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AbSD Advantageous Over SaaS for SMBs

By Sophia Mayengbam

For small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) Appliance-based Software Delivery (AbSD) is the best delivery than that of Software as a Service (SaaS), which presents too many problems, said KACE in a study. Reliability, performance, security, loss of control over data and high costs over time are some of the problems that SaaS presents for mid-market companies to absorb without significant risk to their bottom line.

The research, "Got the Enterprise Software Blues? Appliances Come to the Rescue", written by KACE founder and Chief Technology officer Marty Kacin said that AbSD provides all the benefits of on-demand software delivery like SaaS, but with none of the drawbacks to vendors and end-user organizations.

In the areas affordability, performance, reliability, security and ease-of-use makes, AbSD stands at a better position than SaaS.

A key factor and a driving force to rapid adoption of AbSD is its characteristics to reduce complexity and simplifying technology.

AbSD successfully eliminates the costs and complexities of traditional software delivery and avoids the shortcomings of SaaS by providing a completely integrated hardware and software solution.

Some of the benefits of AbSD KACE listed are:

Rapid deployment through plug-and-play installation
High reliability through built-in hardware redundancy and automatic failover
Outstanding security through a hardened system with built-in backup and recovery
Predictable, scalable performance in a purpose-built, pre-tuned solution
Easy up-keep through self-healing and automated maintenance

Speaking of implementing AbSD, it provides quick time-to-value rapid deployment to end users. Its advantage is AbSD requires neither hardware to be procured nor software to be installed. Appliances can simply be plugged into a network and can immediately begin functioning. The end-user organization receives support from one vendor for all aspects of the solution.

For vendors, AbSD requires development, testing and maintenance of a single stack of hardware, OS and application server software. KACE said this is advantageous for controlling the entire stack allowing appliance vendors to tune and configure the complete solution for predictable scalability and robust security.


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