Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’
Can cloud make you MORE compliant?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 6, 2009
The common word out there about cloud computing/SaaS and security/regulatory compliance are that these don’t go well together. However, things don’t have to be that way. Doing security right can cost a lot of money and public cloud services could carry some of these costs. Thus, there probably will be a point in time when [...]
New Cloud Computing model from Gartner
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 16, 2009
I’ve finally got a way to keep my eye on the cloud computing and SaaS reports coming from Gartner, Forrester, Burton Group, and The 451 Group, so if you get lost in the papers these folks are publishing – CloudEnterprise.info’s Analysts category should hopefully be what you need. Today we’ll have a quick look at [...]
Gartner on Cloud and information control
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 18, 2009
Jay Heiser and David Gootzit from Gartner have just published an excellent report on “Trusted SaaS Offerings for Secure Collaboration“. The report is really valuable for anyone either building clouds or cloud-related products, or considering to move sensitive data to a SaaS application. The key areas they look into are: List of typical SaaS applications [...]
Gmail/Google Apps get major new capabilities
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 10, 2009
Google has finally made Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise their focus area – these are no longer just one of their experimental areas. Within just last couple of weeks there were a few significant updates to Gmail/Google Apps (probably more than we’ve seen for the whole year before that!): Offline support both for Gmail [...]
Cloud Computing Expo – Day 2
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 21, 2008
Here are my notes from the second day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (Day 1 notes here): Day 2 started with a keynote by Amazon’s CTO – Dr. Werner Vogels. Werner is an amazing speaker, and his enthusiasm really gave a kick-start to the whole day. I would summarize his presentation as: “Yep, we invented [...]
Exchange Online, Hosted Services, Labs, Hotmail, Live@edu – can you tell the difference?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 14, 2008
Microsoft is producing so much effort in the SaaS space recently that they can get one easily confused. Quickly: can you tell the difference between Microsoft Exchange Online, Exchange Labs, Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Live@edu, and Exchange Hosted Services? Fear not. This post will make the distinction crystal clear! First of all: All of them [...]
Google ramps up APIs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008
Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks. This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings. Here’s the key difference in what [...]
Keeping vendors honest
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 24, 2008
With all the outages plaguing the SaaS and Cloud Computing vendors recently there seems to be lack of independent rating system telling customers just how reliable each particular cloud service is. For example, see Richard Watson’s notes from the recent Catalyst event in Prague: When discussing SaaS, I’d like to see a SaaS suitability rating [...]
Google Apps hitting the chasm?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 22, 2008
Looks like my recent Google Apps customer base estimates need corrections and the current growth is far smaller than the one we were seeing earlier this year. What’s happening? Are they stuck getting all the technology enthusiasts and visionaries they could get, and having no way of attracting the bigger mainstream market? Let’s look at [...]
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- The Jelastic Spotlight May 25, 2012We are starting something new here on the blog for Fridays. Up until now, we were doing more light-hearted stuff but as we were sitting around talking about the different sweet apps that you, our customers, are deploying, we realized that we should be showcasing the apps and the developers! So, as of today, Fridays [...]
- Remote Access to MySQL in Jelastic: Import/Export Dump Files in a Few Minutes May 24, 2012Recently, we told you about that another cool feature that you have access to in the commercial version of Jelastic, Public IPv4. With a single click you access to a number of cool new capabilities. One of the most important opportunity you get with this feature is the ability to work with your databases remotely and [...]
- The Jelastic Newsletter – May 23, 2012 May 23, 2012Java 7 adoption, Commercial releases in Europe and Russia and Software stack market share. . . The Jelastic newsletter is a weekly round-up of news, how-to’s and contribution opportunities. Here’s what’s happening this week: Commercial Releases in Europe and Russia As we continue to grow and add partners, we are happy to say that, as of yes […]
- We are now available commercially in Europe! May 22, 2012In partnership with dogado, we are now available commercially in Germany The last few weeks have been hectic here at Jelastic! We launched commercially in the US with ServInt; then we did the same in Russian with Rusonyx; and now we have launched commercially in Europe with Germany. Now in Europe Our commercial release with [...]
- Software stacks market share: May 2012 May 21, 2012Every month we share stats on the usage and popularity of different software stacks within Jelastic PaaS with you. This month it’s even more interesting, because the scope of our stats has grown: we have a new hosting partner in Russia, Rusonyx. So, let’s check out the stats on databases, servers and JVMs for May and analyze the differences betwe […]
- Geek Project of the Day May 18, 2012Just in time for the weekend. Here is your geek project of the day. Because sometimes, a regular grill is not enough. We want one. Going to “borrow” a friend’s car and turn it into a grill.
- Jelastic announces the commercial availability of its Java cloud hosting platform with Rusonyx May 17, 2012Rusonyx’s Jelastic offering provides Cloud Java hosting with no lock-in or code changes required PALO ALTO, Ca. – Jelastic, the world’s first standards-based Platform-as-a-Service, today announced its commercial availability in Russia through its partner, Rusonyx, one of Russia’s leading web hosting service providers. Rusonyx is the exclusive provider […]
Can I insure my Google Apps, please?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 11, 2009
Are online services ever going to be 100% secure? If not should the insurance industry kick in? A few days ago Google Apps had an issue with some Google Docs became accessible to other Google users beyond the security set on the docs. To quote from Google: As we noted in the Google Docs Help [...]