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What happens when the cloud blows up?

When we plan for cloud failures, we need to consider more than power failures or network outages. Recent damage from the Iran war has impacted multiple availability zones.

By David Linthicum

Sep 29, 20266 mins

Business ContinuityIaaSSaaS

FinOps for agents: Loop limits, tool-call caps and the new unit economics of agentic SaaS

By Nikhil Mungel

Mar 2, 202610 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ManagementSaaS

Articles

Caught in the great SaaS squeeze

Cloud mandates from enterprise software vendors are leaving on-premises options behind and changing enterprise decisions about strategy, risk, and control.

By David Linthicum

Jan 16, 2026 7 mins

Cloud ArchitectureCloud ComputingSaaS

What is cloud computing? From infrastructure to autonomous, agentic-driven ecosystems

Cloud computing has become the ideal way to deliver enterprise applications—and the preferred solution for companies extending their infrastructure or launching new innovations.

By Dan Muse and Eric Knorr

Dec 31, 2025 19 mins

Hybrid CloudIaaSServerless Computing

AWS offers new service to make AI models better at work

AWS is trying to position Nova Forge as an infrastructure-first alternative to Microsoft’s IQ vision for enterprise AI by shifting model context into the LLM itself.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 3, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingSaaS

Lessons from the Salesforce breach

A high-profile data breach reveals that the interconnectedness of enterprise data means providers and customers must continually evolve their cloud security.

By David Linthicum

Oct 10, 2025 6 mins

Cloud SecuritySaaSSecurity Practices

Improving Splunk and Kafka Platforms with Cloud-Native Technologies

Learn to build a Splunk and Kafka platform that can provide the performance and resource utilization your organization needs to meet the demands of today’s data-intensive workloads.

By Intel

Sep 7, 2022 19 mins

SaaS

SaaS: The quiet power behind cloud computing

Despite generating more revenue than IaaS and PaaS combined, SaaS rarely takes center stage in cloud conversations, causing enterprises to miss a source of strategic differentiation.

By David Linthicum

Sep 26, 2025 5 mins

IaaSPaaSSaaS

The rise of AI model-as-a-service ecosystems

How bundled model catalogs, tools, and billing are reshaping developer onboarding and revenue sharing for cloud users.

By David Linthicum

Aug 12, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceManaged Cloud ServicesSaaS

How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist

The question today is not whether to support multicloud operations but how to excel at it. Here’s what experts are saying about the challenges and opportunities in multiple cloud operations.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 29, 2025 14 mins

Cloud ComputingSaaSSoftware Development

Design a better customer experience with agentic AI

AI agents are rewriting the future of customer experience. Here's what developers and tech leaders need to know now.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jun 17, 2025 10 mins

Business IntelligenceGenerative AISaaS

Real-time analytics with StarTree Cloud and Apache Pinot

Open-source distributed OLAP database and powerful SaaS counterpart shine with plug-in indexes, signature tunable star-tree index, and ability to combine batch data with streaming data.

By Martin Heller

Jun 3, 2025 16 mins

Big DataDatabasesSaaS

The Agile Manifesto was ahead of its time

Back in the day, technology limitations forced software development teams to be disciplined, rigid, and inflexible. Thank goodness for SaaS and CI/CD.

By Nick Hodges

Nov 13, 2024 5 mins

Agile DevelopmentApplication Life Cycle ManagementBuild Automation

Agile and devops for SaaS and low-code developmentrisks

Software as a service and low-code platforms can make some aspects of agile and devops easier, but not without adjustments. Here's how to modify your team's best practices for SaaS and low-code environments.

By Isaac Sacolick

Oct 22, 2024 9 mins

Agile DevelopmentDevopsNo Code and Low Code

12 principles for improving devsecops

SaaS organizations lead the pack when it comes to application reliability, scalability, security, and customer satisfaction. Here are 12 principles devsecops leaders can adopt from SaaS.

By Isaac Sacolick

May 20, 2024 11 mins

Cloud ComputingDevopsSaaS

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What happens when the cloud blows up?

The cloud outage that should terrify the CIO

AI won’t kill SaaS

The tug-of-war between AI and traditional cloud services

SaaS will survive, but lazy SaaS is dead

What will AI-first UX look like?

How AI is upending SaaS tools

What enterprise devops teams should learn from SaaS

FinOps for agents: Loop limits, tool-call caps and the new unit economics of agentic SaaS

Articles

Caught in the great SaaS squeeze

What is cloud computing? From infrastructure to autonomous, agentic-driven ecosystems

AWS offers new service to make AI models better at work

Lessons from the Salesforce breach

Improving Splunk and Kafka Platforms with Cloud-Native Technologies

SaaS: The quiet power behind cloud computing

The rise of AI model-as-a-service ecosystems

How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist

Design a better customer experience with agentic AI

Real-time analytics with StarTree Cloud and Apache Pinot

The Agile Manifesto was ahead of its time

Agile and devops for SaaS and low-code developmentrisks

12 principles for improving devsecops

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