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Overheard: Adobe Buzzword gets SaaS-y thumbs up

“Middle-aged men are supposed to blow money on cars and alimony, not rebuilding a relic application from the glory days of PC software.” Michael Fitzgerald, Buzzword Brings Beauty, Flash to Word...

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Overheard: EMC enters the cloud

Going with “SaaS”, as it’s called, is a major switch if you’re a hardware company, since it entails hosting your proprietary applications and/or your customers’ data on your own machines, providing...

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At least one-third of business application software spending will be SaaS

With software as service (SaaS), the user organisation pays for software services in proportion to use. This is fundamentally different from the fixed-price perpetual license of the traditional...

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Overheard: Say goodbye to middleware as a standalone offering

The notion of middleware as a standalone offering is disappearing. Aneel Bhusri as quoted in SaaS Start-Up Workday Acquires Cape Clear Workday acquired Cape Clear Software, one of the last remaining...

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Overheard: Symantec and SaaS

I don’t believe Symantec have their head around SaaS. Up their own SaaS maybe, the pricing shows that. Mark Twomey, SwapDrive. It’ll cost you! Thank you Storage Anarchist (Barry A. Burke) for sending...

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Overheard – Frank Gillett’s cloud computing reality check

Forrester’s Frank Gillett talks with Beet.tv about “cloudwashing.”  He does a nice job breaking down where the future might lie for cloud computing and unlike a lot of other pundits, Frank seems to...

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Overheard – Web self-service

“More and more organizations are finding that, while a dedicated customer service staff is still an integral part of any company, customers can do a fine job answering questions and service issues for...

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Overheard – XaaS

There will be many flavors of cloud computing with many subsets. Already we have a plethora of “X as a service” (XaaS) offerings, including swapping the X with software, infrastructure, platform,...

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Overheard talking about multi-tenancy

In the early days of application hosting, service companies found themselves in the business of hosting individual instances of each application, meaning that each customer presented an altogether new...

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Cloud migration

“Cloud computing promises many benefits: It can reduce IT costs and downtime while vastly increasing storage, mobility and provisioning options. But, it’s also a potential security nightmare:...

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on-demand computing

On-demand computing is a delivery model in which computing resources are made available to the user as needed. Continued… Quote of the Day “Cloud computing has shifted the technology model, giving...

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cloud storage

Cloud storage is a service model in which data is maintained, managed, backed up remotely and made available to users over a network (typically the Internet). Continued… Quote of the Day “Public cloud...

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