Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 3, 2008
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- New OS may be step toward all-cloud computing
- Zoho Builds SQL Road to Cloud
- Gartner reports boom in software-as-a-service
- The Future of IP Communications Rests With the Mobile Device
- Mindjet Enhances Leadership Team with Expert Developer of …
- Where Virtualization Will Be Going in the Next Five Years
- Software Vets Turn to Federated Cloud Computing
- Symbio Technologies Wonders if ‘What’s in a Name’ was About …
- CA ups its SaaS offerings
- Microsoft Adds Gen 4 Datacenters for Cloud Computing
- Where Virtualization Will Be Going in the Next 5 Years
- Chunghwa Telecom Expands CosmoCom Contact Center On-Demand Platform
- Chunghwa Telecom Expands CosmoCom Contact Center On-Demand Platform
- Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and More - Part 1 …
- 90pc firms likely to maintain or grow usage of SaaS
- Services in a Cloud Computing Environment
- [Dbworld] CFP - International Workshop on Security, Reliability …
- Why The Software As A Service Business Model Makes Sense For e …
- Cabinet NG enters SaaS market
- PLATO Learning Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Results
- Why The Software As A Service Business Model Makes Sense For e …
- Cloud Computing Article - Preview
- Why Cloud Computing?
- SpringSource Moves Further into Cloud Computing
- SQL-as-a-Service with CloudSQL bridges cloud and premises
- Emerging Markets Hold Potential for World Retail Software Markets …
- Streamcore Guarantees Success of Large VoIP Deployments, Offers …
- Podcast: SaaS is Faster and More Responsive than Traditional App …
- Survey: User optimism for SaaS high
- Saas to Grow 90% of the Companies: Gartner
- SpringSource Moves Further into Cloud Computing
- Information Builders Welcomes New Partners to Drive Solution …
- Zeer Announces Formation of Advisory Board
- Securing a Hadoop Cluster Through a Gateway
- Sage previews software as a service Live Cash offering
- Vantage Communications Unveils vPlatform CRM Serving Small to …
- Four Ways to Profits for Data-Centered Cloud Computing Companies
- Scotland is hotbed for green datacenters
- Security software as a service
- SQL-as-a-Service With CloudSQL Bridges Cloud and Premises
- LiveOffice Named One of Fastest Growing Private Companies in Los …
- Infopia Announces Record Cyber Monday for Merchants
- Microsoft upgrades datacenters for cloud computing
- Four Ways to Profits for Data-Centered Cloud Computing Companies
- 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo: What They’re …
- Burke & Company Legal Technology PR and Marketing Experts …
- Move Over Open Source, Lean Software is the New Black for Developers
- SaaS Users Need a New Mindset
- Montclair Advisors - Personalized SaaS Consulting
- Sage previews software as a service Live Cash offering
- Zoho CloudSQL Expands SMB Cloud Computing Options
- Amazon, Others Explore The Cloud For Medical Research, Health Care
- Will Cloud Computing Mean Fewer IT Jobs?
- Number crunching: Stats about energy consumption, virtualization …
- Outlook 2009: Cloud Computing
- SNW Spring 2009 to Address the Cloud, Virtualization, Green IT and …
Windows & Net Magazine - Cleveland,OH,USAWhen Google released the beta for its Chrome web browser in September, itit led to discussions about the idea that in the future, web applicationscould …(more)
E-Commerce Times - USAIt’s an “interesting front end for a great database product,” but cloudcomputing it’s not, argued Tier1 Research’s Daniel Golding. …(more)
Enterprises warm to SaaS cost-effectiveness and ease of deployment. Themajority of enterprises expect to increase their use ofsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) in the coming months and years, according to asurvey from Gartner….(more)
TMCnet - USAKey criteria for UC as SaaS platforms will be reliability, high density,and multi-tenancy, but also the user interface needs to be intuitive todelivery a …(more)
MarketWatch - USAAs a SaaS expert, he has broken new ground in building large-scale,cloud-based computing systems that effectively handle reams of complex dataand …(more)
eWeek - New York, NYPrivate cloud computing is a different take on the mainstream version, inthat smaller, cloudlike IT systems within a firewall offer similarservices, …(more)
On-Demand Enterprise - San Diego,CA,USAEvery now and then — especially in the cloud computing market — you comeacross a company who seems to have something really unique going on. …(more)
By Gary E Smith THE CLOUD NETWORK
Is it Cloud Computing, Network Computing, Server-Centric Computing,Centralized Computing, Thin OS Computing, Utility Computing, or evenUbiquitous Computing? And are the desktop devices in this green and securetechnology to be known …(more)
Financial Times - London,England,UKTop of the roost is Clarity PPM On Demand, the SaaS version of CA’s leadingenterprise project and portfolio management suite, Clarity. …(more)
Redmondmag.com - CA,USAMicrosoft is initiating the fourth in a series of datacenter upgrades toenable its cloud computing services, according to a Microsoft blog post onTuesday. …(more)
eWeek - New York, NYPrivate cloud computing differs from the mainstream version in thatsmaller, cloudlike IT systems within a firewall offer similar services, butto a closed …(more)
Chunghwa Telecom Expands CosmoCom Contact Center On-Demand PlatformStrengthens Ability to Support Internal Customer Service and ExternalCustomer Call Center Operations via Multi-tenancy. Melville, NY December 2,2008 — CosmoCom (www. …(more)
By Last minute news
Strengthens Ability to Support Internal Customer Service and ExternalCustomer Call Center Operations via Multi-tenancy. (PRWeb Dec 2, 2008).Read the full story athttp://www.prweb.com/releases/chunghwa/cosmocom/prweb1689244.htm …(more)
By amritw
Cloud computing, or as I like to call it the return of the mainframe andthin-client computing architecture - only cloudier, has been creating a lotof interesting discussion throughout IT recently. Cloud computing, which wewill define …(more)
Growing usage of SaaS increases importance of governance mechanisms, saysGartner.(more)
By osultan@cisco.com(osultan@cisco.com)
Quite a few years ago, when we we positioning the concept of theintelligent network, we had a slide that showed how features moved fromservers or dedicated hardware to the the network over time. The trigger wasusually when a service, …(more)
By admin
The 1st International Workshop on Security, Reliability and Quality inCloud Computing(SRQCC 2009) To be held in conjunction with IEEE NSS 2009October 10, 2009 Gold Coast, Australia http://www.zhuangyi.net/srqcc09/. Aims and Scope = …(more)
Retail Solutions Online (press release) - Erie,PA,USABy LaGarde eCommerce Solutions Software as a service (SaaS) is an
application delivery model where a software vendor develops a web-nativesoftware …(more)
CNG-Online brings the benefits of comprehensive document management toSMBs.(more)
MarketWatch - USADuring the fourth quarter, PLATO Learning added 145 school districts andcommunity colleges as new subscribers to its PLE(TM) SaaS platform, …(more)
Software as a service (SaaS) is an application delivery model where asoftware vendor develops a web-native software application and hosts andoperates the application for use by its customers over the Internet. …(more)
By Glenn Irvine
The ICT industry is awash with talk about Cloud Computing, and depending onwho you are talking to, you will see different perceptions about what CloudComputing actually is, from the simplest web-hosted solutions right throughto …(more)
By Colin
There has been a lot of talk and hype about Cloud computing lately. Manyorganisations that were involved in web based services are rebranding asfast as they can to be included. So with the future focus of cloudcomputing who can …(more)
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USAIn a move that takes SpringSource further into the cloud computingenvironment, SpringSource announced at its annual developer conference inFlorida that it …(more)
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USAThough still in its early stages of development, CloudSQL will bridge thegap between software-as-a-service, cloud computing, and on-premisessoftware by …(more)
MarketWatch - USASoftware as a service (SaaS) can help counter this, as it guarantees areduction in upfront capital expenditure. It has proven to be economicalbecause it …(more)
MarketWatch - USAMoreover, Streamcore products multi-tenancy capabilities allow serviceproviders to offer innovative value-added services. The company’stechnology is …(more)
By Carl
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enables companies to establish services andapplications far more quickly than in the past, says Stephane Dubois, theChairman, CEO and Founder of Xignite. Until a couple of years ago, SaaS wasdriven by the …(more)
By zdnews-asia@cnet.com (Victoria Ho)
Compare your salary. Use the IT salary benchmark wizard and know theaverage salary differences between different job functions. JoinactiveTechPros. http://www.activetechpros.com.(more)
By Dip
Nine out of ten companies are going to opt for SaaS service next year asper the recent survey by Gartner. One third of the respondents are planningto replace their in house software with SaaS service. Cost effectiveness isthe major …(more)
In a move that takes SpringSource further into the cloud computingenvironment, SpringSource announced at its annual developer conference inFlorida that it will be working with VMware to make available VMware imagesof its software. …(more)
MarketWatch - USAWith new partners in SaaS, fraud protection, and vertical managementsolutions for logistics and the public sector, Information Builders is wellpositioned …(more)
MarketWatch - USA… a provider of software as a service solutions for business video.Previously, he was CTO of social media platform Top Ten Sources acquired byMeeVee, …(more)
By aaron
While there is not a perfect solution to multitenancy in a Hadoopenvironment, by using a proxying gateway, you can at least control whichusers have access to your cluster. The rest of this post describes how toset up such a gateway …(more)
AccountingWEB.co.uk - Bristol,UKJohn Stokdyk reports The software as a service development and marketingteam appeared on the Sage stand with a laptop running a version of the newsystem. …(more)
MarketWatch - USAThe vPlatform was designed by Vantage, a recognized leader in Software as aService (SaaS) for more than 10 years, to specifically address the needs ofSMBs …(more)
SYS-CON Brasil - NJ,USAHow do you make money as a cloud computing company aside from the sale ofcompute capacity? How do you make money as a datacenter-focused cloudcomputing …(more)
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USAThe Inverness center will operate on a cloud computing model, enablingusers to subscribe on a monthly basis for the IT resources their businessesuses. …(more)
By Robert Westervelt
Companies need to retool their business models for software-as-a-service(SaaS) now, says former Symantec CEO Gordon Eubanks. He is betting on thefuture of software delivery to be sold in the cloud. He recently joined theboard of …(more)
By FM Tech, on behalf of: http://arstechnica.com/i…
On Tuesday, software-as-a-service company Zoho announced CloudSQL: a new,cloud-friendly middleware layer giving cloud applications access to itsSaaS reporting and database software, Zoho Reports. Though still in itsearly stages of …(more)
MarketWatch - USAsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) email archiving solutions, has earned a spoton the Los Angeles Business Journal’s list of 100 Fastest Growing Private…(more)
MarketWatch - USAInfopia, the leading SaaS eCommerce platform provider, announced today thatits year over year Cyber Monday revenues for SMB merchants using the new…(more)
Microsoft is initiating the fourth in a series of datacenter upgrades toenable its cloud computing services.(more)
How do you make money as a datacenter-focused cloud computing company?Aside from the sale of compute capacity (a la Amazon or Rackspace), whatare the other revenue opportunities available? Here are some thoughts…read more.(more)
… of the many commentaries that have begun to appear Web-wide as peopleshake off the Thanksgiving torpor and post their thoughts about SYS-CON’s1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, held last month in SanJose, CA. …(more)
MarketWatch - USAThemis Solutions Inc. markets Clio, a web-based SaaS(Software-as-a-Service) practice management system for solo and small firmattorneys. …(more)
eWeek - New York, NYIn addition, Rymer listed the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi),Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) as modularand elastic …(more)
By Krishnan Subramanian
We have seen users of SaaS talking about the betaish nature of SaaSapplications and lack of integration between different applications from avendor. We have seen quite a bit of criticism about companies like Google,Zoho, …(more)
Montclair Advisors provides personalized Software-as-a-Service advisoryservices designed to help software companies to optimize their businessmodels, improve revenues, control costs and deliver world-class software.(more)
One of the accounting software industry’s most eagerly awaited debuts tookplace at the Business Startup event in London last week when Sage previeweda pre-release version of its online Sage Live Cash product.(more)
eWeek - New York, NYBy Nathan Eddy Cloud computing lowers cost barriers and can improve
services. Zoho’s is using SQL to reach cloud applications. …(more)
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USAWhile cloud computing offers the promise of powerful, flexible, andcost-effective collaboration and innovation in medicine, experts say theresome dark …(more)
SYS-CON Brasil - NJ,USACloud computing is bringing a new dynamic to the way companies are managingtheir infrastructure. One of the fall-offs from a move to the clouds is the…(more)
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA… center conference is producing no shortage of research related toenergy consumption, virtualization, cloud computing and other hotenterprise topics. …(more)
CIOL - Bangalore,Karnataka,India1) Is Cloud Computing “Too Cloudy” for the Enterprise? Cloud computing hasgained significant traction as a concept but not a reality in theenterprise. …(more)
International Business Times - New York,NY,USAAmong several others, key tracks will focus on cloudcomputing,virtualization, green IT and solid state storage. Produced byComputerworld and co-owned by …(more)


