Archive | November, 2009

Why Some Merchants are Saying Yes to SaaS – SaaSBuzz.com

by admin on 24. Nov, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Data, Google, SaaS, Uncategorized

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 (SaaS) is a growing trend in [...]

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A Better Metric for Analyzing the Value of the Cloud – SaaSBuzz.com

by admin on 19. Nov, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Data, SaaS, Security

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 [...]

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How to Ensure SAAS Providers Are Truly Protecting Your Data?

by admin on 18. Nov, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Data, SaaS, Security, Uncategorized

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 [...]

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China SaaS growth to exceed ‘traditional IT’ – SaaSBuzz.com

by admin on 18. Nov, 2009 in Cloud Computing, SaaS, Security, Uncategorized

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 [...]

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Amazon Cloud Computing S3 plugin for WordPress – SaaSBuzz.com

by admin on 17. Nov, 2009 in Amazon, Cloud Computing, Data, Google, SaaS, Security, Wordpress

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 [...]

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Cloud Computing EcoSystem Map

by admin on 17. Nov, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Data, SaaS, Uncategorized

I’ve come across a very well thought out interactive cloud computing map at: Appirio

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Ten Essentials of SaaS Solution Marketing – Good Read

by admin on 12. Nov, 2009 in Branding, Cloud Computing, Google, Marketing, SaaS, Uncategorized

Here is a good list that I came across from another blog. Ten Essentials of SaaS Solution Marketing I’ve been thinking and writing for awhile now about the challenges of marketing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions and thought it would be useful to gather the essential elements required for success into a handy list. I’ve expanded on [...]

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10 Laws of Being SaaS-y Updated for Cloud

by admin on 12. Nov, 2009 in Cloud Computing, News, SaaS, Security, Uncategorized

10 Laws of Being SaaS-y Updated for Cloud — Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced the release of its updated guidelines “Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS.” The material can be found in a condensed form as an Op-Ed in the Sandhill.com newsletter and in its entirety on BVP’s website at www.bvp.com/cloud. Byron [...]

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