Some SaaS providers are targeting IT/network professionals with hosted management services. They figure that IT departments will prefer SaaS solutions over the cost and complexity of traditional network and systems management products, for many of the same reasons that individual business units and small companies are using on-demand applications to replace traditional enterprise software from companies like Oracle and SAP. For instance, Klir Technologies has developed a portfolio of on-demand network performance management services.
With Apple's stock up nearly 40 percent since the iPhone was unveiled Jan. 9, investors might be wondering whether there's money to be made with the shares of component suppliers and accessory makers that may profit from the device. It's an alluring hunch, no doubt. However, be careful, for in many cases, the smart money may be well ahead of you. Shares of Balda, the maker of iPhone's touch screen, have soared as much as 50 percent since early January.
Silicon Valley prides itself for being on the cutting edge of all things tech. For the most part, it is -- except when it comes to buildings. While there are standouts -- Adobe Systems' downtown San Jose, Calif., headquarters comes to mind -- most of the office buildings in the valley fail to take advantage of technological innovations that would make the real estate more valuable, more wired and more "green." At least that's how Wolfgang Wagener, head of real estate innovation and worldwide real estate at Cisco Systems, sees it.
A method for screening new hires that counts the likes of Google among its adherents may create some fertile ground for future employment lawsuits. That's the opinion of two attorneys writing the New York Law Journal this week. The attorneys, Robert Ottinger and Carrie Kurzon, of The Ottinger Firm in New York, argued in their article that companies using "biodata" tests may become targets of lawsuits based on discrimination laws.