December 2008

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• News and Articles: Growth of the “cloud computing” for enterprises

By willard
Cloud computing has grown into a market of approximately 36000 milliondollars this year, or approximately 13% of the sales of software in theworld. The big question now is whether this can become a majortechnological trend to re …(more)

• Amazon EC2 or other Cloud platform? – Web Hosting Talk – The …

I just want to reduce cost while we fix the site (could take severalmonths), and, position the site for easy growth (which is why I amconsidering Cloud Computing). Comparison shopping is a large databaseintensive effort, …(more)

• Free di o matic download Download – di o matic download Software

No need to adjust your application, Service – O – Matic will easily runyour program as a service. Installing your application as a service is easywith our intuitive GUI interface. Service – O – Matic has most servicefeatures and …(more)

• Taleo Selects OpSource to Deliver On-Demand Talent Management …

A comprehensive, award-winning Web operations solution, OpSource On-Demandenables Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Web companies to quickly andsecurely deliver their applications and services over the Web to consumers…(more)

• Clarity Accounting: Online Accounting Software using GWT and …

Are you a small business or self employed professional looking for a SaaSaccounting solution ? Clarity Accounting provides an online accountingsolution by building a simple flexible model with plenty of access to …(more)

• Getting your IT department ready for 2009

Silicon.com – UKThrift will rule the day in the new year with wallet friendly technologiesdominating – from virtualisation to SaaS and green IT to consumer tech. …(more)

• Clouded hopes for coming year

Chicago Sun-Times – United StatesDavid Dahlberg, vice president of Chicago-based Model Metrics, anticipatesmore companies will adopt the less capital-intensive “Software as aService” …(more)

• What it Takes to be a SaaS Provider

ebizQ – New Rochelle,NY,USAWhen I think about Platform-as-a-Service providers like Apprenda, what’sexciting about what an Apprenda is doing is that they make available to asoftware …(more)

• Ohio.com – ‘CLOUD COMPUTING’ IN BUSINESS FORECAST

Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Northeast Ohio News, sports and information.Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers coverage, Findcars or automobiles, jobs, homes and apartments for Akron, Canton andCleveland.(more)

• Cloud Computing

A couple of weeks ago I participated in an interesting discussion on CloudComputing at an unconference in Bangalore. Though the discussion was to beon $B!H(Bwhether Cloud Computing is inevitable or not$B!I(B, we hardly got pastdefining it! …(more)

• Series of excellent articles by the “Wisdoms of clouds” and other …

Those “really big ideas” of cloud computing usually start as a greatobservation by one or a few independent bloggers. If you are observant, andpay attention to patterns in terminology and concepts, you can get a jumpon the …(more)

• Genentech chooses Google Apps over Microsoft | CRM Help Desk …

It’s ludicrous that cloud computing is taking over the world, Ellisonquoted during Oracle’s annual shareholders meeting last October. South San.(more)

• SaaS Development Platform $B”c(B digital asset management weblog

One of the major trends for 2009 will surely be cloud computing, alsocalled SaaS (software as a service). In bad economic times, organizationshave less money to spend, and even more pressing needed to do more withless. …(more)

• Cutting Edge IT Services for 2009 from Utropicmedia

Free Press Release Center (press release) – Toronto,CanadaSaaS (Software as a Service) is the term for applications hosted as aservice and provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating theneed to …(more)

• Forrester: The Forrester Blog For Application Development …

… connection with stakeholders; Intelligent – responding to contextualmodels and business events; Hybrid deployment – deploying all models fromon-premise, hosted, instance virtualization, multi-tenant SaaS, and cloudbased BPO. …(more)

• Webcast Alert: Piedmont Natural Gas Announces Fourth Quarter 2008 …

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USA”The Internet IS cloud computing,” according to a holiday-time broadcast onNational Public Radio. The program, called ‘Will Cloud Computing Work inthe …(more)

• DTI Editorial Accelerates Launch of New African Newspaper in Timbuktu

PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USAWhether onsite or via SaaS (Software as a Service), DTI software helpscustomers generate new revenue, reduce costs, manage resources, and makemore …(more)

• CIC Named to Independent Research Firm’s ‘Hot Banking Tech …

Reuters – USACIC’s SaaS-based electronic signature solutions help speed up a verylengthy and painful process that can often take as long as 90 days,reducing the time …(more)

• A Primer on Cloud Computing

NewsFactor Network – Woodland Hills,CA,USAOpportunities for collaboration present themselves with cloud computing.Since files are stored remotely, and because with the right software theycould be …(more)

• Angoss Acquires dthree and the IntelliMaxx(TM) Platform

Stockhouse – Vancouver,BC,CanadaA software as a service (SaaS) solution, IntelliMaxx(TM) minimizes clientupfront IT and marketing development costs, yet delivers comprehensivemarketing …(more)

• They used ‘em, you reeled: the year’s most overused phrases

Register – London,England,UKCredit crunch and economic meltdown aside, if 2008 is remembered foranything in tech it will be for the domination of the phrase “cloudcomputing”. …(more)

• Dataline Expert Weighs in on White House Cloud Computing

PR-USA.net (press release) – Varna,BulgariaDataline’s expert on Cloud Computing Security, Kevin Jackson, lent hisinsight into the safety of cloud computing and it’s possible implementationinto the …(more)

• Integrator Sees Open vs. Closed Cloud Computing Battle in 2009 …

Publish – Topsfield,MA,USASAAS integrator and consulting services firm Appirio predicts that openclouds from Salesforce.com and Google will duke it out with Microsoft’sWindows …(more)

• Because you bought cross-selling, you may also like …

InternetRetailer.com – Chicago,IL,USAThough some retailers build systems in house, they are more often deliveredby vendors in a software-as-a-service model, meaning data from the retailersite …(more)

• Taroby is Next-Gen Web 2.0 Messaging Services

Taroby is a web 2.0 SaaS based messaging and collaboration suite fromKochi, India based firm AMT software Devlopment India that providecollaborative messaging..(more)

• Director of Engineering at Dallas Information Technology Jobs

Software products include hosted SaaS, desktop, and plug-in applications aswell as related eCommerce capability. The director, versed in companystrategies and passionate about the customer experience, collaborates with…(more)

• Bridgeline Software to Report Fiscal Year End 2008 Financial …

Bridgeline Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:BLSW), a developer of SaaS-based webapplication management software and award-winning web applications,announced today that financial results for its Fiscal 2008 (year endSeptember 30 …(more)

• SOA World Editorial: Give Me a Sign

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USATheir vendors have all begun shipping their software as services, and theymay even be using web-based software as a service such as Salesforce.com….(more)

• Pointing the Way

InternetRetailer.com – Chicago,IL,USAThe vendor employs the software as a service model; the retailer sends itsroutinely updated product feed through the software so Nextopia cangenerate …(more)

• Predictions for the Cloud in 2009

eWeek – New York, NY… and other services, and customizability/programmability from data,through logic, up into the user interface without compromising robustmulti-tenancy. …(more)

• Application Developers to Keep Their Eyes on the Cloud

eWeek – New York, NYBy Darryl K. Taft For software developers, 2008 was the year of the cloud,
and 2009 will pick right up from there with more and more cloud computing…(more)

• PHASE 2 Unaffected by Island-wide Power Outage

SYS-CON Brasil – NJ,USAPHASE 2 International (www.phase2.com), a premier Software as a Serviceprovider based in Hawaii, reported today that the Oahu island-wide poweroutage that …(more)

Current results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!

Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

• Scio Consulting Offers SaaS Acceleration Solutions to ISVs

TMCnet – USAScio Consulting has announced the launch of a collection ofSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS (News – Alert)) Acceleration Solutions to helpsoftware companies …(more)

• Blog Past: The Coming Age of ASPs

Even as globally ASPs are making a comeback and software-as-a-service seemslikely to define at least a part of the industry, in emerging markets, theopportunity for both SMEs in Emerging Markets (SMEEMs) and the ASPs issignificant. …(more)

• Tech Talk: Thinking WCF towards Enterprise SOA

By elLoco
“SAAS” or “Software as a Service” what was called “ASP” or “ApplicationService Provider” before “ESB” or “Enterprise Service Bus” what was called”EAI” or “Enterprise Application Integration” before …(more)

• Book clubs, reading groups, book discussions, and book club topics …

Besides the huge growth of Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine, we sawSalesforce launch Force.com , a true platform-as-a-service. My picks forthe most interesting … Mozilla’s mobile browser gets closer to prime time…(more)

• How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility

There are a few ways to do this, either install it as a service runningunder your desktop operating system (Windows) using Apache or variousalternative and lightweight web servers like nginx or lighttpd. …(more)

• the Unstuck Diaries: watching

In the mountains, whilst squatting in the attics of a chalet in Saas Fee,Switzerland, during the winter of 1980, I watched and I waited. And so Ihad, during the long dark winter evenings, time on my hands.Saas-Fee-night-81.jpg …(more)

• Is the cloud computing maturity model unnecessary or simply …

CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA… years of experience in distributed systems development and deployment,focusing on service-oriented architectures, cloud computing, andvirtualization. …(more)

• SaaSNews : A look back at 2008 – Sunday Times.lk

Sunday Times.lk A look back at 2008 Sunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka – 30 minutesago SaaS ( Software as a Service ) vendors such as Salesforce will expandtheir offerings to meet customer demands and provide one-stop …(more)

• The Renco Lounge: Will Network Management Software move to SaaS???

By Vetty Officer
We are living in the period which is the beginning of the SaaS era. Afterthe entry of Google into this territory, the awareness about SaaS hadincreased tremendously – thus increasing the market size. …(more)

• SaaSNews : Scio Consulting Taps Beck as VP of Business Development …

Scio Consulting Taps Beck as VP of Business Development PR.com (pressrelease), NY – 12 minutes ago Net, C/C++, and Java expertise, the companyalso brings significant experience in the Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS )and Rich Internet …(more)

• Cloud Computing – Is it the future?

Examiner.com – USACloud Computing or more accurately, Virtualization, is not a new concept -I’ve been reading about software utility companies for decades, but theidea was …(more)

• SAAS Translator 0.0.16 software download – Windows – VersionTracker

Find SAAS Translator downloads, reviews, and updates for Windows includingcommercial software, shareware and freeware on VersionTracker.com.(more)

• Linux News: SaaS: Enterprises Reach for the Cloud

By ECT News Network
Linux news and information from around the world with fresh perspective onLinux and the open-source movement.(more)

• CIO > Four Things Microsoft Got Right in 2008

So Microsoft has stepped in the ring with cloud computing players (GoogleApp Engine), Amazon (EC2) and IBM (Blue Cloud utility computing platform),but it hasn’t thrown any punches yet. Those companies have cloud computingplatforms in …(more)

• Does it rain or does it pour? | Capping IT Off | Capgemini …

As Mark stated earlier on this blog, Cloud Computing is about trust and’trust is a value I am choosing to rely on for anything I do on the web.Without trust, the web wouldn’t have evolved into what it is today’. Trustis a good thing, …(more)

• Links for 2008-12-27 [del.icio.us]

Category: Cloud Computing | Tags: cloud cloud computing. RationalSurvivability: Virtualization? So last Tuesday. An excellent rundown byChris Hoff of how the focus of security efforts cycles back and forthbetween the host and the …(more)

• Working smarter can keep costs down, says Telecom

NZ Herald Wellington Metro – Wellington,New ZealandAdvancements in technology such as smart phones, software as a service andinternet protocol are often prescribed to companies looking to manage thetime- …(more)

• Bill Owens on Microsoft Dynamics CRM – Technical Version …

By Bill Owens
Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0;Supports form-based authentication; Supports multi-tenancy. With thisadapter, you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 with any othernon-Microsoft business …(more)

• Goodbye Macworld, Apple Bites the Hand That Feeds It

Alan Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Cloud Computing Journal and isSYS-CON’s “Cloud Computing Bootcamp” Instructor. He is widely recognized asan early expert on Cloud Computing. Alan is a Sun Java Champion and creatorof …(more)

• acid tracks: Pollution – Volume IV

By acid tracks
Cloud Computing leads to things like Cloud Commuting- more productivity andefficiency, more leisure time, less pollution, less time wasted- Educationand achievement ten times better than today, 250000000 million householdswatching …(more)

• socialmedian: Technology Review: The Year in Computing

By socialmedian
Technology trends (Users: 156). Stories in 24 hours: 17. Aviation (Users:11). Stories in 24 hours: 37. Campaign 2008 (Users: 1063). Stories in 24hours: 333. 4G (Users: 14). Stories in 24 hours: 164. Cloud Computing(Users: 224) …(more)

• IT industry: waiting to exhale in 2009

Hindu – Chennai,IndiaThis makes cost-effective models, such as SaaS (software as a service),remote infrastructure management, cloud computing and virtualisationtechnologies, …(more)

• Data Centers Cut Budgets

PC World – USAAbout 13% of the managers said they had planned to increase or addsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) as an alternative to internally hostedapplications. …(more)