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Cloud computing portal: central resource for user-generated content?

July 3, 2008
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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.

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Revealed: The confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing

May 20, 2008
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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. In part one of this article I introduced Phil Wainewright’s five layer PaaS model. [...]

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Profitable SaaS: Don’t migrate on-premise apps to managed-hosting

May 15, 2008
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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. In part one of this article I introduced Phil Wainewright’s five layer PaaS model. Phil asked readers to say which layer [...]

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Can’t tell PaaS vendors apart? Use this 5-layer model to classify them

May 8, 2008
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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. As an ISV moving to PaaS, you need to [...]

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Cloud computing, SaaS and PaaS: Understanding the market

May 5, 2008
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Before I look at the main PaaS providers, let’s quickly review the broad market for cloud computing, SaaS and PaaS. Peter Laird, formerly from BEA Systems has usefully published a market map that, while not claiming to be comprehensive, is a good place to start. Peter splits the market into four main areas:

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SaaS ISVs: Know your customers or risk going to jail

April 28, 2008
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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 [...]

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Survey reveals 2,548 German ISVs asleep at the (SaaS) wheel!

April 28, 2008
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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 [...]

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Is SaaS really Spying-as-a-Service?

April 25, 2008
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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 [...]

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Is jetting to Cuba this summer a bad idea for European SaaS ISVs?

April 23, 2008
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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. While Cuba is a popular holiday spot for Europeans, a [...]

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Might Amazon EC2 cloud platform squeeze the profits from SaaS apps?

April 8, 2008
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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 [...]

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