I believe this is very interesting, even perhaps the way of the future for SaaS business apps.
Consumers and small businesses are more easy going about having their info hosted elsewhere. But medium to large businesses, maybe because of the competitive nature of the activity and the huge amount of resources at their disposal, are more wary of having their data stored where it's "out of their control".
Although many businesses have adopted "the cloud" for certain activities i believe most computation is still done in-house, even if there are some disadvantages to it. A platform that enables them to keep the information to themselves while taking advantage of better infrastructure providers would certainly accelerate the adoption of "cloud" technologies for new applications.
There still remains the problem of legacy systems, which through virtualization will be more easily transported to a "cloud" provider.
So let's see what happens, good luck on your enadeavor.
I hadn't even thought of that angle! i guess businesses also have civil rights online. :) and mainly: it might help us bootstrap the ecosystem. thanks!
it means we should write the unhosted storage node in AWS, GoogleApps, etc, because that is what these businesses will want, right? should be trivial, i'll put this on the tasks list :)
Well, i´ll tell you as a SaaS provider to small bussinesses and web software provider to large enterprises.
The main reason we sell to large enterprises an on premise solution is because they basically don´t trust us or our platform providers (aws, appengine) with their info.
Just look at github firewall install and other on premise solutions, they are available because of a fundamental and justified lack of trust on third parties.
Good luck on the civil liberties (rights) angle, i believe it´s not such a utopian but more of a practical concern who you trust your info to.
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I believe this is very interesting, even perhaps the way of the future for SaaS business apps.
Consumers and small businesses are more easy going about having their info hosted elsewhere. But medium to large businesses, maybe because of the competitive nature of the activity and the huge amount of resources at their disposal, are more wary of having their data stored where it's "out of their control".
Although many businesses have adopted "the cloud" for certain activities i believe most computation is still done in-house, even if there are some disadvantages to it. A platform that enables them to keep the information to themselves while taking advantage of better infrastructure providers would certainly accelerate the adoption of "cloud" technologies for new applications.
There still remains the problem of legacy systems, which through virtualization will be more easily transported to a "cloud" provider.
So let's see what happens, good luck on your enadeavor.
I hadn't even thought of that angle! i guess businesses also have civil rights online. :) and mainly: it might help us bootstrap the ecosystem. thanks!
it means we should write the unhosted storage node in AWS, GoogleApps, etc, because that is what these businesses will want, right? should be trivial, i'll put this on the tasks list :)
Well, i´ll tell you as a SaaS provider to small bussinesses and web software provider to large enterprises. The main reason we sell to large enterprises an on premise solution is because they basically don´t trust us or our platform providers (aws, appengine) with their info. Just look at github firewall install and other on premise solutions, they are available because of a fundamental and justified lack of trust on third parties. Good luck on the civil liberties (rights) angle, i believe it´s not such a utopian but more of a practical concern who you trust your info to.