SaaS Blogs

We (Apprenda) had a great event recently down in NYC, and our presentation was extremely well received.  It was standing room only at the Public House, and Abe presented to a great group of ISVs and tech savvy networkers that came out to join us.  Thanks again to everyone who made it out!
For those of […]

Lately, I’ve had the great pleasure of being able to work with startups from the Microsoft BizSpark program that are leveraging SaaSGrid to bring their SaaS apps to market. It’s really been a blast, and it’s great to see the success they’re having and the enthusiasm about our product and what it’s doing for their […]

I just got back from Las Vegas from having participated in a panel for CompTIA Breakaway 2009 where the focus of the panel was on the role that VARs can play in the SaaS space.
First I need to get something off my chest that has been boiling inside of me since my first few conversations […]

Two weeks ago I had the honor to be invited to participate at a small panel at Structure09 in San Francisco CA next to Matt Mullenberg founder of Wordpress, Robert Miggins VP of Business Development at Peer1 and Geir Magnusson Jr. consulting architect at the Gilt Groupe.
The topic of the panel was about the effects of running […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]