June 2009

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

• Report finds amusement parks didn’t report injuries

Houston Chronicle – United StatesTexas law requires ride owners to report serious injuries to the Departmentof Insurance, which provides the reports to anyone who asks as a service to…(more)

• What the iphone teaches us about cloud adoption

CNET News – San Francisco,CA,USAby James Urquhart Whilst I have often grouped Cloud Computing with theconsumerization of IT (and the iphone as it’s most visible example)together in …(more)

• Self-Service Nation: Why Targeting Small Business Is Good Business

GigaOm – San Francisco,CA,USAIf I were Microsoft, I would be more concerned about software-as-a-servicesolutions eroding my market share in the SMB segment than the threat ofconsumer …(more)

• CTS Announces Partnership with Trend Micro

PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA… announces a new partnership with Trend Micro to provide antivirus andsecurity solutions under the Software as a Service (SaaS) framework. …(more)

• Why Enterprises Don’t Like SaaS | Techdare

By Steven
At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, SaaS oron-premise? The assumption, because this conference was all about modern2.0 stuff, was.(more)

• Hitechmeme: Zoho Fashions New SAAS to On-Premise Plug-in For …

By Hitechmeme
Zoho, a maker of SAAS messaging and collaboration and enterpriseapplications, unveils Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint to let ZohoOffice users create documents and save them to SharePoint. The plug-in isZoho’s latest bid to …(more)

• S’pore firms eyeing software-as-a-service

Business Times (subscription) – SingaporeSINGAPORE firms are expected to show significant interest in adopting SaaS(Software-as-a-Service) applications provided by third party vendors thisyear, …(more)

• NetSuite Targets SAP’s Home Market – Barron’s

Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USASAP once owned this market, but it’s been slow to migrate its offerings tosoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) – hence the hole in the fence. …(more)

• What the iPhone teaches us about cloud adoption | Supossably

By posterbot
Cloud computing and Infosec blogger, Chris Hoff, notes that the adoption ofthe iPhone has much in common with the adoption of cloud computing. Fansare willing to live with incomplete feature sets in order to benefit from anew way of …(more)

• 12 Companies Targeting Early Tech Adopters

By Admin
Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage theirAPIs using Mashery’s expertise. At the “Business of APIs” conference,Mashery CEO Oren Michels explained to the audience that while APIs are atechnology, their use is a … The Contexa system then matches ReadWriteWebsponsors’ requirements with the contextual representation of the page toprovide relevant ads for readers. Contexa is offered as a service and canbe integrated into any ad system. …(more)

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

Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.

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

• Benioff, High Priest of SaaS, Snipes Back at Oracle

InternetNews.com – New York,NY,USABut competition is heating up as SaaS vendors proliferate and battle withbig names in traditional software. Benioff also said customers aredemanding …(more)

• Why Enterprises Don’t Like SaaS

ReadWriteWeb – CA,USAAt the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, I asked all of the vendors, “SaaS oron-premise?” The assumption, because this conference was all about modern2.0 stuff, …(more)

• CloudNews for 26th June, 2009 | CloudAve

By Mayank Gupta
Heartland Launches SaaS for Career College Management Heartland PaymentSystem.(more)

• Coda Teams with Corefino on Cloud Computing

WebCPA – New York,NY,USAThe service combines the Coda 2go accounting software, which is built ontop of Salesforce.com’s Force.com cloud computing software, with Corefino’s…(more)

• A Cloud for the GI Bill System

Nextgov – Washington,DC,USACall me a cynic (another term for realist), but I wonder how good a deal VAwill get from SPAWAR on cloud computing. The VA inspector general reported…(more)

• Cloud Computing as a Euphemism

Ulitzer.com – Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USAI think I may have been completely wrong in describing cloud computing as ametaphor or analogy, or more simply as Internet centric infrastructure. …(more)

• Cloud Computing – Microsoft versus IBM

CIOZone – Melville,USAHow matured is cloud computing? Or is it just another buzzword and/orwrapper around Grid, Virtualization, SaaS etc.? My issue is how any of theofferings …(more)

• API Group Selects Zscaler Cloud Security Service

TMCnet – USAAnd for API Group, as with other customers, Zscaler means no additionalhardware or software is needed at the gateway; they can simply forward …(more)

• What is cloud computing? $B”c(B Datarati :: Will Scully-Power :: Data …

By Will Scully-Power
Cloud Computing. I was speaking with someone during the week about hostingtheir marketing and campaign data ‘in the cloud’ and they looked at mefunny. Here is a simple, clear, concise explaination:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= …(more)

• Data Analytics In The Cloud Soa World – DogEar $B8$$N<*(B

2009/06/27. Data Analytics In The Cloud Soa World Data Analytics in theCloud presentation at SOA World, part of the SOA & Cloud Computing track,focus on open source software, SOA, data analytics, Apache Hadoop …(more)

• SAP ABAP4 Technology $B”d(B Why Solaris for SAP?

By Neo
This paper demonstrates the big trends I ve outlined here: cloud computing,virtualization, server sprawl, and the need for Green IT. It thendemonstrates how Solaris delivers a stable, reliable, scalable andinnovative solution for all …(more)

• ObjectsOnClouds.org Launched the ObjectsOnClouds Open Source …

TOKYO, JAPAN — The ObjectsOnClouds Open Source Project Initiative(ObjectsOnClouds Project) is a worldwide collaborative effort to develop aset of technologies interworking together as a cloud computing platform….(more)

• NTLM service – Windows 7 Forums

By sid.lordvoldemort
i upgraded from 32 bit to 64 bit just yday but when i tried to installntlmaps (to bypass proxy authentication) i couldn’t run it as a service. imean.(more)

• IBM Talks Up Cloud Computing

InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA”Cloud computing is a new way of consuming IT,” says Willy Chiu, vicepresident of IBM Cloud Labs. By Charles Babcock At the end of a daylongconference, …(more)

• Cloud computing ‘may change Wall St business plans’

One Stop Click – London,UKCloud computing is the technology most likely to force significant businesschange, it has been predicted. Research carried out by the SecuritiesIndustry …(more)