Daily Cloud Feed - Nov 20, 2009
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- SkillSoft Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results and Raises Full Year …
- Google’s Chrome OS software gives glimpse of simplified computing
- vCloud Insidervcloudinsdr on Twitter
- IBM Cloud Guru Erich Clementi Looks Back at IT History to Gauge Its Future
- Cloud Computing: Where to Next?
- Future bright for Microsoft cloud computing, server president says
- ENISA Offers Security Recommendations For Cloud Services
- Pragmatic Programming Techniques: Cloud Computing Patterns
- ENISA Clears the Fog on Cloud Computing Security
- MindTouch releases SaaS enterprise collaboration platform
- China’s saas Market Set to Reach $171 Million in 2010
- The Twitter of 2010: Foursquare as Next Year’s Breakout Hit
- Google introduced Chrome OS
- How FinancialForce crushes it in SaaS accounting
- VMWare vCloud Beta
- successfactors Vice President of Cloud Computing to Participate in the
- Security still an issue for cloud computing, says report
- open source, cloud computing, saas, Amazon
- Using Web-based Support Tools to Improve Customer Service
- Google Chrome OS Ushers in New Era of Cloud Computing
- Microsoft Office 2010 Moves to the Cloud
- BMC, CA Join Salesforce.com Cloud
- Servoy adds clustering for Web services
- MedLink to Offer MedLink EHR as a Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Times Still Tough for Software Vendors, Though Less so for SaaS
- LiveTime Virtual Appliance 6.0 for SaaS-based Service Management
- Security still an issue for cloud computing, says report | Dominic …
- ENISA launches Cloud Computing Security Risk Assessment Document …
- Telecommunications Industry and Regulation: Regulation and cloud …
- EU Security Agency Highlights Cloud Computing Risks
- CDC Software Completes Definitive Agreement to Acquire Truition, a
- ACQUISITION or REFINANCE MULTITENANCY BUILDINGS
- Report: How risky is cloud computing?
- The Future of ERP, Part I
- Ozzie, Muglia and the Microsoft cloud
- Choose your route to cloud computing
- Fujitsu Interstage BPM 11 Clouds It Up | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com
- IBM and Informatica Take Next Steps Toward Cloud Delivery
- The Lanier Law Firm Announces Settlement, Judgment in Cloud Computing
- Microsoft misses the boat on web applications
- Microsoft Azure set to capture open source revenue streams
- SaaS Companies Not There Yet
- Why your Business Needs Software as a Service
- The path to cloud computing is beginning to take shape
FOXBusinessNASHUA, NH, Nov 19, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ —-SkillSoftPLC (Nasdaq: SKIL), a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) provider ofon-demand …(more)
Times OnlineWindows runs on more than 90 per cent of computers in the world andalthough the Redmond company has been making bold moves into cloudcomputing, …(more)
vCloud mastermind; talking out of turn; whatever comes to mind.(more)
eWeekNow he’s leading the cloud computing initiative, There’s more than a littleirony in the fact that Erich Clementi, the man charged with looking intothe …(more)
ReadWriteWeb (blog)And not surprisingly, the full-on pitch continued for cloud computing witha parade of executives showing the applications they developed onForce.com. …(more)
istockAnalyst.com (press release)(Source: The Seattle Times)LOS ANGELES _ All this week at the ProfessionalDevelopers Conference, Microsoft has talked about cloud computing, whatmany …(more)
Dark Reading”Multi-tenancy and shared resources are defining characteristics of cloudcomputing. This risk category covers the failure of mechanisms separatingstorage, …(more)
By Ricky Ho
Multi-tenancy more a SaaS provider (rather than an enterprise) usagescenario. The key idea is to use the same set of code / software to hostthe application for different customers (tenants) who may have slightlydifferent requirement …(more)
PR Newswire (press release)BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece , November 20 /PRNewswire/ — How canbusinesses and governments get the obvious benefits of cloud computingwithout putting …(more)
EDL ConsultingOpen source enterprise collaboration developer MindTouch launched a SaaSversion of its platform Thursday designed to help non-programmer businessusers …(more)
ECN AsiaChina’s Software as a Service (saas) market is expected to grow at 56% nextyear to reach US$171 million in revenues by the end of 2010, says thelatest …(more)
Mashable (blog)SimpleGeo launched a Platform-as-a-Service to build location aware apps(competing with TownMe) First there was content. Then there was social. …(more)
Afterdawn.comHowever, Google did demonstrate the Chrome OS which promises to bring cloudcomputing to applications. The source code for the operating system is forall …(more)
ZDNet (blog)Brian Sommer does an excellent job of explaining how the move to SaaS isworking for the ‘new kidz on the block’ trying to displace incumbent ERPvendors. …(more)
By Colin
things are starting to get interesting as the various Cloud provides arestarting to introduce services based on the proven technologies such asVMWare.(more)
Great …CNNMoney.com (press release)Tom Fisher joined Success Factors as Vice President of Cloud Computing in2009. Mr. Fisher is responsible for the company’s Cloud initiatives, …(more)
ComputingThe hosting of IT services online, known as Cloud Computing, is both afriend and a foe for chief security officers, according to a new reportfrom EU IT …(more)
By Frank Scavo
Open source ERP/CRM project opentaps is now available on Amazon’s EC2cloud. A prospect can launch his own instance in less than 10 minutes,opening the potential for a major disruption, not only of traditional ERPvendors but of SaaS …(more)
By rossir24
According to Gartner’s Maoz, SaaS-based support technologies will see ahealthy growth rate in the coming years. Gartner expects the market forSaaS-based customer service and support applications to grow by 20%annually through 2012, …(more)
eWeekChrome OS is a sort of Web operating system that boots up a netbook in afraction of the time it takes to start today’s existing computers, …(more)
Sparxoo (blog)Cloud computing technology is all around, yet few realize how much we takeadvantage of it. From e-mail to music streaming and photo hosting, …(more)
InformationWeekWith Force.com, its cloud computing market play is for what’s sometimescalled the platform-as-a-service (Paas). It’s a market Microsoft ispursuing, …(more)
SDTimes.comServoy generates a multi-tenancy layer between the application anddatabases, and it is designed to save development time by incorporatingfunctionality …(more)
CNNMoney.com (press release)The SaaS model will further assist providers to qualify for “meaningfuluse” by offering an affordable EHR framework to meet federal and stateincentives …(more)
IT Business EdgeWhile SaaS looks relatively strong as a category, some SaaS vendors sawdeclines in growth, with Wang offering Concur (12.94 percent), UltimateSoftware …(more)
Providers …TMC NetBy Shamila Janakiraman LiveTime Software, a provider of Web based ITIL 3
Service Management and Help Desk software reportedly released the LiveTimeVirtual …(more)
By Dominic
Tom Young, Computing, Thursday 19 November 2009 at 18:08:00 But Enisaargues that when done properly, security can be better in the cloud Thehosting of IT.(more)
By beaker
ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) today launchedtheir 124 page report on Cloud Computing Security Risk Assessment. Atfirst.(more)
By Martin Weiss
This item over at the Tech Liberation blog got me thinking about regulationand cloud computing. Given the underlying economies of scale and scope, itseems to me to be almost certain that we’ll see concentration in the marketfor cloud …(more)
CIOCloud computing users face problems including loss of control over data,difficulties proving compliance, and additional legal risks as data movesfrom one …(more)
Leading …WELT ONLINEThis acquisition represents the first of the two previously announcedsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) companies it plans to acquire as part of itsroll-up …(more)
ACQUISITION or REFINANCE MULTITENANCY BUILDINGSNY NJ CT. Date 200911201035AM EST Reply to servrqfxz1474489970craigslistorgErrors when replying toads …(more)
CNET Newsby Lance Whitney Cloud computing is luring more businesses with its promiseof minimal maintenance and low costs. But are companies putting their dataat …(more)
ITWorld CanadaHow about looking into software-as-a-service? For instance, Siemens, theGerman electronics and engineering giant and long-time customer of SAP, …(more)
SDTimes.comOzzie said that he expected that laws will become less restrictive overtime, because governments themselves have an interest in using cloudcomputing. …(more)
ComputerWeekly.comChrome OS is an operating system for cloud computing. If IT directorsaccept that cloud computing is the future of IT, then Google seems like agood bet. …(more)
By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
As for the multi-tenancy feature, that has a couple of implications. As youmay know if you read my posts on BPM (See “Cloud Computing BlogosphereTakes Enterprise Software out of Context”), I was a skeptic about cloudcomputing as not …(more)
Intelligent EnterpriseBy Doug Henschen Scales of economy in storage, processing power and
bandwidth will inevitably pull increasing numbers of enterprises into cloudcomputing. …(more)
Patent …PR Newswire (press release)… lawsuit over cloud storage and cloud computing technology that allowsindividuals to access computer applications through Internet browsers. …(more)
VentureBeatI spent the previous nine years at salesforce.com, and have seen first-handhow software-as-a-service and web-based applications can completely changean …(more)
InfoWorldNet runtime and Apache Tomcat runtime as a service, then I wouldn’t bet onother IT vendors being solely faithful to their strategic software stack intheir …(more)
InvestopediaAutodesk Inc., though it isn’t a pure SaaS provider, offers an online,subscription-based version of AutoCAD. Revenue fell 31% on aquarter-over-quarter …(more)
Gather.comSoftware as a Service (saas) is a growing business model that can provide agreat new perspective to companies that need to utilize softwareapplications …(more)
GCN.comBy Wyatt Kash Perhaps the top challenge in sorting through all the noise
about cloud computing as we head into 2010 is trying to establish the rightroad …(more)
