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As-a-Service Approaching Parity with Traditional Offerings

Community
Architecture,
SOA
Topics
SaaS

"as-a-Service" offerings are approaching parity with the more traditional software models on the market. Recent developments from both new and well established vendors in areas such as SaaS applications, infrastructure, cloud computing, development tools, runtime platforms, and configuration have increased the functionality, and perhaps the acceptance, of "as-a-Service" among more clients.

Amazon S3 Outage : Do SLAs Lead to Trust?

Community
Architecture
Topics
Cloud Computing,
SaaS,
Clustering & Caching

Amazon Web Services' popular Simple Storage Service (S3) suffered a major outage last week that caused some to question their reliance on S3. InfoQ discussed the outage with Amazon and affected users and examines the risks of SaaS and cloud architectures.

SaaS could get an unexpected boost from the iPhone

Community
SOA
Topics
SaaS

Software as a Service (SaaS) has had some mixed success in the last few years. If SalesForce.com is the winner then IBM, Microsoft, Google, and others view it as a major battleground. One major issue is to convince users that there is enough value in moving their core data to the control of a service to overcome a less than optimal user experience and possible access outage.