SaaS Blogs

During the VMworld keynote today, VMware announced that it was acquiring Integrien and TriCipher. Clearly, M&A activity is a good indicator that the acquirer is pursuing change and hoping to achieve specific strategic goals, but what they buy is always an interesting indicator of corporate direction.
VMware, not too long ago, picked up SpringSource and associated […]

Although my focus in life right now is CEO of Apprenda, I come from a software development and architecture background (I needed to put my Math/Comp Sci. degree to good use at some point in my life). Anyone who has written software in any “old” (in this case, the double quotes are for sarcasm) platform […]

I had the pleasure of reading a Structure 2010 follow up article written by Stephen Lawson titled “VMware’s Maritz: OSes are having their jobs stolen.” In it, Lawson outlines VMWare’s CEO Paul Maritz’ position that modern applications are relying on frameworks farther up on the stack for abstract services that used to be provided by the operating […]

I was on a panel entitled “HYBRID CLOUDS — THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS?” at the Structure 2010 conference this past week. (Check out a recording of the panel) For those readers who are unfamiliar with the concept of the “hybrid” cloud, essentially, it’s the idea that one logical infrastructure cloud can be composed from […]

When my partners and I co-founded Apprenda, we had a number of very specific goals when it came to SaaS enablement and we wanted SaaSGrid to embody those goals. My co-founders and I all came from technical backgrounds where we were responsible for SaaS engineering efforts. We learned early on that when a SaaS application […]

For those interested, an article I wrote was published on GigaOM that gives a high level description of the bare necessities required to become an on-demand player. I won’t rehash the details here, so definitely check it out!

When thinking of the cloud, there are two sides to the coin: those who build SaaS offerings and those who consume them. For those who build SaaS applications, we’ve seen a glut of tools crop up to help engineer, architect and deploy SaaS offerings. Some are “horizontally” aligned (think EC2 on the IaaS side, SaaSGrid […]

If you haven’t heard, Salesforce.com and VMWare plan on making a joint product announcement on April 27th at http://www.vmforce.com. Clearly, this piqued the curiosity of many, including myself. Thinking about Force.com, Salesforce.com’s strategy around the platform to date, and VMWare’s activity and intent to become more entrenched in the Cloud, my best guess is that […]

Yes! How’s that for a quick answer? In all seriousness, I believe this to be a “no brainer,” but I think the burden of proof is on me to describe why. I think it’s important to set context and work our way backwards to conclude that an axiomatic ‘yes’ answers the question “Does ‘Self Provisioning’ […]

One question that has popped up in some blog posts recently is whether the notion of “private cloud” is a misnomer or if it conceptually even makes sense. Some of the conversation started when Andrew Conry-Murray posted that the term “private cloud” is bunk and no such thing exists. I have to completely disagree with […]