SaaS Blogs

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 […]

Mike Vizard over at IT Business Edge wrote a blog post a couple of days ago where he described SaaSGrid as potentially having “…the most impact…” on the Cloud market (using the word ‘market’ here very loosely) when compared to other cloud technologies like Force.com and Azure. I’m both flattered and clearly in agreement, but […]

I love the idea that a balance exists between ideology and practicality. Questions of ideology and practicality always arise when it comes to building software, building a business, and building a software business. SaaS is no exception.
Interestingly, I had two different discussions with people who were of the position that aspiring SaaS company’s should “put […]

I wanted to share a quick note with all SaaSBlogs readers regarding Apprenda. You may have noticed that I haven’t been my prolific writing self as of late, but with good reason! Apprenda is a venture capital backed company, and I was very busy raising another round of funding which can definitely sap your time […]

Most everyone that’s part of SaaSGrid has converations either with customers, industry types, media, etc. about multi-tenancy capabilities that we “inject” into guest applications that live on SaaSGrid. One common misconception that we hear people spew out is that  multi-tenancy “is just a database thing.” That is so far from the truth! While many typically […]

One topic that fascinates me is the discussion of commodity hardware. Recently, Abe Sultan, our VP of Engineering at Apprenda, spoke on a panel with a few other great folks regarding the topic of leveraging commodity hardware. People LOVE to talk about commodity hardware, but what does it really mean in the context of SaaS and SaaS […]

Given all the economic and government policy hoopla, it’s no surprise that some are tackling the issue of if and how SaaS can impact government IT. Clearly, government adopting SaaS has significant benefits with a dose of security related fears, but overall, I see the government leveraging SaaS as a net win. One thing that […]

A quick note for anyone interested: I was recently interviewed by the folks over at Microsoft at their NYC offices. We’ve embedded the video on the Apprenda homepage or you can access it directly at MSDN’s Channel9. The interview mostly focuses on SaaSGrid and a bit on the Microsoft stack. I hope you find it […]

In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to write one last follow up post on the blogosphere-wide multi-tenancy discussion, so here it is! Recently, Salesforce.com quantified some of its architecture, giving us visibility into what it takes to support a SaaS business of its magnitude: 1,000 servers for 55,000 customers and 1.5 million […]

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched a healthy exchange between bloggers unfold with a focus on multi-tenancy. A while back, Bob Warfield over at Smoothspan, posted some interesting commentary on multi-tenancy being used by marketers in a gimmicky fashion as a ‘feature that customers care about’ more of a marketing gimmick (not so black […]