Ben Riga posted a video recording with a fairly detailed discussion we had at Microsoft PDC about Quest OnDemand (Quest’s Systems Management as a Service offering):

In that discussion we have covered quite a few topic which I hope you will find interesting:

• What is Systems Management as a Service and how it is different from all other *aaS offerings,
• How SaaS can increase market penetration,
• Quest strategy in SaaS vs. on premises products,
• Why and how we picked Windows Azure as our platform,
• Which code from existing on-premises products could be re-used and which had to be developed from scratch,
• Some details on the product architecture including security and multi-tenancy.

One thing I could not help noticing is how the UI of the service itself changed between this shooting in November and the way it looks today. I guess this is a testimony of how SaaS model lets vendors innovate fast.

Check out the video here.