Kevin Newcomb

Telenisus Corp. Monday (June 11) unveiled its Rapid Start Hosting Platform, which allows customers to develop, test and deploy applications in the same hosted environment. Telenisus Rapid Start Hosting Platform has four phases, including a “rented” development environment, Web application testing service, an automated stress test of the developed application and a fully managed Web […]

IBM Global Services and NetObjects today announced plans for a new Web Services project to be unveiled later this year, aimed at helping smaller, less technically sophisticated and budget-strapped organizations get online. IBM and NetObjects will provide Web site applications and services that are already packaged and integrated to meet the needs of these organizations. […]

Global ASP Interliant Inc. (NASDAQ:INIT) this week added to its line of managed services a database hosting solution for Oracle databases, ranging from license rental to full database administration. INIT Database Hosting is targeted at the customer who has the ability to manage an application, but would like to outsource the database for reasons of […]

Enterprise ASP Corio Inc. (Nasdaq:CRIO) added to its stable of managed-hosted vertical marketplaces with mining, minerals and metals eMarketplace Quadrem. “Our new relationship with Quadrem represents another important milestone for us,” said George Kadifa, president and CEO of Corio. “We have experienced significant momentum with industry exchanges that look to Corio for world-class ASP services […]

S1 Corp. (Nasdaq: SONE) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today expanded an alliance that delivers S1’s eFinance solutions using IBM hardware, integration software, services and consulting, enabling financial institutions to offer customers Internet-based financial services. Through the extended agreement, IBM’s global sales teams will promote S1 applications for consumer eFinance, including online banking and retail brokerage, […]

Jabber.com Inc. and Nuance (Nasdaq: NUAN) brought Instant Messaging (IM) and the Voice Web a step closer together today with an agreement under which Nuance will provide a voice interface to Jabber’s IM software and Jabber will add Nuance’s speech-recognition engine to its product offerings. The agreement would allow Nuance customers and partners to develop […]

According to industry analysts at IDC, the ASP market, despite recent challenges, can expect revenues over the next four years to jump from $986 million in 2000 to almost $24 billion in 2005. This represents a current compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 89 percent, according to IDC. “Despite the well-publicized challenges facing the ASP […]

Another casualty of today’s harsh advertising climate takes effect today, when intranet service provider Intranets.com abandons its free, ad-revenue based service and standardizes on an enhanced, subscription-based service based on its current Professional Edition. “The new economic realities of Internet advertising have made the distribution of free services on the Web an impossible financial model […]

Reflecting a growing and much-anticipated trend in the ASP industry, industry heavyweights Progress Software and Allegrix announced a merger agreement today. The Progress Company, a business unit of Bedford, Mass.-based Progress Software Corp. , has acquired privately-held Application Infrastructure Provider (AIP) Allegrix, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Progress will add Allegrix’s hosting, empowerment and education […]

IBM has teamed up with broadband provider RedBack Networks to offer on-demand IP services to service providers and carriers. The Rapid IP Services for eBusiness solution, a joint offering by Armonk, N.Y.-based Big Blue (NYSE:IBM), its Austin, Texas-based Tivoli Systems subsidiary, and San Jose, Calif.-based Redback Networks (Nasdaq:RBAK), is a combination of a service portal […]

Customers of managed ASP NaviSite Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI) can now take advantage of NaviSite’s Instant Capacity and Instant Availability services, which will provide the ability to provision servers on-demand, allowing an immediate response to surges in Internet traffic without extensive prior capacity planning. “These services will provide customers with a cost-effective alternative to up-front costs […]

Managed services provider Loudcloud Inc. (Nasdaq:LDCL) Wednesday (May 30) unveiled its Caching Cloud service, powered by CacheFlow (Nasdaq:CFLO), which allows Loudcloud customers to serve five to ten times more Web content through existing server and network infrastructure. “Web site performance has become a critical factor for many of our customers as they continue to grow […]