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• Intel Sees its Processors as the Foundation of Cloud Computing

eWeek - New York, NYAt the same time, Intel believes that its x86 processors should form theunderpinnings of this new cloud computing infrastructure. Intel thinks thefuture …(more)

• Chuck’s Blog: KMIP — An Important Standard

By Chuck Hollis
Or consider provisioning secure virtual machines in a multi-tenancyenvironment? You’d want to provision the app and its storage in one fell(and keyed) swoop. Certainly an opportunity for upper-level integration,no? …(more)

• SDSC Begins Cloud Computing Research

HPCwire - San Diego,CA,USAThe SDSC team will investigate the feasibility of the cloud computingapproach versus known conventional approaches, while evaluating thetrade-offs, …(more)

• HP Confines the Cloud for Enterprises

GigaOm - San Francisco,CA,USAHP offered clouds as merely a means to deliver IT as a service inside theenterprise. Rather than deliver an application that performs a specificfunction, …(more)

• Family Savings In Saas-Almagell March 21-April 4

OnTheSnow.com - Orinda,CA,USASaas-Almagell in Switzerland is offering a discounted and fun-packed stayfor families during the perioid from 21 March to 4 April. …(more)

• SaaS BI to the Rescue

Enterprise Systems - USAIt’s a prescription that — although specific to Oco’s SaaS BI methodology– can and probably should be applied to any BI effort, Chitkara concedes….(more)

• Saas pricing debates | AccMan

AccountingWEB’s discussion about saas/on-demand pricing has attracted agood set of comments that look at the model from a number of angles. I madethe point.(more)

• 22 Year LexisNexis Veteran Joins NetDocuments << NetDocuments SaaS Blog

By Leonard Johnson
Keith has a solid knowledge of the NetDocuments Service and has the visionof the tremendous values that SaaS brings to law firms and businesses ofall sizes.” Posted on February 17th, 2009 under SaaS, legal technology,legal * RSS 2.0 …(more)

• Cloud Futures, SaaS, the Rise of Netbooks and the Fall of PCs …

By admin
Worldwide PC Microprocessor Shipments Fall Off The Cliff - IDC Reveals in aPress Release on 11 Feb 2009. The IDC press release continued: SequentialPC.(more)

• New website for this blog << Cloud Recruiting - Web 2.0, SaaS …

By Suzanne Kendrick
Cloud Recruiting - Web 2.0, SaaS, Social networking $B!&(B Front Page $B!&(B AboutRecruitment Strategy $B!&(B Links. $B”+(B Cloud Recruiting and the VoluntarySector. New website for this blog. February 18, 2009 $B!&(B No Comments …(more)

• Intel Sees its Processors as the Foundation of Cloud Computing

By Feeds
Intel Sees its Processors as the Foundation of Cloud Computing.(more)

• Daily IT News: IBM Putting a Big Blue Stamp on Cloud Computing

By Admin
The company aims to use its array of distributed data centers, deepsoftware expertise and humongous services organization to turn cloudcomputing into an a-la-carte outsourcing of infrastructure and services….(more)

• Daily IT News: A mixed picture for software

By Admin
This is known as a software as a service (SaaS) model, or “cloudcomputing”. Businesses are charged for their use of the software, which canwork out being a significantly cheaper alternative to buying systems andthen paying licence …(more)

• China’s IT bull run in the Year of the Ox: Springboard | The …

By IDG News Service
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) will gain momentum in China. 7. Wi-fi willbecome more popular for corporate usage; better infrastructure will bebuilt for mobile working environments. 8. Unified communications will growat a slower pace …(more)

• Outright: interesting | AccMan

… ICAEW Innovation KPMG Lehman Brothers Marketing Microsoft netsuite Opensource PricewaterhouseCoopers Pwc Richard Murphy RSS SAAS Sage SoftwareSalesforce.com SAP Satyam Satyam Computer Services Social network Softwareas a service …(more)

• Education at the Speed of Technology | The Marketing Technology …

By doug@douglaskarr.com (Douglas A Karr)
For our CIT graduates getting into software, Software as a Service is theonly future. The old model of building and deploying software on media isflawed, expensive, and lacks the unlimited potential that SaaS does. …(more)

• Zix Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USAThe continuing need for compliance, sustaining demand for our services,growing preference for a SaaS or software as a service offering forsecurity in our …(more)

• Software Industry Stars Line Up for OpSource SaaS Summit 2009

MSNBC - USASANTA CLARA, CA - OpSource(TM), the leader in Web operations, todayannounced the full agenda for its fourth annual SaaS Summit, to be heldMarch 11-13 at …(more)

• Siemens Deploys Cast Iron Integration Solution Enterprise Wide

MSNBC - USAFounded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The #1 SaaS Integration Company(TM).With thousands of customer integrations across all industries and aroundthe …(more)

• Viodi View - 02/18/2009

The Viodi View - San Jose,CA,USABack to the Future - Software as a Service and Managed Service Software asa Service (SaaS) is a popular Web 2.0 buzzword. It struck me, whilelistening to …(more)

• Yammer Goes Beyond SaaS, Offers Self-Hosted Version

CMSWire - San Francisco,CA,USAThe Software-as-a-Service model has its advantages as well with Yammer.Small/medium sized companies can rely upon Yammer to instigate automaticfeature …(more)

• Content Management System Critic

By cmscritic
Wednesday, February 18, 2009. eTouch SamePage now offers Multi-Tenancy:eTouch SamePage, a dynamic enterprise wiki, today announced it h..http://tinyurl.com/cpwbcg. Posted by cmscritic at 1:57 AM …(more)

• Intel Sees Itself Between the Clouds

InternetNews.com - USAThe chip giant will play no favorites while the many players jockey forposition in the emerging cloud computing market. By Andy Patrizio: Morestories by …(more)

• Three Quarters of organisations to increase security for cloud …

Online Recruitment - UKA survey by Infosecurity Europe of 470 organisations has found that 75% ofthem intend to reallocate or increase their budgets to secure cloudcomputing and …(more)

• Scout Labs’ Brand Tracker Now Generally Available

Washington Post - United StatesEnter Scout Labs, a SaaS dashboard that makes it easy to keep track of whatpeople across the internet are saying about particular topics. …(more)

• Yammer Goes Beyond SaaS, Offers Self-Hosted Version

By Feeds
Yammer Goes Beyond SaaS, Offers Self-Hosted Version.(more)

• SaaS EDA roundtable!

By Technology Freak
The Digital Electronics Blog | A TECHlog on Digital Electronics, VLSI, ChipDesign, Product Reviews …(more)

• PRESSEMITTEILUNGEN - Three quarters of organisations to increase …

By News Online
In the keynote programme the panel on Externalisation will cover the issuesraised by cloud computing and SAAS and consider implications of a moreexternalised method of working for organisations, and seek to address howInformation …(more)

• Naina Life: Karaoke - Genda Phool From Dilli 6

By Naina
Saas gaali deve, Deewar samjha leve, Sasural genda phool, Chora babul kaangana, Bhaave deraa piya ka ho, Saas gaari deve, Deewar ji samjha leve,Sasural genda phool, Saiyaan hai vypaari, Chale hain pardes, …(more)

• SOASTA Announces CloudTest(TM) Global Platform

SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USACloud Computing has forever changed how we test our Web applications andnetworks.” “Several companies like Hallmark, Proctor & Gamble, QTRAX andChegg.com …(more)

• Certona, Aberdeen Unveil Retail Software as a Service Report

Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK”Our conversations with end-users indicate that Certona’s Resonanceplatform is certainly one of the services we think many organizationsshould consider …(more)

• eTouch SamePage now offers Multi-Tenancy | CMS Critic

By Mike Johnston
eTouch SamePage, a dynamic enterprise wiki, today announced it hasintroduced a new and evolutionary deployment option for itsindustry-leading Enterprise 2.0.(more)

• Emulex pins adapter future to Ethernet and encryption - TechChuck

By Andrew
Oracle (ORCL) thinks it’s found Salesforce.com’s (CRM) Achilles heel:”Multitenancy.” In English, that means when a customer uses Salesforce’sSoftware-as-a-Service CRM, multiple different companies share the samephysical server on the …(more)

• Digging into Berkeley’s View of Cloud Computing | CloudAve

By Paul Miller
In two posts in the past week, Krishnan has mentioned the recentlypublished.(more)

• Science Centric | News | SDSC begins cloud computing research …

Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Centre (SDSC) at theUniversity of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450000grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore new ways foracademic researchers …(more)

• Dynamic Infrastructure: The Cloud within the Cloud

By Lori MacVittie
Storage virtualization can further be the means through which cloud controlmechanisms manage the myriad virtual images required to support a cloudcomputing infrastructure. The role of the application networking layer isto mediate, …(more)

• AVE Investments, Inc. and Tomax Corporation Debut Combined HaaS …

MarketWatch (press release) - USATomax will provide Retail.net software under a SaaS model. “Retailers needto be relieved of the financial, technical and operational burden duringnormal …(more)

• Adap.tv Appoints Eric Lan as VP of Engineering

MSNBC - USALan brings over 20 years of engineering management and leadershipexperience with some of Silicon Valley’s most storied software and SaaSstartups. …(more)

• What cloud computing means to the channel

ITBusiness.ca - Scarborough,Ontario,CanadaCloud computing is certainly the buzzword of the hour. Consulting firmDeloitte, in its 2009 Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions,…(more)

• New Mexico supercomputer inks DreamWorks Animation deal

Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA… said the demands of DreamWorks and technical innovation is bringing thefuture of Internet-based computing (called Cloud Computing in industrylingo) to …(more)

• San Diego Supercomputer Center begins cloud computing research …

Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at theUniversity of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450000grant from the …(more)

• NEC Launches SaaS Solution Platform for Global Telecom Operators

MSNBC - USATOKYO - NEC Corporation announced today the international sales launch ofits Software as a Service (SaaS) solution platform. The platform is gearedfor …(more)

• Coca-Cola Enterprises, an Antenna Software Customer, Named a …

SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USA25, 2009 Chicago Ballroom 9 9:15-9:45 am CT Antenna Software provides theAntenna Mobility Platform(TM) (AMP), which enables organizations to design,build, …(more)

• Investment in SaaS Delivery House Rises to $63.5m

Web 2.0 Journal - Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USAThe money is earmarked for developing the company’s existing SaaS offeringsand pursuing key initiatives in the cloud space. Its widgetry is reportedlyused …(more)

• GridApp Systems Brings Databases to the Cloud With Clarity 5.1

MSNBC - USACloud computing, or IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), has been touted asa powerful and flexible way to deploy and scale applications. …(more)

• New SaaS Tool Eases the Stress of Software Development

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USATOMOS utilizes the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model, ensuringaccess for any team member regardless of location and eliminating the timeand …(more)

• Verizon Gets into Cloud Computing

TMCnet - USABy Gary Kim, Contributing Editor Verizon (News - Alert) Communications
appears ready to launch its planned cloud computing service in the summerof 2009. …(more)

• Clickability launches enterprise SaaS WCM platform

FierceContentManagement - Washington,DC,USAClickability launched a new business platform this week, the latest versionof their web-based, SaaS web content management tools. …(more)

• Service-now.com Named Finalist for Pink Elephant Innovation of the …

MSNBC - USA24 7:15 - 8:20 (Breakfast Club, B14D) “ITIL v3 Meets Software-as-a-Service”Rob Phillips, Service-now.com director of solution consulting; MatthewFrench, …(more)

• Web portal chooses software as a service

Experian QAS Australia - Sydney,AustraliaThe Australian Information Industry Association has chosen Intelledox toprovide a software-as-a-service delivery of its document engine for itsmember …(more)

• TargetX Partners With Boomi to Deliver Industry-Best SaaS …

MSNBC - USAWith Boomi AtomSphere, the industry’s first integrationplatform-as-a-service, TargetX can offer universities integration throughthe cloud, eliminating the …(more)

• mocoNews.net - @ MWC: Skype To Carriers: You Need Us Too, You …

Washington Post - United StatesWhen asked if Telstra would be adding Skype as a service, Trujillo said:”It probably worked well for the carrier involved, but I have aresponsibility to …(more)

• Investment in SaaS Delivery House Rises to $56.5m | Cloud …

The money is earmarked for developing the company’s existing SaaS offeringsand pursuing key initiatives in the cloud space. Its widgetry is reportedlyused for billions of transactions a day. Under its deal with NTT, …(more)

• NEC Launches SaaS Solution Platform for Global Telecom Operators

By Feeds
NEC Launches SaaS Solution Platform for Global Telecom Operators.(more)

• Autotask Go! Lands In Australia | MSPmentor

By Joe Panettieri
Autotask Go!, the professional services automation tool for managed serviceproviders, is now available as a hosted software as a service (SaaS) inAustralia.(more)

• Certona, Aberdeen Unveil Retail Software as a Service Report

MSNBC - USA”In the present economic conditions, SaaS-based web commerce applicationsdo support the lean IT initiatives of retailers both in terms of reducingcapital …(more)

• Cloud computing occupies centre stage

Hindu - Chennai,India[Cloud computing is Internet-based development and use of computertechnology, whereby dynamically scalable and often virtualised resourcesare provided as …(more)

• : Berkley Talks About Cloud Computing …

By Eran Chinthaka
Berkley paper, mentions cloud computing as utility computing + SaaS andalso discards the similarity between clouds and grids. From academic pointof view, some people, including the pioneers of grid argue that Grid andclouds are the …(more)

Academic Research On Cloud Computing Gets Funded | CloudAveBy Krishnan Subramanian
In this space, I have repeatedly advocated the use of Cloud Computing inacademic research. I strongly believe that the advantages brought in byCloud Computing to academia are enormous and disruptive. Recently, Amazonjumped in to lure …(more)

• Rule number one: never trust the cloud computing | Sir Arthur’s Den

By Sir Arthur, King of Ghouls’n Ghosts
It was August 27 of 2007 (my birthday) when columnist John C. Dvorak warnedagainst the dangers of things such as cloud computing, software as service,(more)

• HPCwire: Cerelink to Explore Cloud Computing for CG Film Production

Cerelink DMG, a New Mexico company, has entered into an agreement withDreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. to explore the development of technology andinfrastructure that would enable computer generated (CG) film rendering asa cloud …(more)

• Testing The World Wide Cloud | .NET DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL

With the emergence of global cloud computing, we have the opportunity tobuild an adaptive globalized infrastructure environment focused on the keymetric that matters most, the end user’s experience. Whether servicing aninternal …(more)

• CohesiveFT Announces Partnership With ID Rank Security

MSNBC - USAThe partnership brings together CohesiveFT’s extensive knowledge ofvirtualization, cloud computing, and enterprise IT with ID Rank Security’sdeep …(more)

• Nehalem servers to anchor Intel cloud computing

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USAby Brooke Crothers New “Nehalem” servers will anchor Intel’s renewed pushinto cloud computing, as the chipmaker focuses on mega data centers withhundreds …(more)