SaaS Vendors Target Enterprises Using Private Clouds
In spite of the cost advantages offered by SaaS, enterprise customers are still reluctant to embrace this technology. Security and privacy are touted as biggest reasons for such a reluctance. Enterprises gets edgy as soon as we talk about stuff outside of their firewall. This lack of trust also shows up in the infrastructure space [...]
PaaS, Trusting Beyond Its Initial Hype
Image via Wikipedia Friday, I wrote about the shutdown of PaaS vendor, Coghead, and wondered how one can minimize the risks involved with such scenarios. Unless we figure out a way to minimize such risks, it will be impossible to convince enterprise customers to trust their applications on top of PaaS. Let us take a detour and check out some of the players [...]
Cloudy Thought: Silos, Data Portability, Glue and Integration
Over the last couple of days in various conversations I have been having about the Cloud some of the issues that I have hearing about are around: Integration with the Enterprise Applications Data Portability Silos of SaaS services. I think “Cloud” Service providers need to find robust solutions to address this space, but I think [...]
