Enterprises globally are expected to adopt cloud solutions en masse in the next 12 months, according to a new study published in a whitepaper by search leader Google. CRM, however, will not be the major driving application.

When the Eee PC burst on the scene many of us were ready to dismiss it as a cheap consumer toy which would never be suitable for business. No longer. In the cash strapped era of SaaS and the Cloud, netbooks may be just the paradigm shift that enterprises need.

The iTWire team is excited to announce our newest section - Enterprise. We've launched Enterprise in recognition of the critical role IT&T technology plays in today's enterprises and the fact this multibillion market is key to the fortunes of many of the world's largest IT&T vendors.

The software as a service (SaaS) industry is set for a boom period thanks to the economic crisis sweeping the US and the globe. This is the finding of a new study based on recent customer surveys.

Citrix, the newest player to enter the hypervisor space when it acquired XenSource in October 2007, has unveiled “Project Kensho”, designed to make virtual machines portable across the major hypervisor platforms, including XenServer from Citrix, VMware's ESX and Microsoft's recently released Hyper-V.

Hey, don’t call it a “call centre”, like Cylons they’ve evolved, into “contact centres”. But instead of being evil like Cylons, with the right software infrastructure a contact centre can actually be quite “NICE”, not only for customers, but for your business too.

IDC predicts that 1800 exabytes of data will be created during 2018, and that compliance issues will mean 85 percent of it will have to be managed. How will organisations be able to keep their share of that data mountain secure?

Watch out VMware and Citrix: Microsoft’s wants its value-added virtualisation strategy to turn victorious one of these days, and has not only bought up Kidaro to boost its Optimised Desktop pack but continues investing big money, saying its seeing big success.

If there was a way you could print money, wouldn’t you implement it? That’s exactly what Samsung is doing with its new strategy to make business printing – for SOHO, medium and large businesses – a major new plank of its growth strategy, while challenging all the major printing incumbents.

Payroll, retail and accounting software solutions provider, MYOB, has entered the web hosting market with hosting and email packages after the recent purchase of a web hosting business. While this is a good move, it’s clearly still early days, with a hosted MYOB solution to come “in time”.