Bruce Richardson from AMR research has posted some of this thoughts from last weeks Virtual Appliance thought leaders summit. His conclusions:
The idea of being the “Southwest Airlines of software” is very appealing—despite the lack of first class seating. Software appliances may rival SaaS as the preferred deployment for small and mid-sized customers. Both appeal to new buyers due to their simplicity and lower cost of ownership.
As for larger customers, I think we’ll see hybrid implementations. It’s hard to see the demise of on premise, yet buyers would be foolish not to consider SaaS and on appliance, too.
On our panel, Mr. Perron said, software appliances are “not the next big thing, they are the next default thing.” Yes, I agree. This is the next logical step in the march to lower IT costs in order to fund more innovation.
The summit was a great event. I also attended so hopefully I’ll get around to posting my thoughts at some point.
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