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August 25, 2006Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)By: Ahmar AbbasA few weeks back I blogged about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and how it was gaining traction in the market.Well, it turns out that Amazon has even greater ambitions than just providing loads of hosted and managed storage! Today they announced their Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Read Full Article... Link | 25 August 06 @ 10:52 | Discuss ( 12 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 3950 Views)August 24, 2006Software shops get SaaS-yBy: Ahmar AbbasIndependent Software Vendors (ISVs) that venture into the SaaS world have taken on two distinct sets of responsibilities. First, like traditional software companies, SaaS vendors are responsible for continually delivering innovative and relevant software products. Read Full Article...Link | 24 August 06 @ 07:37 | Discuss ( 11 comments ) | More from: Utility Computing | Views ( 3722 Views)August 23, 2006Software as a Service: Evolving from a Software Shop to a Service ProviderBy: Ahmar AbbasLed by the success of companies like Salesforce.com, the buzz around Software as a Service (SaaS) has been building over the past few years. More recently Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and other large software firms have started putting their weight – and their marketing effort behind the concept.The SaaS delivery model is rising from the rubble of the failure of the application service provider model of the mid and late nineties. While ASP’s took traditional shrinkwraped software and provided it as a hosted offering to customers, SaaS providers are developing software specifically for web-based delivery from centrally hosted location. Independent Software Vendors (ISV) that venture into the SaaS world have taken on two distinct sets of responsibilities. First, like a traditional software company, a SaaS vendor is responsible for continually delivering innovative and relevant software products. Second, the SaaS vendor is now also responsible for developing, managing and supporting the infrastructure that is used to provide the software to the end user, under a regime of demanding service levels agreements and associated penalties. Consider the burden that ISVs take on as they assume the role of a Service Provider: Read Full Article... Link | 23 August 06 @ 11:18 | Discuss ( 1 comments ) | More from: | Views ( 94 Views) |
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