Meet me @ VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas August 29 to September 1

Aug 22, 2011 by Abe Sultan

Next week I’ll be travelling to Las Vegas to present at VMworld 2011. The session is going to focus around a reference architecture on how to auto scale the Apprenda Platform using vCloud Director and other VMware technologies while maintaining your applications running without disruptions. In the fast evolving space of cloud computing applications are becoming increasingly harder to develop and manage but expectations of uptime and reliability are higher than ever so taking advantage of a PaaS (Platform as a Service) layer like Apprenda’s can help enterprise IT and ISVs to excel in the cloud.

VMworld: August 29 – September 1

Session Details

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Title: Reference Architecture to Autoscale an Instance of Apprenda’s Application Fabric for .NET through VMware vCloud Director
Session: TEX2833
Registration: Content Catalog

Agenda

- Understanding Private PaaS Benefits
- Introduction to Apprenda’s PaaS
- Reference Architecture Breakdown
- Takeaway and Summary

Hope to see you all there but if you are not coming don’t miss the action and follow me on twitter at @asultan.

Cheers,
Abe

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The Death of an ISV: How NOT to Succeed in your Move to SaaS

Jul 27, 2011 by Jesse Kliza

It wasn’t curiosity. It was thinking that the “good old” ASP model would cut it. It was thinking that little by little, they’d get away from labor intensive provisioning, manual billing, and some day refactor the Rube Goldberg contraption that made their “hosted” model work. Sound familiar?

Software as a Service has quickly become the preferred method of application delivery and consumption. Why is it that while many ISVs claim to provide some flavor of SaaS today, few are doing it with the same cost of delivery profile and operational agility as SaaS leaders like Salesforce.com, or Taleo?

Join Apprenda and Savvis on August 9th at 1:30PM EST for a webinar covering the most dangerous pitfalls that ISVs fall into time and time again. You’ll learn:

- The unprofitable truth about the ASP model
- Why multi-tenant infrastructure isn’t enough
- The real-world economics of SaaS leaders and laggards
- How to avoid building dozens of custom SaaS operations systems
- Key business and technical pitfalls when making an infrastructure choice

You’ll come away with everything you need to either “save the ship”, or leap frog your competitors with a SaaS strategy that rivals the best of the best.

Date: Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM EDT

Register Here>

We hope you’ll join us!

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Webinar: Accelerating The Road To SaaS

Mar 22, 2011 by Devon Watson

Webinar announcement: Accelerating The Road To SaaS – 5 Ways To Get To Market Before Your Competitors

For SaaSBlogs readers who are interested, we are holding a joint webinar tomorrow (Wednesday 3/23 at 11:00 EDT) that will cover 5 key lessons critical to the speed of transitioning to a SaaS delivery model.  The webinar is co-hosted by our partner Tenzing, a leading IaaS provider for ISVs.

If you are interested, you can register here:  https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/897150934

Event Details:
Date: Wednesday 3/23
Time: 11:00 EDT
Location: online
Registration: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/89715093

Overview:
Whether your company is a SaaS start up or employs a more traditional on-premise software model, you need to find ways to accelerate and streamline your SaaS application development. The fact is software as a service is exploding; IDC estimating that by 2014, 85 percent of new software companies will be offering their product through a SaaS delivery mechanism.

This webinar explores how Apprenda’s SaaSGrid Application Delivery Fabric combined with Tenzing’s Cloud infrastructure delivers a true end-to-end SaaS delivery platform to enable ISVs to bring their SaaS offerings to market faster with the lowest ongoing cost of service delivery. Why reinvent the wheel when making the move to SaaS? If you are to survive and thrive you need to leverage best of breed technology that will get you into market faster and with the right capabilities to unlock the efficiencies of scale needed for long term success.

Join Will Childs, SaaS Practice Director at Tenzing, and Devon Watson, Director of Business Development at Apprenda, as they discuss their partnership and resulting platform that enables software vendors to dramatically accelerate SaaS delivery while reducing development cost and complexity.

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What is VMForce?

Apr 20, 2010 by Sinclair Schuller

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 it’s an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, and maybe some sort of Spring-based framework layer that’s tightly integrated with Salesforce.com. Furthermore, it might even offer the ability to run native Force.com code/apps on top of it (I could see something like Spring being used  to create a harness of sorts to load Force.com apps on a native Java runtime)

Force.com is a high order abstraction requiring the use of a new programming language and a heavily diluted (read crippled) runtime. As a platform for extending the CRM functionality of Salesforce.com, it’s an amazing platform. As a general purpose platform for business applications, I think it’s too trivial of a runtime (anyone who’s read this blog before knows my position on this). Most mid-large ISVs solve complex problems addressable only through mature, expressive languages and complete runtimes and stacks. VMForce might be a step in the right direction – so let’s wait and see!

PS: For the literalists out there, one thing I noticed is that VMForce.com describes  it as a “product announcement” instead of “service announcement”. Maybe it’s some sort of special VMWare on-premises integration to the Salesforce.com Cloud?

What do you think VMForce is all about? Any drastically different theories?

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Sink or Swim: Transitioning your Software Business to SaaS

Mar 9, 2009 by Jesse Kliza

On March 19th at 12:00pm CST, Apprenda will be teaming up with Scio Consulting for a live webinar focused on SaaS transitions for ISVs. 

From questions like “Where do we start?” to “How will our operations be different?”, we’ll be providing clear answers and focusing on the choices and challenges ISVs face when migrating their existing applications to the SaaS delivery model.  If you’re an ISV considering a move to SaaS, you won’t want to miss this! 

Register here: 
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/697223607

We hope the SaaSBlogs community will come out and join us for this great event, and encourage your collegues to attend as well.  If you have questions prior to the webinar, you can post them here, or email me directly at: jkliza at apprenda.com 

Thanks all!

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Introducing Our New Co-Author: Abe Sultan

Oct 12, 2007 by Matt Ammerman

Hello everyone,

Before his first post is published here on SaaSBlogs.com, I want to introduce our new co-author Abe Sultan.  Abe is a frequent commenter here on SaaSBlogs and throughout the SaaS blogosphere.  I’m also happy to disclose that Abe holds the VP of Business Development position at our company, Apprenda. We’re very much looking forward to writing further articles with Abe as part of the SaaSBlogs team.

 - Matt Ammerman

 

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