So lets say you want to test early development builds in a continuously integrated system. You want to take all your developers code and execute it on a seperate box and be able to test client access to your system remotely. Yeah you could put it up in staging on Azure but maybe you dont want to do that yet. Maybe you just want some testers bangin away at it from some remote client. Well right now thats kinda hard since the development fabric carries a restriction to deny request from non-localhost...

Saas vs. S+S Saas is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can benefit from the economies of scale of the data and behavior of that architecture being built and hosted in the cloud by a third party in a multitenant fashion. Software + Services is an architectural paradigm where a solution architecture can achieve some of the same economies of scale as Saas while simultaneously benefiting from the synergies and efficiencies of the data and behavior of that architecture being partly...