
Why Cloud-centric services are critical to the survival of service providers in today’s As-a-Service Economy
Cloud-centric delivery is the only true direction service providers can take, if they want to be around in another couple of years

HP and Salesforce team up to go after the zombie enterprise
HP and Salesforce.com have teamed up to provide Salesforce CRM on dedicated “Superpod” HP boxes in an effort to satisfy enterprise clients fearful of having their data situated in the Public Cloud. The partnership is designed to help Salesforce.com gain more traction with large global enterprises and highly regulated industries, while providing HP some Cloud street-cred after years of negative publicity and pride a much-needed fillip to its hardware and CRM services businesses.