One of the misconceptions of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and broader cloud computing market is that these new Web-based services will “disintermediate” the channel because of their simpler, more ...

IaaS and PaaS may get all the headlines, but SaaS is where the majority of action takes place in the cloud Salesforce.com claimed that Dreamforce had about 120,000 attendees last week, which — in our ...

In my last commentary in this space, I suggested that there was plenty of room for enterprises to build their own private clouds to satisfy their specific business requirements. I’m increasingly ...

Cloud computing has long been heralded as the backbone of digital transformation, but not all parts of the cloud market are treated equally. As of 2025, software as a service (SaaS) continues to ...

At the SaaS Summit in San Francisco this morning, the discussions are kicking off with plenty of questions and a dose of reality. What exactly is cloud computing? We're hearing buzz terms like ...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing may sound like they’re referring to the same thing, however, these two terms refer to very different things. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud ...

Typically, when the economy goes bust, tech sales suffer. Not so with cloud computing. Quite the contrary, actually. When the economy took a tumble, cloud sales rose -- and will continue to rise -- ...

What is the difference between Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS)? Is there a difference? If you look at SaaS in Wikipedia, you will see no mention of cloud. If you look at Cloud ...

The last WAN newsletter highlighted the fact that at the recent Interop conference there was wide agreement on the part of myriad vendors that in order to be successful that IT organizations need ...

As cloud computing continues to eat up traditional tech spending, businesses are beginning to change where they spend their money. The worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in ...