Hosted applications — renting the use of business software that runs in an outside service provider’s data center — can sound very good to small businesses. Businesses can be up and running fast with ...

If there's a hot spot in the enterprise software business, it's hosted applications. The reason hosting is taking off is simple: why buy the $500,000 red Ferrari when you can drive it any time of day ...

With new FOSS applications and self-hosted utilities popping up at a breakneck pace, now’s the best time to deploy useful services on your own hardware. From a privacy standpoint, locally-hosted apps ...

BT and Microsoft on Wednesday launched a web-based applications platform for SMEs. As revealed on ZDNet UK two months ago, BT Applications Marketplace is a service that allows independent software ...

But while on one hand there's nothing new about hosted applications, on the other hand everything is new as enterprises of all sizes begin migrating more and more mission-critical technology to the ...

Hosted systems such as salesforce.com and UpShot have seen staggering growth. Salesforce.com made it into AMR Research’s Customer Management Application Spending Report, debuting at number 29 in the ...

The beauty of hosted applications is that they free IT from so much. But when those services go down, it is IT that takes the direct hit. The allure of a hosted application is clear. No servers to buy ...

Editor’s note: The following article by Kevin McDonald, VP of account management for SourceMedical, appeared in the Fall 2010 edition of SourceMedical’s “Insider Source” magazine. In today’s mature ...