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 [...]
EMC’s RSA Security division released a two studies. Few comments:
- 50% of all folks interviewed (enterprises with more than $1B in revenue) are doing cloud computing
- 66% of those do not have a security strategy
- RSA has put together a “Security for Business Innovation” council comprised of 10 security executives chosen by RSA.
Kudos to RSA [...]
Many of you probably read Phil Wainewrights recent blog on “Why Bother with Multi-tenancy?” Good reading. The pros and cons for on-premise and on-demand are well known. no point of stating the obvious. The question on how to make a decision is trickier. Here is my perspective:
Market/Customer:
This is by far the most important perspective. [...]
Much debate on SOA vs. Cloud computing. Not sure it is worth having.
SOA is an approach. Much like OOP (object oriented programming). Make building and maintaining IT systems more efficient.
Cloud Computing is about enabling technology. Much like Client/Server or Web Computing, the drivers are costs and time to market/revenue.
ALL customers that we talk to get [...]
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) – [...]
Dion Hinchcliffe wrote recently on the ways in which cloud computing will change business. Though he recognizes the challenges to adoption in terms of trust around security and vendor lock-in, there’s clear potential in the enterprise – driving new revenue streams, outsourcing IT services, and the reconciliation of traditional SOA with the cloud and other [...]
Derrick Harris’s post on cloud adoption is right on. Visibility and Security are issues. Many customers are doing POC, some are doing mission critical applications. The benefits of reduced costs and time to market/revenue are too compelling to ignore.
Read a recent article on Vishal’s talk at Interop – made interesting points that we agree on:
- Enterprise customers will claim that they have been doing private cloud computing. Have noticed that in our discussion w/ customers also. Even though this does fit w/ the virtualization part of the definition of privates clouds, it is [...]
Much discussion on blogshere on the public vs. private cloud debate. Good to see the discussion, but as Peter Galvin says – “opinions are inside the bldg, facts are outside.” So as always lets discuss this from a customer point of view.
Let me start by saying every customer that I have talked to in the [...]
Everyone’s been weighing in on yesterday’s Google outage experienced by 14% of their user base in Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps, Google Analytics, YouTube, Blogger and AdSense. Unfortunately outages do happen inside and outside the enterprise. Some are more visible than others. For all those cloud skeptics sitting on the side lines, saying “I told [...]
