Daily Cloud Feed - Jun 30, 2009
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- Virtualization, cloud computing pose new challenges, opportunities
- What Recession? SaaS Startup Prepares For IPO
- Salesforce CEO downplays chatter of sale to Oracle
- Cloud computing, the future of the Internet
- Cloud computing, what is it good for? Absolutely everything
- Lunn: SaaS not the magic bullet for enterprise
- Unisys Targets Secure Cloud Computing
- Wall Street to embrace cloud computing
- World’s First Open Platform as a Service
- World’s First Open Platform as a Service
- Kampyle Introduces Stronger Integration with Google Analytics …
- CloudSwitch Doubles Venture Pot, Names CEO; Startup Wants to Make …
- Crossgate Named to the 2009 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 List
- Survey: Cloud computing hits the big time
- Infonetics Report Sees Big Future for SaaS Security
- Unisys Moves to Break Through Barriers to Adoption of Cloud Computing
- Securing the Cloud for Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing
- Webroot Enhances Web, Email and Data Security With New SaaS Releases
- Oracle Launches Oracle ‘SaaS for ISVs’ Monthly Licensing Model
- SaaS in Public-Sector IT — Part One of Two
- Exobox Releases ExoDetect SaaS Data Leak Detection and Protection …
- Unisys Moves to Break Through Barriers to Adoption of Cloud Computing
- TradeCard Honored for Helping Companies Navigate Through the …
- MyFax Hits Milestone with 300000 Subscribers
- Unisys Offers Enterprises a Security Blanket in the Cloud
- Core180 Launches Carrier Connect Program To Seamlessly Link …
- European SaaS Package Delivered By Dell
- Scientific Conservation Brings a New Dimension to Energy …
- Cisco’s Cloud: Services, Not Infrastructure
- Community Multi tenancy App General Development Forcecom …
- SaaS and Religion: the Tenancy Debates. Do Customers Care? | CloudAve
- Red Hat seeks to certify the cloud–Q&A
- Parature Releases the Latest Version of the Industry’s Smartest …
- Even IT People Don’t Know What Cloud Computing Is: Report
- 7 Cloud Computing Acquisition Targets
- Press Releases Vordel Provides Cloud-Computing Interoperability
- Cloud Computing Expo: Network-Centric Computing Model
- CA enters softwareasaservice market V3couk formerly vnunetcom
- Multitenancy the Holy Grail of SaaS Do Customers Care | Zoli’s Blog
- Cisco Won’t Take on Amazon in Cloud
- Red Hat Seeks Cloud-Computing Partners
- Cloud Computing Expo: Network-Centric Computing Model
- Pod-Scale vs Warehouse-Scale Computing
- Oracle Offers ISVs Monthly SaaS Platform Pricing
- Cisco Eyes Web Alternative To Microsoft Office
- Oracle Offers ISV Partners Flexible Terms For SaaS Software
- Some SaaS apps are cloud averse
- Cisco May Go After Microsoft Office In The Cloud
- Real-World Cloud Computing Applications
- Cisco Weaves Its SaaS Web
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA”We didn’t have the name cloud computing [at the time] but as it turns outthat’s exactly what I was pitching to the university,” says Greg Ganger,…(more)
ChannelWeb - Manhasset,NY,USALogMeIn, which rose to prominence as a startup in the remote access space,is preparing to take its game to the next level on Tuesday with a $107million …(more)
Reuters - USAEllison contributed $2 million in seed money to the company, whichpioneered a field that became known as software as a service, or saas. …(more)
Examiner.com - USAImagine you start a small social network on a tiny web site. You getfeatured in the Examiner and your traffic doubles every day. …(more)
Examiner.com - USAMarketing campaign managers love cloud computing for the low-cost seasonalflexibility it provides, said Jason McVearry, community director atMediaTemple, …(more)
SmartBrief - Washington,DC,USAThough he called security concerns a red herring issue for SaaS, he saidunder-utilization of enterprise data centers is what’s really holding backthe …(more)
PC World - USAUnisys is announcing Tuesday a new set of services in the area of securecloud computing aimed at addressing customers’ security concerns aboutmoving their …(more)
EDL Consulting - Northbrook,IL,USA”Firms need to capitalize on the latest technologies such as cloudcomputing to better manage all this data, operational risk modeling andanalytics to …(more)
Boston MAPRWEB June 30 2009 Sullivan Software Systems formally announcedtoday the launch of the world’s first Open Platform as a Servicealso knownas OPaaS …(more)
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USABoston, MA (PRWEB) June 30, 2009 — Sullivan Software Systems formallyannounced today the launch of the world’s first Open Platform as a Service(also …(more)
By Manoj Jasra
Kampyle is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution which can be implementedonto any website in minutes and enables gathering and analyzing actionable,feedback from users. To close the feedback loop, Kampyle includes theoption to …(more)
Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA From all appearances, in other words, CloudSwitch seems set to become oneof the first New England-based providers of cloud computing tools, orwhat’s being …(more)
MarketWatch - USACrossgate’s Leadership as a Solution and Service Provider Has Led to theCompany Being Nominated and Accepted into This Year’s “Top 100″ List bySupply …(more)
ZDNet Asia - SingaporeBy Sol E. Solomon, ZDNet Asia The adoption of cloud computing is on the
rise with 50 percent of Global 2000 companies in a new survey havingalready adopted …(more)
eWeek - New York, NYA report from research firm Infonetics predicts software-as-a-service(SaaS)is the future of managed network security. Communications marketresearch firm …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USA… for provisioning physical and virtual servers that both scale out andscale up; Secure Platform as a Service (PaaS), which provides a Javasoftware …(more)
Ulitzer.com - Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USABy Cloud News Desk Cloud computing is an approach to computing that enables
organizations to leverage scalable, elastic and secure computing resourcesas …(more)
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAThe new release of Webroot Web Security SaaS includes quota support whichallows organizations to set, monitor and enforce granular Internet usepolicies …(more)
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USACommitted to providing the leading technology platform forSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing partners, Oracle todaylaunched a new commercial …(more)
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USAMore of them are trying a Web-based solution known as software as a service(SaaS) to rent the tools their employees need, when they need them. …(more)
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAWhile many organizations invest heavily to protect their enterprise,significant data leakage still occurs, at an estimated cost of $1 millionper incident. …(more)
WELT ONLINE - Berlin,GermanyUnisys unveiled an innovative cloud computing strategy and solutionsportfolio for organizations to move enterprise application workloadssecurely to …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USATradeCard’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model combined with localsupport presence in 50 countries enables buyers, suppliers and serviceproviders …(more)
MarketWatch - USAMyFax is the flagship product of Software-as-a-Service provider Protus andis targeted for customers in industries including finance, insurance, …(more)
GigaOm - San Francisco,CA,USAUnisys will also take its cloud further up the stack by offering softwareas a service. Rich Marcello, president of Unisys Systems and Technology,…(more)
MarketWatch - USACarriers can also take advantage of optional distribution services withinthe US by using Core180’s network and platform. More information on theprogram …(more)
SAAS Directory - London,USADell has rolled out a SaaS package to enable European businesses tooutsource functions such as email, software-licence management, disasterrecovery and …(more)
Reuters - USABy Leslie Guevarra - Leslie Guevarra Berkeley firm Scientific Conservation
Inc. goes to market today with its SCIwatch software-as-a-service solution– a …(more)
Data Center Knowledge - Lawrenceville,NJ,USAThis morning the company outlined its cloud roadmap, which focuses onservice-as-a-service (saas) and platform-as-a-service (paas) offeringsfeaturing its …(more)
If youre considering multitenancy to be able to share resourceslike certainobjects code or configuration then there are solutions for that as well Use…(more)
By Zoli Erdos
It’s not so long ago that it felt embarrassing to say the words “SaaS” and” single-tenant” in the same sentence. For years, it’s been an industrymantra that it’s simply impossible to have a scalable SaaS business withoutmulti-tenancy …(more)
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USAby Matt Asay For all the hype around cloud computing, two big issuescontinue to keep CIOs from feeling safe participating: security andinteroperability. …(more)
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USAParature’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model enables customers toexperience a seamless transition to Parature’s latest release, with nosoftware to …(more)
TMCnet - USABy Vivek Naik Version One reportedly announced that its latest market
research survey regarding cloud computing is ready, and its main finding isthat more …(more)
Datamation - Darien,CT,USANowhere is this more true than in the crowded field of cloud computingvendors. These young companies face a cruel rule of the cloud business: thefuture of …(more)
CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USAInteroperability is particularly important for Cloud Computing sinceorganizations wish to take advantage of the great cost-savings on offer,…(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USASystem architects and engineering teams are designing increasingly complexembedded systems in order to satisfy their customers’ stringentfunctionality and …(more)
CA has announced its entry into the softwareasaserviceSaaS space with threeondemand products. At its user event in Las Vegas this week CA unveiledondemand …(more)
Multitenancy the Holy Grail of SaaS Do Customers Care … industry mantrathat it’s simply impossible to have a scalable SaaS business withoutmultitenancy …(more)
PC World - USACisco Systems won’t try to compete with pay-as-you-go cloud computingproviders such as Amazon, and instead will sell its infrastructure to thosecompanies …(more)
Channel Insider - New York,NY,USAOn Tuesday, Red Hat announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification andPartner Program, which enlists industry leaders in cloud computing tobecome …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) - Montvale,NJ,USABy Mark Hamilton System architects and engineering teams are designing
increasingly complex embedded systems in order to satisfy their customers’stringent …(more)
ebizQ - New Rochelle,NY,USA… Charles Phillips unexpectedly called me into an impromptu briefing tomake sure I fully understood the vendor’s stance on SaaS and multi-tenancy….(more)
PC World - USAOracle is now offering ISVs the ability to pay by the month for its SaaS(software as a service) infrastructure platform, versus shelling out majorsums for …(more)
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USAThe company has been building online services on top of its WebEx Connectsoftware-as-a-service platform that integrates traditional and Web 2.0business …(more)
ChannelWeb - Manhasset,NY,USABy Rick Whiting, ChannelWeb Oracle is offering its Software-as-a-Service
ISV partners the option of paying for Oracle’s “Platform for SaaS” softwareon a …(more)
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USAThat bad-for-cloud, right-for-SaaS idea seems contradictory. Yet, DavidThompson makes a pretty good case for at least one application: e-mail. …(more)
ChannelWeb - Manhasset,NY,USAAnd while Dennerline and Warrior said Cisco has big plans for the cloud andSaaS, the company isn’t going to try and launch pay-as-you-go cloudservices, …(more)
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USAAnyone trying to understand the cloud computing phenomenon need only lookat how cloud services are being used to get a better picture. …(more)
TheStreet.com - USA… presence since acquiring WebEx for $3.2 billion in 2007, and is nowpushing this as part of its broader Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy….(more)


