Spiceworks, the free help desk and remote management platform, is getting an update in the form of a Request for Quote (RFQ) feature. The RFQ capability brings the purchasing of business technology and services out to the social network. Here’s the scoop.
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Spiceworks RFQ System Links SMBs With MSPs
Posted July 14th, 2011 by Matthew Weinberger
Cloud Computing: When Will the Big Money Arrive?
Posted March 31st, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
Despite all the hype, it’s still early in the cloud game — and big-time cloud revenues have yet to arrive. At least that’s the spin from Matt Asay, a CNet blogger and chief operating officer at Canonical. Asay notes that Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (perhaps the best-known cloud environment out there) is believed to only generate about $220 million annually in annual revenues. That’s a rather small sum, considering Amazon’s annual corporate revenue was $24.5 billion in 2009. So, when will cloud revenues really kick in?
Untangle Security Gateway Reaches Tipping Point
Posted May 12th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
As I was scanning a few of my favorite blogs, I noticed CNet writing a bit about Untangle — the open source security gateway provider.