Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’
Cloud Service for Local SharePoint Insight
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 27, 2010
A new (free!) service became publicly available on Quest OnDemand – Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint Reports.
This is a great free service which provides some pretty neat reports on your intranet SharePoint environment. You go to the site and it launches a nice Silverlight client. Then all you need to do is provide a URL [...]
Case-Study on Secure SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 15, 2010
Security and data protection are key concerns for any cloud solution. I truly believe that this is also one aspect that you cannot just improve over time. No matter how agile you are security needs to be there by design.
Unfortunately most cloud vendors/SaaS-providers still don’t tell enough about the way they protect customer data – [...]
Details on Quest OnDemand
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 8, 2010
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 [...]
Windows 7 – Microsoft’s First Step to the Cloud
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 13, 2009
Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows Server 2008 R2 – are actually the first [...]
Quest Software and the Clouds
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 15, 2009
It’s probably about time for me to provide a quick overview of what we at Quest Software are doing in the cloud computing area.
There are two main “cloud” directions for us:
Using the cloud for our own offerings.
Enabling public and private clouds.
1. Using Clouds
Using Cloud means providing our products as a service. Most of these efforts [...]
SaaS growing fast in Asia/Pacific
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 1, 2009
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 respondents [...]
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 Amazon [...]
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 [...]
My TechEd Sessions
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 7, 2009
If you are at Microsoft TechEd next week there will be a few sessions I will be giving there:
Birds-of-a-Feather,”Going to the Cloud: Are We Crazy?” Dmitry Sotnikov, 4:30 p.m. Tuesday May 12, room 501A – this one is IT-oriented discussion of risks and benefits of putting your IT systems into the cloud.
PowerShell Ask the Experts [...]
IDC: System Management going SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 15, 2009
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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 start [...]
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