Comments on: VMware, SaaS, and the Virtual Appliance Marketplace http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2009/04/vmware-saas-and-the-virtual-appliance-marketplace.html A Technologist and Virtualization Expert Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:48:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Massimo Re Ferre' http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2009/04/vmware-saas-and-the-virtual-appliance-marketplace.html/comment-page-1#comment-629 Massimo Re Ferre' Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:25:49 +0000 http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/?p=493#comment-629 Mark,<br><br>the fundamental difference, in my opinion, is that with SalesForce (or alike) the application doesn't run in your own data center but rather "somewhere else". Virtual Appliances are just a (very clever) mean to repackage an application for smarter distribution. <br><br>I guess that instantiating a Virtual Appliance on the Cloud would be much closer to SaaS. <br><br>Massimo. Mark,

the fundamental difference, in my opinion, is that with SalesForce (or alike) the application doesn't run in your own data center but rather “somewhere else”. Virtual Appliances are just a (very clever) mean to repackage an application for smarter distribution.

I guess that instantiating a Virtual Appliance on the Cloud would be much closer to SaaS.

Massimo.

]]> By: Ken Ross http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2009/04/vmware-saas-and-the-virtual-appliance-marketplace.html/comment-page-1#comment-627 Ken Ross Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:05:01 +0000 http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/?p=493#comment-627 The appliance model has some parallels with SaaS ease of deployment benefits but allows more control of the security aspects - however I would argue it is not a simple as just downloading the virtual appliance since it still needs to be installed on your VMWare infrastructure – which is relatively simple – but it also needs to be managed and tracked in any efficient production environment. Since the KBOX appliance focuses on systems management we’ve taken that message to heart in our definition of an appliance and built in “self management”. This covers areas like self tuning for load distribution and automating typical maintenance tasks such as nightly backups. So IT can focus on using the appliance to complete their work rather than creating more admin tasks. Again this brings the appliance model even closer to SaaS without the security issues. The appliance model has some parallels with SaaS ease of deployment benefits but allows more control of the security aspects – however I would argue it is not a simple as just downloading the virtual appliance since it still needs to be installed on your VMWare infrastructure – which is relatively simple – but it also needs to be managed and tracked in any efficient production environment. Since the KBOX appliance focuses on systems management we’ve taken that message to heart in our definition of an appliance and built in “self management”. This covers areas like self tuning for load distribution and automating typical maintenance tasks such as nightly backups. So IT can focus on using the appliance to complete their work rather than creating more admin tasks. Again this brings the appliance model even closer to SaaS without the security issues.

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