Archive for July, 2008

Holding IT Hostage - Another Case for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:49 No Comments

When Terry Childs, a disgruntled network administrator, held the city of San Francisco hostage from getting into their computer systems, records such as officials’ emails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates’ bookings were inaccessible by they city — virtually shutting down operations.
This makes yet another case for SaaS and Cloud Computing [...]

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Tips for Building Your First Application on LongJump PaaS

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 15:03 1 Comment

We sat down with Sheela Sarva who works with the LongJump Support Team to talk about building applications on LongJump’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, and what are some of the challenges for businesses before they jump in.
Q. Hi, Sheela. Can you tell us what you do at LongJump?
A. I work on the support team, primarily focused [...]

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