January 2009

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

• QED Connect Announces International Joint Venture for SaaS …

eNewsChannels – Torrance,CA,USAJo Alexander of JASB2B said that this partnership provides them a strongentry in to the SaaS market and will leverage the growing acceptance of …(more)

• SaaS: S+S Gets Private-Label Option

Redmond Channel Partner – Irvine,CA,USASoftware as a Service (SaaS) is a land-grab scenario for software vendors– a huge small to midsize business (SMB) market for various services liesjust …(more)

• CRM Daily | IBM and iEnterprises Offer SaaS-Based CRM

systems via Software as a Service (SaaS). Hosted on IBM technology,iEnterprises provides CRM software — tailored to industries includingconstruction, pharmaceutical, legal and others — as an affordable servicedesigned to allow …(more)

• Remaking Microsoft: Go All-In In The Cloud

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USAChief software architect Ray Ozzie said last fall that cloud computingtouches every product group inside Microsoft. But don’t expect Microsoft torush into …(more)

• CIO Profiles: Yuvi Kochar, CTO And VP Of Technology For The …

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USACareer accomplishment I’m most proud of: Designing, developing, andoperating a software-as-a-service multitenant recruitment automationsolution at …(more)

• Half of Developers Report SaaS Projects

Redmond Developer News – Irvine,CA,USAResearch shows Software as a Service development is on the rise, especiallyin North America and the Asia-Pacific region. by Kathleen Richards Newglobal …(more)

• KashFlow Accounting Software Blasts Through 2500 Customer …

PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USAThey need to get on board with SaaS or they’ll continue to lose marketshare to us and other SaaS providers. “Strong competition is healthy for usall. …(more)

• MeettheBoss.com to Exhibit at Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USABy Cloud Computing News Desk SYS-CON Events has announced that the leading
business networking provider MeettheBoss.com will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 2nd…(more)

• S3mer Launches SaaS, Enterprise & Free Digital Signage Software

aka.tv – London,UKThe company originally developed a Spanish language digital signage productfor its local market – but with the release of new SaaS and Enterpriseproducts …(more)

• Chuck’s Blog: Information Logistics

… point out the blindingly obvious to me: COS (and Atmos) networks look alot like how the internet is designed: mesh architecture, no hub-and-spoke,dynamic optimization, re-route around congestion, multi-tenancy, secure,etc. …(more)

• Responsys Continues Record Growth in Second Half of 2008

MSNBC – USASince 1998, Responsys hosted solutions have served as proven alternativesto expensive, on-premise marketing software, helping companies acrossindustries …(more)

• Microsoft bets on cloud computing as Amazon suffers outage – Ars …

Microsoft has hinted at future cloud computing efforts and its commitmentto the concept, and we should expect to see both services and a new cloud…(more)

• Saas counterprogramming

Techworld.com – London,UKThe Gartner Group predicts that by 2011, 25% of the software sold worldwidewill be delivered through the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model….(more)

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

• SaaSNews : Is 'Everything-as-a-Service' Wise? – Bank …

Is ‘Everything-as-a-Service’ Wise? Bank Technology News, NY – 19 minutesago And Microsoft recently filed a patent application that would allow itto not only sell it software as a service , but to charge for it by the …(more)

• Cloud computing and compliance: Be careful up there

Computerworld – Framingham,MA,USAIn fact, various sources agreed that regulatory compliance is oftenpossible with cloud computing, although it takes special effort. As notedby Chris Day, …(more)

• Major Organizations Continue to Turn to Daptiv in Q4 2008

MSNBC – USAQ4 capped the fifth year of revenue growth for the Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) company. As companies evolve to meet rapidly changing marketconditions, …(more)

• NSP Strategist: Why Cloud Computing Now?

By Peter Radizeski
Cloud Computing. Platform as a Service. Software as a Service.Virtualization. Why all this now? One reason is compliance with regulationshas increased the IT budget as well as the volume of data to be handled,stored, retrieved. …(more)

• Scala to Launch Digital Signage SaaS Offering at ISE in Amsterdam

PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USAVisitors to ISE will be introduced to the new Scala SaaS offering, Release4 of Scala software, and the Scala-Samsung partnership. …(more)

• Central Desktop Continues To Rise – Central Desktop Blog

“We are 100 percent SaaS, so even when our customers want to work with uson an on-premise platform, we ask that they collaborate with us via CentralDesktop because we understand that SaaS is so much easier to use, …(more)

• When to retire a software product? – Business of Software

The sublimated interface should be a SAAS application. The transition tolate market marks the end of growth, so if you want more growth, you willneed a new underlying technical innovation. That doesn’t mean retirement….(more)

• SaaS is surging in the downturn, says IDC

ZDNet Blogs – USAMarket researcher IDC has published an upward revision to its market sizeprojections for SaaS in 2009. At a time when most industries and economiesaround …(more)

• The real potential of cloud computing

InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USATwo weeks ago I wrote a blog post expressing my frustration with the wayvendors are hijacking cloud computing to mean anything they want it tomean. …(more)

• Surviving and thriving at Rearden Commerce

CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USAThere is a benefit though to this environment which is the opportunity toacquire innovative (software-as-a-service) companies that don’t have thebalance …(more)

• IBM expands SaaS ecosystem

InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USA”The grand vision is about helping these partners to enable solutions to bedelivered in an SaaS model,” explained Dave Mitchell, IBM’s director ofstrategy …(more)

• IBM and iEnterprises Offer CRM Software as a Service to Help …

CNNMoney.com – USAA Software as a Service-based offering eliminates the cost of developing,purchasing and maintaining an in-house technology solution for its users….(more)

• HP Morons Think Cloud Computing Means Selling Ink on the Web

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USABy Salvatore Genovese An HP crackpot who appeared on CNBC’s “Dispatches
from Davos” on Friday, January 30, 2009 described Cloud Computing to MariaBartiromo …(more)

• MeettheBoss.com to Exhibit at Cloud Computing Expo 2009 East

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USASYS-CON Events has announced that the leading business networking providerMeettheBoss.com will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud ComputingExpo …(more)

• Cloud Computing: SaaS or PaaS?

Billing World – Westminster,CO,USAThe report says SaaS providers are focused on serving software(applications and utilities) to end customers from the cloud, while PaaSproviders focus on …(more)

• TMCnet Contact Center Week In Review

TMC Net – Norwalk,CT,USA From new platform and software announcements to tips for maintaining a callcenter in these economic conditions, TMCnet has got you covered on all the…(more)

• HP Morons Think Cloud Computing Means Selling Ink on the Web

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USAAn HP crackpot who appeared on CNBC’s “Dispatches from Davos” on Friday,January 30, 2009 described Cloud Computing to Maria Bartiromo as desginingand …(more)

• Cloud Computing Expo: Symantec Gets the Cloud Bug

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USASymantec is going with the flow about “liberating” users from the physicaldesktop and pushing them into the cloud. It’s put out a beta of somenewfangled …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Difficult Choices

xchange Magazine – Phoenix,AZ,USACloud computing may be the Next Big Thing, but how do telcos go aboutpursuing this strategy? A new Light Reading report says telcos must decidebetween …(more)

• BLADE Network Technologies Addresses Importance of the Network for …

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USAIt will address the way that Cloud Computing shifts the way data centresprovide software applications to users and what will be the impact andadoption of …(more)

• Route 128 VC Firm Favors SaaS

ITworld.com – Framingham,MA,USAI spoke to Mike Fitzgerald, founder and managing general parter ofCommonwealth Capital Ventures, about his fondness for SaaS companies. …(more)

• HP Thinks Cloud Computing Means Selling Ink on the Web | Cloud …

Cloud Computing Journal. … HP Thinks Cloud Computing Means Selling Ink onthe Web. An HP Moron Who Appeared on CNBC’s Davos Coverage on FridayDescribed Cloud Computing as Selling HP Ink Products on the Web …(more)

• LightReading Report: Cloud Computing still confusing | Avastu Blog …

[ad#cc] Cloud computing is still evolving, but certain ideas are stronglyassociated with it. When cloud computing supports on tap consumption of ITand.(more)

• Cassatt Data Center Dialog: How one editor cuts through the cloud …

By webmaster
In the concluding part of the interview, I asked Derrick to talk a bitabout how as a journalist he weeds through everything people tell him,especially with a topic as popular as cloud computing, to help ITmanagement readers find the …(more)

• Naming the Parts of the Cloud – The Connected Web

I’m also not able to make April’s Under the Radar: Cloud Computing inMountain View, which will be a great showcase for cloud startups. But Iwill be at a pre-conference seminar the SIIA has organized (with my help)in London next month …(more)

• TechFlash | Amazon’s cloud computing business: Poor visibility

TechFlash – Seattle,WA,USABy Eric Engleman on January 30, 2009 at 12:15 PST How did Amazon’s cloud
computing business do in the fourth quarter? That’s not an easy question toanswer. …(more)