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Cloud Prem Architecture - The New Way of Serving the Enterprise with a Hub and Spoke Data Model

Tom Tunguz

When we announced our investment in and partnership with Mattermost about a year ago , I wrote about a new architecture for SaaS. The idea behind the new architecture is split a SaaS app into code and the data. The SaaS company writes, updates, and maintains the code. This cloud account has many names but no real moniker yet.

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SaaS Security: Basic Principles and Best Practices

SaaS Metrics

The total cost of ownership was once the main roadblock for potential SaaS customers, but security is now arguably on top of the list. The concerns about SaaS security grew as more and more users started embracing the new technology, but is everything all that bad as online reviews and opinions suggest? What Puts SaaS Apps at Risk?