Is It Really SaaS If?
If It Looks Like A Duck… I’ve long since put to rest the whole multi-tenancy debate around SaaS. If it isn’t multi-tenant, then it isn’t SaaS. You can host/subscribe single tenant software, and with piles of virtualization and other techniques for optimizing data center/operations costs, you may be able to approximate the operations costs [...]
SaaS will dominate your cloud strategy
The chart in Larry Dignan’s blog post end of last week reporting Forrester’s projection for a $241 billion cloud computing market by 2020 clearly shows the relative market shares for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. It’s a graphic reminder that, if an enterprise is focusing on the infrastructure layer to build its cloud strategy, then it’s [...]
Multi-tenancy and the Mainframe
People often say that cloud computing is just a reinvention of the service bureaus of old. Rather than being a forward advance, they suggest that accessing all our applications and data from vast, centralized cloud platforms is a lurch backwards to the time-honored mainframe model of computing. But perhaps instead cloud computing will force a [...]
Further Illumination
I don’t like ambiguity and there was some in yesterday’s post so let’s get to it. Yesterday I wrote: Microsoft is confidently offering replacement systems that have been the beneficiaries of significant investment over the last several years. These systems also run on cloud infrastructure, though cloud does not necessarily mean multitenant. Microsoft and others [...]
GoodData Embeds Self-Serve Analytics
There’s more and more data being produced and made available in the world today from a variety of sources, some new, some old. That drives demand for analytics capabilities so that people can derive some useful, actionable meaning from all…
Dennis Howlett-Inspired Post #1 — Multi-tenancy In HRM SaaS
Dennis Howlett This is the first of what I suspect will be many posts for which the impetus is a question from a specific colleague, in this case Dennis Howlett. So as to give credit, or at least curiosity, where it’s due, this one’s for you. Having seen me refer to (Dennis might say pimping) [...]
Multi-tenancy: Table Stakes For HRM SaaS In 2011
Mere Table Stakes With 2011 practically upon us — here at Bloom & Wallace, we’ve got 2011 laid out and a lot of our major time blocks for 2012 in process — it’s time to declare the do we or don’t we need multi-tenancy discussion over for HRM SaaS, with multi-tenancy the clear winner for [...]
‘Defining the cloud’ and other fun stories
As cloud computing gains mainstream adoption, vendors are jostling for position to gain ownership over the “true meaning of cloud.” It’s a sign the market is growing and maturing.
Single Tenant, Multitenant, Private and Public Clouds: Oh My!
My head is starting to hurt with all the back and forth among my Enterprise Irregulars buddies about the relationships between the complex concepts of Multitenancy, Private, and Public Clouds. A set of disjoint conversations and posts came together like the whirlpool in the bottom of a tub when it drains. I was busy with [...]
Compatibility, The DEC Rainbow, and SaaS Multi-tenancy
Image via Wikipedia Fellow Enterprise Irregular Phil Wainright has commented on my recent post regarding multi-tenancy with a well-considered rebuttal that I believe deserves its own rebuttal in turn. Here it is: As someone old enough to remember the DEC Rainbow and other also-rans, I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. However, at the risk [...]
