Cloud-Based Application Platform and PaaS by LongJump

Mike Vizard at CTOEdge had a thoughtful post regarding the challenges facing IT in determining how much to rely on software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms to deliver applications versus running those applications on their own internal infrastructure. He adds:
The real question IT organizations might want to ask themselves in 2010 is why they have to make this [...]

Steve Bobrowski at The Cloud Option has an insightful post today looking at the evolution of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) into the enterprise. Specifically, he discusses the movement into private cloud environments. According to Bobrowski:
PaaS allows application developers to simply build applications in the cloud, without ever having to worry about hardware acquisition and configuration, software installation, [...]

Pankaj Malviya Examines How Enterprises and ISVs Can Capitalize on Private Clouds for Their SaaS Applications
LongJump, a leading provider of software that powers Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today announced that Pankaj Malviya, founder and CEO of LongJump, will be speaking on emerging cloud computing options for business at IDG CloudWorld™ in a session titled, “Salvation in the [...]

Yesterday featured a nice article from Chad Berndtson of Computer Reseller News on their ChannelWeb blog about LongJump’s BAP. Chad spoke with company Chairman Rick McEachern about the impedous for the platform and the growing need for software producers to want to privately build, brand, deliver and control SaaS applications.
“We thought midsize ISVs between $40 [...]

From Jon Brodkin at CIO.com…

SaaS Vendor Converts Offering to Packaged Software
“After finding that numerous enterprises are not comfortable running applications outside their firewalls, one longtime SaaS vendor is converting to an on-premise model. “
Jeffrey Kaplan at Seeking Alpha writes…
Proliferation of SaaS and Cloud Platform Players Continues
“This new ‘portability’ is in response to the growing demands [...]

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 [...]