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Hubspan has been nominated for Best New Product in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) category in the 2010 American Business Awards. We are also nominated in the People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Best Product or Service. Winners of the People’s Choice award are selected by the general public (aka the “people”), who vote for their favorite products through June 4, [...]
The Cloud is an Architecture – Not a Thing
Leave it to a brilliant woman in Seattle to write a great article on defining the cloud. Lori MacVittie with F5 Networks writes in Syscon’s Virtualization Journal this morning about “cloudness”. I particularly loved the paragraph where she reiterated something we are always saying – that the cloud is not a “thing” but rather a [...]
How SaaS is Like Poker: It’s all about Managing Risk
As an amateur student of the game of poker, I have learned that playing poker is about managing risk. No poker hand is guaranteed to win, and it’s all about the odds. Some hands are much more likely to win, while some are more likely to lose. Therefore, you need to commit your resources (chips) carefully, optimizing for [...]
Gap Widening between On-Premise and SaaS
Brian Sommer, former Accenture partner and IT guru, wrote a great blog this week in ZDNet about the widening gap between on-premise software companies and those providing SaaS-based solutions. He states three key areas on-premise vendors are struggling with, namely:
1. Getting multi-tenancy to work with their products.
2. Getting a Platform as a Service (PaaS) integrated with [...]
What is the Cloud?
I’m just returning from the Cloud Connect show in Santa Clara, California, where every possible cloud-related product, technology and vision was on display in the expo. In the sessions, academics, industry pundits and end users bantered over the definition of the cloud, when to go to the cloud and what value the cloud brings to [...]
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Integration as a Service
In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (a great book by Douglas Adams), our Galaxy is inhabited by thousands of intelligent species, who all communicate in unique ways and in different languages. However, these species are able to communicate with each other thanks to a small creature called a babel fish. The babel fish feeds off the [...]
How SaaS is like Star Trek: The Next Generation
Like most geeks, I’m a fan of Star Trek. But, when I first saw Star Trek: The Next Generation, I didn’t like the new model of the Enterprise. It was disturbingly new and different. It bugged me so much, I almost stopped watching STTNG. But, I gave the new show a chance and soon became as [...]