At last week's brainstorming meeting I had an idea to start a video blog (special thanks to Matt Mansfield) in order to highlight the most savory morsels of information from our site.  In this weeks episode we cover everything from cloud washing to powdered wigs! Hope you enjoy the first of what I hope to be many weekly Saas/Cloud update video blogs - 

I recently read an article by Anita Moorthy, Sr.Solutions Marketing Manager for Novell, Inc.  in which she articulates the results of a survey on what organizations want when purchasing SaaS products.

It seems that the group falls into 2 categories:

• Those that want their needs met by developing capabilities in-house
  • The issue being the customers bring a variety of identity management solutions to the relationship which will require devoted development resources to a never-ending cycle of customization.
• Those that would rather someone else take care of it for them
  •  2 most popular options being OEMing through a third-party or sourcing through their hosing vendor.

She goes on to mention that Identity Management is essentially an infrastructure function. Since contemporary hosting tends to be moving towards infrastructure as a service (IaaS) it's likely these providers will have the technical know-how to integrate IaaS into there offerings and should have a definite stake in supporting it into the future.