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WordPress and the Dark Side of Multitenancy
Quite a bit of hubbub over WordPress’s recent outage. A number of high profile blogs including Techcrunch, GigaOm, CNN, and your very own SmoothSpan use WordPress. Matt Mullenweg told Read/WriteWeb:...
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The Multi-tenancy SaaS Argument – It’s a Vendor, Not a Customer Issue
I am sitting in Workday’s 2010 Technology Summit hearing the pitch about the supremacy of multi-tenancy, and despite their best efforts, Workday’s rationales about this key piece of SaaS orthodoxy are...
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Compatibility, The DEC Rainbow, and SaaS Multi-tenancy
Image via Wikipedia Fellow Enterprise Irregular Phil Wainright has commented on my recent post regarding multi-tenancy with a well-considered rebuttal that I believe deserves its own rebuttal in turn....
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Single Tenant, Multitenant, Private and Public Clouds: Oh My!
My head is starting to hurt with all the back and forth among my Enterprise Irregulars buddies about the relationships between the complex concepts of Multitenancy, Private, and Public Clouds. A set...
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Multi-tenancy: Table Stakes For HRM SaaS In 2011
Mere Table Stakes With 2011 practically upon us — here at Bloom & Wallace, we’ve got 2011 laid out and a lot of our major time blocks for 2012 in process — it’s time to declare the do we or don’t...
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Dennis Howlett-Inspired Post #1 — Multi-tenancy In HRM SaaS
Dennis Howlett This is the first of what I suspect will be many posts for which the impetus is a question from a specific colleague, in this case Dennis Howlett. So as to give credit, or at least...
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Further Illumination
I don’t like ambiguity and there was some in yesterday’s post so let’s get to it. Yesterday I wrote: Microsoft is confidently offering replacement systems that have been the beneficiaries of...
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Multi-tenancy and the Mainframe
Image credit: Life People often say that cloud computing is just a reinvention of the service bureaus of old. Rather than being a forward advance, they suggest that accessing all our applications and...
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Is It Really SaaS If?
If It Looks Like A Duck… I’ve long since put to rest the whole multi-tenancy debate around SaaS. If it isn’t multi-tenant, then it isn’t SaaS. You can host/subscribe single tenant software, and...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Multitenancy in the Cloud
If y’all are not in the mood to listen to a (well reasoned, researched, educated and well-timed) rant, move along. This is me ranting about vendors trying to confuse users when it comes to cloud...
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Making Sense of "Multi-tenancy" Claims
The last few weeks have provided some really confusing hype regarding claims of multi-tenancy from some ERP vendors. The latest twist involves a vendor stating that their product can be multi-tenant IF...
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Multi-Tenancy Debate Won’t Go Away
Under more normal conditions I react to blogs on a low key basis. If I like something I might not even mention it and the same is true if I dislike or disagree with one. The blogosphere is a big...
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Dreamforce Wrap-up
Dreamforce Wrap-up Ok, we survived Dreamforce and that has enabled us to limp home exhausted from all of the information we accumulated and the parties we attended just in time for the holidays. I...
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Oh Dear, the Green Pundits Don’t Understand the Cloud or Multitenancy
Recently I was drawn into a discussion of how Green the Cloud is where I responded as follows: SaaS is going to come out ahead of any reasonably calculation of carbon emissions versus on-prem....
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SAP Business byDesign: Status update
As SAP prepares to release Business byDesign to market in late July, I recorded a video interview with Rainer Zinow, the company’s Senior Vice President for SME Strategic Solution Management. Rainer is...
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Single tenancy, the DEC Rainbow of SaaS
Amidst all the content that spewed out of SaaS ERP vendor Workday’s Tech Summit this week (disclosure: Workday is a current client, although I was not able to attend its event in person), there was one...
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‘Defining the cloud’ and other fun stories
As cloud computing gains mainstream adoption, vendors are jostling for position to gain ownership over the “true meaning of cloud.” The definitional battleground is important evidence that cloud, and...
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GoodData Embeds Self-Serve Analytics
There’s more and more data being produced and made available in the world today from a variety of sources, some new, some old. That drives demand for analytics capabilities so that people can derive...
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SaaS will dominate your cloud strategy
The chart in Larry Dignan’s blog post end of last week reporting Forrester’s projection for a $241 billion cloud computing market by 2020 clearly shows the relative market shares for SaaS, PaaS and...
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Multi-tenancy: are they selling you a pup?
Image credit: petian.net via Flickr When vendors step up and argue that multi-tenancy does, or doesn’t, matter, the most important question from a buyer’s point of view is, what’s their agenda? They...
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