The Planet Takes The First Step Towards Keeping Their Customers In Their Cloud
Around the time of Structure 2010, the leading hosting provider The Planet announced their plans for cloud based servers. Even though the news is somewhat old, I got a chance to talk to them only recently and I thought I will offer my thoughts in this post. Earlier, they offered what they call as Cloud [...]
Does AccountingWEB get SaaS?
Let me start this post by saying I’m a big fan of AccountingWEB (in the UK, I don’t particularly follow the US edition). For the accountants in business and in practice or anyone interested in the sector it’s one of the key resources to read – they cover everything from tax to technology, but it’s [...]
StrataScale – Hosting for the Edge Cases
There’s quite a divide between traditional hosting in physical servers and the somewhat ethereal (actually completely ethereal) concept of cloud hosting. Into this breech walks StrataScale. StrataScale call themselves the first fully managed server hosting solution – that’s physical servers, not virtual ones. In an answer to many peoples concerns around virtualization and cloud storage, [...]
Structure '09 Panel – Building The Perfect Host for Web Apps
This panel is about building a perfect hosting for web apps. The panel is chaired by Rohit Sharma, an independent investor. The panel members are James Lindenbaum of Heroku, David Lipscomb of Netsuite, Lew Moorman from Rackspace, Matt Mullenweg from WordPress and Javier Soltero of Springsource. Some of the takeaways from this panel are Rackspace [...]
The Reality About Changing the World…
One of my self-appointed roles in life is to provide something of a foil to the hyper-optimistic claims of just how fast the world is changing technology wise. Now of course I’m an evangelist for the enabling aspects of technology generally and my pet topic SaaS specifically, but I’m also a realist at a macro [...]
Hosted vs Cloud – Cost Implications
I’m a member of the Saugatuck Technology Cloud Research Board which, in their own words; is a broad-based community of interest focusing on Cloud Computing in all of its aspects. Membership in the Saugatuck Cloud Research Board is open both to vendors and end-users, who share an interest in this evolving phenomenon The good folks [...]
