Monthly Archives: November 2011

The pros & cons of DbaaS

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11/27/2011

One segment of the Cloud market that is receiving more & more attention these days is DbaaS (Database as a Service).The best aspect of DbaaS (like so many other XaaS’) is quick provisioning. Applications that require quick provisioning & dropping of databases – i.e. testing, development, prototype, short-term projects, sales promotions, etc. Using DbaaS is [...]


SaaS start-up lessons

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11/23/2011

Though the SaaS industry is a $30Bn+ market growing 11% annually, it’s still easy to forget that these are on-demand software’s early years. SaaS margins are roughly 25% lower than their traditional licensed peers because of market commoditization & a lack of large enterprise business- many are on razor thin budgets, growing viral as a [...]


Red Hat’s OpenShift shifting gears

11/17/2011

By Scott Merrill Red Hat’s Openshift offers a fairly simple way for people to jumpstart “cloud” development efforts by abstracting out all the messy business of setting up application and database servers. Instead, you simply publish your source code to OpenShift, and their platform does the rest. Supported languages are those used heavily by nimble, [...]


SAIC opens Red Hat Lab

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11/08/2011

Red Hat, Inc. announced yesterday a collaboration with SAIC to test and deploy open source cloud services for heavy weight government clients including the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). “Using our ACE Lab, SAIC experts work with customers to develop advanced engineering solutions for some of our nation’s most significant cyber and software challenges,” said [...]


Cloudability opens cost analysis beta

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11/03/2011

Cloudability announced yesterday an open beta of both its cloud management offering and API giving companies the ability to monitor and analyze their cloud spending across multiple vendors. Over 350 companies are actively using the service via its initial closed beta. “Our process to keep track of cloud spending used to involve cumbersome downloading of [...]


Alert Logic with Datapipe for AWS security

11/01/2011

By Justin Lee Seeing an opportunity in the absence of a fully managed solution for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud environments, managed security services provider Alert Logic began offering the first fully managed advanced network security solution for the public cloud service. Alert Logic wanted to ensure that a certain class of customers that required managed [...]


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