Cloud Business : Some Perspectives
Cloud may mean different things to different people – It would be better to focus less on technology but devote more energy to cloud business in terms of how, where, and why these could be used to get unique value was the key message in the Cloud Business Summit, which I attended last week at [...]
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 [...]
SaaS Model Proven? Time to Focus on Revenue?
We’ve seen some fantastic figures in the last month or so that would seem to announce once and for all the validation of the SaaS model and by extension Cloud Computing. To quickly recap; Xero achieved 33% increase in aid customer numbers in 50 days FreshBooks crossed the 700,000 user mark Mint adds 3000 users [...]
