January 14, 2010

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

• Solution Provider Finds Swift Success With New Cloud Division

ChannelWebChampion Cloud Services, which focuses on educating clients about cloudcomputing; evaluating and architecting solutions incorporating the cloud;…(more)

• Rackspace Server Also Hit In Google Attack

ChannelWebBy Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb Data center hosting and cloud computing
provider Rackspace confirmed that a server in one of its data centers washit in the …(more)

• Wipro brings cloud computing to retail industry

InfoWorldBy Anuradha Shukla | MIS Asia Cloud computing is here to stay and Wipro is
focused on tapping this lucrative industry. The company has announced thelaunch …(more)

• Rescentris Announces SaaS (Software as a Service) Offering of CERF …

‘ELN as a Service’ Delivers Electronic Records and Collaborative … eCERFis rich cross-platform software suited for teams or collaborations of anysize. …(more)

• Reports: Tech recovery driven by developing nations, cloud

CNETWhether they want to continue doing well in 2012 and beyond, however, maywell depend on their ability to deliver a solid cloud-computing productportfolio. …(more)

• Panasonic outsources email to IBM in record deal

ReutersN) to run a web-based email system for the Japanese electronics giant’sentire 380000 strong workforce, the industry’s largest cloud computingcontract to …(more)

• VMware jumps further into SaaS with Zimbra

Australian TechworldUnlike Yahoo! that has struggled to compete with Google and Microsoft inits consumer offerings and has not driven towards offering hosted SaaS forbusiness …(more)

• IBM grabs largest enterprise cloud deployment

CNETby Dave Rosenberg IBM is expected to announce on Thursday the largestenterprise cloud computing deployment to date as Panasonic begins amigration off …(more)

• Validation & Compliance Institute Selects the SyberWorks SaaS LMS …

By CMS Report
Validation & Compliance Institute Selects the SyberWorks SaaS LMS toProvide …PRLog.Org (press release)SyberWorks Training Center (STC) is aWeb-based Learning Management System (LMS)/Learning Content ManagementSystem (LCMS) that …(more)

• Rescentris Announces SaaSSoftware as a Service Offering of CERF …

Information Technology News, IT news, Enterprise IT news, Vertical IT News,Reseller news, Developer News.(more)

• 20% of businesses will get rid of all IT assets as they move to cloud,

Gartner …San Francisco Chronicle(01-13) 11:19 PST — Cloud computing will become so pervasive that by 2012,one out of five businesses will own no IT assets at all, the analyst firm…(more)

• IBM LotusLive Snags Panasonic to Challenge Google in the Cloud

eWeekWhen fully deployed this year, it could be the largest SAAS (software as aservice) implementation ever. Panasonic employees will use LotusLiveapplications …(more)

• How Long Until I Check VMware vMail? | VM /ETC

By Rich Brambley
… appliances available for download in VMware’s Virtual ApplianceMarketplace, Zimbra will now be optimized for VMware vSphere and probablybe offered as a standard service in VMware hosted cloud offerings such asvCloud Express. …(more)

• VMware Confirms Zimbra Buy | Maureen O’Gara

VMware means to sell the software to its vCloud partners. In a blog VMwareSTO Steve Herrod said the Zimbra virtual appliance, which he described asone of the more popular downloads on VMware’s virtual appliancemarketplace, …(more)

• VMware To Buy Zimbra

By emma.cobb@littlefishsupport.com (Emma Cobb)
Zimbra is perfect for VMware’s strategy because it wants to add anapplication layer at the top of its vCloud software. “Along with Zimbra’se-mail, calendaring and collaboration software, other core IT services thatwould be at home in …(more)

• AMSTERDAM TEE (VTL) | Protestskate12.h1x.com

By admin
Publication, Amsterdam; Boston: Academic Press, c2003. net.audio, hybridmedia Imagine IC (Amsterdam So. vcloud+express vmware+go vtl windows xenxiv z os 21-23 OCTOBER, RAICONFERENCE CENTRE, AMSTERDAM europe. …(more)

• Google Docs storage could bring mobile devices to cloud computing

EDL ConsultingThe article noted that new devices such as smartbooks and netbooks couldmake even greater use of cloud computing data storage than smartphones andlaptops …(more)

• Developers focus on cloud computing applications for mobile devices

EDL ConsultingSoftware developers are accelerating their development of cloud computingapplications for mobile devices as clients demand more out of mobilesoftware …(more)

• TAKE releases SaaS supply chain solution

EDL ConsultingReal-time supply chain execution company TAKE Supply Chain announcedTuesday that it will release a new SaaS platform to support online suppliermanagement …(more)

• Will GoogleHack Hurt Cloud Computing?

Over the past year, I’ve moved more and more of my data over to the cloud– in particular, to being stored with Google. I’m rethinking that, …(more)

• Cloud Computing Gets Costs Down to Earth

TheStreet.comTo that end, here’s a primer on cloud computing for small businesseslooking to cut costs in the new year. Cloud computing falls into one ofthree …(more)

• SaaS BPM Acceptance for Process Improvement | Cloud Computing Journal

Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation, ismentioned by research firm Ovum in its recent report “SaaS BPM – Silencingthe skeptics”, as the best fit in an emerging category of BPM platforms….(more)

• HP, Microsoft Team Up to Tackle the Cloud

BusinessWeekA big area of demand is the emerging field of cloud computing, the deliveryof software and other computing tasks via the Internet rather than onin-house …(more)

• SAP 2009 Software, Services Sales, Margins Beat Targets

BusinessWeek… in which companies buy software as a service instead of making largeupfront investments, an area in which SAP is lagging behind competitors….(more)

• Roundup: State of the Internet, Rackspace Cloud

Data Center KnowledgeVideo encoding service Encoding.com has joined the Rackspace Cloud,delivering faster video transcoding as a software as a service provider….(more)

• HP, Microsoft team up on $250 million cloud computing project

Boston Herald… develop hardware and software products that are designed to worktogether smoothly in their customers’ data centers and in cloud computingfacilities. …(more)

• Microsoft, HP Agree to Work Together For Biz Computing

TMC NetThe deal will also promote Microsoft’s public cloud computing service,Windows Azure. Last May they two firms said they would invest $180 millionover four …(more)

• Lotus gets open source infusion from Alfresco

NetworkWorld.comHe also says the multi-tenancy capabilities of Alfresco also make it easierto move ECM capabilities to the cloud. IBM/Lotus next week plans to expandon …(more)

• SMBs Embracing SaaS, Managed Services, CompTIA Study Reveals

dBusinessNews Chicago (press release)The survey of more than 400 SMBs across the United States finds that nearly30 percent of them plan to implement SaaS solutions in 2010 to lower costsand …(more)

• Research Institute Leverages SoftwareasaService | SYSCON AUSTRALIA

3Tera a developer of cloud computing platform software and utility … andcollaboration unit a move into softwareasaservice for the virtualizationleader …(more)

• Rescentris Releases SaaS Based ELN For Document Management

CMSWireThe trial must have gone to plan as the company is making the SaaS ELN,known as Collaborative Electronic Research Framework (CERF), availableimmediately, …(more)

• WhichBox Media Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnMedia Top 100 Winner

PR Newswire (press release)14 /PRNewswire/ — WhichBox Media, an online publishing and Software as aService provider, today announced, that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn asone of …(more)

• US HOT STOCKS: LaBranch, Medifast, Briggs & Stratton Corp

Wall Street JournalMorgan Stanley said NetSuite also is a play on the theme that applicationswill perform better than expected and “software as a service” demand will…(more)

• Alfresco upgrades enterprise content management

ITworld.comAlfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2 includes several new features including theability to handle multi-tenancy, rendering it suitable for deployment in…(more)

• Microsoft adds version control to Azure operating systems

SearchCloudComputing.comBy Carl Brooks, Technology Writer Following Windows Azure’s bumpy limited
release on January 1, Microsoft’s fledgling Platform as a Service (PaaS)product …(more)

• Panasonic flees Microsoft Exchange for IBM cloud

RegisterOne day after Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard said they would spend $250m ona combined effort to push businesses toward cloud computing, IBM hasswooped in …(more)

• Wyse Puts Intel Atom into New Mobile Thin Client

eWeekWyse is aiming the new X90cw, powered by Intel’s Atom processor, at mobileworkers looking to take advantage of virtualization and cloud computing….(more)

• Gartner: Cloud Computing Contributes To Mass IT Asset Exodus

ChannelWebBy Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb Cloud computing will take such a
stranglehold on the market as companies try to reduce hardware spendingthat Gartner has …(more)

• SAP ‘SaaS’es Up Business Suite

Phone PlusSAP has taken the wraps off its SaaS delivery model for the SAP BusinessAll-in-One suite. Partners can now tap new customers by being able to offerthe …(more)

• App Developers: SaaS May Thwart iPhone Piracy

ChannelWebHowever, many iPhone app developers already take their cues fromtraditional PC-based applications and have created SaaS-based models thatrequire regular …(more)

• 14 January: Big names in computing gather under cloud with silver lining

The Daily MaverickSome of the computer industry’s biggest names are getting together in thehope that they’ll benefit from demand for cloud computing. …(more)

• Zimbra moves from Yahoo to VMware

Technology Digital… the leading vendor of email and collaboration software, to VMWare in adevelopment that’s sure to expand the former’s vCloud portfolio. …(more)

• Microsoft Adds Rental Option For Windows, Office

ChannelWebBy Kevin McLaughlin, ChannelWeb Microsoft earlier this month quietly added
a new software licensing option for US customers called Rental Rights which…(more)

• ERP SaaS vs. ERP on premise

ERP Cloud News (blog)When given a choice, customers visiting an ERP website clicked SaaS (61.1%)over on-premise (38.9%) when learning about ERP purchasing options. …(more)

• Commentary: A close look at SaaS Highrise

Wisconsin Law Journalby Ron Phillips A few months ago I wrote about cloud computing and theemerging field of software-as-a-service (SaaS). Highrise from 37 Signals isa SaaS …(more)

• Java getting swallowed up in the Great Simplification

Java WorldHis vision, if I’m reading it right, is to offer a giant virtual blob offunctionality (with a catchy name like “VMware vCloud”) that will do allsorts of …(more)

• The SaaS model for fire service and inspections

SecurityInfoWatchSoftware as a Service (SaaS) is a business model that provides users witheverything they need, including the infrastructure, software, support andongoing …(more)