AdventNet Journal

Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the organizing principle of each International Virtualization Conference & Expo remains the same: our aim is to ensure, through an intense and carefully chosen program of technical and strategic breakout sessions, that attending delegates leave each Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the efficiency and flexibility of their Enterprise IT endeavors. The Call for Papers for the 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, which will be held in Santa Clara, CA, on November 2- 4, 2009, is currently still open. The submissions URL is here, and the deadline for submissions is June 30, 2009. Topics welcomed include every aspect of virtualization. For example: ... (more)

AdventNet Enhances Business Views by Integrating Google Maps in Applications Manager

AdventNet has announced the release of an update to ManageEngine Applications Manager, an affordable web application management software, that provides integrated applications and server monitoring. ManageEngine Applications Manager also gets an enhanced Web Client with more usability by integrating AJAX capabilities. ManageEngine Applications Manager now adds location intelligence to Application and Server Monitoring. With this new graphical view, users can monitor the status of data centers located in multiple geographical locations. The integration of Root Cause Analysis capab... (more)

AdventNet Unveils AJAX-Based Zoho CRM

AdventNet, a pioneer in cost-effective network management software, has announced the release of Zoho CRM, a cost-effective and easy to deploy web-based customer relationship management solution to help mid-sized businesses create an optimal CRM strategy for increasing business productivity. Zoho CRM is a web-based Customer Relationship Management solution, which provides Sales force automation, Marketing automation, and Customer Support management for better managing customer relationships. In addition, Order management is also available for those businesses looking for an integ... (more)

AdventNet Adds Web Services Monitoring

AdventNet announced an important update to ManageEngine Applications Manager, an application management software that helps business managers and application support to cost effectively monitor their business applications. This update's focus is on helping enterprises monitor their applications that use Service Oriented Architectures. ManageEngine Applications Manager provides a flexible approach to managing SOA that uses SOAP Web Services. It helps business managers to configure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and ensure that business objectives are met. "SOA introduces concepts o... (more)

How can Microsoft ever compete with Amazon?

But Microsoft and other more traditional software companies may struggle with an even more fundamental issue as they move to supplement their standard offerings with software-as-a-service and cloud development platforms. Ozzie hinted at it with his acknowledgment of Amazon’s success to date. Sridhar Vembu, CEO of AdventNet, the company that created the Zoho suite of online productivity applications, highlights it in a smart blog post. Amazon is a giant in a business with notoriously slim profit margins, which is likely part of the reason it was so quick to recognize and capitalize on... (more)