Cloud-Based Application Platform and PaaS by LongJump

ChannelWeb today posted an article on the opportunities in the cloud as they relate to public and private clouds. This discussion hearkens back to the old days when we were still debating if anyone would ever want to run their applications on the web. What year was that? 2002?
But there is clear trend towards SaaS [...]

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We produced a video articulating what companies that want to build SaaS solutions in the Cloud need to focus on to successfully deliver applications on the web. For a deeper dive, you can also view our presentation on “The Strategy for Bringing SaaS Applications [...]

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 [...]