaS, concerns regarding security, response time and service availability will diminish, Read more...

Enterprise Software Recovers Further

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Enterprise Software Recovers Further

The enterprise software's recovery is on pace, according to Gartner-- with the WW market forecast to reach over $267Bn in 2011, with 9.5% Y-o-Y growth. 

The analyst also projects it will reach totals of $288Bn in 2012.

Gartner says the the enterprise software market is recovering following 2009-- even if it points out Europe as an area of concern when it comes to economic recovery. Q2 2011 could be seeing a slowdown in demand, with some recover later in the year. 

In fact, Gartner's forecasts for W. Europe total $78.3Bn-- with growth to possibly reaching Read more...

Solving VMware I/O Bottlenecks

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Solving VMware I/O Bottlenecks

IO Turbine announces Accelio, its first sofware solving I/O bottleneck problems in VMware environments by making use of servers' SSD/flash memory.

The software identifies the highest priority data and offloads IOPS from primary storage to flash-- allowing for the deployment of more applications within a virtual machine while avoiding I/O performance limitations.

Accelio sits above the hypervisor, and is thus hypervisor agnostic-- as well as SSD/flash and storage system agnostic. 

The company says its solution is the only one to automate hot data to Read more...

Tech•Ed's Networking Winner

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Tech•Ed's Networking Winner

Microsoft names Spiceworks winner in the best networking product category at Tech•Ed 2011.

Spiceworks combines network, PC and help desk management in a free product, which it says has a community of 1.4m WW IT professional users. 

It provides not only network monitoring (with alerts for anything from users installing software to printer toner levels getting low) but also hardware and software inventory tools, network mapping and IT management scheduling. 

Completing the package are community features for IT professionals to exchange their how-tos Read more...

Enterprise Software Market on the Recovery

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Enterprise Software Market on the Recovery

Gartner reports the WW enterprise software market is on its way to recovery-- with total software revenue for 2010 reaching $245BN and 8.5 Y-o-Y growth.

This follows 2009's -2.5% Y-o-Y decline to $226BN. 

The analyst says 2010 represents the market's return to solid footing, as it expands and recovers while major software vendors expand their product portfolios, acquire companies (where appropriate) and reach deeper into emerging markets. 

W. Europe in particular sees relatively modest dollar-denominated growth-- showing recovery that's not as rapid Read more...

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