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3 Most Important Announcements about Microsoft's Azure Cloud
Written on Wed, 11/18/09 - 9:36am
Microsoft's Ray Ozzie significantly blew past the basic Exchange, SharePoint and SQL database hosting services with the Azure announcements at PDC 2009 yesterday.
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Podcast: It takes a village in the cloud
Written on Wed, 10/22/08 - 8:54am
Not to be undone by others in the industry, Savvis announced its SaaS Platform initiative at the end of September. Because Savvis is one of the first top-tier companies to put such a comprehensive program together, I asked Bryan Doerr to join me on the Converging On Microsoft podcast. Savvis has taken...
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New SaaS platform embraces ISVs
Written on Tue, 09/30/08 - 9:31am
Savvis announced Monday its new SaaS Hosting Platform initiative directed at attracting independent software vendors moving to the SaaS model. While the Savvis announcement isn't entirely new territory, it is one of the first pure-play hosting companies to make a major move to wrap a complete program...
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Live Mesh - The Race To Become Web 2.0's Next Edison
Written on Tue, 04/29/08 - 6:10am
So who is the Edison of today? Or should I say, who will be the Edison this next era of the utility network?
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OpSource Says "Get On The Bus"
Written on Wed, 03/05/08 - 4:02am
If you are at all involved in the software-as-a-service, hosting or MSP industry, you've likely heard of Internet startup OpSource. Headed by co-founder and CEO Treb Ryan, a former Metromedia Fiber Network exec, OpSource seeks to be the operations services company for others looking to get into...
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SaaS Spawns Entrepreneurs
Written on Fri, 02/29/08 - 12:31pm
I'm attending SaaS Summit this week in San Francisco, sponsored by SaaS aggregator OpSource. Companies ranging from Microsoft to my company Absolute Performance attended. To demonstrate the diversity of companies involved in SaaS, even the smallest of companies exhibited. Next to our booth is...
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About Converging on Microsoft
Mitchell Ashley has a diverse background in software development, network engineering, information security, mobility, collaborative technologies, and IT management and operations. An early adopter of social media in business, he began blogging about security and information technologies in 2006 at theconvergingnetwork.com. Mitchell is VP of Information Technology at CableLabs in Louisville, CO, and previously held positions as CIO, CTO and VP Engineering at prior companies.
 

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