Archive for the 'PAAS' Category
June 26, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Back in Arizona after attending Om Malik’s inaugural Structure 08 conference.
The conference had extremely high attendance (The attendance I am sure was boosted even further due to the Velocity conference and the inaugural CloudCamp San Francisco taking place in the Bay area the same week) and I ran into Dan Farber and Steve Gillmor in the press area so it also had a bit of star power.
This conference had good marketing free content for the most part and the only session that seemed out of context to me was the panel on Harnessing Explosive Growth. Structure 08 was focused on Cloud Computing for the Enterprise so it was a bit much to have to sit and listen to yet more consumer orientated stories from the likes of Facebook and Meebo. It was also a bit jarring to hear that companies like Ebay and Facebook have no plans to put SLA’s in place to guarantee uptime for their users. When I worked for an ASP 10 years ago, SLA’s were standard and were required of us from all of our Enterprise customers…thus again proving that Enterprises and consumer facing companies like Facebook are in a different world.
The best keynotes in my opinion were from Greg Papadopoulos; Sun’s CTO and Zach Nelson; Netsuites CEO. Greg’s mention that Sun supports Open Services amongst On Demand vendors lead to a few groans in the audience but I think he is right on in saying that the On Demand market wont grow substantially until customers are sure their data wont be held hostage by vendors. And Zach Nelson laid out a great overview of the elusive Middle Market…a huge potential customer base for On Demand vendors that SAP learned recently with Business ByDesign; is hard to design solution for and sell into.
Gigaom Omni Media has become a true new media company along the likes of Tech Crunch and Read Write Web and Om has a full time staff of writers and editors. Thus instead of me giving an overview of the remaining sessions please read Liz Gannes live coverage of the conference here and check out photos here.
June 13, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Om Malik’s Structure08 conference is being held on June 25th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. Structure08 was created to inform businesses so they can plan their future computing infrastructure needs. Attendees will have opportunities to review new technologies and determine the right choices based on industry best practices, case studies, ideas and startups.
In addition, the conference organizers just announced this past week that Google will hold the first public workshop on Google AppEngine at the Structure08 conference.
Om has great pull in the tech industry and he has gathered one of the deepest speaker lists I have seen for a conference in quite a while. As a matter of fact I am curious as to how the packed agenda will be squeezed into a one day conference.
The OnDemand Beat Blog has a special discount code for Structure08 for its readers. OnDemand Beat readers can sign up for Structure08 and receive a 10% discount on registration at http://structure08.eventbrite.com/?discount=ONDEMAND
If signing up via the Structure08 registration page use Discount Code ONDEMAND.
Finally don’t forget that CloudCamp will be held the evening prior to Structure08 at Microsoft’s San Francisco Office.
May 27, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
FriendFeed recently launched a new feature called rooms. Users can join and share links, news and comments around a topic, event or idea. The rooms can either be public or private, and should be a good way to share information.
I have set up a number of rooms within FriendFeed with topics of interest to OnDemand Beat readers. Sign up on FriendFeed and contribute to the topics you are interested in:
SAAS - Room to share information and news about Software as a Service Technology and Companies
IAAS - Room to share information and news about Integration as a Service Technology and Companies
PAAS - Room to share information and news about Platform as a Service Technology and Companies
Cloud Computing - Room to share information and news about Cloud Computing Technology and Companies
Conferences - This room is to share information and links about upcoming technology and non technology conferences.
May 22, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor
Peter Laird; with assistance from Kent Dickson and Steve Bobrowski, has created an excellent visual mapping of the current state of the OnDemand Marketplace as of early 2008.
Peter has the marketplace broken out into:
Cloud Computing
Platform as a Service ( Link to Dion Hinchliffe whitepaper - 2.4 mb pdf )
Software as a Service
Core Cloud Services
Within these 4 Markets, Peter has numerous submarkets with the majority of companies as of today providing solutions in the Cloud Computing and Software as a Service Markets.
I would expand a bit on Peter’s definition of the Software as a Service market to also include Billing and Contract Management which he has broken out into Core Cloud Services. On Demand Billing and Contract Management can be utilized not just for Software as a Service and Integration as a Service solutions but could also be used behind the firewall to meter in house computing usage.
I will create followup articles over the next few months that go into detail on the technology and players in the Integration as a Service, (Market where my firm Applation is developing solutions) Database, Storage, Security, and Cloud Computing Markets.
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