SaaS Blogs

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 […]

If you’re an ISV considering SaaS as a delivery model (whether it’s for a new product or migrating an existing one), you’re going to inevitably bump into SaaS platforms as a potential means of building your service. Once you do, you’re presented with two options: (1) build a fully integrated SaaS offering yourself which includes your actual […]

At the OpSource Summit last week, Treb Ryan gave a great presentation that started with a simple (oft taken for granted) question: what is ‘the cloud’? Although this part of the talk was interesting, one particular part of the talk caught my attention. A third or so of the way through, Treb focused on the […]

Coghead’s departure from the PaaS world sparked plenty of interesting debate. One small debate that caught my attention started on Phil Wainewright’s post about Coghead’s demise with a comment by Microsoft’s Eugenio Pace, which then spilled into a post Eugenio wrote here.
To give a brief synopsis, Phil argues that Coghead’s demise and the subsequent stranding of […]

Coghead announced it was shutting it doors yesterday evening. For those unfamiliar with Coghead, it was a much talked about PaaS offering that offered an online application editor for rapid application development. They fell under the category of non-standard stack, a “4th generation language and runtime” (4GL) if you will. It seems that slow adoption coupled with the […]

For some time, I thought I was alone in battling the cloud taxonomy war. With SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, RIA, etc. being tossed around on a regular basis, I often find myself looking for clarification when it becomes obvious that someone’s definition and understanding of one of these acronyms is different than mine and those that […]

A quick note for everyone: Paul Miller of Cloud of Data was kind enough to hold an interview with me regarding Apprenda, SaaSGrid and the Cloud. Check it out!