The Achilles’ Heel of SaaS: the processor vendors Intel and IBM
Whereas the current SaaS offerings are dominated by the automation of standard workflows such as CRM, HR, and Accounting, the…
Riches for SaaS providers
Many consultancy business are built upon serving the need for comparitive benchmarking of business operations. Ranging from strategy and efficiency,…
Comparing the Cost Continued…
The next step was to select our benchmarks and calculate their costs. We extracted two workloads that are common to…
Web Server as the smallest unit of Cloud Computing
To demystify the concept of cloud computing, I would like to assert that a web server is the smallest unit…
Grid versus Cloud Computing
From the end user perspective, the short answer to the question "What is the difference between grid computing and cloud…
Google and corporate espionage
The release of Google's Chrome and the original EULA that was bound to it has opened an interesting debate about…
Google and Amazon as Benchmarkers
One of the most interesting aspects of cloud computing is the opportunity for benchmarking. Instead of paying market research firms…
Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009
GoGrid's Michael Sheehan just published his cloud computing predictions for 2009. 1- Clouds reduce the effect of the recession.The basic…
“Ford is evidently hoping it can win back customers with…
“Ford is evidently hoping it can win back customers with technology that could take some of the stress out of…
Apple’s iLife ‘09 software suite will include a…
Apple’s iLife ‘09 software suite will include a feature called Faces that finds and organizes a gallery of a user’s…
