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By Mike Klein on November 2, 2010
There is an interesting trade-off in value add and risk management as you move up the SaaS Delivery Stack. The higher layers represent the majority of the value add for most SaaS providers.
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed data center, managed server, managed servers, Michigan colocation, private cloud, SaaS, SaaS Delivery Stack, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
By Online Tech on October 26, 2010
As SaaS providers decide between running the servers internally or outsourcing some or all of the server management, they have a number of hosting options available – ranging from basic colocation to managed servers to cloud solutions.
Posted in Cloud Computing, Managed Servers, Michigan Colocation, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed dedicated servers, managed server, managed servers, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
By Mike Klein on October 21, 2010
The end user experience is the result of how the SaaS delivery stack is implemented. Key factors include usability, security, uptime, scalability, extensibility and response times.
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By Mike Klein on October 19, 2010
The private cloud can simplify the process of migrating client-server applications to SaaS. Once the hardware platform is in place, a new virtual server instance can be spun up for each new customer quickly and for minimal incremental costs. Migrating client-server solutions to the private cloud removes the risk of rewriting code to a multi-tenant application from the critical path and delivers the same end user experience as in the client-server model.
Posted in Cloud Computing, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Mike Klein, private cloud, private cloud computing, private cloud hosting, SaaS, SaaS Hosting, SaaS service model, saas strategy |
By Bill Ryan on May 13, 2010
In the 3/24/10 edition of the “Great Lakes Innovation and Technology Report” an article was written about Healthmaster Holdings LLC. Healthmaster Holding LLC is a company that provides electronic medical record software and Medicaid billing for schools. A quote from the article says, “The move to SaaS provides key advantages to school districts such as [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged SaaS service model, Software-as-a-Service |
By Bill Ryan on May 7, 2010
In the January 10, 2010 INFORMATION WEEK article written by Michael Biddick titled “Why you need a SaaS strategy” he writes, “Three-fourths of companies using SaaS consider application services extremely or critically important to their organizations, according to our InformationWeek Analytics survey of 281 business technologists, including 131 who now use SaaS. About one-third describe [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged mission critical saas, saas strategy, Software-as-a-Service |
By Stu Silberman on February 25, 2010
Stu Silberman, head of Marketing and Sales for Dataspace, discusses the benefits of hosting for business intelligence applications. Ready for two of my favorite business mantras? 1. “Don’t buy anything you can lease. Don’t lease anything you can borrow. Don’t borrow anything you can liberate…” These words from a business school professor many years ago [...]
Posted in Managed Servers, SaaS Hosting | Tagged hosted business intelligence, managed server, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
By Chris Rizzo on January 29, 2010
Recently, I was reading a great article by Joel York over at his SaaS Blog, Chaotic Flow. In his article, “SaaS Marketing Tips – The Truth Shall Set You Free“, he explains the critical difference in the sales process between selling traditional software and Software-as-a-Service: transparency or lack there of, on behalf of the software [...]
Posted in SaaS Hosting | Tagged business ethics, Chaotic Flow, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Online Tech, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, transparency |
By Ritu Parr on January 13, 2010
Magic Coast, a long-time customer of Online Tech, is happy with their upgrade to our Avis Farms data center in Ann Arbor. Magic Coast provides live and on-demand video streaming technology backed by full production services. “We have been a customer of Online Technologies since first moving our headquarters to Ann Arbor, MI in 2006.” [...]
Posted in Michigan Data Centers, Online Tech News, SaaS Hosting | Tagged data center, Magic Coast, Online Tech, SaaS Hosting, Software-as-a-Service |
By Yan Ness on January 11, 2010
CEO of Online Tech, Yan Ness, shows how colocation can lead to widespread adoption of the Cloud. What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is a type of shared computing where one utilizes a hosting provider’s large-scale computing infrastructure. In other words, a provider with thousands of servers interlinked together, will rent out their massive computing [...]
Posted in Michigan Colocation, Michigan Data Centers, SaaS Hosting | Tagged Cloud Computing, colocation, managed data center, private cloud, SLA, Software-as-a-Service, Trust in Cloud Computing |
