May 2009

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

• Google I/O 2009 Wrapup | Wap Review

By Dennis Bournique
Wave is also more open than Facebook with the entire platform slated to beopen sourced and Google promising interoperability between their Wave andother services based on the Wave source code but operated by third parties…. As a service which stores users communications, documents and personalinformation in the clould, Wave needs to have robust security and dataintegrity. Google can’t afford a loss of user data or a security breach,either of which would be …(more)

• AJAX Oover XMPP: Google Jumps into the Cloud Wave | Search Journal

According to Google, “The platform enables people to communicate and worktogether in new, convenient and effective ways. We will offer thesebenefits to users of Google Wave and we also want to share them witheveryone else by making …(more)

• InfoQ Presentation Building a Large Scale SaaS Application

Dan Hanley, of Magus, discusses design principles, architectures andinfrastructure of the SaaS frameworks used by Magus to rapidly develop anddeploy …(more)

• Intel & Open Cloud Standards | Cloud Computing Journal

In a recent post on the Intel community blogs, Intel has for the first timepublicly shed light on its strategy around Cloud Computing and the socalled “Open Cloud” and how open standards and open source solutions playin the cloud …(more)

• Super Flexible File Synchronizer 4.58e | Free Download Portal.

By admin
The settings are stored in multiple profiles, and the software comes withsupport for FTP and secure FTP servers, SSH, WebDAV, Amazon S3, http,partial file updating, ZIP compression, data encryption, and a schedulerfor automated backups. The scheduler can run as a service without usershaving to log on. On Windows XP or later, locked files can be copied usingthe Volume Shadow Service. This program features the ability to freelyselect files and folders across the whole …(more)

• Snapshots of my life -

By anm_sa
My ramblings to a variety of people, some of which might be worth noting.(Though most likely not…) 14:49 Sitting through IBM presentation on CloudComputing. #; 16:56 Take away info from ISM Cloud computing talk? …(more)

• Etisalat launches EmailDefend Service in the UAE

Al-Bawaba – Amman,JordanThis range of comprehensive Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) email securityservices provides businesses with industry leading protection from viruses,spam, …(more)

• D7 claims that we are entering the era of Web 3.0 lack substance …

By Dan
Cloud computing is attracted a lot of headlines as the new wave of theInternet but I don’t see that this is new either – open standards andhosted applications have been available for many years; the Internet itselfhas been expressed …(more)

• Ten things to consider before signing your next website contract

Jamaica Observer – Kingston,JamaicaLarger developers usually provide content development as a service.Implementation Plan – the implementation plan is an essential part of theagreement and …(more)

• ITSM is not a tool | NetworkWorld.com Community

service-now is overmarketing the SaaS ploy clearly. IT Service Managementis more than the platform(process, management of change, organizationalembedding, business/it alignment), and in many situations full on-premisesis a better …(more)

• saas in Europe at the tipping point

ZDNet Blogs – USAThere seems to be a widely held view that Europe is a laggard in saasadoption, and yet the line-up of speakers at the conference demonstratesthere’s a …(more)

• What is cloud computing? – a definition from Whatis.com – see also …

Definition from WhatIs.com — Cloud computing is when computing tasks areassigned to a combination of connections, software and services accessedover a …(more)

• The three SaaS waves :: ITSM PORTAL Tool Selector :: International …

International platform for management of IT Services.(more)

• Technical Architect Software as a Service SaaS | Software Jobs

By Johns
Technical Architect Software as a Service SaaS | Software Jobs.(more)

• SaaS in Europe at the tipping point |

A strong line-up of European companies and findings from research to beunveiled at the upcoming OnDemand Europe conference suggests SaaS in Europehas.(more)

• Austria celebrates Josef Haydn in a commemorative year …

By George Jahn
Next: Europe… freesson SaaS in Europe at the tipping point: A strongline-up of European companies and findings from research to be unv..http://bit.ly/zivz; h2cm RT Check out the #evip project, co-funded by theEU to create a bank of …(more)

• Odysen Notes: SaaS vs On-Premise Market Update

By Matt
This is probably not too good, putting competitive pricing pressure through2009 and driving down the very high SaaS industry gross margins. This canbe continually countered however as SaaS is generally still a much lowercost solution …(more)

• Microsoft Clouds Don’t Rain on Small Businesses – a Comprehensive …

By admin
In a recent SaaS survey conducted by Cutter Consortium, nearlythree-quarters (72%) of the people who responded reported that they areusing Web-based solutions to fill unmet needs. More than a quarter of therespondents (28%) are …(more)

• Stratocenter.Net Cloud- Simple Yet Extremely Powerful Cloud Computing

PR-CANADA.net (press release) – Murino,MontenegroMr. Wilkins continues, “Cloud computing allows enterprises and SMBs todeploy applications in a fraction of the time required previously, …(more)

• saas in Europe at the tipping point

By Feeds
With just ten days to go before this year’s SIIA ondemand Europe conferenceopens in Amsterdam on June 9, I’m looking forward to a few surprises aboutthe strength of saas in Europe [disclosure: SIIA has paid me to helpdevelop the …(more)

• Odysen Notes: CRM Leaders Expanding in China

By Matt
“The focus on smaller manufacturing companies has led to the rise ofSoftware as a Service (SaaS) in the Greater China region. NetSuite recentlyset up an office in Hong Kong to target the Pearl River Delta region, andit launched its …(more)

• Online Marketing Works, But our Web Sites Don’t? | Online Logic …

By admin
The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model magnifies the benefit brought in byWeb CMS by sparing organizations the high cost of purchasing, installingand customizing enterprise software. As the software is hosted, there is nohardware to …(more)

• The Building Coder: Revit and Dragonfly

By Jeremy Tammik
This is based on a note I received from Emile Kfouri, the Autodesk SeniorBIM Platform Manager in the AEC Solutions Division. The Dragonfly team sentan e-mail recently to inform us that Dragonfly has the ability to export amodel to Revit using the Revit API. … Dragonfly is the second AutodeskSaaS or ‘software as a service’ solution that uses Revit technology in theback end. The original trail blazers were the SEEK team. All you need to dois log on to Dragonfly. …(more)

• The Cloud Can Set Coders Free

SYS-CON Media (press release) – Montvale,NJ,USAWho is using the cloud for what — and where this trend is going — arediscussed as the podcast panelists unpack the Platform as a Service (paas)concept …(more)

• Going green now a lucrative business option

Times of India – IndiaOf particular interest to start up businesses and mid-size firms would becloud computing which envisages the use of a pool of highly scalablemanaged IT …(more)

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

• HP, Cast Iron Offer VARs SaaS Opportunities – IT Channel – IT …

Hewlett-Packard has struck a deal with Cast Iron Systems to make thatcompany’s Software-as-a-Service integration tools available to HP’s 25000US channel partners, a move that could give those solution providers anentree into cloud …(more)

• Social Media: This, too, will change. | Dave Harkins’ Blog

By Dave
… computing discussions; AOL’s IM chat communities of the 90′s andclassmates.com have evolved into today’s Facebook; and ASP program modelsof the 2000′s have evolved into the Software as a Service (SaaS) programmodels of today. …(more)

• Investors.com – China Online Firms Not Playing Around; Games Get Ahead

In China, video games are delivered as a service, as opposed to the U.S.where most game software is sold as a packaged product at retail. Theservice business model sprang up in China because software piracy isrampant there. …(more)

• Biotech Companies And Cloud Computing | CloudAve

By Krishnan Subramanian
I am a strong advocate of using the Cloud Computing in scientific research.Even t.(more)

• The Medical Quack: Big Pharma Exploring and Moving Data to the …

By The Medical Quack
In addition to cost and time savings, Mike Naimoli, director of Microsoft’slife sciences business in the U.S., says cloud computing may also enabledata sharing among drugmakers and contract research organizations and otherpartners. …(more)

• VMWare puts US$20m in cloud partner, Terremark :

By Tony Chan
Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud, a revolutionary managed cloud computingplatform for mission-critical applications, combines the agility andscalability of cloud computing with world-class datacenter and computinginfrastructure, …(more)

A Cloud Guide for HPC Top Drivers, Barriers, and Use Cases | Open …This white paper from Univa UD presents an evolutionary approach to cloudcomputing within a high-performance computing (HPC) context. The paperaddresses the seamless and incremental process of moving fromprivate/internal to …(more)

• Are Amazon’s web services going Open Source?

Slashdot – USAruphus13 writes “Amazon has been one of the early movers in the cloudcomputing space, with its AWS offerings, including S3 and EC2. …(more)

• Today’s Networks Not Yet Ready for Enterprise Cloud

SYS-CON Brasil – NJ,USAFor application and infrastructure as a service (now forms of cloud) thecloud computing vine has indeed been fruitful. Yet with much broader andmore …(more)

• Web Hosting | Microsoft’s move to SaaS ‘reflects web hosting …

By Web Hosting – Google News
Microsoft’s move to SaaS ‘reflects web hosting advantages’Global GoldInternet Services, UK… waiting for complex infrastructure to be installedand configured,” Mr Strain continued. SaaS could also allow small andmedium-sized …(more)

• Today’s Networks Not Yet Ready for Enterprise Cloud …

It was clear from a multitude of thought leaders, vendors and data centerprofessionals that today’s networks are not ready for the deployment ofmany forms of cloud computing, especially the multi-site enterprise (orprivate) cloud. …(more)

• Is Eucalyptus ready to be your private cloud? | Unix Stuff

By nix
When he saw cloud computing on the rise he decided the best way to exploreit was to implement what everyone accepted as a real cloud, Amazon’s API.In a remarkably short time they implement Eucalyptus and have beenimproving it and …(more)

• Cloud Special: Variety of clouds

CIOL – Bangalore,Karnataka,India… depending on what one pins over the cloud: infrastructure as a service,software as a service, desktop as a service or platform as a service et al….(more)

• RightSignature: Create digitally signed documents online

By DG
Now, RightSignature, a web-based software-as-a-service that utilizes thesecure data infrastructure of Amazon Web Services, allows you to create andsign legally binding documents online, in a way that is faster and moresecure than …(more)

• Clarity Accounting Review | Smart Situation

By Waddoups
Some of you may have heard of SAAS (software as a service). It is a growingtrend in many industries, but lately it has been taking the accountingindustry by.(more)

• Are We Done with the TLAs Already? | CIO – Blogs and Discussion

By Michael Hugos
This new generation of technology is based on cloud computing, software asa service, server virtualization, open source software, mashups, andwireless broadband Internet. The IT industry can generate a new round ofvaguely understood …(more)

• Harris Corporation to Present at SOA World Conference, June 22-23 …

Anil Patel, a Software Architect at Harris Corporation, is currently amember of the Harris Enterprise Architecture Core Technology Centerconducting research on IA and standards for SOA. He worked as a ChiefTechnology Officer and architect for a secure wireless messaging platformfor smart devices, a secure appliance to provision wi-fi services tohospitality institutions, and voice based cardiology interpretationreporting software. Identity Propagation in N-Tier …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Building Blocks for the Enterprise

GigaOm – San Francisco,CA,USAThis is Part 2 of a 3-part series. Please also see Part 1, Cloud Computing:A System of Control. The third and final post will run tomorrow.(more)

• Bringing the Cloud to SOA

SYS-CON Media (press release) – Montvale,NJ,USABy Dustin Amrhein There’s no shortage of opinions on how cloud computing
and SOA are related. Just plug the phrase into your favorite search engineand …(more)

• saas and On-Demand software – are we ready for the challenge?

ebizQ – New Rochelle,NY,USAThe saas evangelists like to compare the saas and On-demand software to theelectricity supply. If you look carefully into electricity supply, …(more)