http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:52:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-67625 Check Point Software’s unusual appliance strategy | The Monash Report Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:30:44 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-67625 [...] Point also has VMware-based virtual appliances, but so far isn’t getting much uptake of those except for demo purposes. Share: These icons [...] [...] Point also has VMware-based virtual appliances, but so far isn’t getting much uptake of those except for demo purposes. Share: These icons [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-4975 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Sean McGrath correctly predicts the future of enterprise SaaS Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:29:50 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-4975 [...] I was proud of coming up with the idea to blend SaaS and appliances, but it turns out Sean McGrath beat me to it. • • • [...] [...] I was proud of coming up with the idea to blend SaaS and appliances, but it turns out Sean McGrath beat me to it. • • • [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-4416 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Proofpoint and VMware – an apparently non-trivial virtual appliance success story Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:33:47 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-4416 [...] I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months, of which a significant fraction have turned into actual sales. Specific deployment scenarios they mentioned include: [...] [...] I talked with Proofpoint today, and got a more positive view about VMware’s virtual appliance strategy than I’ve gotten from other appliance vendors. They cite over 500 downloads in the past couple of months, of which a significant fraction have turned into actual sales. Specific deployment scenarios they mentioned include: [...]

]]> http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-4296 DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Data integration appliance vendor Cast Iron Systems Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:51:56 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2007/01/03/virtual-appliances-saas/#comment-4296 [...] Being even less dependent on hardware tweaks than some other appliance vendors, they might seem to be a natural candidate for the VMware “virtual appliance” strategy. But while Cast Iron has built a VMware-based prototype, the find that most of their customers don’t have a VMware infrastructure in place. Thus, going VMware-based would obviate many of the deployment advantages of the appliance format. • • • [...] [...] Being even less dependent on hardware tweaks than some other appliance vendors, they might seem to be a natural candidate for the VMware “virtual appliance” strategy. But while Cast Iron has built a VMware-based prototype, the find that most of their customers don’t have a VMware infrastructure in place. Thus, going VMware-based would obviate many of the deployment advantages of the appliance format. • • • [...]

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