It is finally summer here in Seattle and I’m trying to get out of the office as early as possible today. Here are a few cool things that have recently landed in my inbox:
Don MacAskill wrote to tell me about his new product, SmugVault. This new service extends the existing image storage capabilities provided by [...]
From time to time, potential users of AWS ask me about the best way to set up a highly scalable architecture using Amazon EC2, S3, SimpleDB, and SQS. I’d like to challenge readers of this blog to document their AWS-powered architectures in a blog post, preferably with a diagram, and to leave comments with a [...]
The GigaSpaces XAP (eXtreme Application Platform) is now available as an Amazon EC2 AMI (Amazon Machine Image).
At the core, XAP implements a scalable, in-memory database which can be
used as a data grid, a messaging grid, or as a parallel processing
framework.
XAP makes it easy to scale the entire middleware layer (data, messaging, and services) of an [...]
Part of defining your SaaS business is determining a pricing strategy. Two primary categories of pricing taxonomy in the SaaS space are pay per use (each time a user uses your software, you charge a well known amount. Much like buying beer at the bar) vs. fixed recurring pricing (much like paying for cable television, [...]
Generally speaking, I’m opposed to introducing different terms to describe the same thing. In the SaaS space, Microsoft has taken the position of using “Software + Services” rather than “software as a service.” To some degree, there is a level of correctness captured in “Software + Services” that you don’t find in SaaS, particularly when [...]
