{"id":1025,"date":"2008-01-03T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2008-01-03T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T07:03:33","slug":"2008_saass_big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"2008: SaaS’s breakout year?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In separate posts, Jeff Kaplan<\/a> and Phil Wainewright<\/a> make a compelling case that 2008 will be the year when web apps and other utility computing services move into the business mainstream. They offer a slew of reasons – 18, to be exact – to back up their predictions. I’d add just one more: A lot of suppliers have been investing a lot of capital into constructing utility data centers over the past couple of years, and a good deal of that new capacity has either come online recently or will come online during the course of this year (including Microsoft’s huge Chicago plant<\/a>, which is scheduled to open in April). It’s important to remember that we’re still in the build-out phase of the utility infrastructure and that supply-side capacity will be as essential as user demand in pushing the model forward. Capacity, as well as demand, should expand significantly over the next 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In separate posts, Jeff Kaplan and Phil Wainewright make a compelling case that 2008 will be the year when web apps and other utility computing services move into the business mainstream. They offer a slew of reasons – 18, to be exact – to back up their predictions. I’d add just one more: A lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}