Comments on: Everything as a Service: The Growth of Cloud Computing

By: How To Cut Corporate Technology Costs | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:19:49 +0000

[...] Cloud Computing. The gradual drift towards cloud computing (or utility computing) will become a stronger drift in recessionary times. You can already get many services “from the cloud” like, for example, EMC’s Mozy or LiveVault for back-up. I have a fairly extensive list of the possibilities here. [...]

By: theanthrogeek

theanthrogeek — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:39:58 +0000

This post resonates well with what I have been seeing with regard to the shifting meaning of the phrase “Digital Divide”. I’ve blogged about this at:
http://theanthrogeek.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/the-digital-sub-divide/

What I found was a recent conflation of the old use of the phrase (to imply ANY internet access) as opposed to current uses of the term (to imply HIGH SPEED access). Although this sounds like a minor distinction that most geeks figured out a while ago, National Public Radio got it wrong last week.

By: The Digital sub-Divide « TheAnthroGeek

The Digital sub-Divide « TheAnthroGeek — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:25:48 +0000

[...] determining factor in connectivity in the United States. Robin Bloor’s recent post on havemacwillblog.com clearly illustrates this change to what he refers to as, [...]

By: dehughes

dehughes — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:44:42 +0000

SaaS, MSPs, and other ‘function rentals’ are all growing in popularity - classically most business focus on ‘buying’ and ’selling’ items/services. On the ’sell’ side almost everyone would agree that salesforce.com has won and that even Seibel, who’s well know reputation of ‘under delivering’ on it’s functionality promises fueled sf.com’s success, is now OnDemand as they say. On the ‘buy’ side various purchasing SaaS plays are predominant with Ariba offering either customer adoption methodology.

However, I think when looked at from a true business/finance perspective many client’s may wish to ask whether this ‘function being rented’ - CRM, Email Messaging, Information Security, ERP, etc, etc - will be needed temporarily by the business or more likely for the next 10 to 20 years. If so then one might imagine that the recurring cost model of renting the function will be less cost efficient than bringing this function in house.

By: Robin Bloor

Robin Bloor — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:50:24 +0000

Well, to tell the truth,I simply emphasized the free aspects of this. Iaas for $ is already a thriving business. Much of what StrikeIron provides is access to information for a fee.

By: M L

M L — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:16:42 +0000

IaaS or Content as a Service is interesting. I believe the business model shouldn’t just be through advertisements — companies should look into premium content as well.

By: Robin Bloor

Robin Bloor — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:58:51 +0000

Biggest challenge for aaS company is getting economies of scale.
There are some hosting operations such as Jamcracker, that specialize in aaS type operations, but I’v enot looked at the field in depth.

By: Landon Hoover

Landon Hoover — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:25:51 +0000

It is exciting that so many as a Service(aaS) companies are emerging, however, I am curious if all these companies can be successful. There are so many challenges that face aaS companies: customizing their solution, billing, and monetizing their service; how can all these companies overcome these challenges? Can they all overcome these challenges and be successful?

I have heard of a few resources to support aaS companies, such as eVapt (www.eVapt.com); do you know of other resources that will help truly help “everything” become aaS?