There is a lot of talk about interoperability between cloud providers. Let me explain the use case. Enterprise A uses a cloud and wants to make sure that they can ’switch’ to another cloud provider. The reasons for switching can be many – costs, better technology fit with new provider etc.
A couple of important considerations [...]
Interesting article in the wsj.com recently. Authors argue that the pace of change is quickening- with compelling examples of entire industries – recorded music business and the newspaper business (and soon network television and book publishing) – that have been rearranged in only a few years.
Lots of parallels to draw with what is happening with [...]
Great blog post by John Musser on a recent panel at Interop.
API’s are definitely becoming mainstream. It is certainly mainstream for web companies. So why not SaaS companies ?
SaaS providers serve different customers. As SaaS has become more mainstream (accepted by fortune 2000) customers, the need for API’s has grown – firstly for integration and [...]
Opening up APIs does not mean signing up for creating a developer community or a platform. Many folks are talking about “turning an application into a platform” strategy. How many platforms we do know. It is one thing to access an API and check out the docs on the Web and another thing to become [...]
Interesting article from Dion Hinchcliffe on running your SOA like a Web start up. As with most of Dion’s writing, well worth a read. The difference between SOA and cloud computing/APIs is well understood. Blogged on it recently. The question is how can we apply Web principles to the enterprise computing? Lets start by understanding [...]
Jonathan Mendez wrote an AWESOME blog post on API Battle Plans: Fighting for Next. Liked the concept of CUDA – content, utility, data and analytics.
At Sonoa we completely agree with Jonathan’s assessment. As with all inflections points, we will only know after we have passed it, but it certainly fees like we have either reached [...]
Interesting Forrester report called “Trends in Cloud Computing” by James Staten dated May 26th, 2009. Worthwhile read. Few noteworthy points:
“Cloud computing” contains the seeds of IT’s next generation – YES. This is real, much like client server and Web computing… in fact probably has benefits of both – cost and revenue.
Cloud’s customers (slide #16) – [...]
Eric Ogren wrote this week on how to address enterprise cloud/SaaS data security issues. He writes that it’s particularly difficult “to secure the new boundaries between the enterprise, the cloud service and the end user while managing dependencies on off-premise infrastructure and privileged operators.” He notes there will be an estimated 75% of [...]
Robert Westervelt’s post on cloud security caught my eye – he talks about business execs putting the pressure on IT departments to “open the floodgates to the latest Web-based platforms, relaxing Web security policy.” Does this mean it’ll open the security floodgates in a dangerous way?
Yes, security is a concern when you move to the [...]
Tim Madewell is VP of operations at Innotas, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of project portfolio management. Innotas addresses issues of visibility, access control, compliance and performance for enterprise customers and hybrid apps to differentiate its service and provide competitive advantage. He recently sat down with us to discuss how Sonoa helps him with security, [...]
