Like a snowball rolling downhill, the software-as-a-service platform is gaining in size and depth as vendors continue to add on more and more components to the core hosted application. This week, ...

Couchbase Capella, based on the next-generation Couchbase database, gives customers and partners a way to more quickly spin up a cloud database for developing mission-critical applications. Couchbase ...

Google Inc. must provide stronger data models, along with role-based access and records management archiving capabilities, before most IT managers will take its Google Apps hosted application suite ...

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 ...

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 applications in the new SaaS (Software as a Service) category efficiently employ technical workers, because they spread a tech’s time over multiple companies and many users. Small businesses ...

Retailers looking to execute quick, affordable IT upgrades turned to hosted software providers last year as they prepared for what turned out to be a stellar holiday season for online shopping. In the ...

You probably run Office and other software directly from a PC hard drive. But server-side tools can put any Windows application into the cloud, keeping virtual ...