Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Governance and Sustainability

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 [...]

SAP facing backlash from user group (SUGEN) and buckling under pressure from CIOs in the SAP’s premium customer network has reversed it’s earlier decision to move to the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) driven Enterprise Support.
In re-instating a Tiered Support, SAP has put an end to a saga that had created a lot of PR nightmares. [...]

January 15, 2010 – Five weeks after the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began a test program to fast track certain “green” technology patent applications, most of the 3,000 positions are still available. Only about one third have been applied for.
Businesses wishing to patent their proprietary green technologies are being given special “front-of-the-line” [...]

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 [...]