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Salesforce.com’s Heroku Acquisition: A Clear Stake in the Ground

Salesforce.com, over the past few years, has been reinventing itself as a platform company. IMHO, this is an extremely difficult thing to do for a company who’s cash flow is defined by the CRM market,...

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2011 Predictions for Cloud, SaaS, Multi-Tenancy and More!

OK, it’s already 2011 and I’m a bit late on providing some predictions for 2011 – but now is better than never! I sat down and thought about events in 2010 and whether those events have created a...

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Real World Cloud Architecture: Build or Buy a SaaS Platform?

Yesterday, an article by Brendan Read over at TMCnet really caught my attention because it captured the spirit of what I think about every single day. The article announces the introduction of an IT...

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Cloud Middleware: The Language Shared by Network Engineers and Developers

Jeff Kaplan posted an article on Internet Evolution this morning entitled “Bridging the Great Divide in Cloud Computing“. It’s a nice little piece that focuses on a burning problem: the Cloud has been...

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More On Cloud Middleware

Sinclair’s recent post Cloud Middleware: The Language Shared by Network Engineers and Developers posits that the cloud space has seemingly maintained a bias towards infrastructure offerings (IaaS) and...

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Throwing Around the Term “Multi-tenancy” Isn’t Helpful: Advice to App...

Before I get started, this post IS NOT a post about why multi-tenancy is a good thing, why it’s better than virtualization, or anything of that nature. I had to get that out before starting – there are...

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The Up-stack Scramble – Cloud Nine for Developers will be Trench Warfare for...

The Cloud Computing industry has been in a state of technologic and rhetoric driven flux ever since the term “cloud computing” was coined. Coming from both a software and venture capital background, I...

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Transparency In The Cloud, Part I: The End-User Transformation

In case you didn’t know, the days of business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service are upon us.  If you’re a software developer and you haven’t begun planning a SaaS offering, stop reading this...

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The Cure for the Common Cloud

Let’s face it.  There’s a lot of hype around “the cloud.” Lots of promises, lots of claims, lots of vendors, and lots of lackluster results.  All the while, software engineers and architects are...

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The Death of an ISV: How NOT to Succeed in your Move to SaaS

It wasn’t curiosity. It was thinking that the “good old” ASP model would cut it. It was thinking that little by little, they’d get away from labor intensive provisioning, manual billing, and some day...

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