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Comment on Back to school with web marketing by Olly Craig

Olly Craig — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:15:53 +0000

…and we loved seeing you win, and only occasionally fall off!

Nice article, I agree that there is not enough aftersales follow up in the majority of the professional services industries. Testimonials and case studies are the way forward as they demonstrate not just what you have achieved, but what your clients/customers have gained in their own words. After all the proof, as they say, is in the pudding!

Olly

Comment on Does every Cloud have a silver lining? by Alexander Craig

Alexander Craig — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:25:12 +0000

Excellent point Mark and I think you’re article nicely summaries the key potential pitfall with many Cloud-based backup solutions — once everything is on there is can be slow to get back if you need it in a hurry! Like the sound of your new “Vault2Cloud” product and hope it goes well.

Comment on Does every Cloud have a silver lining? by Mark Campbell

Mark Campbell — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:49:38 +0000

Great article and great subject. There’s one thing that I’d add to the “flip side” – and it ties into your introductory remarks regarding Moore’s law and other trends. The reason clouds are such a technical challenge is that the pace of improvement for microprocessors, memory, disk drives, and the like far outpace the improvement for WAN. Thus while I agree with you (and Gartner) that we’re moving past the “hype” stage with clouds, you have to ask yourself some really tough questions. I wrote more in the article “Does Your Backup Cloud Have a Silver Lining?” at http://www.unitrends.com/weblog/index.php/2010/03/21/does-your-backup-cloud-have-a-silver-lining/

Comment on Is there a place for SaaS in Financial Services? by Sreekumar J

Sreekumar J — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:49:20 +0000

I think Yes. If the user community can welcome Online Payroll, Online CRM, Cloud based communication/collaboration tools, definitely there would be a place for Financial services too.

Comment on Parting the Cloud to SaaS by Alexander Craig

Alexander Craig — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:47:45 +0000

Update on the Amazon / Microsoft pricing:
Amazon have announced that they’ll be dropping their prices from 01 November 2009. Since we’re talking about 15% across the board (e.g. a small Linux on-demand image is down from $0.10 to $0.085 and a large one from $0.40 to $0.34 per hour) I think we can safely assume they’re getting ready to tackle Microsoft head on over price.

Should be a very interesting few months leading into early 2010 as the two of them dance around each other and their customers to find the right price point!