Daily Cloud Feed - Nov 4, 2009
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- Microsoft’s cloud pricing falls closer to earth
- Large Crowd Gains Insight into Future of Cloud Computing
- Microsoft Cuts Online Services Pricing
- Cloud Computing: Yin and Yang // Kenneth Reitz
- VetSource Mobility Equipped to Provide Mobility Solutions to Federal …
- Microsoft, Taiwan Sign MOU On Cloud Computing Research Hub
- Storage Fusion’s Latest Release Of SRA Delivers Enterprise Class
- Microsoft takes aim at SaaS CRM giants (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK …
- Webroot Grows Web Security SaaS Business By 150 Percent | SourceWire
- Servoy Upgrades SaaS Software | socalTECH.com | Information Technology
- Microsoft takes aim at SaaS CRM giants (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK …
- Microsoft Offers Free saas To Salesforce, Oracle Customers …
- The Forrester Blog For Sourcing & Vendor Management Professionals
- Snowboard World Cup Continues This Week with Halfpipe and Big Air
- Acadia Gets Cloud-computing Venture Rolling in Asia
- Microsoft, Taiwan To Develop Cloud Computing Technology
- Microsoft slashes the cost of hosted email services; to expand BPOS platform
- Competitors From 26 Nations In Saas Fee For World Cup
- Reliance Cloud Computing Services Simplify the Life of Small and …
- Citrix Discusses Cloud Computing and the Virtual Desktop
- Oracle SVP Richard Sarwal on Cloud Computing (Application Grid)
- Insulating Innovators from Infrastructure with Cloud Computing …
- NC4 Inc announces the industry’s first Homeland Security Cloud(TM …
- IBM Advances Cloud Computing in Education; Unveils IBM Cloud Academy;
- Knoa releases end-user experience monitoring solution for virtualization …
- CubeTree Positioned in Visionaries Quadrant of Leading Industry Analyst
- PDI Chooses Veeva Systems’ Multi-tenant saas CRM System
- Insulating Innovators from Infrastructure with Cloud Computing
- Rich Lee, Hosted Solutions CEO, to Lead Cloud Computing Panel at
- A trip into the secret, online ‘cloud’
- New RSA(R) Security Brief Outlines Best Practices for Protecting …
- Forterra Systems Announces 3D Internet Solution for Organizations Facing …
- IGLOO Software Identified by Leading Market Research Firm As One of the
- COMMCO Latest Company to Switch From SAP R/3 to NetSuite OneWorld
- NetSuite OneWorld Named Enterprise Accounting Software of the Year …
- ArticleSnatch Free Article Directory
- Platform Computing Advances Cloud Computing for HPC
- IBM Advances Cloud Computing in Education; Unveils IBM Cloud Academy
- RightNow: Blending CRM with SaaS and Social Media | MSPmentor
- Saas Billing, Cloud Computing Monetization And Recurring Billing …
- SaaS 2.0: Productive at 36000 feet
- Cisco, EMC and vmware form cloud computing coalition
- Juniper to CIOs: Invest in internal cloud computing networks
- Novell Prepares Enterprise Social Networking Suite
- IT Constraints, Virtual Environments Demand Hosted Services
- Critical Media Expands Management Team
- Sybase expands iPhone support with Afaria 6.5
- Oracle’s Rex Wang Outlines Customer Choice with Cloud Computing
- IBM fired after massive cloud computing screw up
- Distributed database for cloud computing users, Objectivity, Inc …
- Bink.nu | Microsoft Plans Cloud-Computing Center in Taiwan - Bink.nu
- IBM Advances Cloud Computing in Education; Unveils IBM Cloud …
- Internet Evolution - David Vellante - Cloud Computing Splits Into …
- MyFax Surpasses Milestone of 400000 Subscribers
- Commentary: Shift happens: Cloud computing (and why you should care)
- Cisco and VMWare: This Is a Hug, Not a Marriage
- NetApp Leverages Altus to Energize Its Direct Sales Force and Channel
- Strong Demand for Teneros Services Leads to Management Team Expansion
- Web Host Easyspace Launches SaaS App Marketplace for VPS Customers …
- Web hosting provider Easyspace Launches SaaS applications for its …
- Technofile Europe: Why SaaS sales productivity is collapsing
- Introduction to SaaS Hosting | Hobgit Web Hosting News
- Mark Minasi discusses cloud computing, Windows 7 and IT trends
- netsuite Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results
- Microsoft cuts software as a service prices to match Google Apps …
- New RSA brief outlines best practices for protecting data and …
- Cisco, EMC, and vmware make alliance official
- IBM helps students put their heads in the cloud
- Innovest’s Ray Umerley Speaks At Savvis Cloud Computing Seminar
- What’s in a whitepaper? A lot, it turns out!
National Business ReviewSmall businesses that don’t have the infrastructure, can access thetechnology as a service. Microsoft manages the infrastructure. …(more)
eWeekMost of the 30 or so sessions on Day 1 of the Cloud Computing Conference &Expo were well-attended, and the three main presentations in the lateafternoon …(more)
Microsoft Certified ProfessionalBy Herb Torrens Microsoft announced that it has bulked up some its
software-as-a-service offerings and lowered prices. Prices were reduced onMicrosoft’s …(more)
By kenneth
Cloud Computing: Yin and Yang. Cloud computing enables us. Amazon’s EC2allows anyone in the world to have instant access to incredibly powerfulhigh-end servers that would usually cost tens of thousands of dollars forpennies on the …(more)
ReutersVetSource Mobility will provide mobility solutions to the FederalGovernment and Government Contractors through Executive Order 13360, as aService Disabled …(more)
Wall Street Journal(MSFT) and the Taiwan government signed a memorandum of understandingWednesday to jointly set up a research center for cloud computing inTaiwan, …(more)
Business Solutions MagazineUsing an innovative SaaS (Software as a Service) delivery model, SRAprovides comprehensive analytics for enterprise storage environmentsthrough an …(more)
By Yahoo! News Search Results for microsoft
Microsoft has launched a new campaign aimed at bringing users to itsDynamics hosted CRM service.(more)
PRESS RELEASE Webroot Grows Web Security SaaS Business By 150 PercentWebroot Web and Email Security Services fuel Webroot growth in securityservices…(more)
By zakopanelimba
Thousand Oaks-based Servoy, a developer of software for developing software-as-a-service applications, said Monday that it has upgraded its namesakeplatform.(more)
By admin
Microsoft has launched a new campaign aimed at bringing users to itsDynamics hosted CRM service. See the article here: Microsoft takes aim atSaaS CRM giants (V3.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) …(more)
Microsoft Offers Free saas To Salesforce, Oracle Customers -InformationWeek.(more)
By Philipp Karcher
Rosslyn announced today the launch of its free SaaS automated spendanalysis tool, RA.Pid. This effort to bring spend analysis to the massesenabled by a SaaS deployment model is long overdue. Traditionally we seespend analysis …(more)
First TracksSaas-Fee, Switzerland - After Austria’s Stefan Gimpl claimed gold in theseason’s first big air in London last weekend, it’s time for some more LGSnowboard …(more)
PC WorldCisco Systems, EMC and vmware hope to soon sign the first Asian customersfor their cloud-computing partnership and Acadia joint venture. …(more)
Wall Street Journal(Adds comments from Ballmer on the company’s planned investment in cloudcomputing; details of Microsoft’s MOU with Chunghwa Telecom. …(more)
TopNews United StatesThe recent Microsoft move of slashing the price of its Exchange Onlineemail services, as well as building up some of its software-as-a-serviceofferings, …(more)
Fast Track Ski HolidaysThe best snowboarders from 26 countries are currently in the Swiss glacierresort of Saas Fee for the latest stage of the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup….(more)
By Sidhrath Surana
With the help of Reliance Cloud Computing Services small and largebusinesses will be able to use their technology requirements without payingfor procuring,(more)
I had the pleasure of attending Gartner’s Symposium and IT Expo in Orlandoin October. Other than talking to a lot of customers and partners, I tooktime off between booth hours to attend sessions and I was especiallyinterested in …(more)
By Mike Piech
In a recent interview with Cloud Computing Journal, senior vice presidentof development for Oracle Enterprise Manager Richard Sarwal highlightsOracle’s fundamental objectives of making cloud computing enterprise gradeand supporting …(more)
By johnsavageau
John Savageau’s Thoughts on Telecom, Internet, Technololgy, andCommunications.(more)
By admin
The seminars we are hosting December 8, 9 and 10 will provide attendeeswith a better understanding of the issues and opportunities for using cloudcomputing for homeland security, and the leading-edge NC4 solutionsavailable to them.(more)
Provides …TMCnet’The IBM Cloud Academy will advance awareness and adoption of cloudcomputing, including best practices for education and researchinstitutions. …(more)
EDL ConsultingSoftware developer Knoa released a new end-user experience monitoringsolution for virtualization, cloud and SaaS. The new solution, called Knoa…(more)
Firm`s …Reuters(Business Wire)– CubeTree today announced that Gartner Inc. positionedCubeTree in the Visionaries Quadrant of the “2009 Magic Quadrant for SocialSoftware …(more)
TMC NetPDI said that this marks its continued commitment to the technologyadvances in the world of cloud computing where business spending onsaas/Cloud …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release)After two days of presentations at the Cloud Computing Conference and Expo,where companies tried to bring the audience up to an Intro to Clouds 101level, …(more)
Raleigh’s …ReutersLee is scheduled to deliver a “State of the Union” overview on cloudcomputing on the second day of the two-day conference, which begins todayat the …(more)
CNN InternationalWithout realizing it, I’d started cloud computing, that nebulous term thatrefers to the idea that computing power is moving off home pcs and laptopsand …(more)
Earthtimes (press release) - London,UKSolutions and services center on Data Center Monitoring and Multi-tenancy,Data Encryption and Tokenization, Federated Identity Management, …(more)
ReutersAvailable as a custom installation within an organization`s existing ITinfrastructure, as an external hosted offering or even viaSoftware-as-a-Service, …(more)
Top …ReutersThe criteria used by IDC to measure innovation were based on the followingthree key application trends: 1 Acceleration of software as a service(SaaS), …(more)
PR Newswire (press release)”SAP wanted our business, but our knowing that NetSuite’s entire focus ison SaaS and the depth of functionality they offered compared to SAPBusiness …(more)
By Prne
In addition, NetSuite OneWorld has been accredited by the Institute ofChartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), and was also the firstSoftware as a Service (SaaS) ERP solution to be accredited by the GermanInstitute of …(more)
Cloudjobs.net is the No. 1 Online Source for jobs in Cloud Computing,Software as a Service (SaaS) and Virtualization.(more)
Reuters4 /PRNewswire/ — Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloudmanagement software, is expanding cloud computing capabilities for high …(more)
Reuters”Cloud computing makes it easier for those in the education industry,including students, faculty and administrators, to gain immediate access toa wide …(more)
By Matthew Weinberger
RightNow has launched their CX SaaS customer service platform, which blendsCRM With SaaS (software as a service) and social media.(more)
This article focuses on cloud computing and the benefits recurring billingpayment processing can provide for your business.(more)
By Daniel Druker
This blog is written by Dan Druker, SVP of Intacct Corporation, coveringfinancial management, accounting and ERP applications, Cloud Computing,Software as a Service and the SaaS ecosystem, SaaS and channels, the deathof the ERP suite …(more)
Infosecurity MagazineIn a press conference for reporters, the three companies said that thecoalition will bring private cloud computing and virtualisation toenterprises, …(more)
Search NetworkingWith this combination, Juniper hopes to build supercharged cloud computingnetworks for enterprises with the ability to push unlimited applicationsout to …(more)
PC WorldPulse will be released in general availability in a Web-hosted, SaaS(software-as-a-service) version before the first half of the year, and ason-premise …(more)
Reuters”The answer: create a simulated IT department using cloud computing,virtualization, SaaS, and hosted services,” said Lampe. MOVEit DMZ HostedServices …(more)
ReutersHe previously served as the President and VP Partnerships at dna13 Inc., asoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) company and a leader of on-demand software for…(more)
V3.co.uk - UKThe other major enhancement in Afaria 6.5 is multi-tenancy support, whichallows service providers, carriers or enterprises to support multipletenants or …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release)So, today, in a nascent Cloud Computing industry–IDC estimates that Cloudrepresents 5 perccent of the market today, and will reach 10 percent withinfour …(more)
By a staff writer
IBM fired after massive cloud computing screw up.(more)
By hone
Objectivity/DB, available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Thelaunch made Objectivity/DB the first federated, distributed databaseproduct accessible in a cloud computing environment.(more)
By Steven Bink
The software giant, which last month launched the latest version of itsoperating system, Windows 7, signed a memorandum of understanding withTaiwan’s government to jointly set up a research center for cloudcomputing. …(more)
By Editor
IBM (NYSE:IBM) today launched the IBM Cloud Academy, a global forum foreducators, researchers and information technology (IT) personnel from theeducation industry to pursue cloud computing initiatives, develop skillsand share best …(more)
There’s a split between cloud computing, which supports progress, andvirtualization of data centers, which doesn’t.(more)
ReutersAbout Protus Protus provides the highest quality software as a service(SaaS) communications tools for small-to-medium-businesses (SMB) andenterprise …(more)
Wisconsin Law JournalPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provides the fundamental building blocks uponwhich software developers can build SaaS applications. …(more)
Motley FoolInstead, it is forming a cloud computing partnership with storage expertEMC and its virtual computing underling, VMware. The Acadia joint ventureand …(more)
PartnersCNNMoney.com (press release)Altus helps companies capture and deliver their valuable content via aturn-key, SaaS infrastructure and a global media delivery network. …(more)
CNNMoney.com (press release)”Matt and Monico bring the experience and vision for building a scalablerevenue generation and service delivery organization for our new SaaSservices,” …(more)
“Over 150 SaaS applications are now available to customers through thislatest addition to our Virtual Server range, with each application being apotential opportunity for business improvement,” Easyspace managingdirector Errol …(more)
By Easyspace
Glasgow, UK, Nov 4th 2009 (PressReleasePoint) — Easyspace, one of theleading providers of domain names and web hosting services in the UK, hasannounced the launch of an extensive library of easy to install SaaSapplications for its …(more)
By maxbley
SaaS sales productivity has collapsed. Is this a symptom of the recession,or of a permanent change in the distribution model for software?(more)
By admin
Cloud computing is a highly scalable form of hosting, offering a convenientpay-as-you-go model for on-demand computing resources. This technologyprovides a number of benefits to both IT professionals and non-technicalusers aside from …(more)
SearchCloudComputing.comSpeaking of renting, everyone is talking about cloud computing. Do youthink cloud services will start to take off soon? Minasi: Cloud serviceswill be like …(more)
CNNMoney.com (press release)Partnered with Fujitsu to distribute, resell, and support netsuite ReleaseJ, Japan’s first and only fully-localized, Software as a Service business…(more)
Thesoftware as a service camp is doing nothing but speeding up as small andlarge businesses would like to offload expensive software installations andjust …(more)
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,CanadaSolutions and services centre on Data Centre Monitoring and Multi-tenancy,Data Encryption and Tokenization, Federated Identity Management, …(more)
CNET NewsThis is a band aid attempt at Cloud Computing. You need a real OS that canrun the INTEL multiple core cpu’s. All current os’s can’t. None of them….(more)
CNET Newsby Dave Rosenberg IBM on Wednesday announced a program designed to helpeducators and students pursue cloud-computing initiatives and better takeadvantage …(more)
CNNMoney.com (press release)Cloud computing, one of the fastest-growing trends in InformationTechnology infrastructure, involves the provisioning of dynamicallyscalable and …(more)
FederalNewsRadio.comMore recently software as a service (SaaS) has raised the level ofvirtualization to the application, with a business model of charging not bythe resources …(more)


