Google recently announced a price cut for their online storage for Picasa, in effect cutting the cost by 75% and increasing the storage capacity that it buys by 50%. Some of the reasons are due to the decline of hard drive storage costs and a beefed up infrastructure that makes it more manageable. They are currently pricing 20GB of storage space at Read the rest of this entry »
Google Slashes Prices for Online Photo Storage – Picasa
December 21st, 2009SaaS Sales Up 18% in 2009
November 1st, 2009Worldwide software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenues are expected to defy the tough economy and grow 18 percent in 2009, to reach $7.5 billion, research firm Gartner predicts.
Gartner says the SaaS market will show consistent growth through 2013, when worldwide revenues are expected to top $14 billion for the enterprise application markets.
“The composition of the worldwide SaaS landscape is evolving as vendors continue to extend regionally, increase penetration within existing accounts and ‘greenfield’ opportunities, and offer more-vertical-specific solutions as part of their service portfolio or through partners,” Gartner research director Sharon Mertz said in a statement.
Mertz added that adoption Read the rest of this entry »