Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 5, 2008
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- Cloud Computing Podcast: Google’s Messaging Security From the Cloud
- Microsoft Windows Azure, Demystified
- HMC 4.5 and Exchange 2007 SP1 - Part #1 - Overview and Active …
- Shally’s Rant about so-called “Cloud Computing”
- Hosting.com Presents Cloud Computing Solution at Gartner’s Data …
- Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO to Speak at Cloudforce Event
- Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Software as a Service Could …
- Architecting Cloud Services for the Big Enterprise
- Service (Flickr) vs Software (host your own)
- Software-as-a-Service Gets Strong Loyalty Marks
- Will Cloud Computing Mean Fewer IT Jobs?
- Cloud Computing Journal: Zoho Builds Data Bridges in the Cloud
- Reader’s Digest moves Food and Entertainment arm to SaaS
- Everything as a Service
- Software-as-a-Service Gets Strong Loyalty Marks - Destination CRM
- Economic Climate Will Accelerate SaaS
- Taking a fresh breath with SaaS
- Taking a fresh breath with SaaS
- Rationale for Migrating Grants.gov to Cloud Computing Technology
- Cloud Computing Podcast: featuring me!
- Web Hosting Firm, Rackspace, Expands Board of Directors …
- You Say Cloud Computing, I Say Tomato
- Will technology save newspapers from the economic crisis?
- Five Ways to Stretch Your IT Budget
- Cloud Computing Giant and Facebook Collaborate: Force.com for …
- Data center panel weighs cloud computing risks, rewards
- SaaS: 10 Trends for SaaS
- CloudNews for December 5th, 2008
- Software-as-a-Service Gets Strong Loyalty Marks
- Everything as a Service
- Bycast announces StorageGRID 8
- Data Center Panel Weighs Cloud Computing Risks, Rewards
- Guest Column: Practical Considerations In Cloud Computing
- Is SaaS and recession killing perpetual software licenses? No, say …
By davel
Cloud Computing Podcast. Google’s Messaging Security From the Cloud. Youcan download the Podcast here. Click here to subscribe to the podcast iniTunes.(more)
By IDG News Service
… Microsoft “owned and operated” data centers), that enables ITorganizations and software vendors to offer software as a service (SaaS).To put it more succinctly, Windows Azure is an application platform offeredas a service (PaaS). …(more)
By kip.ng
What is multi-tenancy? Multitenancy refers to a principle in softwarearchitecture where a single instance of the software runs on asoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor’s servers, serving multiple clientorganizations (tenants). …(more)
But here’s the thing, more and more of them are talking about ‘cloudcomputing’ as if they know what it is. My problem is that most of them arejust throwing around the term ‘cloud computing’ cluelessly, like folks usedto talk about …(more)
By Gary E Smith THE CLOUD NETWORK
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec 04, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — Hosting.com, thefirst name in global hosting solutions and services, today announced thegeneral availability of CloudNine — a hosted cloud computing environmentthat provides …(more)
By Gary E Smith THE CLOUD NETWORK
The company’s Force.com PaaS enables customers, developers and partners tobuild powerful on-demand applications that deliver the benefits ofmulti-tenancy across the enterprise. Applications built on the Force.complatform, …(more)
Some signs say that unproven, big-budget IT projects will be delayed untilthe economy recovers, others believe downsized spending will necessitateinnovation.(more)
By eugeniop
I’m certain many of you our there in the real world will face many of thesesame challenges, so I hope our pain will help you be more successful withthe Azure Platform. Since PDC, we presented the same (updated) content onvarious …(more)
By Paul
A lot of development in the web space these days is leaning towards”services”, whether its Software as a Service or Software + Services,whatever, but in general “offering X as a service” is the new black. Orwhatever colour is the new …(more)
Destination CRM - New York,NY,USABy Phillip Britt Need more evidence of the traction gained by
software-as-a-service (SaaS)? Nearly nine out of 10 organizations expect tomaintain or grow …(more)
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USABy Jordan Haberfield By Symbian News Desk Cloud computing is bringing a new
dynamic to the way companies are managing their infrastructure. …(more)
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USAZoho, the prolific Microsoft wannabe that has already proven it can knockoff a web app at the drop of a buzzword, is branching out into middleware….(more)
DM News - New York,NY,USAReader’s Digest Association (RDA) has tapped Revel Consulting to help addsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) to some of its current CRM platforms. …(more)
By Tom Hudock(Tom Hudock)
Software as a Service; Platform as a Service; Integration as a Service; SQLas a Service; Monitoring as a Service (RedHat pdf); Information as aService; even Desktop as a Service? and now Everything as a Service! …(more)
By Anonymous
Software-as-a-Service Gets Strong Loyalty Marks Destination CRM, NY - 17minutes ago By Phillip Britt Need more evidence of the traction gained bysoftware-as-a-service ( SaaS )? Nearly nine out of 10 organizations expectto maintain or …(more)
By PaulWilkinson
But wait, isn’t that what open source and SaaS does? As budgets constrict,as headcounts lower - demands on IT will not decrease; they will almostcertainly increase. Open source and Software as a Service will all bring ITstaff - and …(more)
SaaS, a model that has been predicted to capture 30 per cent of businesssoftware market by 2010 has been pegged as a $10 billion opportunity bysome industry leaders.(more)
CIOL - Bangalore,Karnataka,IndiaAs to concerns on management and security, it’s a multi-tenancy technology.The software would appear differently for each user whenever he/she plugsin as …(more)
By Dima(Dima)
Please note the PMO has posted its justification for migrating to a cloudcomputing environment. The document is filed in the reference librarysection of the blog under the name Justification for Migrating to CloudComputing.(more)
By Alan Williamson
I was honored to be part of the very popular Cloud Computing Podcast byDavid Linthicum. It has just gone live for your audible enjoyment! LeaveComment. Related Entries:. Deploy OpenBD to the cloud via Elastic Server…(more)
By inftekho
About Pangea Foundation A 501(c)(3) nonprofit Software-as-a-Serviceprovider founded in 1996, Pangea Foundation is the leader in deliveringImpact Visualization On Demand to nonprofits of all sizes. Backed byworld-class teams of IT …(more)
By John Pescatore
If you want tasty tomatoes, cloud computing is fine but you will have tospecify higher levels of security and you may want to mandate a local cloudbe used and you may want to visit to make sure the growing conditions meetyour …(more)
TMCnet - USAEither through in-house or third party software as a service platforms, aneffective online video platform (OVP) will help manage everything from ad…(more)
eWeek - New York, NYCloud computing and SAAS (software as a service) are among the hottechnology trends that can help SMBs save money by reducing up-frontinfrastructure costs …(more)
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USABy Web 2.0 News Desk By Maureen O’Gara By Cloud Computing News Desk “This
is the premier social graph fully integrating with the premier enterprisecloud …(more)
SearchDataCenter.com - Needham,MA,USAThe panelists offered very specific advice on where to use cloud computing,and provided a checklist of cloud computing risks to consider, while others…(more)
By dweisinger
Demian Entrekin, founder of SaaS vendor Innotas, has a list of 10 trendsthat he sees in SaaS: - SaaS products bring their greatest value when theycan incorporate business processes into their feature set - Products thatfocus more on …(more)
By Mayank Gupta
According to a recent report released by Forrester research, It isestimated that 14% of SMBs and 15% of large enterprises adopted SaaS in2007. “While the majority of these SAAS projects are business applicationssolutions with …(more)
A new Gartner survey indicates that nearly 90 percent of current orintended users of on-demand software expect to maintain or grow their SaaSfootprint.(more)
The trend has been coming for some time, so I’ve decided to coin the term”Everything as a Service”. It started with SaaS (software as a service),which Salesforce made popular, and the “as a Service” has found it’s wayinto many …(more)
Broadcast Engineering - Overland Park,KS,USAStorageGRID 8 also includes innovative multitenancy functionalityspecifically aimed at enabling service providers, as well as internal ITdepartments …(more)
SearchDataCenter.com asked its panel of experts if datacenter managersshould consider cloud computing for their operations, and under whatscenarios.(more)
There is a great deal of confusion surrounding cloud computing these days,in part because the technology is based on the same fundamental components(systems, networks, and storage) as in-house, hosted, and grid computing….(more)
By Anonymous
Is SaaS and recession killing perpetual software licenses? No, say …Computerworld, MA - 53 minutes ago The subscription model has also beenboosted by the increasing popularity of software-as-a-service andopen-source software, …(more)


