Phil Wainewright

The ASP Industry Consortium identified four shining examples of best practice from among its members yesterday (Nov 14th) as it announced the winners of the first of its ASPire awards. It also published new guidelines for security, service level agreements and contracts between providers and users (see separate story). The organisation, which has grown from […]

The ASP Industry Consortium highlighted best practice models among ASPs yesterday (Nov 14th). It announced the winners of the first of its ASPire awards to recognise best practice among its members, and published new guidelines for security, service level agreements and contracts between providers and users. The awards ceremony was held at the Consortium’s booth […]

BMC Software Inc became the latest high-end vendor to put its software online, with the launch today of a unit that will deliver its systems management solutions to service providers on a subscription basis. Service providers will now have the option of either purchasing products to install on their own servers, or of subscribing to […]

UK-based startup 7 proclaimed a new category in the ASP market today, launching itself as a ‘business services aggregator’. Symbolising the reliability it plans to offer customers, 7’s central data centre has been built into the bullion vaults of a former Bank of England building in Liverpool. 7 — so named because it takes responsibility […]

ASP aggregator iFuel launched in London today with 11,000 users signed up across 11 mid-size business customers. Delivering an initial portfolio of 10 applications from vendors including Microsoft, Onyx Software and Systems Union, iFuel set out its ambition to lead the European ASP industry, with a minimum target of 250,000 users across Europe by the […]

Oracle Corp added network service providers and systems integrators to its online software channel today with the launch of two new partner schemes. The partners will help Oracle deliver its software as an ASP. Sprint Corp and Genuity Inc became Oracle’s first Authorized Network Providers. Their role will be to provide network connectivity services at […]

Microsoft Corp scrapped its longstanding partner program today in favour of a new scheme that accommodates ASPs and software vendors alongside resellers and systems integrators. The Microsoft Certified Partner (MCP) program is a successor to the current Microsoft Certified Solution Provider (MCSP) program, which has been in place since 1992 and currently has 31,000 members […]

ERP software vendor JD Edwards has abandoned direct sales of its applications as an ASP, in favour of a channel-only ASP strategy, it revealed to ASP-News today. JD Edwards switched from its previous partner-only strategy at the beginning of this year, when it launched its in-house ASP unit. See related ASPnews.com story, JD Edwards becomes […]

Leading ebusiness security vendor Baltimore Technologies (LSE:BLM) and international telco Cable & Wireless today announced plans for an integrated suite of e-security solutions for Application Service Providers (ASPs). The pair plan to provide a broad range of services including secure web access, comprehensive e-mail content security, and secure hosting. One of the first beneficiaries is […]

British Telecommunications plc (LSE: BT.A) yesterday entered the global content and ASP hosting business with the launch of new services from BT Ignite, its recently-formed broadband IP business. Ignite Content Hosting unveiled managed hosting services across a network of 20 Internet data centres throughout Western Europe, all of them either wholly owned by BT or […]

Enterprise software development tools vendor Merant plc (LSE:MRN) added its weight to the growing trend towards online collaborative development with the launch yesterday of its ASP division. MERANT ASaP provides central storage, version management and issue management for software development projects. It allows distributed development teams to share a single, managed resource where they can […]

Nortel Networks announced Thursday (Aug 31st) a $26m contract from Taiwanese venture eASPNet to design and build its ASP and Internet data centre infrastructure. The contract is the third ASP infrastructure contract announced by Nortel this year, and confirms the vendor’s global reach, after chalking up previous customer wins in North America and Europe. At […]