December 12, 2008
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As corporations brace for a year of living dangerously thanks to the present recession, they will need to leverage technology wisely in order to survive.

That's the lesson that Verizon's (NYSE: VZ) Business unit is urging U.S. enterprises to follow. In particular, the telecom carrier identified several trends it sees with the potential to help enterprises survive in 2009 by doing more with less.

"These challenging times present IT leaders with an opportunity to make technology work harder and smarter to get the job done," Nancy Gofus, Verizon's senior vice president of global business products, said in a statement.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the technologies the company picked. Many businesses are turning to the category of product to cut costs, avoid the expenses of installing and maintaining on-site software -- a point made often by Marc Benioff, the feisty chairman and CEO of SaaS vendor Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM).

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