Daily Cloud Feed - May 11, 2009
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- Online Software Sales Forecast Defies Recession
- The Three Biggest Tech Barriers to Cloud Computing
- Rod’s $10 million morning: Xero rises 30% on BT deal
- Channel Partnerships and SaaS | CloudAve
- Sorenson Introduces Sorenson 360
- Defining Cloud Computing
- Parting the clouds at the RSA conference
- SAP Boots Business ByDesign SaaS Apps to 2010?
- Interactive Intelligence calls on clients, nets call-center sales
- Citrix-Amazon Partnership To Provide Cloud Computing ‘Sandbox’
- Defining Cloud Computing
- SAP Boots Business ByDesign SaaS Apps to 2010?
- RightScale to Present at Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009 in Prague
- aimsdashboard, LLC. Provides Software Solution for Home Valuation …
- Getting Ready for Cloud Computing at Cloud Computing Expo in Prague
- innRoad Enables Independent Hotels to Profit - Even in the Down …
- The Three Biggest Tech Barriers to Cloud Computing | JAVA …
- Getting Ready for Cloud Computing at Cloud Computing Expo in Prague
- Introduction to the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI)
- Karen Paterson to Discuss Funding saas Businesses Despite …
- Two Ways To Increase VoIP Revenue
- Cloud Computing Expo Europe: The Benefits of Cloud Storage
- Unleashing Its Technology to a Wider Range of Devices, Qualcomm …
- Cloud Computing Unites Torry Harris & SalesForce.com
- Cloud computing big wave of opportunity for rPath, says CEO
- Paul Mockapetris, Nominum Chairman and Inventor of DNS, to Speak …
- Cyber-warfare: Cadets train to fight hackers
- Bernard Liautaud Joins ScanSafe Board of Directors
- Flush with Cash, 800app.com Seeking More Paying Users
- (April 11, 2009) Software-as-a-Service Provider Offers Cross …
- What IBM thinks about Oracle buying Sun
- ADP Teams With Cornerstone OnDemand to Optimize Employer Talent …
- CyberSource Offers Simpler, Safer Payment Integration to SAP(R …
- ThinkGrid and Mezeo Announce Partnership
- CIBER Launches Mining and Metals Solution, A Qualified SAP(R …
- ACS swallows BSG to boost SaaS offering
- Engineering design optimisation on a Saas basis
- Panaya Automates SAP Support Package Implementations With a New …
- Longwood Software, Inc. Announces Three New Customers
- How SCAP Brought Sanity to Vulnerability Management
- SkillSoft Provides Free Access to Course on Pandemic Flu
- sungard Inks Deal for ICE Risk Platform
- Interop Preview: Cloud Computing, ROI In Spotlight
- Ways to Know When Salesforce.com Is the Wrong Choice
- Interop Preview: Cloud Computing, ROI In Spotlight
- Why Assumptions About Cloud Performance Can Be Dangerous
- SaaS Market Predicted To Grow By 22% This Year
- Ways to Know When Salesforce.com Is the Wrong Choice
- Linux’s position in cloud computing efforts
- Q&A: Interxion’s Anthony Foy
- IBM developerWorks : Blogs : A view from the clouds: Cloud …
- Will cloud computing become the ryanair of the future?
- IBM tries to seed its own cloud computing platforms
- Slashdot | RMS Says “Software As a Service” Is Non-free
- SMBs Streamline Operations with SAP’s Business One
- Sorenson Goes Beyond Encoding With Video Delivery Platform
- What CIOs Need To Know about Desktop Video Conferencing
- MIT Enterprise Forum of NYC Announces Event on Software as a …
- Sorenson Media lauches video delivery network
- Get your SaaS off my cloud
- Cloud security demands greater scrutiny than traditional IT …
- New rPath CEO Torto charged with growing company
Channel Insider - New York,NY,USAHere’s which software applications are showing the greatest strength in thearea of on-demand SAAS delivery. Even as hardware sales are in decline in2009, …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USAI recently posted about the Dizzying Economics of Cloud Computing when itoccurred to me that the technological barriers must be equally mystifyingfor many …(more)
National Business Review - Auckland,New ZealandThe deal mirrors those that Xero has already struck with Telstra, whichwill sell Xero’s software-as-a-service accounting software through itscoming small …(more)
By Ben Kepes
Well they seem to be coming thick and fast… Only a few weeks ago I wroteabout Intacct scorin.(more)
StreamingMedia.com - Wilton,CT,USAI just wrote an overview article on OVPs, which included companies likeBrightcove, Ooyala and VMIX, in which I referred to them as Software as aService …(more)
ebizQ - New Rochelle,NY,USABy Andre Yee on May 10, 2009 11:37 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes With a blog called
Cloud Talk, you’d expect that we’d get around to defining cloud computing….(more)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USACloud computing and virtualization are our manager’s focus as he attendsone of his favorite conferences of the year. By Mathias Thurman May 11, …(more)
IT Jungle - New York,NY,USASAP launched its Business ByDesign SaaS applications back in September2007, and the company has been pushing the product out into the future inbaby steps, …(more)
Indianapolis Star - United StatesNew Era’s deal with Interactive is structured in what’s known as “softwareas a service.” Traditionally, a business purchases a license for softwareand …(more)
DABCC.com - Sarasota,FL,USACitrix is partnering with Amazon in an effort to entice corporations totrial — and potentially migrate to — cloud computing. Called the CitrixC3 Lab, …(more)
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By Andre Yee on May 10, 2009 11:37 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes With a blog called
Cloud Talk, you’d expect that we’d get around to defining cloud computing.Probably sooner rather than later but it’s not quite as easy as you mightimagine. …(more)
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by Timothy Prickett Morgan Well, it looks like the glorious plan for SAP totake on the midrange market with a line of newly created onlineapplications to be sold SaaS style is running into some speed bumps, if notsome road blocks. …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USACloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe will also present a full-day,hands-on Cloud Computing Bootcamp by Alan Williamson. The organizingprinciple for …(more)
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USAThe AIMS application is offered as a discrete application with limiteddependencies, in a Software as a Service (saas) model. This enables AIMS toserve …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USASYS-CON Events announced today that Subra Kumaraswamy, Senior SecurityManager of Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at next week’s CloudComputing Expo …(more)
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USAinnRoad’s Software-as-a-Service delivery model, also used by the CRM leaderSalesForce.com and social networking giant Facebook, is revolutionizing theway …(more)
I recently posted about the Dizzying Economics of Cloud Computing when itoccurred to me that the technological barriers must be equally mystifyingfor many. So I thought I would initiate a discussion about the barriers tothe adoption …(more)
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Subra Kumaraswamy, Senior SecurityManager of Sun Microsystems, will be presenting at next week’s CloudComputing Expo Europe 2009 (www.cloudexpo-europe.com) May 18-19, 2009, inPrague, Czech Republic …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USASYS-CON Events announced today that Sam Johnston, of Australian OnlineSolutions, will be presenting at next week’s Cloud Computing Expo Europe2009 …(more)
Market Wire (press release) - USAPaterson will share her experience and expertise in raising venture capitalduring “Funding and Scaling a saas Business,” which will be presentedWednesday, …(more)
Business Solutions Magazine - Erie,Pennsylvania,USAThere also is a third services category that’s gaining momentum: sellingSaaS (Software as a Service). According to Info-Tech Research Group, theSaaS …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USASYS-CON Events announced today that Stephen Foskett, Director of Consultingat Nirvanix, will be presenting at the upcoming Cloud Computing Expo Europe…(more)
Korea Times - South Korea“The cloud computing era is not going to be just about what you have onyour PC, it’s going to be something that comes out to the real world,”Jacobs said …(more)
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria2009-05-11 10:47:35 - By rolling out a number of Cloud Computing solutionsfor its enterprise clients, Torry Harris has recently seen a lot ofbig-name …(more)
Local Tech Wire - Fort Mill,SC,USARALEIGH, NC - If you are among the growing legions who believe “cloudcomputing” is the next wave for high-tech, then you are in the same boatrising on the …(more)
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USAThe summit is the industry’s only event focused on how traditionalenterprises can adopt cloud computing models. The session will discuss thepromise of …(more)
WTOP - Washington,DC,USAStructural changes in the way data is processed, such as cloud computing,also promise more security. “Hackers tend to attack systems that theyknow,” says …(more)
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UKScanSafe (www.scansafe.com) is the pioneer and largest global provider ofSaaS Web Security, ensuring a safe and productive Internet environment for…(more)
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USAAs the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and technology leader in China,800app.com is having trouble spending money. It got as much as USD 17million …(more)
Interbiznet Bugler (press release) - Mill Valley,CA,USAicims, the third-largest provider of Software-as-a-Service (saas) talentacquisition solutions, announced the release of the icims Talent Platform9.1, …(more)
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USAIBM has provided the infrastructure for many software-as-a-serviceventures. You also provide outsourced datacenter capacity on a one-offbasis for large …(more)
Market Wire (press release) - USACornerstone OnDemand’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based platform offers ascalable, cost-effective and easy-to-use talent management solution forenabling …(more)
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAThe new software-as-a-service (SaaS) capability, in which CyberSource hoststhe SAP-certified DelegoSRV integration, allows merchants to substitute asingle …(more)
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UKAs part of its IT on demand service offering, ThinkGrid will soon be ableto utilise the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform(TM), which allows users toaccess, …(more)
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA From the client’s perspective, this solution operates as a Software as aService solution; however, each client will have their own dedicated andsecure …(more)
Register - London,England,UK… enable to offer hosting, managed services and outsourcing to its NHScustomers, enabling it to “speed up the rollout of our core growth Saasproducts”. …(more)
European Process Engineer Magazine - London,UKDezineforce will use All-Energy 2009 to showcase its innovative engineeringdesign optimisation service that is available on a Saas (software as aservice) …(more)
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USAProvided as Software as a Service (SaaS), Panaya’s SAP environmentsimulation shows which custom SAP programs will break as a result of anupgrade, …(more)
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USAclearesult Consulting, Inc.; Health Management Associates, Inc.; and PALRAMIndustries Ltd. each has chosen Longwood Software’s SaaSsoftware-as-a-service …(more)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USAVulnerability management programs may also employ software-as-a-service(SaaS) solutions to assist in vulnerability identification through bothautomated …(more)
WELT ONLINE - Berlin,Berlin,GermanyFor more information on SkillSoft’s Compliance Solution, please visitwww.skillsoft.com SkillSoft PLC (Nasdaq: SKIL) is a leading SaaS providerof on-demand …(more)
Securities Industry News (subscription) - New York,NY,USAKiodex’s saas approach allows customers to simplify implementation, gainprocessing efficiencies and reduce IT support. The platform has 150 clientsdivided …(more)
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA… security, VoIP and communications, Enterprise 2.0, videoconferencing,IT management, software as a service (SaaS), storage, and wireless andmobility. …(more)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USABy David Taber May 11, 2009 (CIO) Salesforce.com is the most popular SaaS
sales force automation system out there. For most of the people who chooseit, …(more)
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USAAttendees of the Las Vegas conference, May 17-21, will learn how cloudcomputing and social networking can give a lift to return on investment….(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USAPlatform as a Service (PaaS): Here the underlying platform is abstractedout and you’re given an on-demand solution stack, a development environmenton …(more)
Intelligent Enterprise - San Mateo,CA,USASaaS adoption has become more widespread, as business and computing modelshave matured, improving security response time and service availability….(more)
Computerworld - Oslo,Oslo,NorwaySalesforce.com is the most popular SaaS sales force automation system outthere. For most of the people who choose it, customer satisfaction is veryhigh. …(more)
Search Enterprise Linux - USAThe latest development is a Linux Foundation’s report on Linux and cloudcomputing released May 6, 2009, which states that Linux is the OS of choicefor …(more)
Web Host Industry Review - USAThe Datacenter Transformation Summit, notably, wasn’t focused on cloudcomputing to the exclusion of other information. But the subject hasdominated the …(more)
By Dustin Amrhein
The recently announced IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is creating afair amount of stir in the cloud computing market. Its ability to create,deploy, and administer private WebSphere cloud environments gives customersthe ability to …(more)
guardian.co.uk - UKCould cloud computing could become a middle class guilt-trip in the future?Would we ever think about it like a low-cost airline - a technology that’s…(more)
Australian IT - AustraliaINDUSTRY giant IBM is attempting to seed its own cloud computing platforms,as the market for online software and services accelerates. …(more)
RMS Says “Software As a Service” Is Non-free — article related to GNU isNot Unix.(more)
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USASoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) ERP model allows small to medium-sizedcompanies to compete like the big boys without laying out the big bucks….(more)
Contentinople - New York,NY,USALike some other software-as-a-service (SaaS) video management platforms,Sorenson 360 has an easy-to-use online interface. It enables customers toeasily …(more)
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USAMore on CIo.com Seven Quick Tips for Videoconferencing Beginners A hostedSaaS model is the cheapest option but it has the lowest image qualitybecause of …(more)
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USANEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City(MITEF-NYC) is pleased to announce an event for entrepreneurs, investors,and business …(more)
FierceOnlineVideo - Washington,DC,USA”Sorenson 360 is a complete, end-to-end video publishing system in a SaaSmodel that re-imagines what video publishing should be,” Sorenson Media CEOPeter …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USAThere’s nothing in it about the market for IaaS (Infrastructure as aService) or PaaS (Platform as a Service). It’s all about SaaS. …(more)
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USABut multi-tenancy rules the day in cloud computing, and customers may notknow where their data is stored or how it’s replicated, Forrester analystChenxi …(more)
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USAThe introduction of virtual servers and cloud computing has given ITmanagers much more access to computing power and operating options, but italso has …(more)


