When the Open Cloud Manifesto was unveiled recently by IBM et al I wrote "The (Cloud) Bastards say, Welcome"
And I invited several cloud pioneers who have been at it - delivering cloud based products and services or helping evaluate and nurture them for several years - to discuss the manifesto and what they have learned in Cloud Computing over the last few years.
The guest series on the Deal Architect blog has had the following contributors so far:
Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce,com
“The most powerful manifestos are coming from customers and developers. We're listening, learning, and delivering the services that customers and developers are asking for. But we are just getting started. So are Google, Amazon and Facebook. “
Timothy Chou, who started Oracle On-line in 1999
“It seemed silly for a software company to own a data center but after six months on the job I realized this was really a fundamental shift in the economics of software.”
Chris Barbin, CEO of appirio
“Appirio has helped more than 150 enterprises (including some of salesforce.com and Google's largest customers) begin their transition to the cloud. We even have built our own company on the cloud, running our entire business (over 120 employees globally) on infrastructure from Amazon, salesforce.com, Google and Intaact without needing a single server.”
Jeff Kaplan, CEO of THINKStrategies
“..our most recent SaaS survey in November 2008 found that SaaS adoption had nearly doubled over the previous year to 63% fueled by the economy and over 90% customer satisfaction and referral rates. These are success rates which few legacy application vendors can match.”
Dan Druker, SVP at Intacct
“Streamlining the Data Center” and “Scalability on Demand” are small, incremental ideas. Breakthrough innovation like transforming a $100 billion profession comes from thinking about and addressing unique real-world, high-value business problems that just can’t be solved in any other way than in the cloud.”
Eric Dirst, CIO at DeVry
“SaaS is here, and anyone who doesn’t take advantage of it is costing their company money, time, resources and limiting their business customer’s agility.”
Michael Lamoureux, Sourcing Innovation
“What you need is the ability to get a complete data extract in a neutral format (XML, CVS, etc.). That way you can always obtain a competitive solution, load your data, and keep on truckin'.”
Bob Warfield, EVP at Helpstream
“Every philosophy has some bedrock principles. The way I was raised, multi-tenancy is that principle in SaaS. Recently, I have seen industry discussions on single-tenancy - tenancy – just virtualize and get the same benefits. Heresy if you ask me. Or at least sub-optimal to SaaS economics. Why make it less compelling?”
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