SaaS Blogs

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As many of you know, SaaSBlogs is written and maintained by the creators of SaaSGrid.  We have a few events coming up next week, and we thought you’d be interested:
Going From SaaS Product Idea to Paying Customers in Under 6 Months (WEBINAR)
When: September 25th, 2009 at 1:00PM EDT
Where: Register Here!
This will be a great event.  You’ll […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]