Data center

Justifying the cloud

October 23, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Paul Miller has an intriguing post citing a study (PDF) into cloud computing adoption: Also interesting was the relatively small impact of the economic situation upon Cloud adoption, with only 13% suggesting it had ‘helped’ adoption plans and 58% reporting ‘no effect.’ In my conversations with Nick Carr and others, there’s been an underlying presumption [...]

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The SaaS accounting questions you need to ask

October 1, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In my Fired! It had to happen post, Alastair commented: So what’s a decent SAAS offering, and how do you evaluate the stuff you can’t see, like security, availability, speed, respect for your data? There are lots of differences, which your client won’t have the first clue about. And that’s not to say non-SAAS offerings [...]

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