On Trial Periods for SaaS Companies–Is Shorter Better?
Recently KashFlow CEO Duane Jackson made the decision to reduce the trial periods offered on his product from 60 days down to 14. In blogging about this change, Jackson explained the decision saying; We analysed our trial data and found that the vast majority of people who never converted from free trial to paid-up had [...]
Morphlabs Embraces SSDs
Morphlabs (previous CloudAve coverage), the company offering converged infrastructure solutions to enterprises, today announced that they are using Dell Technology to offer fully Solid State Drive technology based cloud solution. Morphlabs’ mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU) will be powered by the Dell PowerEdge C portfolio, the hyperscale server line developed by the Dell Data Center Solutions [...]
80-20: the deadly cause of IT project failure
There seems to be a rush of IT failure topics these days, all trying to find the Holy Grail of project failure. While I hold that this is a world of AND and AND, not OR and OR, I do see a major cause for project failure for the last decade: shifting from serial processing [...]