Posts Tagged ‘Analysts’
Gartner case study on transition from software to services
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 30, 2010
Ruggero Contu has published a case study which he created after studying Quest Software‘s transition from being a pure software vendor to also a SaaS cloud-based IT management company: “Case Study: Quest Leverages Cloud Services to Introduce SaaS-Based Log Management Product” (registration required to access the page): Although new business opportunities can justify a SaaS [...]
SaaS growing fast in Asia/Pacific
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 1, 2009
- In: Analysts
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You’d think that after all the news of China blocking Google and other web sites Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing would be the worst software delivery model you would imagine? Customer survey on SaaS Gartner conducted in November 2008 has shown that Asia/Pacific region is getting ahead of North America and Europe in SaaS adoption. Their [...]
A VM running in EC2 is not SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 23, 2009
Just because you have software packaged as a virtual machine and running in Amazon EC2 does not mean you have a “cloud” offering. As easy as it sounds in most cases when a vendor claims they have their software available as a service/cloud offering – it is just that: a virtual machine image (such as [...]
Government adoption of cloud growing
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 17, 2009
That’s what Gartner’s Andrea Di Maiofound in his recent report: “Government in the Cloud: Much More Than Computing“. This might surprise initially – after all Forrester just told us that public sector was lagging in the cloud computing adoption rush. However, Andrea builds up a pretty impressive case of why cloud trend is inevitable for [...]
Cloud Computing MORE popular with Enterprise than SMBs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 12, 2009
Forrester’s Frank Gillet just published results of a big survey on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS – like Amazon’s compute cloud or internal cloud-like datacenter) acceptance across geographies and company sizes titled “Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong About Cloud IaaS“. As the title implies the survey has a few very interesting results. First and foremost, they found that bigger [...]
Garter finds a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 10, 2009
“APaaS: A Step to a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing?” is a great report by Yefim V. Natis and Eric Knipp published by Gartner last week. Yefim and Eric, as it seems to me, managed to articulate the very essence of what makes Cloud Computing so disruptive: “Easy to learn and use application development environment, [...]
Gartner surveys cloud backup solutions
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 22, 2009
“Dataquest Insight: Cloud-Based Server Backup Services, 2Q09 Update” by Adam W. Couture is a good feature-by-feature (including pricing) comparison of a dozen of major online backup solutions for the enterprise space. Backup might initially sound like the worst cloud application you can think of: after all it involves big data transfers and most likely the [...]
Is McKinsey wrong on cloud ROI?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 17, 2009
- In: Analysts
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McKinsey published a report this week claiming that their research shows that for organizations with revenues above $500 million using external cloud computing resources are more expensive than using their own datacenters: $366 a month per unit for cloud compared with $150 a month for traditional datacenter. I had received quite a few emails with [...]
IDC: System Management going SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 15, 2009
- In: Analysts
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“Worldwide System Management SaaS 2009 Vendor Analysis: Economic Crisis Creates Opportunities” is an excellent recent report by IDC. Software as a Service started in consumer web, and then expanded into end-user-oriented business and collaboration sites (Salesforce.com, Google Apps). The question is whether the model can go from this to administrative tools so IT people can [...]
Will Cloud make SOA mainstream?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 14, 2009
- In: Analysts
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Gartner has just posted a quick report on SOA and Cloud Computing: “Cloud Computing Will Cement the Mainstream Role of SOA” (SOA stands for Service-Oriented Architecture). The report argues that Cloud Computing is an evolution of multiple technologies “including virtualization, workload hosting, consumerization of IT, Web architectures, metadata-based software engineering, grid computing, extreme transaction processing, [...]
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