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• Google Chrome: The Official Start of the Cloud Era - Cloud Computing

Channel InsiderGoogle Chrome is being dismissed by competitors and analysts, but it mayjust be the official beginning of the cloud computing era by freeing usersfrom big …(more)

• Emantra posts 1756% growth: cloud computing success

Inside SAP MagazineEmantra, an Australian cloud computing company has posted revenue growth of1756.3% over the last year. The record growth was enough to see them namedthe …(more)

• Six Kids and a Full Time Job: Israel’s Design Problem

By Michael Eisenberg
It is why in this design-conscious, user friendly web world there are fewif any Israeli mega hits in either consumer internet or SAAS. I am runninginto this issue in company after company that I am looking at. …(more)

• Emergence of SaaS as an Effective Distribution Model for LIMS

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)The global outlook series on Laboratory Information Management Systems(LIMS) provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, …(more)

• Shared Supercomputing and Everyday Research

New York TimesFor inspiration, scientists are looking at cloud computing services likeGoogle’s online office software, photo-sharing sites and Amazon.com’s datacenter …(more)

• IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (Yahoo News) 22/11/2009

By abdthebest
PC World - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Thursday attempted to cementan image of the vendor as a full-blown application development platformprovider, not merely a purveyor of SaaS (software-as-a-service)applications. …(more)

• The Forrester Blog For Information & Knowledge Management …

By James Kobielus
Deep application and middleware integration: To deliver models deeply intowhatever heterogeneous SOA-enabled platform you happen to use, yourpredictive analytics tool should deploy on and/or integrate with a widerange of enterprise applications, middleware, operating platforms, … Andto scale to the max, your predictive analytics tools should deploy modelsto massively parallel data warehouses, software-as-a-service environments,and cloud computing fabrics. …(more)

• Good vibes for Microsoft ‘point-and-click cloud computing’

Australian TechworldBasically Windows has introduced point-and-click cloud computing for themasses and it’s doing it in a way that resembles the iPhone applicationdirectory …(more)

• Saas Fee Offers New Transport And Leisure Facilities

OnTheSnow.comSkiers heading to Saas Fee this winter will benefit from five snow trains,a new children’s park for young skiers, and a new micro-bowling leisurecentre. …(more)

• Software as a ServiceSaaS Measuring Your CAC Effectiveness

Measuring the CAC ratio is a critical function for SaaS companies.(more)

• Cambridge Hospitality Chooses infobit Systems’ procloud

Infrastructure-as-a …Fast Pitch Press (press release)infobit Systems provides a suite of iaas (Infrastructure-as-a-Service)offerings, IT management and monitoring services, web services, andprofessional …(more)

• BMC will host service desk offering on Force.com cloud computing platform

EDL ConsultingInformation technology management developer BMC will host a new servicedesk offering on Salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platform, thecompanies …(more)

• Microsoft’s new message to telcos: let’s be partners

CommsDayIn Taiwan, Microsoft has signed a mou with Chunghwa Telecom to offer arange of cloud services including Software as a Service (PaaS), Platform asa Service …(more)

• DigiContracts.com Announces 4 New SaaS Reseller Agreements to Help

Software …EmailwireOnline drafting service helps software vendors structure and draft SaaSReseller Agreements quickly and affordably. (EMAILWIRE. …(more)

• Fujitsu’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service for server offers flexibility in the

cloudAME Info… access to scalable and reliable server resources, backed by Fujitsu’sfull support from basic platform product to solutions, services andsoftware. …(more)

• CargoSmart Launches Next Generation Of Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Online (press release)San Jose, CA-(Marketwire) - CargoSmart Limited, a leading Software as aService (SaaS) global shipping and logistics solutions provider, todayannounced the …(more)

• Saugatuck CEO McNee Models SaaS Migration at Cloud Futures Conference

PR Web (press release)The market has spoken, made the more real by ongoing economic uncertaintythat has clearly impacted on-premise providers greater than their SaaSbrethren. …(more)

• Security concerns prompt cloud hestitation

Small BusinessA European security agency says that even though the business case forcloud computing is clear, companies are holding back due to security andprivacy …(more)

• Buy, Sell or Hold: Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Is Winning the Race

for …Money MorningMicrosoft is also looking forward to challenges facing its distributedcomputing platform concept by setting the launch of its cloud computinginitiative …(more)

• FromMelbin: Universities & the cloud: services, economics & impacts

By Mal Booth
The services themselves have long been referred to as Software as a Service(SaaS). The datacenter hardware and software is what we will call a Cloud.When a Cloud is made available in a pay-as-you-go manner to the generalpublic, …(more)

• Datacraft Solutions, Inc. hires new President, Brian Gullette by …

Durham, NC (1888PressRelease) November 23, 2009 - Gullette is anaccomplished sales and marketing executive and technology entrepreneur,having founded and managed several online marketing and businessintelligence software-as-a-service …(more)

• DigiContracts.com Announces 4 New SaaS Reseller Agreements to Help

Software …India Business Blog (blog)PivotLink and Boomi Expand SaaS Business Analytics to Over 70 EnterpriseApplications SaaS Leaders Make IT’s Job Easier by .. SAN FRANCISCO, CA andBERWYN, …(more)

• CDC Software completes Truition acquisition

Trading Markets (press release)… announced on Monday that it has completed its acquisition of Truitio nInc., a leading software-as-a-service (saas) provider in Canada. …(more)

• Rainmaker Signs Global Employment Screening Company as New Client for

Lead …PR Newswire (press release)… scalable solution that can grow with the program and provide additionalsupport services and solutions including its LeadWorks on-demand SaaSplatform. …(more)

• Cloud computing: Which IT projects are right for the cloud?

ComputerworldSome IT functions are perfect for cloud computing. Others need to stay inyour data center. Here’s how to determine which is which. …(more)

• Salesforce.com Executive Joins Biz360 to Expand Market Release of Social

Media …Business Wire (press release)Mr. Arora has extensive experience with SaaS solutions, including managingcustomer success and customer service programs to serve major enterpriseclients …(more)

• CSC Signs Cloud Computing Agreement With UK Royal Mail Group

PR Newswire (press release)23 /prnewswire/ — CSC (NYSE: CSC) today announced that it has signed anagreement with the uk’s Royal Mail Group to provide cloud computinginformation …(more)

• MEEZA to Sponsor Middle East’s First Ever Cloud Computing & saas Summit

Al-BawabaMEEZA, the Qatar based provider of Managed IT Services and Solutions, issponsoring the 1st Cloud Computing & saas Summit in the Middle East, aspart of its …(more)

• SaaS Approach Not A Fit For Enterprise Search

NetworkComputing.comAn accurate way to describe Software as a Service’s (SaaS) impact on theenterprise software market would be “all the rage.” Buoyed by high profilesuccess …(more)

• PivotLink and OrderMotion Beat the Holiday Rush by Helping Online

Retailers …Market Wire (press release)OrderMotion is integrating PivotLink’s market-leading SaaS BI solution withOMX, its industrial-strength order management platform that processes over$1 …(more)

• Recuiter streamlines administration with software as a service

The AustralianAUSTRALIA’S largest IT&T recruiter, Peoplebank, is using asoftware-as-a-service-based front-office applicant tracking platform fromUS firm Bullhorn. …(more)

• successfactors Supports UK Launch of eurocloud Community

CNNMoney.com (press release)As one of the market’s leading cloud-computing vendors, successfactorsrecently unveiled its Business Execution (bizx) Software suite, whichenables …(more)

• Informatica Releases Cloud 9 Data Integration Platform

Intelligent EnterpriseCalled Cloud 9, Informatica’s collection of offerings comprises amulti-tenant, data-integration platform-as-a-service; software-as-a-servicedata …(more)

• HP Shore application to bank on shared services

CIOLBANGALORE, INDIA: We all have heard about cloud and the relative terms likeshared services, multi-tenancy… Taking the same concept, …(more)

• COMPUTERLINKS and Optenet Team Up to Announce Global Distribution

PartnershipSYS-CON Media (press release)With the largest ISP customer base using its multi-tenant platform and 12years of experience, Optenet is a pioneer and global leader of enablingSaaS …(more)

• MedLink EHR Available Soon as a Software as a Service

TMCnet… medical information, has announced that it will be providing the optionof its MedLink TotalOffice EHR as a Software-as-a-Service starting nextmonth. …(more)

• Google Chrome OS: Don’t Link it to Cloud Computing

Intelligent EnterpriseThus, many in the press have dubbed it a “cloud computing OS.” Not surethat’s helping. First of all, if you’re looking for a quick boot OS thatworks well …(more)

• Cloud Computing Luminary Zach Nelson Joins Immunet Advisory Board

PR Newswire (press release)Under his leadership, netsuite has become the leading provider of saasbusiness management software suites in the world. Prior to McAfee, Mr.Nelson also …(more)

• Intuit and ADP Make SaaS Acquisitions, But High Unemployment Hurts …

By Sramana_Mitra
Entrepreneur & Strategy Consultant Sramana Mitra’s Blog on Technology,Business and Strategy.(more)

• InfoStreet StreetSmart Users Won’t Have to Upgrade When Switching to

Windows 7Business Wire (press release)InfoStreet.com) SaaS pioneer and provider of StreetSmart, an online smallbusiness management software suite, offers one less worry to companiesswitching …(more)

• Why Force.com Is Important To Cloud Computing

InformationWeekThe enthusiasm was about Force.com, Salesforce.com’s cloud computingplatform: developers write apps using Salesforce’s programming language andtools, …(more)

• Filipino CIOs warm up to cloud computing

Inquirer.netFor the last two years, cloud computing has been gaining momentum in thePhilippines, along with other new terminologies, particularlyvirtualization. …(more)

• Risks of Cloud Computing

Web Host Industry ReviewWhile the report focuses on cloud computing from a European perspective,the vast majority of the analysis and conclusions have generalapplicability. …(more)

• CERN’s LHC pioneers quantum leap in cloud computing

ComputerWeekly.com”Now cloud computing has come into focus it’s starting to blur thedifference between grid and cloud computing,” explains Vuk Trifkovic,senior analyst with …(more)

• 3 Reasons Why Microsoft’s Azure Will Succeed

ChannelWebWhat all this means is that Microsoft is making it relatively easy forcustomers to migrate from traditional on-premise software to cloudcomputing — or …(more)

• NIIT Technologies Partners with Kaavo to Offer Cutting Edge Cloud

Computing …SYS-CON Media (press release)While enterprises want to take advantage of the benefits of on-demandinfrastructure offered by cloud computing, they have questions concerningsecurity, …(more)

• Orlando firm wins cloud-computing deal from Navy weather forecast unit

Orlando SentinelSabalcore will provide Internet-based cloud computing capabilities to theNaval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s Geophysics Branch at ChinaLake, …(more)

• General saas Growing Faster than ERP SaaS

ERP Cloud News (blog)According to Gartner, saas revenues are growing, but the growth of saas ERPremains flat. There are obstacles that have impeded the growth of saas ERP,…(more)

• Business Intelligence Comes of Age for Companies of All Sizes

With the SaaS model, the BI software and corresponding data are hosted by atechnology vendor. Users, from independent retailers to large chains, pay amonthly subscription fee to access the power of BI — essentially rentingthe …(more)

• Revenue Slides as Earnings Increase for CDC Software

Managing Automation MagazineThe company is also betting heavily on the SaaS phenomenon that has wonover many business software buyers. As part of a broader acquisitionstrategy begun …(more)

• The First Full-Function, Cloud-Based Desktop as a Service

SYS-CON Media (press release)The Sun Open Cloud Platform, powered by Sun’s industry-leading software,hardware and storage, delivers cost-effective, scalable cloudinfrastructure. …(more)

• Multiple VPN Connections vCloud Express Support Forums …

Terremark presents the vCloud Express cloud computing community.(more)

• Acumatica Launches SaaS Solution that Runs on Windows Azure

TMCnetBy Shamila Janakiraman, TMCnet Contributor Acumatica, a provider of
web-based accounting, ERP and CRM software, announced the availability ofits SaaS (News …(more)

• Why Some Merchants are Saying Yes to saas

Multichannel MerchantThe costs add up quickly, which is why Software as a Service (saas) is agrowing trend in where multichannel merchants are putting their e-commercedollars. …(more)