One of the things customers like most about SaaS and cloud computing is that they don't have to pay the upfront cost of installing the infrastructure. The provider bears that cost and recoups it from the customer on a pay-as-you-go...
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Listen to my interview with Amitabh Srivastava, corporate VP of Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform, which was unveiled last month at the giant Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The interview is recorded as two podcasts (Part I discusses Azure...
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Listen to my interview with Amitabh Srivastava, corporate VP of Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform, which was unveiled last month at the giant Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The interview is recorded as two podcasts (Part II discusses the...
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Last night I attended Cloud Camp London, a gathering of cloud technologists that takes place in the unlikely setting of the undercellar of an 18th century church next to Clerkenwell Green. Close on 300 of us attended what the website...
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Here's an idea. If you frequently update new prices and offers to your website, Dapper has just released (into private beta) a useful new service that will automatically turn your website content into contextual display ads. Dapper, a startup that...
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Since security is always seen as a barrier to adopting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, I was interested to hear the views last week of long-term Salesforce.com customer CyberSafe, a UK-based security software vendor. CyberSafe has just become the first live customer...
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There was a new sense of realism at the glitzy Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week. This is the annual show that gave Web 2.0 its name, and it's where the big deals are done in the social...
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Monday's news that Salesforce.com is adding website publishing to its in-the-cloud offerings, is a great example of the cross-over of Web technologies that inspired this new blog on The Connected Web. I'll be writing here about developments that touch every...
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Phil Wainewright blogs about how businesses are using the Web to get better plugged into today's fast-moving, digital economy.
Phil Wainewright
Phil Wainewright specializes in on-demand services (SaaS, PaaS and cloud), Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 and services architectures (SOA). He has closely observed the evolution of SaaS for more than a decade since founding the ASPnews [provide link] website in 1998. He now writes the influential ZDNet Software as Services blog and, as CEO of strategic consulting firm Procullux Ventures, advises ISVs and other industry participants on SaaS success strategies. He also founded the Loosely Coupled blog to track enterprise adoption of web services and is a member of the Enterprise Irregulars network. View more