February 2009

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

• Qualifying A Cloud Computing Platform by QBOS – DogEar $B8$$N<*(B

Qualifying A Cloud Computing Platform by QBOS. 2009/02/22. Qualifying ACloud Computing Platform by QBOS. Qualifying A Cloud Computing Platform.View more documents from Bob Henderson. (tags: platform internet).Comment(0) Comment(0) …(more)

• Ubuntu now has $B!H(BCloud Computing Inside$B!I(B | Ubuntu Linux News

By admin
The News Review:- Ubuntu now has Cloud Computing Inside- Make Firefox flagsecure web pages in Ubuntu and Mint- Netbook Smackdown: XP Windows 7 andUbuntu.(more)

• Cloud Computing, Software and System Performance: Case Study …

By Moshe Kaplan
Cloud Computing, Software and System Performance. News, Personal view andperspective of the software performance field, cloud computing and industrybased on our experience in RockeTier …(more)

• Indian innovation thriving despite downturn and terrorism

VentureBeat – Fremont,CA,USAOne of the first movers in the Web 2.0 arena in India, Synage is riding theglobal software-as-a-service trend, as more companies seek to trim costsand …(more)

• TecTrends: ASP to SaaS to Clouds–Oh My!

TecTrends, a premier guide to the ever-changing world of intelligenttechnology, is an integrated database that combines company informationwith digests of thousands of independent, third-party reviews and analyses.(more)

• Shopping Catalog: Panda Managed Office Protection for IT Security …

By noreply@blogger.com (Green Comunity blogmaster)
Panda Security, a leading provider of IT security solutions, todayannounced that its Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, Panda ManagedOffice Protection(TM), has been spotlighted by Everything Channel’sVARBusiness on a shortlist of …(more)

• The P0stmaster’s Blog: Quest Software Policy Authority for Instant …

By P0stmaster
… since MSN, Yahoo, AOL and BlackBerry all have Cloud Computing elements,Quest Policy Authority is an example of a customer-premises managementsolution being used to manage hybrid on-premises plus Software as a Servicecomponents. …(more)

• Me, him and her | AccMan

… Times Open source PricewaterhouseCoopers Pwc Richard Murphy RSS SAASSage Software Salesforce.com SAP Satyam Satyam Computer Services Socialnetwork Software as a service tax Tax and Ethics Twitter Wall Street Web2.0 wordpress xero …(more)

• When Giants Fall – Microsoft Windows Vista Community Forums …

By mb group
cloud.. with FREE OS software, thats why MS is trying to streamline win7 >and put vista on a diet and somehow make win7 what vista should have been >in the first place to save their ass. > But its too little too late. …(more)

• Gear Protective Automotive: EXPERT ADVICE The Rise of SaaS and …

By Kraiman
The fast snowballing popularity of Software near manner of a Service (SaaS)be have a important impact next to communication financial guarantee andregulations submission. Most association be a mixture of conscious — andrightly in so …(more)

• Headphones Electronics: EXPERT ADVICE Go SaaS, Go Green

By Kratern
Many business be really in a moment finding that switch to aSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) medicine not beside the irreplaceable meaningsolve this riddle, but also offer many biological benefits. In a occurrencewhen "going …(more)

• Recommendations for billing software – MacTalk Forums

By Dubhousing
of course the biggest risk at the moment is that SaaS apps could fall outof commission at any time due to various reasons (economic problems, poorcompany management, etc) so a good back up and data management solutionshould be in …(more)

• Suddenly, infrastructure is cool again

CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USAThen came last fall’s financial meltdown, and suddenly, cloud computing’sproponents had a timely marketing message. On the “Charlie Rose” showThursday …(more)

• Intuit Needs to Acquire Into SaaS

Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USABy this author: On Thursday, Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU), the tax
preparation and small business accounting software maker with annualrevenue of $3.1 …(more)

• Telcos being pulled towards PaaS

eChannelLine – North York,Ontario,CanadaIt’s a software-as-a-service, but it also has a platform-as-a-servicecalled Force.com,” Chappell said. Telcos are likely to follow a similarmodel. …(more)

• Asia Braces for Slowdown

PC World – USAOther predictions of IDC include: the resurrection of SaaS and theincreasing adoption of Platform-as-a-Service (Paas); remote infrastructuremanagement; …(more)

• The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USAThis quarter we reached the exiting milestone of 1000000 employees live inour Intersourcing Software-As-A-Service environment. Our track record of99.9% …(more)

• US government could save billions by going open-source

Neoseeker – USA… the US government could potentially save $23.6 billion by goingopen-source, using virtualization technologies and cloud computing. …(more)

• Go iLawn: Geospatial SaaS for Lawn and Landscape Companies

DirectionsMag.com – Glencoe,IL,USASoftware as a Service. High resolution images. Geospatial technology.Future successful geospatial applications may depend on one or more theseor other …(more)

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

• Symantec to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USABy Cloud Computing News Desk Dr. Guy Bunker, Distinguished Engineer for
Symantec, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 2nd International Cloud Computing…(more)

• Trend Micro marries security with Cloud Computing

Register – London,England,UKBy downloading you agree to our Terms & Conditions. We will email you a
copy of the paper. By Trend Micro Check the boxes & select Email orAtom/RSS Feed. …(more)

• Cloud Computing Expo: NSF Underwrites Cloud Research

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USABy Maureen O’Gara Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center
(SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego have gotten a two-year$450000 grant …(more)

• Starr Tincup Highlights Recent Business Week Article Inclusion

Talent Management Tech – Peterborough,NH,USA… reduce costs associated with sales and marketing activities byimplementing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) utilities such as Vtrenz andSalesforce.com. …(more)

• Three Things You Should Know Before Selecting A Web CRM Software …

By free
Sponsors, senior suppliers and senior users must take these challenges intoaccount when selecting business application in a software as a servicemodel. During contract negotiations with CRM vendors we specifically adviseto make clear …(more)

• Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Industrialization of Services

By IWB
There are many definitions of cloud computing, all of them pretty muchrelating to the notion of xxx-as-a-service over the Internet, e.g.,computing-as-a-service, storage-as-a-service, software-as-a-service,applications-as-a-service. … ” The rise of the cloud is more than justanother platform shift that gets geeks excited. It will undoubtedlytransform the information technology (IT) industry, but it will alsoprofoundly change the way people work and companies operate …(more)

• Taking steps to clarify cloud governance – SD Times On The Web

Software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service have huge potential forgoverning applications, said Xactium CEO Andy Evans. Xactium produces aSalesforce-hosted service for managing corporate governance, risk andcompliance …(more)

• Stanford’s Tim M. Crawford to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing …

In this session, Crawford will define a framework that includes SaaS(Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service). As the core areas develop, niche marketopportunities will open further …(more)

• SaaS is here to stay! Look for growth in bandwidth needs of SMB …

By ianathompson
SaaS makes sense. Especially when it comes to groupware (Exchange), CMS(Sharepoint), and financials, yes I said financials, read QuickbooksOnline. The only problem is that most companies have been slow to adoptSaaS initiatives …(more)

• Cloud Computing Expo: Dell Directors Bolt

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USAMaureen O’Gara is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editorof SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous “Billygrams” and the …(more)

• Cloud Computing Brings Challenges, Opportunities

CIO Today – Woodland Hills,CA,USABy Mark Long At the IDC Cloud Computing Forum in San Francisco, both the
promise and challenges of cloud computing were addressed. …(more)

• SciTechBOX – Cloud Computing Brings Challenges, Opportunities

Science and Technology News Box – Cloud Computing Brings Challenges,Opportunities – Science, Weather News, Hurricanes & Tropical Storms, Space& Astronomy, NASA & Space Shuttle, Animals & Pets, Energy, Biotechnology,…(more)

• Call for Cloud Security Guidelines Heard | SOA World Magazine

Maureen O’Gara is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editorof SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous “Billygrams” and theeditor-in-chief of “Client/Server News” for more than a decade. One of themost respected …(more)

• Gartner Analyzes Five Popular SaaS Myths Calculating the …

Softpedia – Bucharest,RomaniaBy Alexandru Chiuariu, Windows Editor As SaaS tends to become very popular,
Gartner decided to provide fact checks for five of the most common SaaSmyths. …(more)

• Ubuntu now has “Cloud Computing Inside”

CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USAIt sounds like the majority of the work on the server side in Karmic Koalawill be around cloud computing. Here is the entire text of that portion ofthe …(more)

• Ubuntu now has “Cloud Computing Inside”

By Feeds
I am sure other here at CNET will give the desktop portions of theannouncement the serious treatment it deserves, but the serverfunctionality that Mark announced is much more interesting to the cloudcomputing community. …(more)

• Tech: Mozilla Labs Bespin Cloud Computing for Programming …

By bgrier
Guild Media: Mozilla Labs revealed a new open-source project called Bespin,a Web-based programming environment they hope will combine the speed andpower of desktop-based development with the collaborative benefits of cloudcomputing. …(more)

• Managed IT services, NOC Services | Silver Touch: Adaptive …

By Robert Steve
You get your hands on technology as a service, with no capital expense,which makes you to take a swift path to infrastructure and applicationimprovement at squeezed together threat and price. Business Continuity &Disaster Recovery …(more)

• Enterprise IT Cloud Computing Brings Challenges, Opportunities

By Feeds
By Mark Long At the IDC Cloud Computing Forum in San Francisco, both the
promise and challenges of cloud computing were addressed. Experts cautionthat cloud computing presents new challenges in data security, privacy,control, …(more)

• Is cloud computing a trap? | romneya.com

By Philippe Creytens
GNU founder Richard Stallman, the free software campaigner, recently statedin an interview with The Guardian that web-based programs like Google’sGmail will.(more)

• Study: SaaS is Costly Over Time

Datamation – Darien,CT,USABy Richard Adhikari Adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) might be widely
seen as a way for enterprises to cut costs and speed deployment, but thingsmay …(more)

• Media Solutions looks into SaaS model to benefit revenue

AME Info – United Arab EmiratesWe have an IT solution known as SaaS that is affordable, efficient and hasshown that it can improve the communications flow to the organisation’sclients …(more)