Tag: SaaS
Why SaaS Vendors Need to Give Back to Open Source
There aren't many tech organizations that don’t leverage open source technology. Companies that refuse to import software will rely on a freely available library tool or codebase. Open source is one of ...
Nobl9 Adds Free Tier to SaaS Platform for Managing SLOs
Nobl9 this week announced it is making available a perpetual free tier of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing service level objectives (SLOs). The free tier was announced at the AWS re:Invent ...
GitLab Unfurls Dedicated SaaS Edition in the Cloud
GitLab today made available to a limited number of customers a single-tenant version of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform. David DeSanto, vice president of product at ...
Agile Pricing, Agile Uptake
It is pretty amusing, the number of software vendors that are selling us tools to work in our Agile and/or DevOps infrastructure but are not at all agile in their sales cycle ...
Gitpod Looks to Drive Application Development Into the Cloud
Gitpod today revealed it will add an application programming interface (API) to make cloud development environments (CDEs) more extensible. Gitpod also said Johannes Landgraf assumed the role of single CEO for Gitpod, ...
Know What You Want and Need
Over the years, what we purchase from vendors has changed significantly. It used to be that IT would define a need, go out and find a bit of software to solve it, ...
Making App Dev More Efficient
Applications of all kinds are continually popping up across various industries to help improve consumer customer experiences, provide entertainment, make certain tedious or error-prone tasks easier for workers and to help businesses ...
SaaS Data Backup and the API Bottleneck
The need to protect SaaS data has never been greater. A recent global survey from Odaseva found that 51% of ransomware attacks are targeting SaaS data, and they are more likely to ...
Fire at Data Center Causes Chaos | 20% Costlier Cloud
In this week’s The Long View: A S. Korean conflagration leads to a ridiculously long outage, and the price of public cloud is skyrocketing ...
Cloud: Why Must We Be Confusing?
When I was a kid learning to play Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the concept of level was never confusing—though the authors should have seen that it very well could be. For those ...
To Build a Durable SaaS Business, Rethink Your Product Roadmap
During a tech downturn, with enterprises cutting their subscription software budgets and VC funding drying up, SaaS businesses are increasingly shifting their strategic focus from growth to resilience. The standard startup playbook—hunker ...
A New Development Model: Bringing SaaS Apps to Data
The last few decades have seen multiple major shifts in how applications are built and deployed, and now we’re seeing the start of a new shift that opens up enormous opportunities for ...