Seven Myths of SAAS Debunked

As with any disruptive new technology that threatens the business of established older technologies, negative talk about software as a service has elicited plenty of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) during sales presentations and negotiation sessions. Service-now.com CEO Fred Luddy and marketing director Matt French, who run a SAAS provider, offer their responses to that FUD.

• Myth No. 1: SaaS is not secure. [FALSE]
• Myth No. 2: Using SAAS is a risk to compliance. [FALSE]
• Myth: No. 3: Over a three-year period, SAAS licensing is more costly than typical client/server application licensing.[FAlSE]
• Myth No. 4: SAAS is suited only for small and medium-sized businesses. [FALSE]
• Myth No. 5: SAAS is only offered in a hosted model. [FALSE]
• Myth No. 6: SAAS applications are not customizable. [FALSE]
• Myth No. 7: Nobody is adopting SAAS. [FALSE]

Excerpts from an article written by Chris Preimesberger (2008-10-28)
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Seven-Myths-of-SAAS-Debunked/

Do I really need the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)?

I found some of these statements from the IT Skeptic and added some others... Do you disagree?

• You don't need ITIL to run a static environment where nothing goes wrong and nothing changes and nothing grows.
• ITIL has nothing to do with technology, nor can it be implemented with just technology.
  
• ITIL is about how an organization and the people within it respond to planned and unexpected variations in the environment, from outages to changes to growth.
• ITIL seeks to make the IT organization more responsive to the business needs and to help demonstrate value
• ITIL defines human behavior.
• Every organization needs the processes ITIL describes.
• Every organization already has them.
• ITIL is just one way of defining a standard approach to performing them.
• You may not need ITIL but every IT shop needs to be doing what ITIL describes, one way or another.