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Archive for September 2010

Gartner case study on transition from software to services

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 30, 2010

Ruggero Contu has published a case study which he created after studying Quest Software‘s transition from being a pure software vendor to also a SaaS cloud-based IT management company: “Case Study: Quest Leverages Cloud Services to Introduce SaaS-Based Log Management Product” (registration required to access the page): Although new business opportunities can justify a SaaS [...]

Windows Marketplace: Why can’t Microsoft make it happen?

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 27, 2010

Burgeoning application stores satisfying any possible consumer need seem to be the number one reason for the incredible success of products like iPad tablets and iPhone and Android smartphones. What is it that does not let Microsoft provide the same application distribution for Windows consumers? Surprisignly, it increasingly seems that Microsoft has all the technology [...]

Provide feedback on Quest OnDemand – get an iPad

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 23, 2010

Now that our services for IT Pros: OnDemand Recovery for Active Directory and OnDemand Log Management – have been out for a couple of months, got their first customers, and demonstrated (knock on wood) 100% uptime, it seems to be the right time to start collecting feedback and give back some prizes. This is exactly what [...]

When federation does not work

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 21, 2010

One of the leading providers of IT management SaaS – Quest OnDemand – has decided to stop using federation with Live ID as its main user authentication method and switched to simple email address/password way. In the age of everyone trying to federate with everyone else this move seems to be going into the opposite [...]


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