December 2, 2009

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

• Virtual Infrastructure in Cloud Computing Just Passes the Buck

SYS-CON Media (press release)One of the reasons why the author opined this way was presented as thegreat benefits of horizontal scalability (linear) in cloud computingenvironments. …(more)

• Even if Consumers Are Unaware of Cloud Computing

SYS-CON Media (press release)By Hovhannes Avoyan I read in an article on cloud computing where Ray
Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, predicted a successful ventureinto cloud …(more)

• Meeza launches Software-as-a-Service across GCC (The Peninsula)

SAAS DirectoryDOHA: Meeza, the Qatar-based provider of managed IT services and solutions,has announced the availability of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering…(more)

• Cisco Leads $27 Million Round For Aravo

Washington PostAravo, a SAAS supplier chain management tool just raised a whopping $27million in Series D funding led by Cisco, with other investorsparticipating. …(more)

• The ‘software-as-a-service revolution is upon us’

Experian QAS AustraliaMr Lacerte compared them with software-as-a-service, which he said held thekey to more efficient collaboration between companies and their clientsthrough …(more)

• Making Cloud Computing Secure for the Enterprise

SYS-CON Media (press release)By Ellen Rubin For cloud computing to gain traction in the enterprise, IT
and security executives need to be certain that their company’sapplications and …(more)

• Moving Exchange to the Cloud, Part 1

Windows & Net MagazineNew companies that don’t currently have an email system installed shouldabsolutely consider cloud computing for email services, because thisapproach lets …(more)

• Meeza launches Software-as-a-Service across GCC (The Peninsula …

By admin
DOHA: Meeza, the Qatar-based provider of managed IT services and solutions,has announced the availability of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offeringacross the GCC. SaaS gives small and medium businesses (SMBs) access to thelatest …(more)

• Veracruzano: How will Software as a service impact organization?

By abe zurita
Software as a service is a somewhat new business tool that it is changingthe software industry in a rapid and increasingly way. Renting the softwareinstead of own it has many advantages, for example: you do not need toinstall all the …(more)

• Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware …

Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware. by onDecember 1, 2009. Download this free white paper to learn howplatform-as-a-service private cloud offers enterprises one of the best waysto take advantage of cloud computing. … Internet Surveillance Cameras,Networking, Configuration, Connectivity, Installation, Integration,Security, Troubleshooting, Operating Systems, Printers and Copiers, Serversand Workstations, Software and Applications …(more)

• Software as a Service User Experience: Clean user flow

By Patrick Espeland
Software as a Service User Experience. A collection of observations onSoftware as a Service and the unique user experience that it offers itsclients. Tuesday, December 1, 2009. Clean user flow. I’ve been a fan of 37Signals, …(more)

• SOA Platform Blog: What is Governance as a Service

By Feed Aggregator
WSO2 Governance as a Service will provide a WSO2 Governance Registry hostedinstance on the web following the SaaS principle. You can use this onlinewithout having to download, install, configure and deploy the WSO2Governance Registry …(more)

• Verizon Business Helps Enterprises Harness the Power of the ‘Cloud’

TMC Net2 /PRNewswire/ — Cloud computing is transforming how IT resources aredelivered. For today’s enterprises, it is not a question of if they willadopt “cloud …(more)

• Top data center challenges include social networks, rising energy costs

San Francisco ChronicleRising use of social networks, rising energy costs and a need to understandnew technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing are among thetop …(more)

• WaveMaker 6 Makes SaaS Simple for Macs

PR Web (press release)”With WaveMaker 6, Mac developers can now build SaaS-enabled web apps on OSX and deploy them to Amazon EC 2 with a single button click! …(more)

• Introduction to SaaS Architecture | Version 1.0 Blogs

By Vaibhav Jain
In our previous blog we discussed about SaaS and how SaaS is different fromCloud Computing or ASP. In this blog we’ll discuss about SaaS architecture.(more)

• Cloud Computing in Practice

SYS-CON Media (press release)By Mark O’Neill James Urquhart has assembled a very impressive list of
examples of Cloud Computing in practice. Syndicated stories and blog feeds,…(more)

• Microsoft’s Mehdi on financial impact of Yahoo deal

CNET NewsLong story short — MS needs to place bets on cloud computing, search,mobile computing, and sync solutions. If they assume that the Windows andOffice cash …(more)

• How Cloud Economics Will Change IT

E-Commerce TimesBy James Damoulakis Any IT department that has not embraced cloud computing
had better be prepared to talk about it, at the very least, and that means…(more)

• Girls Incorporated Deploys Navatar Group’s Online Event Registration for

Cloud …BenzingaNEW YORK, Dec. 2, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Navatar Group, a global cloudservice provider and longtime salesforce.com partner, today announced thatGirls …(more)

• Leading Midwest Bank Selects Ultimate Software’s saas Solution for Human …

Welt Online… NA, a leading financial services provider in the Midwest, selectedultipro through Software-as-a-Service (saas) delivery in September 2009….(more)

• Global CIO: Will SAP Move To Tiered Maintenance Fees?

InformationWeek… and as it evaluates whether it should raise its support and maintenancefees, and as it tries to add profitable SaaS products to its on-premisemix, …(more)

• Verizon Offers Cloud Lessons

Light ReadingClaiming it wants to ease enterprises’ paths to cloud computing, VerizonBusiness is introducing a kind of a handholding service today. …(more)

• Forrester: Security Concerns Hinder Cloud Computing Adoption

SYS-CON Media (press release)By Pat Romanski Concerns about the security of cloud computing environments
top the list of reasons for firms not being interested in the pay-per-use…(more)

• nasa’s Nebula: The Cloud in a Container

Data Center KnowledgeThe Verari data center container housing the NASA Nebula cloud computingapplication arrives at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. …(more)

• Understanding cloud computing | Dynamic Business

By Leigh Kelson
Understanding cloud computing Cloud computing is one of the hottest topicsin IT but it can be a confusing one too. There are strong business reasonsand benefits for why you should understand computer clouding and readingthis article …(more)

• Samsung Launches Ubiquitous Media Application, Pocket Media, with …

By PR Newswire Asia
With integration of ubitus cloud computing technology, Pocket Media caneasily overcome any media codecs/formats’ barriers, adapt “Live/instantcontent” to networks and target devices, and optimize mobility experiences….(more)

• CDC Software Completes Acquisitions of Truition and gomembers

Welt Online… a leading on-demand e-Commerce platform provider for retailers andbrand manufacturers, and gomembers, a leading provider of software as aservice …(more)

• Webroot stores email in cloud

Infosecurity Magazine (US)Boulder, Colorado-based web security firm Webroot has expanded its range ofcloud based security services with a software as a service (Saas) basedemail …(more)

• The rise of the cloud platform

CNET Newsby Gordon Haff There was legitimate debate at one point whether the styleof cloud computing often called Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) was reallygoing to …(more)

• Platform-as-a-Service Private Cloud with Oracle Fusion Middleware

InfoWorldDownload this free white paper to learn how platform-as-a-service privatecloud offers enterprises one of the best ways to take advantage of cloud…(more)

• Intel shows off a chip with 48 brains for cloud computing

VentureBeatThis chip is focused on cloud computing, or processing huge amounts of datawithin servers inside corporate data centers. The hard part about chipswith …(more)

• Cloud Computing in Practice | Cloud Computing Journal

James Urquhart has assembled a very impressive list of examples of CloudComputing in practice. Examples include: Number of applications running onForce.com: 135000; Number of applications hosted by Ruby on Rails platformservice …(more)

• Taiwan market: Microsoft, HP, Citrix form cloud computing alliance

Microsoft on December 1 announced the formation of a Taiwan cloud computingalliance in cooperation with Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Citrix Systems aswell as several local IT service providers, aiming to create customizedoptimal private …(more)

• IT firms to spend more on private cloud computing

By Staff Writer
IT research and advisory company, Gartner, defines public cloud computingas a style of computing in which scalable and elastic IT-enabledcapabilities are delivered as a service to external customers usinginternet technologies. …(more)

• Zoho Ramps Up SaaS Integration Dance With Google | CloudAve

By Krishnan Subramanian
It is my strongest belief that interoperability is the key to the successof Cloud Computing. I have never hesitated to.(more)

• Computerworld > Defence Force looks to SaaS for procurement

SaaS an interim solution in SAP long game.(more)

• E-Commerce News: SaaS: How Cloud Economics Will Change IT

By James Damoulakis
As we approach the end of 2009, the hands-down winner of the hot IT trendsaward continues to be cloud computing. Yet the reality is that for many,cloud deployment strategies remain somewhat ethereal — part theoretical,…(more)

• Podcast: Panda Security CEO Juan Santana

InformationWeekThe last pillar is that these products can be managed as a service.” Ishouldn’t minimize the SaaS (software and security as a service) aspect ofa …(more)

• Indiana University Wins $1.5M Cloud Computing Grant

GenomeWeb Daily NewsCloud computing techniques, which outsource computer infrastructure tocreate virtual supercomputers with enhanced computational powers, may be auseful …(more)

• SAAS | IndoDiaries|know Indian Top 5|Best Articles|Earn Money Online

By cyberventuretech
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a model of software deployment whereby aprovider licenses an application to customers for use as a service ondemand.(more)

• Cloud Computing Tops Gartner’s ‘Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010 …

TMCnet… this includes the applications that software vendors deliver toorganizations on a subscription basis, using the cloud orsoftware-as-a-service model, …(more)

• Intel Demos Powerful 48-Core Chip for Cloud Computing

Sci-Tech TodayBy Jennifer leclaire Intel researchers have demonstrated an experimental
48-core processor with 10 to 20 times the processing power of today’sadvanced …(more)