Gartner Forecasts 16% Increase In Enterprise SaaS Revenue During 2011
Gartner has released a forecast that predicts a 16.2 percent increase in SaaS revenue in the enterprise application market from 2010. The SaaS revenue in the enterprise application software market in 2009 was $7.9 Billion and, according to the analyst firm, it is forecasted to increase to $9.2 Billion in 2010, a solid 15.7 percent [...]
Winners And Losers of 2009 – III
This is the final post of this series and this year. After talking about the winners and losers of 2009, let me briefly talk about some of the cloud computing providers who are neither the winners nor the losers in the year ending today. The fortunes of these companies could go either way based on [...]
Winners And Losers of 2009 – II
Image via Wikipedia This is the second in the three part series about some of the winners and losers in the year 2009. In the first post, I talked about a winner, Amazon Web Services. In this post, I will talk about some of the vendors whom I consider as losers, either they have lost [...]
Winners And Losers of 2009 – I
Image via CrunchBase As we are winding down towards the end of 2009, I thought I will take a brief look at what some of the cloud computing vendors have done so far. These analysis may not be based on any new releases or new features offered this year and may as well be about [...]
Looking back at Gluecon 2009 Day 2
In my previous post, I talked about the takeaway from the Day 1 of Gluecon. In this post, I will discuss about the takeaway from Day 2 and, also, about some of the companies I found exciting. The day started with a fabulous keynote by Mitch Kapor. He walked us through the evolution of computing [...]
Looking back at Gluecon 2009 Day 1
I just returned from Gluecon 2009. Since Ben has covered this conference thoroughly, I thought I will just offer my brief take on the conference along with a few takeaways. I was a bit skeptical about the conference when I went in but I came out with the satisfaction of listening to some great talks [...]
Demo ‘09 – Picks of Day 1
Image by shelisrael1 via Flickr Looks like this week is going to be spent on (un)conferences. After my post on CloudCamp Seattle yesterday, I am going to do a post on day 1 of Demo Conference today. It is not a complete coverage of the conference but a list of some of my favorite products [...]
Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009
On 31st December, 2008, I looked back at the year and offered my take on two of the most important events in the year that just ended. In this post, I will offer my predictions for this year. I have already offered my predictions to Jeremy Geelan of Sys-Con Media. In this post, I will [...]
