Enterprise Private PaaS Discussion with Dell

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Just yesterday, Stephen Spector, Cloud Evangelist from Dell published a recorded conversation with Sinclair Schuller (CEO at Apprenda) and Dan Turkenkopf (Product Manager at Apprenda). It was a great conversation, definitely worth checking out.

Here’s a breakdown of the highlights, along with a link to the original post on Stephen’s blog:

Apprenda Is an OS Layer for the Datacenter — Sinclair Schuller

00:00 — Introductions from Sinclair and Dan from Apprenda
01:00 — Tell us about Apprenda and its history
04:36 — Approach of the cloud from internal developer perspective
06:24 — Solution is for private cloud; can it support hybrid, public clouds, and SaaS?
09:11 — How does Apprenda play with Microsoft and Azure?

An Interview With Apprenda: Watch Out for the PaaS Revolution

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About the Author:

Jesse is responsible for the creation and execution of Apprenda’s strategic marketing initiatives, generating demand and awareness, and evolving the company’s brand. Jesse draws from a strong background in Software as a Service, having served as Community Evangelist and Product Manager at SaaS ISV Autotask before joining Apprenda. Prior to Autotask, Jesse served as Director of Marketing at Eden Communications (acquired by Unicom Systems). Jesse holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, with a focus in Neuroscience from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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  1. Ivan  March 21, 2012

    Interesting post Sinclair. It relates a litlte to some stuff I’ve posted regarding the intersect (and best facets) of OpenSource/SaaS.Level three structures could IMHO build a better practice open source methodology whereby the core platform code was rock solid, locked down and stable, but all the apps that formed the eco system around that where nicely plug and play (a la open source development)Keen to talk more about the third way bending the best of open source with the best of SaaS and some new thinking business modelsdrop me an e sometime

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    • Laila  May 5, 2012

      I also believe this will end up being a golndime for SaaS vendors.We started to work toward this at a client of ours in the ecommerce space. The theory was that aggregated sales data could be analyzed and then pushed back to suppliers to provide sales data and through the websites in real time to provide sales and pricing data in near real-time. We are only at the beginning of the project but it looks very promising. From the website side of ecommerce, being able to determine upsell, cross sell and relative pricing information from aggregated data could have more value than anything the platform itself provides in cost-savings.I believe that most clients of the SaaS vendor were comfortable with allowing the SaaS vendor to use this data as long as it remained non-identifying. The ones that complained did so for competitive reasons, not for privacy.

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  2. BekExpaclekal  May 2, 2012

    Today is documentation indisposed, isn’t it?

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