March 23, 2011

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

• Xerox Unit ACS Buys Health Care SAAS Provider CredenceHealth

eWeekBased in Nashville, Tenn., CredenceHealth offers SAAS (software as aservice) applications that provide doctors with actionable information oncloud-based data, such as lab or radiology results, medications and vitalsigns. ACS will merge its existing …(more)

• Cloud VARs: HP’s Public Cloud Push Better Late Than Never, But Hurdles

AboundCRNIt’s about time” is the response of some cloud computing VARs to HP’s late,but inevitable leap into the public cloud arena. And while cloud computingsolution providers say that HP pledging allegiance to the public cloud is astep in the right …(more)

• Is the Cloud Really Just the Return of Mainframe Computing?

SQL Server MagazineIt also seems like businesses are holding off on moving to cloud computingwith just as much vigor. Everyone has heard all the different cloud salespitches: Cloud services offer unlimited scalability, they provide globalaccess to computing services, …(more)

• Microsoft Pushes Private Cloud Computing Forward with System …

“The move to cloud computing significantly raises the bar for what isexpected in enterprise management solutions,” said Chris Wolf, researchvice president at Gartner. “It’s easy for a vendor to create a tool thatautomates the …(more)

• The Momentum of Cloud Computing in the Public Sector – Microsoft …

By Microsoft blog editor
Microsoft On the Issues is the Microsoft blog on technology policy andcorporate affars. On this blog, Microsoft shares thoughts on howthecomputing revolution can accelerate economic growth by enablingcompanies and individuals to …(more)

• Oracle Gets Juice From Software-As-A-Service – Great Speculations …

By Trefis Team
Oracle and SAP have traditionally concentrated their efforts on developingon- premises software, and are not considered big software-as-a-service(SaaS) players. SaaS works according to the concept that enterprises shouldbe able to …(more)

• AlwaysOn Selects Aria Systems as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner

SunHerald.comAs the SaaS billing pioneer founded in 2003, Aria has grown rapidly tomanage millions of subscription accounts in every country in the world forcompanies that span a wide range of industries, includingtelecommunications, SaaS, new media, gaming, …(more)

• Cloud becoming a major disaster recovery strategy

InformationWeek IndiaSome businesses are looking at the global reach of the Internet and cloudcomputing as a way to extend a new form of disaster assistance — onebusiness offering service to a company in an affected area as a way to helpit keep its processes running. …(more)

• Unisys Announces Hybrid Enterprise Framework to Help CIOs Avoid the ‘Cloud

in …PR Newswire (press release)The Unisys Hybrid Enterprise framework helps CIOs avoid a common pitfall ofnew cloud computing projects: creating isolated “cloud in a corner”computing environments that are not integrated with the organization’sexisting mission-critical systems. …(more)

• Cenero Expands Capabilities of Auralink – Vidyo as a Service Platform

BenzingaCenero expands the services of their robust desktop video conferencing as aservice offering, Auralink, to include audio conferencing capabilities.Cenero announces the availability of a new feature for Auralink, the highdefinition video conferencing …(more)

• Autonomic Enters Strategic Partnership with High Value Microsoft Partner

Capax …PR Newswire (press release)Autonomic’s strategic partnering assures their GSA cloud award (GSA IaaSCloud) offerings are comprehensive in the Microsoft platform areas. Thepartnership will give Autonomic the ability to meet the Government needsfor RFQs and SOWs starting to be …(more)

• Capgemini reports move to TMS as a service

Supply Chain StandardTransport firms are moving towards software as a service and collaborationfor efficiency, according to Capgemini’s fourth edition of its TransportManagement Report. The two-part study of the business drivers for transportmanagement processes and …(more)

• Microsoft CIO Roundtable Focuses On Cloud Computing In Qatar

Middle East EventsHyper-V Cloud Fast Track program is one of the first outcomes of this jointinvestment along with the Business Decision, Data warehouse and Messaging…(more)

• Multi-tenancy Drizzle | Ramblings

Multi-tenancy Drizzle. My previous post focused on some of the problems of… Tags: CATALOG, drizzle, hacking, hosting, multitenancy, multitenant,SaaS …(more)

• Multi-tenancy: Emulation Or The Real Thing? | IT Briefcase

It’s a mark of how much progress SaaS has made towards mainstreamacceptance that vendors entering the space now proudly wear multi-tenancyas a badge of …(more)

• Multi-tenancy Drizzle | Programming – Top News | Newsodrome

Programming – One of the reasons why I started hacking on Drizzle was thatthe multi-tenancy options for MySQL just werent very good (this is also the…(more)

• Finding the Right Level of Cloud Computing | Blogs …

By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
Deploying Applications in the Cloud While there’s more talk than actual useof cloud computing in the enterprise, a Zeus Technology survey looks at thebeginnin.(more)

• Advisory Note: Cloud Computing – Cloud Security Management …

The Cloud allows the procurement of IT services from both internal andexternal suppliers to be opti-mized because the services are deliveredthrough the Internet in a standard way. The Cloud is not a single model butcovers a wide …(more)

• Retailigence Partners with B2B Soft to Drive Foot Traffic to Local

Stores …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)This is a strategic partnership in which the Retailigence Data as a Serviceplatform will enable B2B Soft’s Wireless Standard and Retail Time platformcustomers to make their inventory data available on web and mobileapplications, allowing shoppers to …(more)

• Microsoft Intune Goes Live

PCWorldOver time, Intune will offer all of Microsoft’s IT management software,such as System Center and Service Manager, as a service.”Three or fouryears from now, even our largest enterprise customers may move to Intune,”she said. …(more)

• DAM Software as a Service or Installed DAM Software – Widen Guest …

Some of the reasons why DAM Software as a Service may be a better optionfor you … because assets are hosted and processed on a cloud computingplatform. …(more)

• IBM Unveils Pre-Configured Tech Services

PC MagazineThe vendor giant has made available a single set of integrated tools thatsupport up to 150 different devices from multiple vendors as well as a”service desk” feature. This helps customers modernize their service deskenvironments and improve helpdesk …(more)

• Vitrue Names Harris Troutman as General Counsel

PR Newswire (press release)Vitrue executives cite rapid adoption of its software-as-a-service (SaaS)platform as the driver for growth, which allows brands and agencies tocommunicate with fans across social networks. The platform is currentlymanaging more than 498 million fans …(more)

• EU Puts Standardization at Forefront of Cloud Computing

PCWorldBy Jennifer Baker, IDG News The head of the European Commission’s digital
agenda has put interoperability and standards at the forefront of the cloudcomputing agenda. “Users must be able to change their cloud provider asfast and easily as changing …(more)

• Cloud Computing: RightScale Customers Expand Cloud Workloads

SYS-CON Media (press release)RightScale, a provider of cloud computing management, on Tuesday announcedthat RightScale customers have substantially expanded the use of cloudcomputing in their companies, with a rapid increase in the number andvariety of RightScale ServerTemplate …(more)

• Hey, You, Get off of My Cloud

Infosecurity Magazine (US) (blog)During his 20-plus-year career in the information security industry,Allison has served in management and technical roles, including thedevelopment of NaviSite’s cloud computing platform; chief engineer anddeveloper for a managed security operations …(more)

• Linux Today Why I Left Rackspace and What About Openstack

I think that the PR effort around Openstack has had a tremendous effect onits success thus far but it is adjunct to the project and not the meat ofthe …(more)

• Rackspace accused of ‘controlling’ open source cloud project

RegisterAfter just 18 months with Rackspace, OpenStack chief architect Rick Clarkhas left the company for Cisco, accusing his ex-employer of exerting undocontrol over the open source project. Clark was hired from Ubuntu shopCanonical in 2009 to apply his …(more)

• Multi-tenancy: emulation or the real thing?

Enterprise IrregularsNot that I want to veer into a ‘green crystals’ debate here about whosemulti-tenancy follows the one true path. But the fact remains that thereare ways of …(more)

• Andy Bechtolsheim on Big Data: I’m Watching Open Source Closely

GigaOmAs an example Bechtolsheim pointed to is the OpenStack project, anopen-source cloud platform, which hopes to compete with several proprietarycloud platforms including those being developed by Microsoft and VMware.RackSpace is spearheading the …(more)

• Use Of Force Can Help Salesforce.com Stock

Forbes (blog)Salesforce.com is a pure cloud computing player offering a number ofcloud-based products including customer relationship management software aswell as its development platform Force.com. Salesforce.com competes withSAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM in …(more)