The Achilles’ Heel of SaaS: the processor vendors Intel and IBM
Whereas the current SaaS offerings are dominated by the automation of standard workflows such as CRM, HR, and Accounting, the…
Web Server as the smallest unit of Cloud Computing
To demystify the concept of cloud computing, I would like to assert that a web server is the smallest unit…
Open Source and free data
Two articles that are just wonderfully expansive...http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070503/012939.shtmlhttp://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30283I came across these articles researching and thinking about SaaS and PaaS and what…
SaaS business development
There is a great group discussion regarding cloud computing at Google Groups. In one thread titled Brutal reality of SaaS...…
SaaS aggregation and experimentation
In his guest column, How Not to End Up as an Anachronism, Greg Olson, the founder and CTO of Coghead…
Red Dog and Windows Cloud: Microsoft is coming!
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference 2008 makes it clear that the nature of software development is radically changing. Microsoft, as no…
Riches for SaaS providers
Many consultancy business are built upon serving the need for comparitive benchmarking of business operations. Ranging from strategy and efficiency,…
Federated Clouds
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt defines cloud computing as the convergence of information. The cloud aggregates raw data, organizes the data…
Cloud Computing Lingo
To understand all the marketing information that bear the label "cloud computing" it is helpful to have a quick glossary…
Comparing Costs of Different Cloud Computing Providers
The past month we have been trying to quantify the cost of moving some of our workloads into the cloud.…
