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Revealed: The confidence trick at the heart of cloud computing

Posted on May 20, 2008 by Andrew Biss

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Andrew Biss

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 … Continue reading →

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