December 14, 2009

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

• The Opportunity to resell Saas IT Management to Your Customers

By admin
SAManage is a leading provider of today’s most robust, secure, andfeature-rich on-demand (SaaS) IT Asset Management solutions. We understandthe importance of resellers in any successful technology sales strategy,and are looking to …(more)

• PODCAST: Do-It-Yourself BI Done Right: The Secret Sauce is SaaS …

PODCAST: Do-It-Yourself BI Done Right: The Secret Sauce is SaaS. by onDecember 13, 2009. This podcast, featuring Forrester Research, explains howSoftware as a Service business intelligence can deliver a morecost-effective way to get …(more)

• Design notes for multi-tenancy in CollectionSpace – CollectionSpace

According to Wikipedia, multitenancy _refers to a principle in softwarearchitecture where a single instance of the software runs on asoftware-as-a- service …(more)

• Driving Multitenancy In Your Virtual Environments – Forrester Research

Nov 18, 2009 … As you continue to consolidate your server infrastructureand make it more cloudlike, a key hurdle you and most enterprises mustovercome is …(more)

• HealthLine Systems Announces 75th Software as a Service (SaaS …

Dec 11, 2009 … Search a range of Software as a Service companies. … SAPPlanning to Open up On-demand Development Platform – PC World 09 Dec 200914:33 …(more)

• Grant Street Group – Software as a Service (SaaS)

Grant Street Group specializes in Software as a Service (SaaS), whichmeans: Grant Street Group develops and hosts each application …(more)

• Verizon: More to the cloud than just computing resources

CommsDayCloud computing is arguably the hottest trend in the ICT space today, butthe growing number of cloud offerings and how they match up with different…(more)

• Progress Software: Evolution in Computing to Become Quiet Revolution in 2010

Trading Markets (press release)Cloud computing will become mainstream, with storage-as-a-service,platform-as-a-service and compute-as-a-service. It will disrupt both theopen source and …(more)

• Start-up Taps Cloud Computing for Sales & Training

SYS-CON Media (press release)… stealth mode so its purposes couldn’t be divined broke cover Monday asCloudShare and claimed to be the first business-oriented cloud computingcompany. …(more)

• Computing advice from Richard Gough (London) – Chartered IT …

By Richard Gough
Cloud computing is largely misunderstood, both as a concept but also inwhat it delivers, or is capable of delivering. In fact, the cloud is as bigas the e-business/e-commerce revolution witnessed as the start of thismillennium. …(more)

• BT says Cloud Computing will become the Norm

By Broadband User
BT said that cloud computing would emerge as the norm for businesses thatbears IT as an essential part of theirs and the internet network would beevolve as their IT infrastructure.(more)

• bigmachines Showcases Solutions

TMC NetWith its presence at saas World Tokyo, bigmachines expanded the company’sfootprint into the Japanese business market. “We’ve seen tremendous growthin our …(more)

• Mamut deal brings pay-as-you-go service to Irish customers

Small BusinessThe move follows an agreement with a Software-as-a-Service partner, TheBusiness Software Centre, to allow download of the products through itsRentsoft …(more)

• Web Host Hosting.com Offers VMware Cloud Upload Environment | The …

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Hosting.com, the leading provider of hosting and colocation solutions and astrategic VMware vCloud(TM) partner, released information today thatclients …(more)

• Building Your IT From Scratch

ForbesWhen you throw all these pieces together you have insourcing, outsourcingand Software as a Service. The key to the whole transition was the speed….(more)

• Sandvine and Optenet Launch Integrated Parental Controls Solution

SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USAThe integrated parental controls solution is customer-configurable throughOptenet’s unique multi-tenancy technology, and provides another layer ofsecurity …(more)

• Amazon creates cloud computing spot market

ZDNet (blog)Amazon on Monday rolled out spot pricing for cloud computing so customerscan buy capacity at any price on the open market. The concept is aninteresting …(more)

• IBM to Build Cloud Computing Platform for Beijing

Trading Markets (press release)An IBM executive said that the cloud computing technology could wellprepare the world’s companies for the coming challenges like qualityimprovement and …(more)

• Cloud computing a new basis for IT industry: Vice premier

Radio Taiwan InternationalChu was speaking on Monday at a forum on cloud computing in Taipei. Chusaid that information technology has been the lifeblood of Taiwan’sindustry for …(more)

• brightmove is Changing Recruiting Sofware by Tying 25% of saas

Subscription …PR Web (press release)In an extremely bold move to change the saas Recruiting Sofware industry,brightmove is offering 25% of each customer’s overall monthly saas fees asa …(more)

• Top Technologies of The Decade

PC Magazine (blog)But in this decade, the big pioneers from my perspective wereSalesforce.com, which popularized the concept of software-as-a-service;Amazon Web Services, …(more)

• Locus Recognized as Carbon Software Leader

Earthtimes (press release)The Emissions Trading & Monitoring Software Study highlights Locus’experience in the domain of Software as a Service (saas), not only for GHGemissions …(more)

• RAMP scores new customers including Newsweek and Comcast

FierceOnlineVideoContent optimization specialist RAMP says its new SaaS platform launchedlast month has attracted a bevy of new clients including Newsweek, Comcast,…(more)

• Proofpoint Replies All: Email Is Alive and Well

Earthtimes (press release)Proofpoint solutions can be deployed on-demand (saas), on-premises(appliance) or in a hybrid architecture for maximum flexibility andscalability. …(more)

• New From Amazon: Spot Pricing on Cloud Computing

Data Center KnowledgeAmazon Web Services has introduced Spot Instances, a new approach topricing and purchasing computing capacity on its EC2 cloud computingplatform. …(more)

• Amazon EC2 gets a spot market

CNET Newsby Larry Dignan Amazon on Monday rolled out spot pricing for cloudcomputing so customers can buy capacity at any price on the open market….(more)

• Cloud economics The importance of multitenancy Enterprise …

Find and compare the best UK Online Software companies on the #1 UK SaaScomparison site. Search a range of UK Software as a Service companies.(more)

• Orran Krieger VMware vCloud Deck

Nice slideshare on our thinking behind vCloud. Evolution of virtualization& the cloud; specific needs vCloud addresses http://bit.ly/5uU2KV.(more)

• What is the killer app for cloud computing?

Computerworld (blog)Unless you have had your head buried in the sand lately, you have by nowheard of the term cloud computing. Cloud computing can be defined asservice-based …(more)

• Google’s Gathering Storm In LA

Mediapost.comAccording to Google, “The cloud computing system will improve the securityand reliability of city email, transitioning from servers in the City Hall…(more)

• What Cloud Computing Can Do for Higher Education

CIO[For timely cloud computing news and expert analysis, see CIO.com's CloudComputing Drilldown section. ] Higher education, according to Horn, …(more)

• Cloud Startup Gets $10 Million in VC Funding

Web Host Industry ReviewAs a piece of software, the product is both an interesting illustration ofthe potential of products powered by cloud computing, and anotherintriguing …(more)

• SGE invests $12 million in SaaS co Netformx

GlobesSusquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) has invested $12 million in businesssoftware company Netformx. Some of the sum is in the acquisition ofEvergreen’s …(more)

• Business Demand for Conferencing Helping Market Survive: Study

TMC NetIn fact, the sector that includes hosted/SaaS Web conferencing is predictedto peak over the next two years at growth rates of 27 prevent in 2010 and2011. …(more)

• Medical Billing Software Provider Promotes Philanthropic Contributions

Company …SYS-CON Media (press release)Serving thousands of providers nationwide, CollaborateMD offers thehealthcare industry a HIPAA-compliant, 100% Java, hybrid SaaS practicemanagement and …(more)

• CloudShare Comes Out of Stealth Mode: A Talk with Kevin Epstein

ebizQ (blog)At the same time, we do offer them that Software-as-a-Service approach. Welet them pick-up their existing environment and offer it as SaaS to theirend …(more)

• InvolveMobile Launches SaaS Small Business Mobile Marketing Platform

Mobile Marketing Watch (blog)Priced at $45 per month for small businesses, the Software-as-a-Servicetechnology allows clients to set up interactive text message and mobilecampaigns …(more)

• Savvis and Cisco Deliver Private Cloud Computing

Web 2.0 Journal… which is evolving the data center to a more consolidated, virtualizedand automated environment that lays the foundation for cloud computing. …(more)

• Microsoft Creates Server and Cloud Division

Virtualization Review – Irvine,CA,USA… which launched in full production in October 2008, Google App Engineand VMware vCloud, among others. Microsoft described the reorganization asstemming …(more)

• SaaS and Cloud Terminology

ERP Cloud News (blog)SaaS and on-demand software runs on external clouds by definition. Licensedsoftware can be deployed on an internal or external cloud. …(more)

• Midmarket’s Pathways to Collaboration

Internet EvolutionForrester’s report also found many midmarket companies favor ECM suitesthat are based on open-source software or offered as asoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) …(more)

• Amazon Spot Market Critical Step for Cloud Computing

BNETBy Erik Sherman | Dec 14, 2009 Much of the focus on cloud computing has
been on the technology, who’s offering it, and who’s using it. …(more)

• Public or private, the cloud makes its business case

Defense SystemsThat cycle of highs and lows is one reason why government agencies shouldadopt cloud computing, said Dave Wennergren, the Defense Department ‘sdeputy …(more)

• APSales CRM Software as a Service Release APSales 0.10

Microsoft Public LicenseMsPL This license governs use of the accompanyingsoftware If you use the software you accept this license If you do notaccept the …(more)

• Pervasive Software Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award

SYS-CON Media (press release)The BoSS Awards program was announced in January 2009 as the latestinitiative by THINKstrategies to bring attention to SaaS and cloudcomputing companies …(more)

• Sandvine and Optenet Enter into Strategic Partnership

TMC Net… FTTx, fixed wireless and mobile operators, and Optenet, a major playerof enabling SaaS (News – Alert) offerings and delivering ‘on-premise’security …(more)

• Search, Compliance, Collaboration To Drive ECM 2010 Spending

Intelligent EnterpriseMore interest was seen in saas products, with 43% of the respondentsexpressing interest in saas WCM and 39% in saas DAM. Because content storedin these …(more)