February 2009

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• SAP Buys Cloud Computing Start-Up Coghead

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USABy J. Nicholas Hoover Bad news for cloud computing: Coghead — a
venture-backed, online application development platform — is closing,leaving customers …(more)

• Why Sun’s New Cloud CTO Targeting Migration of Legacy Apps First

eWeek – New York, NYGive us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of legacy software,yearning to breathe free, and we will move that functionality into thecloud, …(more)

• Coghead refugees to Intuit or Caspio? Fat chance

CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USAThe pitch to Coghead customers: “Caspio offers a more scalable, robust anddependable platform-as-a-service than your previous solution, and ourunique …(more)

• Cloud computing ascends the mainstream

The Age – Melbourne,AustraliaBanking analysts last year forecast that cloud computing could be worth$160billion in the next few years. Last year technology players werescouring the …(more)

• Cloud Bursts as Coghead Calls It Quits

ZDNet Blogs – USABill Lucchini, Vice President and General Manager, Intuit Platform as aService Group, wrote this blog post with the attractive offer details forthese …(more)

• Global growth for SaaS predicted at 40% despite economic downturn

Maktoob – Dubai,United Arab EmiratesAlimohamed confirmed that the Software as a Service (SaaS) technologieseliminates the need for annual software maintenance fees and continuoushardware and …(more)

• Multitenancy Webinar – developer.force.com

This recorded webinar explains the capabilities of multitenancy,including:. Our multi-tenant ethos, where everything is shared, includingthe database; Metadata-composed applications and the Force.com applicationruntime …(more)

• The Role of the Network in New Virtualization and Cloud Computing …

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USAMost analysts are more concerned with how the network will be monetized andthe role it will play in new virtualization and cloud computinginitiatives. …(more)

• Is software as a service right for you?

Examiner.com – USAby Chris Sparno, Orlando Business Technology Examiner Software as a Serviceaka SAAS or Cloud computing – all the cool kids are doing it. …(more)

• Callidus Software Inc.: Callidus Software Expands SaaS Footprint …

Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA… Performance Management (SPM), today launched its newest SaaSapplications to address objective management (TrueMBO) and quota management(TrueQuota). …(more)

• Cloud Computing: A TMCnet Interview with Peter Coffee of …

TMCnet – USAThe benefits of multi-tenancy, elasticity (pay as you go) and thesubscription model make cloud computing a high-value, low-risk propositionwith the fast …(more)

• Cloud Implementation To Double By 2012

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USAThe number of enterprises using cloud computing will grow to 9% in threeyears, says one analyst, but its impact will far exceed those modestfigures. …(more)

• SAP Buys PaaS Vendor’s Intellectual Property

PC World – USASAP has purchased the intellectual-property rights of PaaS (platform as aservice) vendor Coghead, and for now will use it only as an internal tool,…(more)

• Lessons From The Demise Of A Cloud Startup

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USACoghead seemed to have everything going for it–venture funding, a fewyears of experience, thousands of users, and a platform-as-a-service thatseemed well …(more)

• SAP buys Coghead to expand SaaS portfolio

VNUNet.com – UKSAP said it plans to use the acquired platform and people to drive itssoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) development, a strategy that remainsrelatively …(more)

• Nordson’s EFD Division Deploys SaaS eCommerce Solution

TMC Net – Norwalk,CT,USABy Anuradha Shukla, TMCnet Contributing Editor The EFD division of Nordson
reportedly has strengthened its customer service capabilities byimplementing a …(more)

• SAP acquires IP rights for Platform as a Service provider

Search SAP – USABy Courtney Bjorlin, News Editor SAP has acquired the intellectual property
rights for Coghead, a Platform as a Service provider, SAP said yesterday….(more)

• Is software as a service really cheaper?

Silicon.com – UKBy Tim Ferguson The benefits of software as a service (SaaS) may not be as
clear cut as they seem, with the focus on the initial savings hiding issuesthat …(more)

• A Better Way To Keep The Books

Forbes – NY,USAA chat with ex-Intuit entrepreneur Kevin Reeth about the many benefits ofthe software-as-a-service model. Business owners have enough to worry about…(more)

• The Coming Cloud Computing Wars

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USAThe cloud computing meme continues to billow as Juniper and IBM announce acloud management partnership rumors swirl about heavy petting betweenVMware and …(more)

• SAP buys Coghead to expand SaaS portfolio

By Feeds
SAP buys Coghead to expand SaaS portfolio. … SAP said it plans to use theacquired platform and people to drive its software-as-a-service (SaaS)development, a strategy that remains relatively underdeveloped by the firm….(more)

• E Commerce Information Systems news item relating to Wesupply Ltd …

EDF Energy Networks plugs into SaaS-based web EDI, 20/02/2009. Electricitydistributor EDF Energy Networks says it will implement the Wesupply managedB2B web EDI platform to enable improved customer service and reducedinventory costs. …(more)

• CloudNews for February 20th, 2009 | CloudAve

By Mayank Gupta
New SaaS Security Business Unit To Enable McAfee. Inc. To Increase FocusOn.(more)

• Is SaaS Cheaper? Depends On How Long You Have It.

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USAGartner published a report this week on the “five most-common SaaSassumptions.” I agree with all of them, but must throw in my own two centson the first …(more)

• Gartner Warns on SaaS’s …

InternetNews.com – New York,NY,USAThink SaaS is cheap and quick to deploy? One analyst says that might not bethe case. By Richard Adhikari: More stories by this author: Adopting …(more)

• Software as a Service? Know Who’s Servicing You! | Journalism That …

By Steve Hanson
As a group, we’re seeing a lot of interest in different platforms for newssites, and general issues about Software as a Service providers. Somerecent developments are making it clear that a little caution in choosing aprovider is in order, as many sub-par providers … This turned out to be arash reaction to a long-term financial struggle for the service, but itthrew the progressive blogging community into a tizzy over the possibilityof losing a favored platform. …(more)

• SAP UK: We can serve SMEs ‘just as well as large firms’ | The …

By IDG News Service
Asked whether SAP’s software as a service offering, Business ByDesign, wasappealing to SMEs, Read said those firms were just as interested in SaaS aslarge enterprises, mainly because of the chance it offered to save money….(more)

• HP Not So Sure About EC2

By Stacey Higginbotham
HP (s hpq) seems to believe that firms delivering software and possiblyplatforms as a service will do better than …(more)

• Small business money saving tips #1 | SME cost cutting offers and …

By Alex Bellinger
Last week saw Busness IT Online the software as a service suite for SMEswhich recently hit 40000 registered users introduce an online shop foroffice supplies (a). They claim all 20000 items are heavily discounted, soit should be …(more)

• Google antitrust suit: Is there a case? – TechChuck

By Andrew
http://www.takeoverpageone.com/blog/web-20/software-automation-and-google-rank-pages how some sites get top rankings in the main search engines andothers do not? Well of course you do. The reason . … SAP has purchasedthe intellectual- property rights of PaaS (platform as a service) vendorCoghead, and for now will use it only as an internal tool, according to anSAP spokeswoman. Terms were not disclosed. Coghead recently told customersit planned to shut down its …(more)

• Small business SaaS is catching a wave

By Sunir Shah
Mint has not only done amazing things for personal finance software, butthey are hanging ten on a huge wave lifting everyone in the small businesssoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) market. FreshBooks just crossed over 700000users, …(more)

• Extranet Evolution: AECbytes writes on collaboration

By PaulWilkinson
Technorati Tags: US,collaboration,AECbytes,Lachmi Khemlani,ProjectManagement,Project InformationManagement,AEC,Newforma,Attolist,Cadac,SharePoint,Organice,Software-as-a-Service,SaaS. 20 February 2009 in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet, …(more)

• Perspectives on SaaS Marketing: What’s under the covers… and …

By Peter Cohen, SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors
Though they were not necessarily as visible as salesforce.com, Intuit,Amazon or others offering “platforms” or “cloud services,” their demise maystill give pause to CIOs or IT executives evaluating SaaS solutions. …(more)

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

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• TechFlash | Microsoft’s Razorfish chooses Rackspace for cloud hosting

TechFlash – Seattle,WA,USABy Eric Engleman on February 18, 2009 at 4:10 PST Here’s an interesting
development in the cloud computing wars. Razorfish, the online advertisingagency …(more)

• Recession drives software as a service

Experian QAS Australia – Sydney,AustraliaThe recession will drive the uptake of software-as-a-service hostedapplication licenses in Australia in the next couple of years. …(more)

• Valve founder Steams up DICE

GameSpot – USAThis year, DICE kicked off with an opening keynote on “Entertainment as aService” delivered by Valve Software founder and managing director GabeNewell. …(more)

• Cloud Security Fears Are Overblown, Some Say

PC World – USAIt may sound like heresy to say it, but it’s possible to worry a little toomuch about security in cloud computing environments, speakers at IDC’sCloud …(more)

• Cast Iron Systems, BT, IBM, and Microsoft Among Cloud and SaaS …

MSNBC – USALONDON – Cast Iron Systems, the #1 SaaS integration company, todayannounced that Simon Peel, Cast Iron’s Senior Vice President of Strategy,…(more)

• New SaaS Tool Eases the Stress of Software Development

By Feeds
New SaaS Tool Eases the Stress of Software Development.(more)

• Cloud Computing Conference

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USAATLANTA, GA — (Marketwire) — 02/19/09 — ALR Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:ALRT) announces that insurance carriers will reimburse physicians forremote care …(more)

• Security for cloud computing seen as key investment

Manufacturing Computer Solutions – Dartford,England,UKA staggering 75% of organisations intend to reallocate or increase theirbudgets to secure cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) withinthe next …(more)

• Callidus Software Expands SaaS Footprint With Introduction of …

CNNMoney.com – USACallidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ: CALD), the leader in Sales PerformanceManagement (SPM), today launched its newest SaaS applications to addressobjective …(more)

• China SaaS Market Size Totaled CNY6.197bn in Q4

TMCnet – USABEIJING, Feb 19, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) — China’ssoftware as a service (SaaS) market size amounted to CNY 6.197 billion inthe …(more)

• Analysts warn SaaS assumptions are fundamentally flawed

Manufacturing Computer Solutions – Dartford,England,UKAnalyst Gartner is warning the IT community that, while the SaaS(software-as-a-service) model looks attractive, some common assumptions arebased on …(more)

• The promise and peril of cloud computing

WTN News – Madison,WI,USAUC Berkeley researchers have found that cloud computing has greatopportunity to exploit unprecedented IT resources if vendors can overcome alitany of …(more)

• New Service Allows Websites to Finally Use Cloud Computing Globally

MarketWatch (press release) – USAThis gap has significantly impacted the market acceptance of cloudcomputing and forced companies to pursue traditional infrastructureoptions. …(more)

• NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson to Deliver Keynote Address at SIIA SaaS …

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USA… at the second annual SaaS/GOV Conference to be held February 25 , inWashington DC , put on by the Software & Information Industry Association(SIIA). …(more)

• Small College Reaps Big Benefits From Cloud Computing

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USABut the small Indianapolis, Indiana college with a student body of 2100,has dipped into cloud computing. It has virtualized its infrastructure, …(more)

• Callidus Unveils SaaS Products That Measure Employee Productivity

TMCnet – USABy Michael Dinan, TMCnet Editor Touting its new Software-as-a-Service
offerings as a way to measure employee productivity at a critical time, aSan Jose, …(more)

• Web application platform Coghead shuts down

ITworld.com – Framingham,MA,USA… cost compared to traditional in-house development, was formed in 2003and is just one of a wide range of so-called PaaS (platform as a service)vendors. …(more)

• Gartner: Don’t assume SaaS is cheaper

ITworld.com – Framingham,MA,USAThe analyst house said there had been a “great deal of hype” around SaaS,and that businesses had misconceptions about its cost. SaaS is cheaperduring its …(more)

• Cloud computing aligns with enterprise architecture to make each …

ZDNet Blogs – USAThe discussion raised the question: What will real enterprises need to doto gain savings and productivity in the coming years to exploit cloudcomputing …(more)

• Xactly Named Latest Best of SaaS Showplace Award Winner

PR Newswire (press release) – New York,NY,USAThe BoSS Awards program was announced in January 2009 as the latestinitiative by THINKstrategies to bring attention to SaaS and cloudcomputing companies …(more)

• Microsoft’s Razorfish taps Rackspace for cloud hosting

InfoWorld – San Francisco,CA,USACloud computing and hosted services are becoming an increasingly attractiveoptions for companies that don’t want the hassle or expense of building out…(more)

• The changing face of “games-as-a-service”

CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USA… to pretty much any kind of software. Fundamentally, the Steam on-demandgaming platform is so successful because the service dis-intermediatesmiddlemen …(more)

• Could the Recession Be Good for Enterprise Software?

PC World – USACustomers are instead trying to invest more in SaaS (software as a service)and BPO (business process outsourcing), “looking for a constant stream of…(more)

• The Top 5 Trends in High Performance Computing for 2009

CTR – Los Angeles,CA,USACloud computing/software as a service/infrastructure as a service arebecoming concrete. 2009 will see lot more concrete action and successstories in this …(more)

• Batch processing with SOA

SearchSOA – USAEmbedding workload automation as a Service could also encourage culturalchanges that bring together IT operations, software development, and thebusiness. …(more)

• Heavy-duty computing

CNNMoney.com – USABy Jon Fortt, senior writer Preston Feight, chief engineer, uses cloud
computing to redesign Kenworth trucks without making huge investments intechnology. …(more)

• A Cloud Conservative

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USAHowever, Yale says the company is examining whether it can use a publiccloud computing service to test and evaluate new products. …(more)

• Xactly Named Latest Best of SaaS Showplace Award Winner

TMC Net – Norwalk,CT,USAIngres’ CIO, Doug Harr, has migrated nearly 100 percent of the company’score IT infrastructure and applications to SaaS and open source softwaresolutions. …(more)

• InfoStreet Announces SaaS ‘Platinum Move-In Special’

NewsFactor Network – Woodland Hills,CA,USAInfoStreet.com) SaaS pioneer and provider of StreetSmart, a suite ofWeb-based, IT productivity software, today announced the Platinum Move InSpecial. …(more)

• Intel Eyes Cloud Computing With New Hardware, Software

PC World – USAIntel is making a push into cloud computing with forthcoming changes in itsNehalem server line aimed at large data-center deployments. …(more)

• RightScale Named Bronze Sponsor of Cloud Computing Conference …

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USASYS-CON Events announced today that the leader in cloud computingmanagement RightScale was named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 2ndInternational Cloud …(more)

• Attenda’s SaaS Platform Grows with BIW Technologies

WebHosting.Info – San Francisco,CA,USACompany renews contract with BIW for the delivery and operationalmanagement of its SaaS project control applications. Attenda Limited, amanaged services …(more)