Why Some Merchants are Saying Yes to SaaS
When determining your total e-commerce spend, you have to identify all online expenses, such as IT costs, personnel for marketing and merchandising, content and outside services, among other things.
The costs add up quickly, which is why Software as a Service [...]
A Better Metric for Analyzing the Value of the Cloud
While you may be reading and hearing about positive financial and the economic analyses regarding the benefits of Cloud computing, those analyses are based on unrealistic total cost of ownership (TCO), return on investment (ROI) and misinterpreted CapEx/OpEx calculations. Indeed, these calculations are missing a complete [...]
How to Ensure SAAS Providers Are Truly Protecting Your Data
From small businesses to large enterprises, 2009 was the year software as a service broke into the mainstream. But the transformation of this once niche segment into a mass-market phenomenon hasn’t come easily. One roadblock to greater SAAS adoption has been executives’ lack of clarity around [...]
China’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry over the next two to three years will see growth rates exceeding the traditional IT industry, which includes on-premise software, according to a new report.
Released Wednesday by Springboard Research, by end-2010, the Chinese SaaS market will expand 56 percent to reach US$171 million. Three out of four respondents in the [...]
Amazon Cloud Computing S3 plugin for WordPress
This WordPress plugin allows you to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog.
Amazon S3 is a cheap and cost effective way to scale your site to easily handle large spikes in traffic (such as from Digg) without having to go through the [...]