SaaS Journal
Information workers on the job often turn to the same software tools they use
at home for quick, unfettered communication. When that involves instant
messaging (IM) programs such as AIM, Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live
Messenger, your company’s network is at risk for malware infections,
regulatory compliance breaches and copyright violations. Incorporating
Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings such as MessageLabs hosted IM Security
Services (IMSS) helps organizations sidestep the risks that uncontrolled use
of IM in the workplace can pose. This white paper explores IM security
issues, and shows you how Enterprises can proactively manage employee use of
IM and mitigate those risks.
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"Our strategy is focused on bringing new software-as-a-service offerings to
market, powered by EMC," said Tom Heiser, Senior Vice President and General
Manager of EMC's new Software-as-a-Service Business Unit, as EMC this week
today unveiled its SaaS strategy and the release of MozyEnterprise for online
backup of desktops, laptops and remote Windows servers.
MozyEnterprise is powered by EM... (more)
Parallels announced it is accelerating independent software vendors' (ISVs)
ability to provide their applications in the SaaS model without lengthy and
costly development or rewriting of code. The Parallels SaaS FastTrack Program
gives ISVs a quick and straight-forward approach to meeting small-to-medium
businesses’ (SMBs) growing need for on-demand applications. This is
achieved thro... (more)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Software, a leading provider
of commercial open source Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and portal solutions,
today announced its flagship platform, Lumenation, and the Lumenation
Software Development Kit (SDK), are available immediately for free download.
The products give PHP and AJAX developers a way to rapidly build, deploy,
manage, and sel... (more)
A start-up called Zonbu started peddling a small router-size Gentoo
Linux-based consumer PC pre-loaded with a swat of free or open source
applications and games, stuff like the OpenOffice suite, the Firefox web
browser, Skype's VoIP and the Acrobat Reader.
Users can't install any applications on the thing - well, there's no drive -
but besides what Zobu provides - which pretty much covers... (more)