Cloud computing portal hoping to be a central resource for user-generated content
The Cloud Computing Portal wants to be the focus of user-generated content on cloud computing. While built using the Qrimp cloud application builder, it is not clear if the portal is from Qrimp or a third party. …continue reading “Cloud computing portal hoping to be a central resource for user-generated content”
Revealed: The confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing
Do ISVs looking at PaaS know the confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing? Banking relies on a similar confidence trick. We ignore it, however, as banking is so useful. Cloud computing is equally important to ISVs building SaaS solutions. …continue reading “Revealed: The confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing”
Want to make money with SaaS? Then don’t migrate your on-premise application to managed-hosting
Managed hosting seems a good way to migrate on-premise applications to SaaS. Looking closer, however, the chances of making any money that way are slim to non-existent. Oh, and forget about do-it-yourself for PaaS. …continue reading “Want to make money with SaaS? Then don’t migrate your on-premise application to managed-hosting”
If you can’t tell PaaS vendors apart, use this five-layer model to classify them
Knowing the best cake to pick is difficult when they all look the same. If you look more carefully you spot the differences. ISVs moving to SaaS have difficulty telling apart the different PaaS approaches. Phil Wainewright’s five-layer market model helps classify the many PaaS vendors. …continue reading “If you can't tell PaaS vendors apart, use this five-layer model to classify them”
Cloud computing, SaaS and PaaS: Understanding the market
Before I look at the main PaaS providers, let’s quickly review the broad market for cloud computing, SaaS and PaaS. Peter Laird from BEA Systems has usefully published a market map that, while not claiming to be comprehensive, is a good place to start. …continue reading “Cloud computing, SaaS and PaaS: Understanding the market”
SaaS ISVs: Know your customers or risk going to jail
Many countries have introduced strict “Know Your Customer” laws. The goal is to fight money laundering, identity fraud and to disrupt terrorist financing. SaaS ISVs are now service providers and so will increasingly have to work within these laws. ISVs must consider their jurisdiction, as well as that of their customers, suppliers, processing utilities and data storage providers. Not knowing enough about your customers can be expensive, and could even land you in jail. PaaS providers can add value to European ISVs by abstracting these jurisdiction issues and keeping track of future legal changes. …continue reading “SaaS ISVs: Know your customers or risk going to jail”
Survey reveals 2,548 German ISVs asleep at the (SaaS) wheel!
A recent survey of small to medium-sized German ISVs revealed half have no plans to move to SaaS. Are these ISVs asleep at the (SaaS) wheel, or are they right to ignore SaaS? Here in Germany you do not fall asleep on the Autobahn if you plan to survive for much longer. Ignoring SaaS is just as high-risk. German ISVs must start working on their SaaS solutions while they still have the chance. …continue reading “Survey reveals 2,548 German ISVs asleep at the (SaaS) wheel!”
Is SaaS Spying-as-a-Service?
Companies must trust an ISV to use their SaaS solution. Many customers have a real fear of losing control as their data moves into the cloud. The revelation the CIA was spying on SWIFT does not help; nor does the French government’s continuing BlackBerry ban. ISVs and PaaS providers can only succeed by working together to create a believable end-to-end SaaS security and privacy story. …continue reading “Is SaaS Spying-as-a-Service?”
Is jetting to Cuba this summer a bad idea for European SaaS ISVs?
Because PaaS applications and data are “in the cloud” it should not matter where they are. In the real world of laws, borders and trade disputes, however, location still matters. A recent example shows what can go wrong when European companies bump-up against US laws. …continue reading “Is jetting to Cuba this summer a bad idea for European SaaS ISVs?”
Could the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform squeeze the profits from SaaS applications?
You need to build a reliable SaaS application from a portfolio of unreliable platform services; the price of which you cannot control. To survive you must ensure you do not lock your application workload into a single utility provider. A workload that you can divide and easily move from one utility to another gives you the believable threat; which you need to build negotiating power with your CPU service providers. …continue reading “Could the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform squeeze the profits from SaaS applications?”
Why hiding behind abstraction is not enough for SaaS applications
For decades on-premise ISVs have successfully hid behind abstraction. It was, and continues to be, an excellent way to manage technology doubt and implementation differences. SaaS ISVs have nowhere to hide. Building reliable SaaS applications from non-reliable services demands a fault-tolerant approach. Abstraction just doesn’t cut it any more. …continue reading “Why hiding behind abstraction is not enough for SaaS applications”
If you think SaaS solves all your platform troubles then think again!
ISVs have spent large amounts of time and money to abstract applications away from the underlying platform. They invested as every on-premise customer had a different combination of hardware and software. SaaS solves this problem; ISVs only have to install their application once–and they get to select the platform! Even so, there are still hard choices to be made; the identical choices ISVs were facing 25 years ago. …continue reading “If you think SaaS solves all your platform troubles then think again!”
Hello world!
Welcome to paasTalk–the independent blog on Platform as a Service. paasTalk delivers independent news and views on this important development, with an emphasis on the Europe-specific challenges facing ISVs moving to PaaS. …continue reading “Hello world!”
