March 14, 2011

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• CloudConnect debrief: Real life Cloud computing lessons

Computerworld AustraliaThere will still need to be a runtime environment — a container, if youwill, to hold and execute the software assets, and operating systems havetraditionally held that role. It may be that a platform provider will offeran execution environment for …(more)

• Wanted: Cloud-i i-nfrastructure

IT Jungle… and it may even close the gap compared to X64-based machinery runningthe VMware vSphere server virtualization and vCloud Director cloud fabric….(more)

• NetWorker – Unified Communications Software as a Service | LinkedIn

Group for all professionals, businesses and service providers interestedNetWorker Unified Comms Software as a Service.(more)

• VMware makes cloud jumping easy

IDG News ServiceVMware’s vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance andvSphere plug-in that makes it a snap to transfer VMware virtual machines,…(more)

• SAP says big on-premise software deals are seeing a resurgence

ComputingA report released yesterday by technology analysts Techmarketview arguedthat take-up of SaaS and platform-as-a-service was changing the shape ofthe software industry for good, and that traditional large on-premisecontracts were in terminal decline. …(more)

• Lennox Hill Ltd announces the inclusion of SSL encryption to the

isoTracker …1888 Press Release (press release)isoTracker is an online hosted platform, also known as Cloud Software orSoftware as a Service, that provides document control, complaintsmanagement and audit management services to its customers. As a hostedplatform, isoTracker stores all of its …(more)

• VMware makes cloud jumping easy

ComputerworldBy Tom Henderson and Brendan Allen Network World – VMware’s vCloud
Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in thatmakes it a …(more)

• The Fine Print on TCS’ iON Cloud Offering Revealed

CIO IndiaTCS’ Global Head for Small and Medium Business, Venguswamy Ramaswamy, hasunveiled details of its iON cloud computing service. The service, whichlaunched on 15 th February, 2011, is being touted as the world’s firsttruly end-to-end cloud service …(more)

• First Derivatives Says Results For The Year In Line With Current Market View

RTT News… for which we also have a very healthy pipeline of further salesprospects. This highlights the benefits of the major investments into SaaSinfrastructure, R&D and sales and the timely acquisitions we have made inprevious periods.” by RTT Staff Writer.(more)

• DOTDIGITAL GROUP PLC – Admission to AIM

istockAnalyst.com (press release)… survey tool and a Software as a Service (“Saas”) version ofdotCommerce. The Group’s IT infrastructure is important in both providingreliable services and products to customers and also providing the platformfor the Company’s product development. …(more)

• Will Cloud Builders Help or Harm Rackspace’s Reputation?

GigaOmRackspace’s Cloud Builders service is good news for OpenStack adopters, butalso expensive, labor-intensive and difficult to scale. Rackspace has madea name for itself as a provider of managed hosting services, by being anincreasingly strong …(more)

• What cloud security really means

InfoWorldAnother risk factor is multitenancy. Shared cloud infrastructure poses itsown risk — data supposedly deleted may inadvertently persist where it canbe …(more)

• For South Florida, the sky’s the limit

MiamiHerald.comBy Terence Shepherd Cloud computing has been with us for awhile, but it
only recently became everyone’s trendy tech term. When I came to The MiamiHerald in May 1997, Citrix Systems was on the verge of making a deal withMicrosoft that would allow PCs …(more)

• Company aims to position area in cloud computing

South Bend TribuneData Realty, now operating in Innovation Park with plans to open inIgnition Park next year, expects to preserve and attract local jobs byproviding economical opportunities for cloud computing. President and COORich Carlton says the company combines …(more)

• Experts Discuss Cloud Computing

BernamaHO CHI MINH City (Vietnam), March 14 (Bernama) — Cloud computing wouldsoon become the most important technology used in all aspects of life,experts said at conference held in here last week, Vietnam News Agency(VNA) reported. “In the near future, …(more)

• Harvest Solutions Makes Social Connection with Cloud Computing Users

DigitalJournal.com (press release)Harvest Solutions, an organization with experts in the market of cloudcomputing software is expanding its online presence through Facebook,Twitter, YouTube and a new blog, which launched March 10, 2011. HarvestSolutions builds CRM systems for …(more)

• Microsoft cloud computing helps to clean up London’s streets

Telegraph.co.ukCloud computing. The project is the brainchild of Nigel Tyrell, head ofenvironment at Lewisham. Conceived in 2004, the idea was to reverse thenegative impact of overflowing rubbish, fly-tipping and graffiti, but at areduced cost, with the help of …(more)

• Nimbula Director: Tools target Amazon’s IaaS

ZDNet (blog)By Dan Kusnetzky | March 14, 2011, 2:15am PDT Nimbula is offering tools to
allow organizations to develop workloads that can run on Nimbula’s owncloud computing environment that can be moved into Amazon EC2 as needed.Daniel Kusnetzky, Distinguished …(more)

• Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is a model for accessing, via the internet, computingresources such as applications, networks, servers, storage and servicesthat can be …(more)

• EASi Expands IFRS2 Support to Include DTA and Common Equivalents

PR Newswire (press release)Equity Administration Solutions, Inc. www.easiadmin.com is the SaaS companythat set the standard in stock plan solutions with its comprehensiveindustrial strength platform that handles all the accounting, tax,administration, reporting and compliance …(more)

• SuccessFactors Acquires Enterprise Social Learning Startup Jambok

TechCrunchSuccessFactors has acquired Jambok, a SaaS social learning company foundedby former Sun Chief Learning Officer Karie Willyerd and former Sun ChiefTechnology officer Charles Beckham. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Jambok’s SaaS enables …(more)

• Explaining cloud computing – Small Business Blog from Microsoft …

By Microsoft Small Business
Microsoft’s Small Business Blog provides resources for start up and growingsmall businesses, including software trials, downloads, ‘how-to’ guides,and technology advice.(more)

• Harvest Solutions Promotes Cloud Computing with Facebook …

By Anuradha
Harvest Solutions Promotes Cloud Computing with Facebook Cloud computingsoftware specialist Harvest Solutions is expanding its online presencethrough.(more)

• Metro-Detroit Cloud Computing Seminar Attracts Panelists from …

Metro-Detroit Cloud Computing Seminar Attracts Panelists from Across theCountry . Online Tech Sponsors Southfield Seminar Aimed at HelpingBusinesses Understand the Case for Cloud Computing – PR11370740.(more)

• ITpreneurs Selected to Present at Third Annual Cloud Slam ’11 Computing

ConferenceMarketwire (press release)”With the introduction of the ITpreneurs Virtualization and Cloud Computingportfolio, the opportunity to interact with others in this domain is veryvaluable for us.” Delegates wishing to attend can purchase a VIP ticket(priced at $299), …(more)

• Platform-as-a-Service: Cloud Computing’s New Battleground

CRNAnd with the increased amount of offerings poised to hit the market, PaaSwill become the new battleground among cloud computing providers and willspark a new level of competition. “By the end of 2011, the battle forleadership in PaaS and the key …(more)

• Microsoft Exec Says Cloud Cost Savings Are ‘Too Big To Be Ignored’

NetworkComputing.comWhile many businesses are developing private clouds as a tentative firststep into cloud computing, a Microsoft executive at a cloud industryconference in Silicon Valley said that eventually, they’ll plug into publiccloud utilities because cost and …(more)

• Patent-Holding Author Demystifies Cloud Computing Applications

Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–CRC Press announces the recent publication of Implementingand Developing Cloud Computing Applications (January 2011; ISBN:978-1-4398-3082-6; 344 pp.; $79.95) by David EY Sarna. CRC Press is theprincipal science and technology book …(more)

• ActionPacked! Networks to Sponsor Cloud Computing Class

Business Wire (press release)HONOLULU–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ActionPacked! Networks, a leading developer ofintelligent software for managing Cisco quality-of-service (QoS), announcedtoday that it is sponsoring an online training session on March 16 to helpnetwork engineers …(more)

• Top 10 Global Law Firm Selects PROACTIS Cloud eProcurement Solution

SunHerald.comThe agreement is for a three year Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) license forPROACTIS Purchase-to-Pay which will be rolled-out across the USpartnership. PROACTIS will support the firm’s day-to-day purchasing processin a way that ensures compliance with …(more)

• Cloud Computing vs. Grid Computing: Does It Matter for Developers?

Internet.comCloud computing and grid computing are scalable, employing multitenancyarchitectures and multitasking. Both models also provide service-levelagreements …(more)

• VMware vCloud Connector review Techworldcom

VMware’s vCloud Connector (VCC) is a free VMware virtual appliance andvSphere plugin that makes it a snap to…(more)

• Open Source Cloud Computing Platform OpenStack Goes Commercial

Internet.comThe OpenStack cloud computing platform, backed by Rackspace, NASA, Cisco,Dell and others, ramps up commercial support options for cloud andenterprise users. The OpenStack open source cloud computing project isn’tjust for hobbyists and bleeding-edge …(more)

• Top 10 Global Law Firm Selects PROACTIS Cloud eProcurement Solution

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)The agreement is for a three year Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) license forPROACTIS Purchase-to-Pay which will be rolled-out across the USpartnership. PROACTIS will support the firm’s day-to-day purchasing processin a way that ensures compliance with …(more)

• SuccessFactors looks to social learning with Jambok buy

VentureBeatJambok is a software as a service (SaaS) social learning company thatallows anyone in an organization to create, share and find video and othercontent for on-the-job learning. The company was founded by former SunChief Learning Officer Karie …(more)

• Is cloud computing the carriers’ to lose?

SearchCloudComputing.comAnd that gives these companies a huge advantage over online book sellerAmazon.com and other cloud computing providers desperately wooing corporatecustomers. But just how smart is the carrier’s strategy to delve into cloudcomputing? …(more)

• Cloud Computing: What It Means To Vending

VendingMarketWatchBy Mike Gron, Rougo VMS A lot of people are talking about cloud computing
these days. It has become a popular catch phrase among techies andfollowers of all things Internet. Although commentators may use a varietyof terms, including “hosted,” “net …(more)

• Infor Launches $1.8 Billion Bid For Lawson

InformationWeekAs a larger company, Infor could better compete as an enterprise softwarecompany catering particularly to midsize companies, though that’s a segmentwhere software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors (including Salesforce.com,Microsoft, NetSuite and Workday) …(more)

• Q&A: Rob Walters, SunGard Availability Services

Web Host Industry ReviewThe new service is an infrastructure as a service offering that offers bothmulti-tenant and dedicated private cloud solutions and options forintrusion detection. One notable aspect of SunGard’s approach is that it isoffering regular managed services …(more)

• IPO Analysis: Cornerstone OnDemand

Seeking AlphaSUMMARY & CONCLUSION — CSOD provides solutions based on a Software as aService model. Neither CSOD nor any of its public competitors mentioned inthe S-1 filing were profitable for the December quarter. CSOD has generateda consistent stream of …(more)

• Private Cloud Computing No Safer than Public Cloud

Channel InsiderMany larger organizations have opted for private cloud computingdeployments, fearing that public clouds can’t offer the proper level ofsecurity. But a new survey shows that private clouds may be just as much atrisk. Many IT departments have put off …(more)

• How to pick the right cloud provider

NewsChannel5.comBy Todd Wasserman for IT Insider As cloud computing pervades more and more
of our everyday lives, it’s not surprising that small to midsizedbusinesses are also seeing the benefits. The question is, How exactly doyou go about embracing the cloud? …(more)

• Tokyo Attempts Return To Normal–Electronics Makers Deal With …

PCWorldVMware Makes Cloud Jumping Easy VMware’s vCloud Connector (VCC) is a freeVMware virtual appliance and vSphere plug-in that makes it a snap totransfer …(more)

• HP to Start Cloud-Computing Service, App Stores, CEO Says

BusinessWeekBy Aaron Ricadela March 14 (Bloomberg)– Hewlett-Packard Co. will offer
services that provide applications over the Internet as Chief ExecutiveOfficer Leo Apotheker seeks to revive growth and play catch-up in theexpanding market for cloud computing. …(more)

• Cloud Computing Market for SMBs in Asia-Pacific (Excl. Japan) to Reach

US$11.4 …SunHerald.comJapan) (APAC) region will invest US$11.4 billion into cloud computingsolutions, according to the latest research conducted by AMI-Partners. AMIpredicts the market for cloud solutions will grow at more than twice therate of traditional ICT …(more)

• Stepping out from Hurd’s shadow, HP looks to the cloud

ComputerworldBut it’s unclear whether HP can attract software developers to its newplatform and excite consumers and developers in the same way as competitorssuch as Google and Amazon. Investors have been looking for some reassurancesince Apotheker took over …(more)