February 2, 2010

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

• The 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors

ChannelWebBy Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb Cloud computing certainly has become cool.
Some might say it’s on the verge of being “Fonzie cool.” So cool in fact,…(more)

• VMware-Cisco-Netapp: A Meaningless Relationship?

NetworkComputing.comWhile the industry responded positively over the new relationship betweenVMware, Cisco and NetApp, bringing multi-tenancy to cloud design, …(more)

• Fisher Communications Announces Strategic Investment in DataSphere …

CNNMoney.com (press release)DataSphere is a Software as a Service (SaaS) Web technology and hyperlocalad sales company focused on generating online profits for media companies….(more)

• Abolish ‘Cloud Computing!’ – Forbes.com

Not the idea, just the phrase. We’ll think more clearly if we do.(more)

• Eleven Open Source Cloud Computing Projects to Watch | Socialized …

Last month cloud computing and systems management expert John Willispublished his best of Cloud Computing for 2009 list he calls the Cloudies.I am not an.(more)

• Software-as-a-service ‘can respond quickly to thre…

Experian QAS AustraliaUsing software-as-a-service allows small and medium-sized businesses tocontend more effectively with their larger competitors, it has beensuggested. …(more)

• Supply Chain Guru Predictions for 2010: Full Comments

Supply Chain DigestAs I forecast in 1997, The Y2K decade also birthed the beginnings of thesoftware as a service (Saas) model. So now things can be scanned and readwhile in …(more)

• StorageRap: EMC takes dumbass award with denial of reality …

I like what Netapp, VMware and Cisco have done with their SecureMulti-Tenancy architecture. The ability to segregate and alignapplications, …(more)

• Why Your Cloud Applications Should Be Multi-tenant

Enterprise Irregulars (blog)In this podcast, learn why multi-tenancy is such a crucial ingredient forsoftware-as-a-service and other cloud services, and find out how ISVs canuse …(more)

• Makara smoothes the road to cloud computing

VentureBeatAs more and more companies are looking at cloud computing, a startup calledMakara is announcing new tools that should make it easier to gettraditional …(more)

• CDC Software to acquire new SaaS businesses

Computer Business ReviewThe two recent acquisitions are CDC gomembers, a provider of SaaSenterprise services for the not-for-profit and non-governmentalorganisations market and …(more)

• Andreessen-Backed Makara Unveils Cloud Application Deployment And

Management …TechCrunch (blog)Makara’s offering supports Java, Flex, PHP, JBoss and Tomcat applicationsand runs on Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Terremark vCloud Express, VMwareESX, …(more)

• SaaS BI growth will soar in 2010 | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld

New IDC report predicts the SaaS BI market will grow at a compound annualgrowth rate of 22 percent through 2013.(more)

• Cloud computing maturing, says Mimecast report

EDL ConsultingChannelWeb has reported that a survey by cloud computing-based emailmanagement service provider Mimecast has found that 70 percent of cloudusers plan to …(more)

• Microsoft Windows Azure cloud reaches general availability stage

San Francisco Chronicle(02-01) 14:18 PST — Windows Azure, Microsoft’s public cloud computingplatform, became generally available in 21 countries on Monday, Microsoftbloggers …(more)

• World of Software: Virtual Private Server Hosting

By Warock
If in website hosting you are looking for multi-tenancy, virtualization,resource management and clustering; then virtual private server hosting isbest for you. Virtual private server hosting has become very popularnowadays, …(more)

• CDC Software to acquire two SaaS providers

Trading Markets (press release)… of enterprise software, recently announced that it has signed bindingterm sheets to acquire two additional providers of software as a service(SaaS). …(more)

• NetApp Expands Ties With Cisco, VMWare

BernamaNetApp’s country manager for Malaysia and Brunei, Manoharan Govindaraju,said the three companies would offer an end-to-end Secure Multi-tenancyDesign …(more)

• Capgemini Acquires Procurement Specialist IBX | All about Sourcing

By Sigrid
The new end-to-end BPO procurement solution will include, according toCapgemini, a full suite of products & services, including business processoutsourcing, the software-as-a-service procurement platform, and anestablished global …(more)

• Lincoln Murphy: Reactions to the Freemium paper – @lincolnmurphy …

By Lincoln Murphy
Check out some of the great reactions to the paper on the Sixteen Venturesblog. You should follow me on Twitter! Labels: freemium, marketing, revenuemodel, SaaS, software-as-a-service. posted by Lincoln Murphy at 2/02/201001:02:00 AM …(more)

• ZyLAB Announces eDiscovery & Legal Production System Available through …

Virtual Press Office (press release)… software licensing and installation model, its new ZyLAB eDiscovery &Production system is now offered via the Internet in aSoftware-as-a-Service …(more)

• Capgemini Acquires IBX — A More Flexible Procurement Outsourcing Model?

(Part 1)Spend Matters (blog)Earlier today, in the worst kept M&A secret so far this year, Capgeminiannounced it was acquiring IBX, a procurement services and software as aservice …(more)

• SaaS BI growth will soar in 2010 | Cloud Computing InfoWorld

New IDC report predicts the SaaS BI market will grow 22 percent each yearthrough 2013.(more)

• Andreessen-Backed Cloud Launcher Makara Debuts

Data Center Knowledge… JBoss and Tomcat applications, and can run on Amazon EC2, RackspaceCloud, Terremark vCloud Express, VMware ESX, VMware Workstation, VirtualBoxand Xen. …(more)

• Benefit Software, Fringe Facts Online Announce Survey Results

TMCnetBy David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor Benefit Software, a Software as a
Service provider of online employee benefits enrollment and communication…(more)

• Google Enlisting Third-Party Programmers to Boost Google Apps

eWeekGoogle Apps is a suite of SAAS (software as a service) applications thesearch engine offers in free and paid versions to let users create contentand share …(more)

• Continuent Finds Success Within SaaS Data Management And MySQL Market

PR Web (press release)As a result, Continuent will be focusing more on the data management marketfor SaaS, while continuing to offer high-availability solutions for ISVs,…(more)

• 10 Cloud Computing Predictions For 2010

ChannelWebBy many accounts, 2010 will be the year that cloud computing officially
takes hold. Organizations large and small will realize the cost, …(more)

• When Cloud Computing Falls Short

TheStreet.comNow he’s overseeing two employees in Boston and one in California fromhalfway around the world through “cloud computing.”(more)

• Windows Azure Drive: A Sign of Things to Come for Microsoft

ReadWriteWeb (blog)In the full spirit of cloud computing, Microsoft is making it a toppriority to charge by the minute for applications that are ported toWindows Azure. …(more)

• Obama Budget Boosts R&D, Security, Cloud Efforts

Datamation”Adoption of a cloud-computing model is a major part of the strategy toachieve efficient and effective IT,” the administration said. …(more)

• Alert Logic Execs Start Cloud Security and Compliance Blog

Web Host Industry ReviewAs entrepreneurs and business operators in the IT security industry, weknow that for cloud computing solutions to become viable for mainstreambusiness …(more)

• Cloud security: Root of trust

ComputerworldAt Nemertes Research we have been “sipping our own champagne” (like eatingdogfood, only less disgusting) by using cloud computing extensively. …(more)

• Microsoft Office goes Saas?

National Post (Blogs) (blog)The programmes will be in the cloud, always updated and usable – thusturning these programmes into “software as a service” (Saas) rather than anend …(more)

• Multi-tenancy in ASP.NET MVC – Why do we want it?

Enter multi-tenancy… The core concept of a well written multi-tenantapplication is that you should have a single code base, and a number of …(more)