Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Open Source and Governance

In my previous post in this series Graduating Cloud to the Enterprise, I covered Infrastructure-as-a-Service and highlighted some of the key gating factors for mass adoption by large enterprises. In this post I will analyze the benefits and challenges of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
To give you good sense of what Platform-as-a-Service would mean I will start with [...]

Companies large and small added Cloud Computing as an agenda item to every key decision they made around IT last year. As companies continued to combat the budget pressures stemming from the financial downturn the cost-efficiencies delivered by SaaS, PaaS, IaaS are becoming increasing irresistible. These topics are no longer fancy acronyms that are restricted [...]

We all have had those moments where we run into this need to urgently mail documents to someone, overnight, international and on-time. Fred Smith revolutionized that industry by providing a reliable service that people bank on to have their documents delivered on-time to practically all the corners of the globe. That was 20 years ago.
Fast [...]

2009 was a banner year for SaaS. With all the banter around Cloud Computing as an advancement in technology and it glories bandied around I would still be hard pressed to find a more compelling reason behind the larger success of SaaS – than the distressed economy. Companies with dwindling IT budgets ratcheted up the [...]

After 4 months of wrangling and hundreds of thousands of dollars in the lawyer’s kitty and finally the European Competition Committee seems to be closer than ever before to approving Oracle’s $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When all is said and done it will be a case of much ado about nothing.  Sans the [...]

Peter L. Bernstein, the celebrated author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk gives us his great insight on history of Risk Management and the two sides of risk. Great thoughts!

Making lofty claims is nothing new in the technology sector. Every company claims they are the leader in their space. Over the years we have seen many a over-the-top marketing quotes from technology executives  deriding their competition or showmanship in highlighting their “greatest-product-since-slice bread” over their competitors.
But Microsoft executive Ron Markezich outdid all of them [...]

I just completed a quick consulting assignment with a company back in the East Coast. It was a Oracle E-Business Suite Implementation and specifically implementing one of the products (Oracle Procurement Contracts) that I managed and had a big role in building while at Oracle.
It was one of those interesting cases of implementations. Unknowingly or led [...]

As Open Source software continues to penetrate every facet of software business (vendor and consumer) companies now face a challenge in getting a handle on the various open source software that they might be using. In the course of the last three years of my working with many startups or their leaders, I have [...]

I know every one and their grandfather has their own definition of Cloud Computing. As we go through the blogs, marketing paraphernalia we keep seeing the definition of cloud computing evolve or disintegrate. So I thought what would some of the top technology leaders feel and think of Cloud Computing. (No I did not pick [...]