Apps.gov = Huge Step Forward for Cloud Computing

Please see my latest post at The Cloud Option about federal government cloud computing: Apps.gov, FISMA compliance, Salesforce, and Google.

Live Webinar Announcment: Multitenant Magic: Under the Covers of the Force.com Data Architecture

For those of you interested in Force.com and multi-tenancy issues, you won’t want to miss this. Craig Weissmann, Chief Software Architect of Force.com, is going to give a live webinar about the inner workings of Salesforce.com’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. This presentation is based on the recent paper that Salesforce.com hired me to [...]

The Force.com Multitenant Architecture

Here is the link that I promised for the white paper that I wrote for the folks at Salesforce.com. The abstract for the paper reads as follows:
“Force.com is the preeminent on-demand application development platform in use today, supporting some 47,000+ organizations. Individual enterprises and commercial software-as-a service (SaaS) vendors trust the platform to deliver robust, [...]

Introducing EquiVol

The generic application that I’m proposing for my cloud/PaaS/DbaaS application platform study is called EquiVol. The EquiVol application keeps track of the monthly open and closing price for a given publicly traded equity on a United States stock exchange. Besides being helpful with my stock trading endeavors, I believe that the EquiVol application will be [...]

Multi-Tenant Times

I know, I know. I don’t have a very good track record updating my blogs. But now it’s time for me to change all of that. My main problem is that I get involved in projects that are all-consuming, and neglect my desire to regularly share my thoughts on Software as a Service (SaaS), Database [...]