IaaS vs. PaaS or Infrastructure vs. Platform and I Want Beer NOW!
A friend and now coworker of mine, Richard Seroter (@rseroter & Blog) decided to do a comparo. I took the infrastructure based deployment, ala IaaS and he took the platform based deployment, ala PaaS. What we’ve done is taken a somewhat standard ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework, a SQL Server Database, a UX & UI design [...]
Multitenancy and the Enterprise Service Management Space
I’ve written previously about Service-now, an enterprise level service management tool. The other day I had an email from Doron Gordon, CEO of SAManage, an Israeli on-demand IT Asset & Service management service. Gordon was keen to get me to take a look at SAManage and in his introductory email told me that they: compete [...]
The Value is in the Glue
One the recurring themes I keep seeing is that the adoption of cloud computing is being driven by our current sucky economic circumstances. I don’t disagree that the macro-economy is a *contributing* factor in cloud adoption, but I really don’t think it’s the primary driving factor. Rather, I think cloud adoption is part of a [...]
Dubious SaaS Awards
SaaS Directory has announced September’s most popular SaaS companies. The top 5 are: September’s top 5 US winners are: #1 – Gogrid #2 – WebECS #3 – CariNet #4 – Rackspace #5 – American Data Technology That’s a strange list..or perhaps SaaS Directory has a strange definition of “SaaS companies” since the top 5 are [...]
Yes, Stop The FUD And SaaS Is Not ASP In New Clothes
Today, Ben did a great post lashing out the FUD around the concept os SaaS (Software as a Service). His post got me fired up to write the arguments I give in different forums to highlight the difference between SaaS and ASP. I hope we could put an end to the tactics of the people [...]
SaaS ≠ ASP2.0. A Treatise on FUD
FUD is a sceptics term to describe the cynical creation of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (hence FUD) to make a simple issue look more cloudy than it is. Alas there is much FUS present around the SaaS industry. Fellow author Krish has highlighted one example, namely the Microsoft S+S strategy. I’ve recently had a few [...]
Cloud Computing: The myths, realities and everything else – Part 2
In the previous post, I tried to clear any confusion regarding the meaning and scope of cloud computing. In this post, I will try to squash some myths promoted by pundits ignorant about cloud computing technology and companies whose core businesses are threatened by the proliferation of cloud computing. Myth: Cloud computing is not secure [...]
