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The first OpenStackbased cloud operating system came out Wednesday …cloud environments It uses Diablo the latest cut of OpenStack It’s onlygood inside a …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)PARIS, Jan 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Arkadin, a leading providerof collaboration-as-a-service solutions, today announced the launch of theArkadin Cloud Collaboration Platform. The platform is architected on aninnovative, private global-IP …(more)

Find out which database server vCloud Director is using.(more)

Stackato enables you to create a private PaaS hosted on the cloud of yourchoice (your own or with a hosting provider) to empower your developers todeploy, …(more)

ForbesThe federal government has been very active in the cloud computing space inrecent times, and accordingly, The National Institute of Standards andTechnology has been busy researching and setting definitions and guidelinesto ensure agency and …(more)

Einnews PortugalIT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in information security training,consultancy, books and tools, has today launched the Cloud ComputingFoundation training course. January 25, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — ITGovernance Ltd, the leading expert in …(more)

RepublicaThey are dumping traditional IT infrastructure for cloud computing,becoming one of the pioneers to use this service at enterprise level inNepal. To give a quick 101, the cloud basically denotes the Internet. Soeverything done on the Internet, …(more)

OfferingPR.com (press release)Now, with the Ospero DaaS platform software companies can deploy theirapplication in over 19 countries in four continents. As usual, they justpay for what they use and manage their global estate through a singleportal. Ospero also operates a single …(more)

OpenStack. I have transferred this from Cloud as it had started to lookmore like an OpenStack description than a general Cloud page –OlivierBerger …(more)

Experian QASAlmost one-third of organizations plan to use or have already implementedcloud computing services to improve their business intelligence (BI)functions, according to new research. Gartner’s study indicated that theappeal of both cloud and …(more)

2016Fresh Business ThinkingThe Strategy Analytics Extended Enterprise Software Strategies (EESS)service report, Global Cloud Computing Services Forecast and Analysis:Software, Infrastructure and Platform Development as a Service Move to theMainstream shows that cloud services …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)With McAfee SaaS email filtering service integrated with GlobalOutlook’semail service, customers are protected against email-borne threats and getworld class email protection and continuity with no hardware or software tobuy, no back-ups to run, …(more)

ReutersBeyond this performance, the recurrence of SaaS revenues from multiannualcontracts guarantees Sidetrade an excellent visibility in the mid-term. Theorder book related to Sidetrade Network’s SaaS activities amounted toEUR16.8 million on December 31 …(more)

market …4-traders (press release)Over 3600 customers have already chosen Orange Business Services cloudcomputing solutions. This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing ExpressInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, andover 2500 small business …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)… providing innovative mobile solutions for businesses, has announcedthat it is now ready to offer its mobile communication platformfreedomone(TM) in cloud computing mode, thus allowing it to offer itssolution as software as a service (SaaS).(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Two new offerings, Verdasys Managed Service for Information Protection(MSIP) and Verdasys Information Protection as a Service (IPaaS), providebusinesses on-demand data protection technology hosted within Verdasys’secured facilities: MSIP offers a …(more)

in …MarketWatch (press release)CollabNet’s Codesion platform-as-a-service brings enterprise-grade,on-demand development and deployment capabilities to developers and teamslooking to harness the benefits of cloud computing. Haque is a managingpartner at Norwest Venture Partners …(more)

CTR… was critical because Nexica’s environment also includes Cisco UCS bladeservers and VMware vCenter, VMware vCloud Director and VMware vShield.(more)

Sacramento BeeVMware, VMware vCetner, VMware vCloud Director and VMware vShield areregistered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the UnitedStates and other …(more)

FierceCIOTraditional on-site business intelligence appears to be losing sometraction in the face of SaaS-based alternatives, according to a survey byGartner. A third of the 1364 IT managers polled reported plans to use aSaaS-based BI offering.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)In this newly created position, Mr. Robbins will be responsible fordesigning, managing and assuring the scalability and reliability of EllieMae’s data center operations to support the company’s expanding software asa service (SaaS) business model.(more)

BusinessWeek26 (Bloomberg) — The European Commission aims to support the region’scloud-computing industry by encouraging governments to jointly buy softwareand computing resources on the Web, Digital Affairs Commissioner NeelieKroes said.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — EMC Corporation/quotes/zigman/225273/quotes/nls/emc EMC +2.19% today announced thatNexica, a Spanish provider of ICT infrastructure managed services includingcloud computing and critical application hosting, …(more)

InformationWeekIn SAP’s case, it laid out a five-point plan on Wednesday to extend itsmomentum in enterprise applications, analytics and mobility while steppingup its efforts to crack into the database and cloud computing markets.SAP’s robust fourth quarter and …(more)

Sacramento BeeVnetrix is differentiating itself by rolling out cloud infrastructure in afew hours to support its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) andPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. “The CA AppLogic platform givesVnetrix a clear competitive edge in an …(more)

Multitenancy with Fluent nHibernate and Ninject One Database per Tenant. upvote 0 down vote favorite. shareg+ sharefb sharetw …(more)

By Duncan Epping
Below you can find the passwords of the vCloud Director Appliance and theembedded database, just in case you need it: VMware vCloud DirectorAppliance: username = root password = Default0; VMware vCloud DirectorAppliance/Oracle …(more)

SYS-CON Media… that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructureand reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity,multitenancy, etc.(more)

3600 …MarketWatch (press release)This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing Express Infrastructure as aService (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, and over 2500 smallbusiness customers for Cloud Pro, a suite of online services launched inJune 2011.(more)

a …MarketWatch (press release)All components of the suite are offered via software as a service (SaaS),improving operational efficiencies and reducing technology supportrequirements. Currently, 15 MedAssets clients are implementing the newAccess Integrity suite’s intelligence …(more)

Cadalyst MagazineIn addition to the four types of clouds described above, there are threesegments of cloud-based technology: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. SaaS. Short forsoftware as a service (also known as software on demand), SaaS is deployedover the Internet and is made …(more)

eWeekThe company introduced two new offerings, Verdasys Managed Service forInformation Protection (MISP) and Verdasys Information Protection as aService (IPaaS), that offer data protection as a managed service, Verdasyssaid Jan. 26.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Deployed its Compuware Changepoint Software as a Service solution forprofessional services automation at Brisbane, Australia-based Unidel.Additionally, Dynamic Risk Assessment Systems selected CompuwareChangepoint for professional services …(more)

Einnews PortugalFieldOne Systems (http://www.fieldone.com) is a leading provider of SaaSand software solutions for field service companies, enabling them to spendless time entering and managing data, freeing up valuable time for workthat generates revenue.(more)

PlatformBusiness Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–Codenomicon, the leading vendor of proactive securitytesting solutions, today announces the release of Fuzz-o-Matic cloud-basedsoftware security Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for enterprisesoftware and applications running on …(more)

GovInfoSecurity.comGuidance coauthor and NIST Computer Scientist Tim Grance says public cloudcomputing is a viable choice for many applications and services forenterprises to consider. “However,” Grance says, “accountability forsecurity and privacy in public cloud …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: by PaulShread, QuinStreet The editors of the IT Business Edge
Network give their views on what’s in store for cloud computing in 2012 andbeyond. In a few short years, cloud computing has gone from a curiositythat most corporate IT …(more)

Management …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Widen Enterprises, a Madison, Wisconsin-baseddigital asset management software and premedia services company, hasbrought a dozen new names into its fast-growing list ofSoftware-as-a-Service DAM customer brands.(more)

Boston.comThe shift to cloud computing is creating a favorable business climate forEMC Corp., the world’s largest maker of data-storage computers. EMCprovided the latest evidence Tuesday with the release of its fourth-quarterearnings and its initial outlook …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Joyent licenses its cloud software to service providers that include Dell,FirstServer, XYBase, ClusterTech and Uniserve. Joyent offerings alsoinclude Platform-as-a-Service based on Node.js, the open source server-sideJavaScript development …(more)

ScreenScape’s software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)) platform helpsbusinesses engage audiences inside real locations using Internet-enableddigital …(more)

From Yahoo! Finance: BMC Software , the leader in IT Service Management ,today announced the availability of its Remedy OnDemand solution for the…(more)

MarketWatch (press release)HP Cloud Compute currently leverages the OpenStack Nova compute platformand API. “Postgres Plus Cloud Database is the only solution on the markettoday that makes deploying new instances of PostgreSQL or Postgres PlusAdvanced Server easy in any …(more)

CNVO …China AnalystIt is now trading at 79% of its 52-week high. inContact, Inc .(NASDAQ:SAAS) is the 10th best rebounding stock in this segment of themarket. It has risen 82% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 97% ofits 52-week high.(more)

Does using cloud computing services based in the United States create arisk of US law enforcement access to people’s data? The US Department ofJustice …(more)

View and apply for the Operations Support Engineer - MCTIP+ Security, VCP,vCloud, RHEL, HP Blades Job at Crystal Equation Corporation in GreaterAtlanta …(more)

GeminiStamford (ip-192.com): Nearly one third of organizations uses or plans touse cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their corebusiness intelligence (BI) functions. According to a survey of 1364 ITmanagers and business users of BI …(more)

Moneycontrol.comNearly one third of organisations either already use or plan to use cloudor software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core businessintelligence (BI) functions, according to Gartner, Inc. According to asurvey of 1364 IT managers and …(more)

Einnews Portugal/EINPresswire.com/IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in informationsecurity training, consultancy, books and tools, has today launched theCloud Computing Foundation training course. This course is based on theEXIN Cloud Computing Foundation …(more)

App …Sacramento BeeXform Computing’s AlwaysOnPC App has raised the bar for Cloud-poweredmobile apps, and is well aligned with Amazon’s Cloud Computing strategy.Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet already includes the Silk “cloud-assisted” WebBrowser, and it offers cloud …(more)

MarketWatch… VMware vCenter Server and vCloud Director; Red Hat KVM hypervisor; andlayer 1 switches that include Curtiss-Wright, Cytec Mesa, and MRVCommunications.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”Karen has an extensive background in B2B marketing, and specific expertisein marketing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. She has a demonstratedtrack record of working with high technology companies to accelerate theirgrowth.(more)

VentureBeatThe OpenStack open source cloud platform may have started in 2010, but 2011was the year that it really kicked into high gear. Built oncommunity-contributed code, OpenStack aims to let any enterprise deliverits own infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) …(more)

Sacramento BeeIn December 2011, Cloudplace received the Red Herring Global 100 Award inLos Angeles, CA for their disruptive platform-as-a-service. Reader commentson Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. Ifyou see an objectionable …(more)

Place …MarketWatch (press release)In addition, CloudNOW, a nonprofit group of women in cloud computing, willhost their first annual CloudNOW Awards during Cloud Connect. As thepremier technology event for cloud computing, featuring the latesttechnologies, strategies and innovations …(more)

Consultation …MarketWatch (press release)25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Blue Mountain Labs (www.bluemountainlabs.com ) announced today the launch of a program toprovide a free one-hour cloud computing phone consultation to those inenterprise IT that are seeking initial guidance on the …(more)

Investorplace.comWhile it’s unlikely that these services would be shut down, the episode hastaken some of the shine off of cloud computing just as IT departments havebegun to embrace the concept. The fear among legitimate file sharingwebsites and cloud computing …(more)

InformationWeekBy Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek Several states are using an online
balloting website based on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform to allow USvoters living overseas to cast their votes via the Web in 2012 primaryelections.(more)

Network WorldA blog post from the Electronic Frontier Foundation makes the case that theUnited States is jeopardizing its position in the worldwide cloud-computingmarket by failing to provide the kinds of privacy assurances demanded byinternational laws.(more)

GigaOm25, 2012, 10:05am PT No Comments In what is probably not a shocker, newresearch shows that more companies are turning to SaaS-based businessintelligence over traditional on-premises BI. Business intelligence, oranalytics software from such companies …(more)

Result of a poll in the Software as a Service ( SaaS) LinkedIn group to askexerts their opinions about which category would see the most growth in2012.(more)

Redmondmag.comThere’s also an older Microsoft white paper, dated February 2011, thatrecommends the reference architecture for the “Hyper-V Cloud Fast TrackProgram” …(more)

eWeek From Lucas Carlson, CEO of AppFog: In the coming year as the OpenStackcommunity grows and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) matures,platform-as-a-service (PaaS) companies will begin offering IaaS options totheir customers as single infrastructure …(more)

Falling …MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — New Relic, Inc.,the SaaS-based cloud application performance management provider,introduced a new white paper today that details how factors like cloudcomputing, the explosion of mobile …(more)

TelecompaperLast October, Optus’ and SingTel’s enter prise cloud services werecertified under VMware’s single cloud platfrom called vCloud DatacentreServices.(more)

TalkinCloud (blog)by Joe Panettieri on When VMware announced strong Q4 results earlier today,the terms cloud computing, cloud infrastructure and cloud era weresprinkled all over VMware’s earning statement. Talkin’ Cloud doesn’t knowhow much of VMware’s revenues …(more)

Business InsiderCertainly, the business world at large is interested in the benefits of thecloud, but enterprises have been very slow to adopt a key element of cloudcomputing: platform-as-a-service or PaaS. So what? For the business worldto fully embrace the cloud, …(more)

Were also excited to have our very own VMware Knowledge Experts ChrisColotti and Massimo Re Ferre cohosting thiscloudtalk As our resident vCloudexperts …(more)

RegisterYou might think that the launch of the ESXi 5.0 hypervisor, the vSphere 5.0management stack, plus vCloud extensions for cloud management, which allcame …(more)

with …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leadingcloud provider of people management solutions for global businesses,announced today that it is commemorating 10 years of deliveringSoftware-as-a-Service for people management …(more)

TechnoratiCloud computing a boon for business? Well, of course. Those businesseswhich have benefited greatly from the cloud would, by now, consider such aquestion, sophomoric, after having increased their profit margins andtightened their work force.(more)

ComputerworldBy Dallon Christensen CFOworld - My post last week discussed the importance
of long-term benefits related to productivity and cost when implementingcloud computing technologies. CFOs and their IT directors must understandthe importance of hard costs, …(more)

Correct answers available: 1. Hi, Will built-in multi-tenancy be supportedby DynamoDB? If so, any approximate release date. Thanks in advance.Permlink …(more)

Reseller NewsMcKenty didn’t mince words when describing his young company’s new product,which it is touting as the industry’s first private cloud operating systembased on the OpenStack framework. “The thing that I want to make sure iscrystal clear is that Piston …(more)

During some vCloud Director testing with David Hill and Duncan Epping, weran into a snag whereby we could not seem to reset the vShield Edge Device.Now …(more)

Portfolio, Bluelock’s vCloud portal and decision support tool just learneda new skill: Cost Projection! Bluelock already excels in providingpredictable costs in the …(more)

eWeekCloud9, maker of the Cloud9 IDE developer-as-a-service platform, haslaunched a series of new initiatives to help push Node.js into themainstream. With the Node Summit for Node.js developers approaching, Cloud9IDE announced a series of moves that …(more)

IT-Director.comScribe, with the SPARK Solution Developer Program, is targetingsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, channel partners, systemsintegrators, VARS, and other business technology consultants. This meansthat while enterprise IT departments are gearing …(more)

and …Virtual-Strategy MagazineSAN JOSE, CA and DAVOS-KLOSTERS, SWITZERLAND — (Marketwire) — 01/24/12 –Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, will beparticipating in the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, whichwill focus on The Great …(more)

Daily MarketsWebQA, a global leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) CRM tools forcustomer service, today announced John C. Snyder as Vice President ofProduct Management and Dave C. Bernhard as Vice President of Technology.These management additions will continue …(more)

with …MarketWatch (press release)CALABASAS, Calif., Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Realizing a 65 percentimprovement in efficiency managing tickets and suites during the first yearof using SpotlightTMS, a software as a service (SaaS) application formanaging corporate suite and …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SafeNet’s Fully Trusted Authentication Solutions allow organizations toprotect identities and transactions across an evolving landscape, includingconsumer mobile devices and SaaS-based applications. “We believe thatGartner’s report recognizes our …(more)

By Apurva Mehta
Multi-tenancy can deliver considerable scalability and cost benefits to anySaaS application. But implementing a multi-tenant architecture is a seriousundertaking.(more)

for …MarketWatch (press release)It is the first commercially available mobile app platform-as-a-servicethat allows developers to use the same JavaScript skills to build a mobileapp client and powerful backend functionality that leverages thenon-blocking, event-driven I/O …(more)

The following diagram extends the SOA Abstraction to the level of a SaaSservice model so that business processes go beyond a single enterpriseacross …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)KILLINGWORTH, Conn., Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Softletter, theleading source of business insights and data analysis for softwaredevelopers and publishers, announced today that its groundbreaking SaaSUniversity Conference will be held February …(more)

Implementation …MarketWatch (press release)MANCHESTER, NH, Jan 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Scribe, the leaderin CRM data integration solutions, announced the launch of the Scribe SPARKSolution Developer Program for SaaS providers, channel partners, systemsintegrators, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”By using the pre-packaged iApp, Noodles has automated a relatively complexbusiness process spanning multiple SaaS and legacy systems, all withoutneeding to deploy any software or hire a team of developers.” MuleSoft isHiring MuleSoft is looking for …(more)

ReutersPowerful and accessible new SaaS-based technology, content and services onshow at Stand 121, Olympia 2, London, 25-26 January 2012 London, 24January, 2012 - Lumesse, Europe’s largest independent talent managementsoftware vendor, will unveil Lumesse …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The operators of the system, 211 LA County, selected inContact/quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS +1.43% , the leading provider ofcloud-based call center software and call center agent optimization tools,to power its 24/7/365 contact center.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The latest release of the SaaS-based solution further enhancesLogicMonitor’s built-in monitoring, historical trending, proactivealerting, and reporting on critical infrastructure, including networkinggear, servers, applications, databases, storage, …(more)

Grails, Multi Tenancy, and Hibernate 4. Hi, Hibernate 4 has been released awhile ago and there’s already an upgrade request …(more)

2012 …MarketWatch (press release)The 2012 Winner and Preferred Product awards are presented to vendors in 14different categories of products, ranging from desktop and storagevirtualization to application virtualization and cloud computing solutions.The Wyse Z90 was recognized as …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”This new practice will take cloud computing foundation assets and thoughtleadership in cloud architecture to market. Clients will see benefits interms of strategy around governance, design, delivery, training andcertification of their staff.(more)

Channel InsiderFollowing this introduction of LabTech Cloud, the company plans to roll outmore cloud computing-compatible technologies and services to help reducepartners’ operational costs and increase profitability. With LabTech Cloud,IT service providers …(more)

and …MarketWatch (press release)The two-day event will feature 17 sessions on a wide variety of keycompliance topics including Cloud Computing, Collaboration Trends withBusiness Partners, and leveraging Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as a CompliancePlatform. Featured speakers at QUMAS …(more)

TheStreet.com(TheStreet) — Storage maker EMC(EMC) posted record fourth-quarter revenueand profit, powered by a push in cloud computing. It was the latesttechnology company to report strong results. EMC, which reported itsresults in the wake of strong numbers …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Reportlinker.com announces that a newmarket research report is available in its catalogue: TechNavio’s analystsforecast the Global Security Software as a Service market to grow at a CAGRof 28.4 percent over the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)LOS ANGELES, Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DotComGuy’s “MSP” Tech-Supportsoftware as a service that reduces computer/employee downtime, cuts costlycomputer repair bills and changes the way people manage their IT supportfor their Home and Business …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 24, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Shango(R), anindustry leading Integration-as-a-Service platform provider, todayannounced that it has signed a 5-year agreement with IIS Group that willsimplify service orchestration across …(more)

Management …MarketWatch (press release)MADISON, Wis., Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Widen Enterprises, aMadison, Wisconsin-based digital asset management software and premediaservices company, has brought a dozen new names into its fast-growing listof Software-as-a-Service DAM customer …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Serenic NOL is a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of Serenic’saward-winning Navigator financial management system. The cloud-basedsubscription model leverages Internet streaming functionality with accessto Serenic’s financial management software …(more)

International Business TimesBy IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes’s RSS feed Cloud computing,
a way to store information and access software programs from far-away datafarms is transforming computers from a product-based to a service-basedindustry.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)At Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Akamai SVP Willie M. Tejada discussed whatAkamai is doing to solve the challenges you face in the Cloud computing hasgained momentum and is increasingly being embraced by enterprises of allsizes for application delivery …(more)

Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–Softletter, the leading source of business insights anddata analysis for software developers and publishers, announced today thatits groundbreaking SaaS University Conference will be held February 28-29with optional workshops on …(more)

PlatformMarketWatch (press release)OULU, Finland & SARATOGA, Calif., Jan 24, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Codenomicon, the leading vendor of proactive security testing solutions,today announces the release of Fuzz-o-Matic cloud-based software securityTesting-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”MaaS360’s reputation for excellence has been earned at leading companiesaround the globe, trusting more than one million endpoints to theplatform.” Fiberlink is the recognized leader in software-as-a-service(SaaS) solutions for secure enterprise …(more)

Global Security Software as a Service Market 2010-2014. … TechNavio’sanalysts forecast the Global Security Software as a Service market to growat a CAGR …(more)

eWeek18, features two open-source cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) projects,two others tailored to the needs of game developers and a toolkit to helpsocial media application developers build Web apps. The Black Duck Software2011 Open Source Rookie of …(more)

thestockmastersMastery loves the cloud stocks, we talked them up last month in CloudComputing Stock Picks for 2012 (VMW, EMC). Both of those stocks are lookinggreat today and we take notice. VMware Inc (VMW) shares are up 7.8% todayand trading just under $93.(more)

Barron’s (blog)By Murray Coleman Last year after the debut of an ETF focused on cloud
computing companies, some analysts wondered if such a fund was something ofa reach. Given the short history of the First Trust ISE Cloud Computing ETF(SKYY), which launched in …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SMITHTOWN, NY, Jan 24, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — ITpreneurs, theleading provider of competence development solutions for IT best practices,is now the first company in the world to offer cloud computing trainingmaterials for the CompTIA Cloud …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Remember InterDigital? That’s the Pennsylvania patent-licensing companythat hired Evercore Partners and Barclays Capital last summer to sell itspatents, raising punters hopes that Google would buy it to console itselffor losing the $4.5 billion …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The semiconductor giant is spending $125 million cash on the product lineand certain unidentified assets and expects to hire a “significant” numberof QLogic people to enhance its networking portfolio, provide a scalableHPC fabric technology, …(more)

Hello,. I have a vcloud managing a vc with a cluster of 2 hosts (forexample). both hosts are prepared in the providerVdc. trying to import a vminto a vapp inside …(more)

The StratoGen vCloud platform is built upon VMware vCloud Director 1.5.This video is a supplement to the vCloud director 1.5 user manual whichprovides …(more)

A video showing PowerCLI 5.0.1 and vCloud Director Basic UsageIn the recentrelease of PowerCLI 5.0.1 we introduced a new PowerShell snapin whichallows …(more)

Today the company added OpenStack, Linux KVM and Citrix XenServer, plus anew graphical management console. Stackato also supports Amazon EC2 and …(more)

Kitsap SunRICHARD THORNTON, JEWEL BOX THEATRE / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The cast of “TheFourth Wall” at the Jewel Box Theatre includes (from left) Jim Alexander asRoger, Shawna Fancher as Julia, Kathy Currie as Peggy and Fred Saas asFloyd.(more)

Changing the Rules In 1999 Marc Benioff started salesforce.com in a rentedapartment with a few good developers and a goal of revolutionizing an.(more)

Secure multi tenancy is a requirement for private cloud architectures.Learn how I/O isolation delivers secure multi tenancy to make sharedresources …(more)

InfoWorldThis white paper separates fact from fiction, reality from myth, and, indoing so, will aid senior IT executives as they make decisions around cloudcomputing. more In recent years, cloud computing has been as visible as anytopic in IT. …(more)

IT JungleThe change tucks LotusLive snuggly into the IBM SmartCloud, a complete lineof hosted infrastructure, apps, and services, including software as aservice (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as aservice (IaaS), that IBM launched …(more)

Economic TimesNow, cloud computing offers another option for storing information online.There are a number of services on the Internet that you can use to uploadyour data and access it later, either by downloading it or viewing andediting it online. …(more)

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DonorCommunity, Inc., developers of an innovative cloud computing softwareplatform for nonprofit organizations and Planned Growth, a consulting firmspecializing in optimizing marketing and sales organizations and processes,announced today the formation … DonorCommunity, Inc. is a cloudcomputing, Software as a Service firm that helps nonprofit organizationscultivate donors, forge closer relationships with stakeholders, engagetheir communities and raise funds year-round.(more)

By GetApp
Result of a poll in the Software as a Service ( SaaS) LinkedIn group to askexerts their opinions about which category would see the most growth in2012.(more)

Dr. Dobb’sThe company has set out to create a mobile app Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS), which allows developers to use JavaScript skills to build a mobileapp client, alongside backend functionality that leverages the event-drivenI/O architecture of the Node.js …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)PaaS-Enabled Agility: IT leaders that try to select a platform-as-a-service(PaaS) architecture based on what they think will “win” or view’as-a-service’ platforms as only cost-saving measures may not be seeing thetotal picture. …(more)

Dr. Dobb’sBy Adrian Bridgwater, January 22, 2012 The Jelastic Java server hosting
platform for developers continues to expand. On the back of a refinedPlatform as a Service (PaaS) function at the end of last year, Jelastic nowsupports Java Virtual …(more)

Fibre2fashion.comEpicor Software Corporation announced Love Culture has selected the EpicorRetail Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. With nearly 60 stores in 26states, LA-based Love Culture, founded in 2007 by Jai Rhee and Bennet Koo,is poised to become a major …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)FINCAD provides software and services supporting the valuation, reportingand risk management of derivatives and fixed income portfolios to more than4000 clients around the world. FINCAD Analytics can be accessed as aSoftware-as-a-Service, …(more)

On the 22nd of February starting from 18:00 Arturo Suarez from Stackops.comwill be doing a discussion on our next FLOSSTalk about OpenStack, the free…(more)

ITWeb (blog)By Nadine Arendse OS33, the feature-rich IT as a service delivery platform,
last week announced integration with Google Apps for Business, TheSacramento Bee reports. The highly anticipated integration enablesbusinesses to easily deliver, …(more)

DirectionsMag.comAs data itself comes full circle, driven by the big and open data trends aswell as by the striving for value creation from these torrents of data, weare seeing the re-ignition of interest in data as a service from globalsoftware brands from within …(more)

SystemsPR Web (press release)Honda Motor Europe announced today it is adopting CERTPOINT Systems’software-as-a-service (SaaS) learning platform. The implementation willinitially cover 26000 users in over 20 European countries and in multiplelanguages. The cloud-based learning …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SeeTrak(R) is now available as a one-stop global asset tracking, security,environmental monitoring and cloud based SaaS service for supply chains andcold chains. Aankhen will provide tracking hardware and software integratedto simplify the …(more)

The LawyerAt the head of the Commercial Court sits Mrs Justice Gloster, though, whohas been making use of cloud computing technology to help manage themammoth Berezovsky v Abramovich litigation. Traditionally the courts handedthe technology mandate to Merrill …(more)

The first OpenStack-based cloud operating system came out Wednesday. …which makes sense since Piston’s founders were instrumental in OpenStack,which …(more)

PR Web (press release)The company previously operated multiple self-managed data centers tosupport its software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. In review of hardwarerefresh expenses and opportunities to leverage virtualization, the companyspent two years analyzing and …(more)

Techworld.comBy Colin Neagle | Network World US | Published: 10:24, 23 January 2012
Piston Cloud Computing recently released the first private cloud operatingsystem based on OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-serviceframework that was first designed …(more)

GigaOmMultitenancy allows a cloud infrastructure to run many applications onshared … an open-source mindview with enterprise-class multi-tenancy andsupport.(more)

The Australian… when SingTel and Optus’s respective enterprise cloud offerings werecertified under VMware’s single cloud platform known as vCloud DatacentreServices.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Taleo’s SaaS platform, which is easy to implement, update and maintainaround the globe, and which will save FRHI the cost of adding to its own ITinfrastructure. — Taleo’s social recruiting capabilities will help meetfuture growth needs by sourcing …(more)

Times of India”It is available as a SaaS (software-as-a-service) model and is designed tohelp enable enterprise customers transform their HR processes,”city-headquartered Wipro said in a statement. “Leveraging its strongrelationship with Oracle and co-development …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)In that role, he developed the product direction, strategy and roadmap forTaleo’s SMB SaaS Talent Management Platform Suite. Prior to that, Nanneyheld product management leadership positions with Navis LLC and Oracle.”Kevin’s track record of success …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)… via COMTEX) — MyBuys, the leader in cross-channel personalization forretailers, today announced it has entered into a marketing and technologypartnership with Kalio, Inc., one of the leading Software as a Servicee-commerce platform providers.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)2011 was also a banner year for innovation at MuleSoft, with the debut ofiON, the world’s first integration platform as a service (iPaaS), as wellas major enhancements for its flagship Mule ESB. — MuleSoft achievedrecord-breaking growth, …(more)

CRNArrow Electronics’ Enterprise Computing Solutions group launched its cloudcomputing services initiative in the summer under the Arrow Fusion brandwith data center monitoring and management, Security-as-a-Service,Software-as-a-Service, …(more)

InformationWeekWith the addition of TouchTest, technology that records and plays backtouch-based interaction on iOS and Android devices, SOASTA’s softwareenables developers and publishers to perform automated assessments ofmobile app performance.(more)

CRNBy Scott Campbell, CRN Solution providers aren’t the only ones seeking to
capitalize on cloud computing. Distributors are making their mark in thecloud as well, investing heavily in their own cloud programs and tools withone goal in mind: staying …(more)

Medium …PR Web (press release)Business Web Hosting plans conducted a survey of over 500 businesses tofind out if small and medium-sized businesses are adapting to cloudcomputing technology. The results showed how many of the respondents areusing cloud computing, and for how long …(more)

Continued …MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 23, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Joyent, a globalprovider of cloud computing software and services, today announced it hascompleted an $85 million funding round, with European group WeatherInvestment II providing the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)As part of the agreement, OpenText’s newly formed Business ProcessSolutions (BPS) Group will be delivering a set of process management andcase management solutions on the Windows Azure cloud computing platform.OpenText was among the first enterprise …(more)

The GuardianNelson has been heavily involved in the government’s cloud computing plansover the last year. A spokesman for the Cabinet Office told GuardianGovernment Computing that this will continue as G-Cloud remains part of thegovernment’s ongoing ICT …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsIn a move set to make waves for VMWare, Piston Cloud Computing Inc.came outwith their Piston Enterprise OS, the first OpenStack-based OS in theindustry. Announced on Wednesday (18 January 2012), the new OS which is tobe called pentOS is set to offer …(more)

with …MarketWatch (press release)… a leading cloud provider of people management solutions for globalbusinesses, announced today that it is commemorating 10 years of deliveringSoftware-as-a-Service for people management with an updated brand messageand a new look and feel.(more)

GrowthTechCrunch… services to some of the most innovative companies in the world, such asLinkedIn, Gilt Groupe and Kabam. Joyent offerings also includePlatform-as-a-Service based on Node.js, the open source server-sideJavaScript development environment that has.(more)

CRNBy Scott Campbell, CRN Tech Data has launched the StreamOne Solutions
Store, a Web-based platform to sell, provision and bill software licensesand Software-as-a-Service orders to customers. The StreamOne SolutionsStore includes all the SKUs, …(more)

New Infrastructure as a Service federation platform. Posted on 23 January2012. Bookmark and Share. 6fusion released its next generation UC6Infrastructure …(more)

SaaS/Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)By offering both SaaS and on-premise options, we are able to best meet the
needs of our partners and prospective partners,” said Matt Nachtrab, CEO,LabTech Software. “Our partners constantly enlighten us to evolving usecases around managed services, …(more)

Human …MarketWatch (press release)It is available as a SaaS model and is designed to help enable enterprisecustomers transform their HR processes. Leveraging its strong relationshipwith Oracle and co-development experience on Oracle Fusion Applications,Wipro SprintHR helps …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The Makana Motivator SaaS sales compensation platform is a self-servesolution that automates incentive planning with built-in best practiceadvice, utilizes modeling to accurately predict the cost of incentives,delivers graphical charts that clearly …(more)

Get-OrgVdc The specified Href ‘https://vcloud/api/query?typeadminOrgVdc&format=idrecords&filter=isSystemVdc==false;(name==my VDC)&pageSize=128′ is …(more)

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Will builtin multitenancy be supported by DynamoDB If so any approximaterelease date. Thanks in advance. Permlink, Replies 0 | Pages 1 …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Research In Motion late Sunday named Thorsten Heins, 54, one of itsco-COOs, president and chief executive, replacing co-CEOs Mike Lazaridisand Jim Balsillie in the hopes the move reverses the company’s dramaticnosedive and calms irate investors …(more)

ComputerworldBy Colin Neagle Network World - Having just released its new cloud
operating system, Piston Cloud Computing finds itself in a contentiousposition — and company co-founder Josh McKenty says that is exactly wherethe company wants to be.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) suggests PaaS asa component of the Federal Cloud Computing Reference Architecture, but onemajor challenge exists: Most buyers do not understand what PaaS is, why itis important and how it …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)However the advent of Cloud Computing and Service Models like SaaS(Software As A Service) made the business process vendors as well asenterprises to think beyond a single enterprise but to multiple enterprisesor take a global view.(more)

DABCC.comOverburdened, under manned, and sinking in the pile of helpdesk calls,management projects, backups, or any of the other twenty jobs you may havecan leave no time for other important tasks. If this sounds like you,you’re not the only one.(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)NetDimensions’ new offering available as secure SaaS and on-premise.NetDimensions (London Stock Exchange AIM: NETD), a global provider ofperformance, knowledge and learning management systems, will showcase thenew NetDimensions Talent Suite at …(more)

Information ManagementCentral to this is the small but growing trend of cooperative arrangementsbetween state governments and their related agencies and communities toleverage a shared private cloud for SaaS, IaaS, storage and on-demandsecurity.(more)

Easily build applications and web forms in the cloud that are reachablefrom a mobile device using AT&T Platform as a Service. Use built-in reportswizard to…(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)Critically this is described as the foundation for their SaaS strategy too,and ultimately defines a new category of Delivery Model, a ‘Hybrid SaaS’scenario. Typically SaaS is entirely remotely hosted, but as the Governmentof Canada stipulates, …(more)

Sunday Times.lkDialog Enterprise, the corporate solutions arm of Dialog Axiata PLC isoffering Sri Lankan enterprises, solutions on a SaaS (Software as aService) platform, which it says can bring considerable cost savings toorganizations that otherwise have to use …(more)

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Private …DABCC.comISVs are building out their cloud strategy by selling software fordeployment to on premises or cloud customer sites, selling subscriptionsthrough their own hosted solution, or by using Platform as a Serviceoffering of Windows Azure, or even hybrid …(more)

CFOworldMy post last week discussed the importance of long-term benefits related toproductivity and cost when implementing cloud computing technologies. CFOsand their IT directors must understand the importance of hard costs, butthey should not forget their …(more)

ITProPortalCyber security firm, McAfee provided a patch for a bug present in its SaaSTotal Protection software. This flaw allows spammers to convert protectedsystems to spam relays. SaaS Total Protection suite is a cloud basedsolution that is designed …(more)

By Gregory Heller
Every dollar spent purchasing an operating license, or paying a lease onproprietary SaaS is a dollar taken out of the public trust and given toprivate companies to distribute to their executives, owners orshareholders. On the flip side, money …(more)

By EMERGE Editor
(Part-3 of a 3 part series. Part-1 on setting the objectives, Part-2 onDefining Measurements, Part-3 on Deriving insights ). The key rule is towatch the trend and analyze the indicators as a time series. Use panelstudy ( or cohort type of …(more)

TalkinCloud (blog)by Joe Panettieri on Each time Microsoft announces a new round of cloudcomputing wins for Office 365, Talkin’ Cloud asks the same question: Wereany channel partners involved in the Office 365 deployments? Microsoft’sstandard response: The company …(more)

eWeekMegafail for cloud computing,” wrote Twitter user Jon Isbell. There appearto be three types of Megaupload users, the actual pirates, those who reliedon the site for backups, and those who stored their core work on the cloud,said Gant Redmon, …(more)

Seeking AlphaAccording to Joshua McKenty, who helped lead NASA’s Nebula cloud projectbefore it became the basis of OpenStack, cloud is the next secular changein computing. First came mainframes, then PCs, then Internet, and nowcloud. That’s a big claim, …(more)

Subscribe To Own As New Lease To Own. The Beatles are timeless and so ismusic and enterprise software. There’s been an ongoing innovation in themusic …(more)

DABCC.comVMware vCloud Director gives enterprise organizations the ability to buildsecure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency andbusiness agility. Lots of new features have been added to vCloud Director1.5 to accelerate …(more)

By Adam DuVander
That would take the company’s more than 30000 videos out of the YouTubeAPI. In another story, AppFog has expanded its platform-as-a-serviceoffering to include database and email from within your apps. That and 11new APIs rounds out …(more)

Virtual Machines Exhibit Poor CPU Performance in vCloud Director … I wasworking with a customer today and their default image inside of vCloudDirector is a …(more)

We have added ability to use LVM volumes for instances disks in OpenStackNova according to the blueprint. You can specify which storage type youwant to …(more)

TechNewsWorldBy Richard Adhikari Security vendor McAfee has issued a patch for Endpoint
Protection Software as a Service, a product that contained a flaw thatwould allow hackers to hijack a user’s system and use it to spew spam. Asmall number of businesses were …(more)

In the recent release of PowerCLI 5.0.1 we introduced a new PowerShellsnapin which allows you to work with VMware vCloud Director, to help youget started …(more)

The Drizzle database had its first stable GA release at the start of 2011.Since then we have been working on a few features taht directly relate tobe able …(more)

The State of NoSQL in 2012 Preamble Ramble If you’ve been working in theonline (e.g. internet) space over the past 3 years, you are no stranger toterms like …(more)

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PaaS (Platform as a Service) came in at number nine this year. PaaS is adevelopment platform for which the … The number six keyword is Puppet,which is a software tool used in cloud computing. According to Indeed,other top keywords …(more)

eSecurity PlanetIn a conference call with press on the subject of Cloud Computing and DataPrivacy, US Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bruce Swartz addressed anumber of myths about the cloud and how existing laws pertain to it. Swartznoted that there seems to be …(more)

On developerWorks Bookmarks, IBMs resource for developers and ITprofessionals, access tools, code, training, forums, blogs, community,standards, …(more)

What They ThinkPremedia Software Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of FixMyPrintFile,a new SaaS (Software as a Service) solution for preflighting and correctingdigital print files. The service imports a variety of file formats andgenerates optimized, …(more)

Makes …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Terapeak announces a new version of SaaS-based (Software as a Service) dataresearch, Terapeak for eBay 9.0. This is the latest iteration of thecompany’s flagship product, which provides eBay marketplace research toonline merchants, and helps them to …(more)

By Steven Trippe
Steven Trippe provides a detailed overview of the cloud-based LogicMonitorfor network monitoring.(more)

By Lee Anderson
By: Lee Anderson, Forum: Anti-Spam, Hello, We are looking to implementMcAfee’s SaaS Email protection. We currently utilize Websense EmailSecurity. One issue that we have run into is when emails are blocked due toContent withi…(more)

VMware vCloud Director gives enterprise organizations the ability to buildsecure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and…(more)

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Whether you’re a large enterprise with your own private cloud or datacenter, … Extending your Cloud with Private PlatformasaServiceWhite PaperPDF …(more)

By Scott M. Fulton, III
Well, if you’ve been following along with the SOA story, you know thatcloud computing platforms have catapulted the service concept onto a hugeand growing platform. Now, the consortium - led by software giants IBM,Oracle, and SAP, along …(more)

By Sam Dean
Black Duck Software Delivers Its Open Source “Rookies of the Year”. by SamDean - Jan. … Among the interesting new projects, Cloud Foundry, an openPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) providing a choice of cloud infrastructures,made the cut.(more)

Use one of almost 50 application templates to build a cloud application onAT&T Platform as a Service that is also reachable from a mobile device.This video…(more)

InfoWorld (blog)By David Linthicum | InfoWorld You would think that rank-and-file IT
staffers and leaders would understand the advantages and disadvantages ofcloud computing by now. However, the misconceptions continue to show up,some of which are disconcerting. …(more)

Net-OpenStack-Compute-1.0401 — 17 Jan 2012, Net-OpenStack-Compute- 1.0302– 03 Jan 2012, Net-OpenStack-Compute-1.0301 — 02 Jan 2012 …(more)

ForbesMuch of the discussion of Software as a Service has focused on technicaldetails like multi-tenancy or on the way SaaS allows end-users to bypasstheir IT departments. What has been ignored in my view are the second ordereffects of both the technology …(more)

BusinessCloud9The distinctions drawn between Infrastructure as a Service and Platform asa Service are getting less clear by the day, with the introduction ofDynamoDB by Amazon Web Services (AWS) only serving to help merge the twointo a single entity. …(more)

msnbc.comBy Alan Boyle If the future is heading toward “cloud computing,” where most
of your data lives on someone else’s server, can you trust the cloud tokeep a secret? Researchers say they’ve found a way to guarantee that yourinformation will be secure in …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Microsoft staged a Private Cloud Day Tuesday to herald the coming of SystemCenter 2012 sometime between now and the end of June. System Center 2012will put Microsoft squarely in the private cloud business and put VMware’steeth on edge because it’s …(more)

Data Center KnowledgePublic cloud computing is fast to deploy, scalable and economical, but it’snot a fit for all enterprises. Regulated industries and government agenciesmust look to private clouds to meet their compute and storage needs, whilestill remaining in …(more)

InfoboomCloud computing may be something that business and IT professionals look tofor storage solutions, but it looks like it is being used increasingly as acontent delivery system, according to a new report. Market Watch isreporting that the Paragon …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)AWS positions the move as helping new customers get started in the cloud.They can run, test or develop Windows apps, host a web site or do all ofthose things and not be locked into a particular operating system. Amazon’sfree widgetry has previously …(more)

By Tom Murphy
Through my association with New Tech Post and John Breslin a lot of myattention over recent years has been drawn to the promise that cloudcomputing holds. Ireland for geographic and meteorological reasons isdeveloping enormous …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: It would be fair to say that in the last year the dominant form of
cloud computing has been infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). As popular asthose services have proven to be, the odds are good that IaaS is not goingto be the dominant form of …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The start-up Piston Cloud Computing Inc delivered the thing, which makessense since Piston’s founders were instrumental in OpenStack, which is aframework, not a product. The widgetry is called Piston Enterprise OS orpentOS for short and it will sell …(more)

InformationWeekBy Nigel Kneafsey, Wall Street & Technology In the span of a few short
years, cloud computing has gone from being an enigmatic and somewhat exotictechnology management model to a dominant force that is changing howbusiness heads relate to and value …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 20, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Rackwise, Inc./quotes/zigman/7142262 RACK +1.01% (the “Company”) announced today that itsSoftware as a Service (”SaaS”) DCiM(TM) offering has been selected bySimpleHelix, the Huntsville, Alabama-based …(more)

eWeekMcAfee’s SaaS Total Protection is a suite of software-as-a-serviceofferings that includes Web filtering, antivirus and anti-spamcapabilities. The spam flaw was in the “Rumor” technology used within thesuite. McAfee patched SaaS Total Protection on …(more)

InfoWorldNow that employees are leaving the relative safety of the firewall to useonline SaaS applications, enterprises need to adjust the way they manageemployee identities. This White Paper from Ping Identity addresses why weneed to centralize employees’ …(more)

ZDNet (blog)Using Scribe’s latest offering, SaaS independent software vendors (ISVs)who offer integration to more than one CRM vendor can extend their presencein multiple CRM markets. As customers expand the scope of CRM in theirbusinesses, integration can …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)One thing we are going to support self signed SSL certificates for thosewho roll out OpenStack Swift in their test environment . Furthermore we aregoing to add an ability to edit object Http Headers and Metadata currentlyavailable in the read-only …(more)

Business InsiderI decided it’s a good subject for a blog post here, and I went on my ownfirst as a service business and survived that way for 12 years before PaloAlto Software finally established itself as a product company. So I do havesome tips I can share. …(more)

PCWorldCFOs are at the apex when it comes to pulling interests ofsoftware-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-serviceand other cloud strategies vs. maintaining servers, switches and storageunder the organization’s roof. …(more)

Financial TimesBy Paul Taylor The role of the company chief information officer is in
transition as new technologies and computing models like cloud computingreshape business IT use and chief executives demand more value from flator, in some cases, declining IT …(more)

By Derrick Harris
Still, many are beginning to recognize the software framework’sshortcomings, which is why this quarter also saw more attention forstartups claiming easy analytics and real-time processing. Elsewhere ininfrastructure, SaaS startups made out …(more)

After turning to Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing service for the firsttime to finish animation under tight deadline, he was impressed by how itwould let him .. .(more)

Business Solutions Magazine (blog)Zenith Infotech, an international company that specializes in deliveringinnovative business continuity and cloud computing for IT serviceproviders, announced recently the launch of an advanced series of eventsfocused on cloud computing. …(more)

Australian Techworld (blog)I recently had the opportunity to talk to Mark Collier, vice-president ofbusiness and corporate development at Rackspace, who is one of the peopleinvolved in the OpenStack project. OpenStack, which is about a year and ahalf old now, is open source …(more)

Voice & Data OnlineMicrosoft has selected Symphony Services’ SymTest service to providevalidation services, for independent software vendors (ISVs), seekingWindows Server 2008-R2 platform ready test for their Software-as-a-service(SaaS) or hosted applications. …(more)

Two issues in SaaS for Total Protection have arisen in the past few days Inthe first an attacker might misuse an ActiveX control to execute code Thesecond …(more)

Sacramento Bee18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Heroku, a leading cloud platform as a service(PaaS) and a salesforce.com company [NYSE: CRM], today announced it hasbeen recognized with the 2012 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award.Selected by InfoWorld Test Center …(more)

eWeekA new Linux Foundation survey on enterprise adoption of Linux indicatesthat growth in Linux usage is being driven by factors such as Big Data,cloud computing and virtualization, among others. A recent Linux Foundationsurvey shows that Linux is …(more)

The GuardianThere’s a growing consensus that cloud computing is going to become moreprevalent in the public sector, with the first round of G-Cloudprocurements providing a boost for its take-up. But it has been gatheringsome momentum in recent months without …(more)

DABCC.comBased on the VMware vCloud Datacenter Service, Bluelock Virtual Datacentersprovide the security, interoperability, and control that midsize and largercompanies require to transform their datacenters into IT game-changers.(more)

InquirerBy Chris Martin SECURITY VENDOR McAfee has admitted there are two security
flaws in its anti-malware security as a service Saas for Total Protectionproduct. The bugs mean an attacker could use an ActiveX control to executecode and the other involves …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)In addition, technological advancements and the growing popularity of SaaSLIMS are expected to enhance adoption. Follow us on LinkedIn - LaboratoryInformation Management Systems (LIMS), a part of Information ManagementSystems, facilitates management …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The Sales Performance Management cloud is delivered as part of theCallidusCloud suite, an award-winning, multi-tenant SaaS infrastructurethat includes the Hiring Cloud, the Sales Enablement Cloud, the SalesPerformance Cloud, the Learning Cloud, …(more)

Greater …MarketWatch (press release)In this release, Stackato extends its private PaaS support to OpenStack,Linux KVM, and Citrix XenServer, and improves the user experience (UX) ofits Management Console. “As a leader in dynamic application developmenttools and support, …(more)

a …MarketWatch (press release)About Geminare Geminare enables ISVs to transition their products intoCloud-based offerings with a focus on the Recovery as a Service (RaaS)market. Geminare’s award-winning patented Cloud CORE Platform, a proven,mature, multi-tiered service delivery …(more)

TalkinCloud (blog)by Matthew Weinberger on Big-league unified communications provider Polycomhas unveiled RealPresence Cloud, a platform designed to help its partnersoffer affordable and scalable Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) collaborationsolutions. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”We’re offering the market a multi-vendor, multi-radio as a servicesolution that provides enhanced flexibility, improved performance and, inmost cases, cost savings that can be passed on to the customer — a keycompetitive differentiator in these …(more)

Communications …Virtual Press Office (press release)With a global network of 48 operating centres in 28 countries throughoutAsia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and North America,Arkadin delivers business solutions using a ‘Software as a Service’ model,enabling customers to benefit …(more)

The release of vCloud DirectorvCD v15 along with vShield EdgeVSE v50provided a …. vCloud Networking Using vShield Edge for Firewall &Routingwithout NAT …(more)

Piston has released its first OpenStack-based cloud OS for building andmanaging enterprise private clouds one server at a time. Prcies start at$3500.(more)

I need to implement multi-tenancy using Entity Framework 4 i.e, singledatabase multiple schemas. Is it possible to have multiple schemas supportwith Entity …(more)

TechFinanceActiveState Software Inc. said its newest version of ActiveState Stackato,the infrastructure-agnostic, multilingual private Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) solution, has expanded the support its private PaaS support toOpenStack, Linux KVM, …(more)

Hospitality TechnologyEnvysion, Inc., announced the integration of Envysion’s innovative ManagedVideo as a Service (MVaaS) platform with Aloha Restaurant Guard, theleading exception reporting and theft deterrence tool for restaurantowners. The integration of these …(more)

growth …4-traders (press release)Sales of software in SaaS mode posted strong growth (up 25%). These figuresconfirmed Cegid’s position as a major player in “on demand” solutions andits ability to propose new ways of using information systems. In 2011,Cegid experienced a very strong …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Avangate, the agileeCommerce solutions provider trusted by thousands of Software and SaaScompanies to grow their business worldwide, has partnered with AVS4You tooptimize their eCommerce …(more)

BBC NewsBy Jason Palmer Science and technology reporter, BBC News A novel
high-speed, high-security computing technology will be compatible with the”cloud computing” approach popular on the web, a study suggests. Quantumcomputing will use the inherent …(more)

DailyFinanceIn short, F5 remains a top-notch networking play on cloud computing, andyou just can’t get much hotter than that nowadays. This stock enjoyed agangbusters 2010, but 2011 was pretty flat. Will 2012 be a return to grandold form? …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)At Rackspace, Rackers make Cloud computing easy for businesses of all sizesby providing them with Fanatical Support(R). Expert technicians areavailable to customers 24/7, by phone, email, or chat. In a separateexamination, FORTUNE ranked Rackspace …(more)

Business StandardMicrosoft is taking the fight with its cloud computing rival, VMware, to anew level, with the launch of Systems Center 2012 that includes a newpricing structure and integrates eight separate component products into oneunified solution, …(more)

InformationWeekSpammers are actively exploiting a hole in the antivirus software to createspam relays; McAfee says patch is forthcoming. By Mathew J. SchwartzInformationWeek Spammers have been exploiting a bug in McAfee’ssoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) antivirus …(more)

Windows IT ProThis is in contrast to companies such as Salesforce.com, which offersSoftware as a Service (SaaS), or Microsoft, which offers Windows Azure as aPlatform as a Service (PaaS). Many misconceptions surround AWS in the ITcommunity. …(more)

Makes …PR Web (press release)Terapeak announces a new version of SaaS-based (Software as a Service) dataresearch, Terapeak for eBay 9.0. This is the latest iteration of thecompany’s flagship product, which provides eBay marketplace research toonline merchants, and helps them to …(more)

Digital,cloud,computing,cyberspace,internet By Kara Haas.(more)

Editor’s Note: BMC today announced the industry’s first IT ServiceManagement SaaS solution optimized for local, state, federal andhigher-education markets.(more)

The Position: CEO of a profitable software-as-a-service email company. Areyou a highly skilled techie and entrepreneur hungry to lead and grow asuccessful …(more)

During the Beta phase of vCloud Directoraka Redwood I put together a smalldeck calledRedwood Networking for Dummies I have received a number ofpositive …(more)

Business InsiderAP A long list of tech giants want to make it easier to steal one another’scloud computing customers. They are creating a technology standard thatlets enterprises easily move their applications from one cloud to another.One of the biggest issues …(more)

By Ramon Ray
I fondly remember the days when Norton Anti-Virus, with Peter Norton’scrossed arms and I think smiling face on the front of the box were thereigning software.(more)

CNETMcAfee is looking into a problem with a service in its SaaS EndpointProtection software that appears to be allowing computers to serve as openproxies for sending spam, the company told CNET today. “We are aware of theissue and have both threat …(more)

PCWorldTableau is also looking to get into larger and more complex deployments,with new support for multitenancy. This means that multiple user groups or…(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Joe McKendrick | January 17, 2012, 7:32pm PST Summary: The Open Group
releases two new industry standards intended to more effectively integratefundamental elements of SOA and cloud computing into a solution orenterprise architecture. …(more)

PR Web (press release)EcomNets is proud to sponsor the Green IT | Cloud Computing 2.0 Summit as aGold Sponsor hosted by the Green IT Council. The venue is the SheratonPremiere near Washington DC on April 18th, 2012. The Green IT Council is aleading Green and Sustainable …(more)

Finlay James Associates is hiring! View and apply for the BusinessDevelopment Manager, Software as a Service, Software Sales Job at FinlayJames Associates …(more)

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By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
Deploying Applications in the Cloud While theres more talk than actual useof cloud computing in the enterprise, a Zeus Technology survey looks at thebeginning.(more)

RackspaceNew market insights are indicating Software as a Service (SaaS) andPlatform as a Service (PaaS) services will both grow considerably by theyear 2015. The projections come from market research firm Global IndustryAnalysts (GIA), who predict the …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)This disruptive free SaaS model is the logical next step in the recentconsumerization of cloud software for the social enterprise. “SaaS 2.0 hasgiven rise to innovative companies like Marketo, and now SmartRecruiters ispushing the envelope further …(more)

for …MarketWatch (press release)The first client, a leading global infrastructure software company thatprovides independent data integration software on premise or in the cloud,extended its current B2B SaaS agreement to drive online sales revenue fromtheir existing global, …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Businesses that are wary of cloud computing, have no fear. Hosting pioneerAIS Network is beginning the new year with a reassuring “Easy Come, EasyGo” pledge: “We know you’ll love the AISN Cloud. But, if it’s not for you,we’ll help you leave and you …(more)

InfoWorldBecause the use of cloud computing has gone from few and far between topretty much anything and everything. CES 2012 shows that shift in nouncertain terms. The rise of what I call the retail cloud has been a realmover and shaker the past few years. …(more)

Computer Business ReviewCSC CloudBill is hosted in the CSC Trusted Cloud Datacenter and is built onAria Systems’ Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. In addition, CSCCloudBill covers the full customer lifecycle from subscription managementto billing in an as a service …(more)

Now we are developing resource accounting system for OpenStack(nova-billing) . We are developing DNS service, so every VM in a cloud willbe resolved by its …(more)

InformationWeekThe video-as-a-service wholesale offering–the Polycom RealPresenceCloud–will be built on the RealPresence platform, Polycom’s softwareinfrastructure for video collaboration, and can be hosted by the serviceprovider on the Polycom RealPresence …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Among the most powerful is the implementation of an “ecosystem” based on avertical platform-as-a-service (PaaS). The vertical PaaS provides aplatform for developing and hosting third-party applications that havedirect access to the core data and …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)OpenStack is the fastest-growing open source project in the world, withover 2321 contributors and 147 participating companies including Rackspace,NASA, Citrix, Intel, Cisco, AT&T, Arista Networks, Microsoft and Dell.OpenStack is proven and ready for …(more)

Banyan …MarketWatch (press release)”EndPlay is one of the most visionary companies in this space, and we lookforward to hosting and implementing the EndPlay platform for our clientsrequesting a SaaS solution.” EndPlay’s cloud-based WCM platform integrates,automates and intelligently …(more)

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-18002 — The video walks through theconfiguration …(more)

TechCrunchApigee will provide Usergrid as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and it willalso be available as a free open source software stack that enterprises anddevelopers can host in their own cloud. Terms of the acquisition were notdisclosed. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Symplified’s architecture allows organizations to deploy an ‘enterpriseout’ approach that allows for access management logic to be securelyextended, while still gaining the benefits of management functionalitydelivered as a service. …(more)

Hospitality TechnologyThe Crane, the first Caribbean premier residential resort in Barbados, isthe latest hotel to join EasyRMS portfolio, through a successful deploymentof EzRMS, as their preferred SaaS Revenue Management solution. Easy (Ez)Revenue Management Solutions …(more)

MSPmentorBoundary, a month-old SAAS monitoring service provider, has hired Gary Readas its CEO. Read is the former CEO of Nimsoft, a cloud-based networkingmonitoring provider that CA Technologies acquired in 2010. Here’s thescoop. In his personal blog, …(more)

By Joshua L. Konkle
Today, I’m talking with MetaFlows CEO Livio Ricciulli about how MetaFlowsis addressing these problems by delivering network security monitoringusing the “Software as a Service” model. Joshua: Livio, thanks for takingthe time to talk with …(more)

By David Kwock
Many times, cloud providers provide a subset either of infrastructure as aservice (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS) solutions that might ormight not meet the business requirements of a given application. This isespecially true in cases …(more)

InformationWeekThe takeaway is that cloud architecture–multitenancy, virtual machines,limited network bandwidth– doesn’t lend itself to the selfish,idiosyncratic needs …(more)

Sacramento BeeBy Black Duck Software BURLINGTON, Mass., Jan. 18, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ –
Two open source cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) projects, two projectstailored to the needs of game developers, and a toolkit to aid social mediaapplication developers in …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeDell announced that Taleo Corporation, the global leader of Software as aService-based Talent Management solutions, has standardized on Dell BoomiAtomSphere to integrate data and applications within the world’s largestTalent Management cloud. …(more)

ComputerworldBy Dallon Christensen CFOworld - The pace of cloud computing will only
accelerate in 2012. The increasing development of information technology,and the intense focus on cost reduction, are highlighting the benefits ofmoving IT administration off-site …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Code 42, the Minneapolis start-up that peddles CrashPlan, the automaticreal-time PC and mobile backup and recovery service aimed at consumers,SMBs and the enterprise, has gotten a $52.5 million investment from roundleader Accel Partners and Split …(more)

Over the winter holiday I started to explore the vCloud API and one of ourSDKs, vCloud SDK for PHP. VMware provides two additional vCloud SDKs: Javaand . …(more)

Delimiternews Technology giant Oracle announced yesterday that various topAustralian public and private sector entities had implemented its CRM OnDemand software as a service suite to upgrade customer service, gain accessto real-time analytics, …(more)

Saas Bina Sasural 10th January 2012 Video Watch Online part3.(more)

Integration DevelopersDesktone’s cloud-based desktop-as-a-service platform is letting PaladinBuilding Services deploy virtual desktops in the cloud. Desktone’s DesktopCloud architecture is helping redefine VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure)solutions by lowering upfront …(more)

East Anglian Daily Times… data or using processes from the cloud, rather than on your phone. (Seeour November Business Edition for more apps using the cloud) Even on theslowest of connections, your business could benefit from cloud-basedservices today. Cloud computing.(more)

PartnerMarketWatch (press release)”WorkForce Software’s unique offerings in this category — combined withtheir growing global client base and Software-as-a-Service based deploymentmodel — reflect an exceptional alignment with SuccessFactors’ businessstrategy. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)For Treasuries with significantly lower volumes, Salmon Software recentlylaunched a cloud computing or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) TreasuryManagement System product under the brand name TGold (www.tgoldsoftware.com ).(more)

Food …Virtual-Strategy MagazineAvailable as turnkey and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), these systems haveproven their value through immediate efficiency improvements in customers’daily operations, typically generating positive return on their investmentsin less than one year. …(more)

FLOSSTalk : Call for speaker on OpenStack. Submitted by mdupont … FLOSSKis looking for speakers to present in person or remotely on the topic ofopenstack. …(more)

By candicearnold
Sramana Mitra: What are the major trends you see in cloud computing todaythat are affecting your world? Steve Garrou: We’re finding that cloud isdriving.(more)

By AllVoIPNews
Five ways to save money through cloud computing. All about VoIP solutionsand small business telephone systems. VoIP providers, new PBX systems andIP phones.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)We fully expect that Convio’s best-in-class, SaaS-based capabilities forlarge events, advocacy and federated organizations will enable Blackbaud tooffer the industry’s most diverse and flexible set of online capabilitieson a global basis. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — OS33, the feature-rich IT-as-a-ServiceDelivery Platform, today announced integration with Google Apps forBusiness. The highly anticipated integration enables businesses to easilydeliver, manage and consume Google …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Today’s announcement, on the heels of Symphony Services celebrating fiveyears of Microsoft Gold Partner status, advances Symphony’s partnershipwith Microsoft in successfully delivering software test toolkits and otherMicrosoft platform solutions. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)… Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business softwaresolutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and servicesorganizations, today announced Love Culture has selected the Epicor(R)Retail Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. …(more)

to …MarketWatch (press release)The solution is hosted in the CSC Trusted Cloud Datacenter and is built onAria Systems’ Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. Unlike large,capital-intensive billers and niche providers, CSC CloudBill is the onlymonetization platform that …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)MuleSoft will offer these packaged integration solutions for Zuoracustomers, running on MuleSoft’s iON integration platform as a service(iPaaS). These iApps will help Zuora’s customers address their mostpressing integration problems, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Open Group today announced theavailability of two new industry standards that enable businesses toeffectively integrate fundamental elements of SOA and Cloud Computing intoa solution or Enterprise Architecture …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)MADRID, January 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The OpenNebula Projectis proud to announce the release of a new stable version of its widelydeployed open-source management platform for enterprise data centervirtualization. …(more)

Computerandvideogames.comSquare Enix worldwide technology director Julien Merceron has said hebelieves that cloud computing will play an “instrumental” role in the nextgeneration of consoles. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, he urged theplatform holders to embrace the …(more)

Economic TimesNEW DELHI: Enterprise cloud computing giant Salesforce.com today said ithas roped in Vivek Kundra as Executive Vice-President for Emerging Markets.”Vivek Kundra is an amazing technology visionary who opened the eyes ofmillions to the …(more)

Global …MarketWatch (press release)PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Nebula, developer of aunique hardware appliance that will enable enterprises to easily, securelyand inexpensively deploy large scale private cloud computinginfrastructures, today announced that …(more)

Financial …Sacramento BeeThe presentation is for accounting professionals who are spending more timecollecting data for spreadsheets than analyzing and acting on what the datareveals; for businesses that are evaluating a move to cloud computing inorder to reduce IT cost and …(more)

No …Business InsiderThis announcement showcases that Symantec (a big company) is able tocontinue to morph and offer services for its customers in a SaaS basedmodel but also reminds us all of the importance of ensuring our records(from all employees) are easily …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SAN DIEGO, CA, Jan 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — ServiceNow, thecreators of SaaS for IT, today announced their Knowledge12 user conferencewill be held in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 13-17, 2012 at the HyattRegency Hotel. …(more)

Talent …MarketWatch (press release)Taleo’s cloud serves more than 20 million live users and processes up to 68million transactions a day, making Taleo the world’s second-largestsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) solution provider. With its customer basegrowing by 37 percent annually for …(more)

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“Very nice article, totally what I needed.” 5 open source billing systemsto watch. Tags: Vivek, Software as a service, salesforce.com, personnel,kundra, internet, government, cloud computing, business issues. Latest BlogPosts. Rory Gregg …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — New Relic, Inc.,the SaaS-based cloud application performance management provider, todayannounced that Pantheon, a leading platform provider for custom Drupalsites in the cloud, has selected …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)COLUMBIA, Md., Jan 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — IndiSoft, a technologydevelopment firm that provides software as a service (SaaS) solutions basedon a collaborative rules-based workflow platform for the financial servicesindustry, announced today that …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Mirantis, an engineering services firm delivering OpenStack and applicationinfrastructure expertise, is the only commercial organization in the worldwhose engineers took three of the top 50 places in Google’s Fall 2011Artificial Intelligence (AI) …(more)

InformationWeekMike Rhodin, the senior vice president of the IBM Software Solutions Group,said the rebranding of LotusLive also reflected IBM’s desire to have asingle brand–SmartCloud– over all its software as a service and cloudinfrastructure offerings. …(more)

Wall Street JournalThe buyer also was attracted to Convio’s expertise in “scaling asoftware-as-a-service business model,” Mr. Chardon said. Blackbaud expectsthe deal to add to its results for full-year 2012, with benefits increasingin future years. …(more)