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Software as a Service: the business case for ISVs 

Your customers would prefer purchasing SaaS applications, but a journey to the cloud will mean additional investments and responsibilities. There are several paths that lead to the cloud. How do you stay profitable? And what are the benefits of a public cloud platform such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)?  Our client Playara makes music from

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SaaSification for ISVs: what you should charge your customers  

By now, Software as a Service (SaaS) has become the standard for enterprise applications. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) that don’t embrace the change, risk missing the boat. But SaaSification is quite an investment for an ISV, and the corresponding Service Level Agreement comes with extra responsibilities. Will your customers accept increased charges for the additional

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What to learn from the legendary Dilbert cartoon about Kubernetes 

The famous Dilbert cartoon about containers and Kubernetes is not only very funny. We can also learn something from it. “You can’t solve a problem just by saying techy things.”  Brilliant Dilbert comic. Hitting a little too close to home… pic.twitter.com/axDlwj7bYB — Daniel Dib (@danieldibswe) September 5, 2019 The choice of standards in the shipping

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Fact check: with containerization, vendor lock-in is a thing of the past 

Although speed, scalability and increased autonomy are the main reasons Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and developers use containers, many name the lack of vendor lock-in as another advantage. However, is it quite that clear cut? Time for a fact-check by our experts!  Although the concept of vendor lock-in is mainly associated with IT, it is

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The 7 R’s strategies for migrating workloads to AWS

The 7R methodology for the migration to AWS is a framework that helps organisations plan and execute a successful migration. The methodology involves assessing each application in your portfolio and categorising it based on its suitability for migration. The outcome is an important component of the business case. Furthermore, it is the basis for detailing

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How migrating to the public cloud reduces your TCO

This post discusses how right-sizing, combined with the use of Platform as a Service (PaaS) greatly reduces the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of IT in the public cloud. When comparing the TCO of a private versus a public cloud implementation of an environment, many enter all CMDB entries as-is into the cost calculator of

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Unique benefits in the public cloud

This blogpost discusses how the public cloud provides unique benefits to users who migrated their workloads. It offers robust and compliant global infrastructure, extremely efficient server virtualisation engines and new state-of-the-art processors. These characteristics all translate into substantially lower costs and innovation. In another post, I discussed platform as a service (PaaS) offerings and how

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Speeding up the potato revolution with the cloud

In this post, Solynta’s CEO and CFO describe their digital transformation. In particular, how cloud services set up the company for its worldwide ‘potato revolution’ and delivered substantial business benefits. We have helped Solynta design and implement the transition and we continue to work with the organisation to develop and implement more innovative services. The

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Dissecting an analyst report about cloud data warehouses

This blogpost discusses the latest Forrester report on cloud data warehouse systems and suppliers. Reports written by respected analysts such as Forrester always contain valuable information. Nevertheless it is advisable to read such an analyst report with a critical eye. Weighing individual dimensions is no exact science and results can sometimes change dramatically if you

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The ramifications of the decline of the x86 chip architecture

The x86 CPU instruction set architecture (ISA) has been dominant in enterprise IT. Almost all business software has been written for x86 processors and almost all servers, PCs and macs run on x86 chips by Intel and AMD. However, the cracks in this impressive architecture are multiplying and many fear that the dam will break.

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