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ScreenTicket returned from vCloud API appears to be invalid … Am I doingthings correctly or is the vcloud API giving me invalid tickets? …(more)

The market for the new provisioningtype Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)hasreached a significant size and still showsenormous growth rates.(more)

Siliconindia.comBy Kukil Bora, SiliconIndia Bangalore: Apart from its key advantages of
increased efficiencies, scalability, redundancy and decreased costs,another significant concept that hails cloud computing today is itspotential to operate business applications …(more)

InfoWorld… ranging from human error to natural disasters that may impact access tothese business resources. more In order to leverage cloud computing withminimum disruption to business processes, many organizations are turning tohybrid hosting. …(more)

Business Solutions MagazineOrganizations deploying OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system,can now receive formal service and support offerings from RackspaceHosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computingindustry. …(more)

The OpenStack cloud computing platform, backed by Rackspace, NASA, Cisco,Dell and others, ramps up commercial support options for cloud andenterprise …(more)

GrowthIEWY NewsSINGAPORE: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a US$38M investment in a new IBMAsia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre in Singapore, which will providebusinesses with solutions and services to harness the potential of cloudcomputing. …(more)

Inc’s …BenzingaResorb Networks, Inc. offers a wide arrange of services, including CustomSoftware Development, SaaS (Software as a Service), Web Hosting, DataIntegration, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Dedicated Servers -amongst other products and services. …(more)

HostReview.com (press release)Orlando Fl - 4PSA, a leading innovative Cloud Computing softwaredevelopment company has announced today the release of VoipNow CloudInstance, a fully-featured and flexible turn-key solution that bundleshigh-performance infrastructure with the …(more)

Recruiting …PR Web (press release)A standalone SaaS application, SGALive Powered by TalentFilter allows usersto source millions of resumes from thousands of online locations all fromone location. “We’re thrilled about the opportunity to partner withTalentDrive to offer this …(more)

ihotdesk - IT NewsCloud computing and associated technologies are driving a rise in IT jobsacross the world, it has been claimed. According to Rackspace, firms areincreasingly looking to employ workers who are knowledgeable about cloudcomputing in order to implement …(more)

Cloud …PR Newswire (press release)Steve Taylor, CTO of OpenMake Software, to speak on DevOps and the Cloud atthe third annual Cloud Slam’11 Cloud Computing Conference. CHICAGO, March11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Steve Taylor, Co-founder and CTO of OpenMakeSoftware, the leading authority …(more)

ZDNetNew Zealand was already set to be the land of cloud computing, but theChristchurch earthquake should boost that process further. As businessesrecover from the havoc the quake wreaked, it is becoming clear who faredbest. Those who stored their data …(more)

FierceTelecomBroadview Networks believes the SMB should be able to get the same kinds ofmanaged services that large enterprises can get so it is offering its CloudComputing Services, a set of managed enterprise-grade business software andinfrastructure …(more)

InformationWeekOffice Division president Kurt DelBene details customer wins, Office 2010sales gains and software-as-a-service imperatives headed into 2012. By DougHenschen InformationWeek Microsoft’s hybrid on-premises and cloud-basedcollaboration and productivity …(more)

E-Commerce TimesWhen the Software as a Service (SaaS) idea emerged from the embers of thefailed Application Service Provider (ASP) model of the past, pioneers ofthe new generation of software solutions pointed to its multitenantarchitecture as the critical …(more)

RegisterThis may be a scary enough thought on its own, but for most of you,security and privacy concerns are top of the list when it comes to SaaS.Thanks to the forthright opinions and real-world insight of the Reg readerswe’ve been able to get under the …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Rackspace the other day started offering to support OpenStack, theeight-month-old open source cloud infrastructure platform it put togetherwith NASA much to the chagrin of NASA buddy Eucalyptus Systems, the otheropen source cloud platform. …(more)

Trefis (subscription)Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and SAP (NYSE:SAP) have traditionally concentratedtheir efforts on developing on-premise software, and are not considered bigSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) players. SaaS works according to the conceptthat enterprises should be …(more)

SearchCIO-Midmarket.comDoyle found another cloud service to solve the problem: Okta Inc.’sidentity management Software as a Service (SaaS), which integrates withActive Directory to provision and deprovision users automatically. FischerInternational Systems, Ping Identity, …(more)

OStatic (blog)11, 2011Comments (0) As The Register notes, Microsoft corporate strategyleader Rolf Harms spoke at the Cloud Connect conference in California thisweek, and said that “horseless carriage syndrome” typifies today’s cloudcomputing business. …(more)

Fresh Business ThinkingBy Steve Eveleigh, Product Marketing manager, Star Cloud computing has
become a short hand for the complex process of virtualisation andapplication delivery. On the whole, most users of cloud computing usePublic Cloud services such as Google Apps, …(more)

San Antonio Business JournalRackspace Hosting Inc. has launched a new initiative called the RackspaceStartup Program to provide cloud computing resources to young companiesparticipating in some of the premiere startup accelerators and incubatorsin the country, including 500 …(more)

Network WorldBy Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World The Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) expects to save 40% over the next five years by switchingits financial management application to a cloud computing vendor — a signof the massive savings to …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)”With in-memory computing technology at the core, SAP is on its way to anew foundation for real-time business that brings together its innovationsin virtualization and cloud management, open integration as well ason-demand and mobile platform …(more)

One Stop ClickBusinesses need to make sure that their cloud computing service provideroffers flexible provision if they are to cut costs to as close to zero aspossible. According to Information Week’s Charles Babcock, the economics ofcloud computing are not as …(more)

Does the jBPM 5 support multi-tenancy? Typically, from the databaseperspective, there are three multi-tenancy strategies: 1) separatedatabase, …(more)

Multi-tenancy allows multiple client organizations to share …Multi-tenancy is the ability to run an application for multiple clients on…(more)

Austin Business JournalRackspace Hosting Inc. launched an initiative called the Rackspace StartupProgram to provide cloud computing resources to young companies. Theprogram targets companies participating in premiere startup acceleratorsand incubators nationwide, …(more)

and …ZDNet (blog)At that point, you almost mimic a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution,but if there are reasons a customer wouldn’t want to do SaaS and wouldn’twant to do managed services, but want to host it on-site and have the fullsolution hosted in the …(more)

Marketwire (press release) From content as a service to intelligent tutors, the training landscape isdrastically shifting. And it will change the LMS forever. A first steptoward changing learning management systems is a new Run-time Web Service(RTWS) API that allows for …(more)

Seeking AlphaOracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP) have traditionally concentrated their effortson developing on-premise software, and are not considered bigSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) players. SaaS works according to the conceptthat enterprises should be able to license …(more)

Bubbles …The Business InsiderOur positioning point and value prop with Azure is that of a platform as aservice. And we’re almost exactly a year into having commercialavailability of the product. A double-digit percentage of the startups inBizSpark are using Azure in various …(more)

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

Alpha Networks, a Taiwan-based maker of networking/communication equipment,expects switches and other equipment used in cloud computing data centersto drive its revenue growth in 2011, according to company chairman JohnLee.(more)

By Staff
‘iON provides on-demand business solutions using the scalable cloudcomputing technology. Using a pay-per-use business model, the softwareproduct helps SMBs leverage technology solutions as a key businessdifferentiator,’ TCS global …(more)

LifeReadWriteWebBy Alex Williams / March 11, 2011 1:45 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of
our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualizationand cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Theoriginal Rackspace Cloud app …(more)

ConnectedPlanetThe company’s Cloud Computing Services suite includes software-as-a-Serviceand Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings, all aimed at moving smallbusinesses’ IT, telecom and back-office operations off-site (andout-of-sight) so that the businesses can …(more)

Redmondmag.comWhen [will] desktop and application virtualization will be accessible toprivate customers (not necessarily employees in IT organizations) directlyas [a] service on the cloud? You can deliver application and desktopsessions in the cloud today. …(more)

Introduction to VMware vCloud Director. Presented on 17/02/2011 at expertV.Also describes the building blocks of vCD.(more)

InternetNews.com… cultivating a wide range of partners and now will offer commercialservices. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: Like manyopen source projects, the OpenStack cloud computing effort has worked hardto build up an ecosystem of partners.(more)

So far much of the effort has focused on organizing the group, while thereal work still lies ahead, says Michael Sutton, vice president of security…(more)

Huffington Post (blog)Cloud computing is all the rage. In its simplest terms, it meansoutsourcing your company’s information technology (IT) needs, from data andstorage to software. All the servers and applications sit elsewhere in theInternet “cloud,” but more literally …(more)

Network WorldBy Tim Greene, Network World A spike in attacks against IP PBXs that
started last fall shows no signs of abating, spawning speculation thatthose responsible have tapped into botnets and cloud computing resources tocarry out their illegal activities. …(more)

iT NewsBy Ry Crozier on Mar 10, 2011 1:19 PM (20 minutes ago) Optus will launch an
“integrated suite” of business software-as-a-service products as early asnext month, using Google Apps at its foundation. The telco announced it hadreached an agreement with …(more)

Khaleej TimesThe information technology, industry’s journey into cloud computing hastaken leaps and bounds as more and more entities are learning its benefitsand advantages, it was made known at the Cloud Computing World Forum MiddleEast and Africa in Dubai on …(more)

GigaOmBut I’ve spoken with many of these providers, as well as VMware vCloudpartners, Terremark and others targeting large-business customers, and theyall claim …(more)

ihotdesk - IT NewsThe importance of cloud computing lies in its connection to a wider”ecosystem”, an industry expert has claimed. Speaking at the Cloud Connectconference in California, Amazon vice-president Werner Vogels said thatwhile the company is seen by many as …(more)

and …PR Newswire (press release)OSLO, Norway, March 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Cfengine, the technologyleader in datacenter automation, and C12G Labs, the leader in private cloudcomputing management, announced today the availability of integrationbetween Cfengine Nova and …(more)

Google’s …EIN News (press release)The apps are based on the latest Microsoft Silverlight technology and offerall the advantages of cloud computing. Startup semYOU thus represents truecompetition against Google’s Apps Marketplace. Applications are nowavailable on local computers, …(more)

InternetNews.comAmid all the talk about cloud computing, the term continues to meandifferent things to different people, and different businesses are chartingtheir own course. By David Needle: More stories by this author: Ask fivetech executives what cloud …(more)

Are …The Wall Street TranscriptMarch 10, 2011 - The Wall Street Transcript has just published Business andApplication Software offering a timely review of the Business Servicessector. This Special Report contains expert industry commentary throughin-depth interviews with public …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Larry Dignan | March 10, 2011, 5:40am PST What follows is an list of the
SaaS landscape and notable companies to track. It’s a big on-demand worldout there. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as wellas Editorial Director of …(more)

Computing”With VMware vCloud and project Redwood it is my understanding that theseproblems have been solved,” he said. That server consolidation shouldprovide …(more)

CNNMoneyBy Steve Hargreaves, senior writerMarch 10, 2011: 10:26 AM ET HOUSTON
(CNNMoney) — Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer made an impassionedtechnology pitch to the energy industry Wednesday, arguing that game-likedevices and cloud computing can …(more)

ITProPortalInternational Business Machines expects to generate revenue of $7 billionfrom its cloud computing services by 2015. Speaking during IBM’s annualinvestor meeting, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano touted cloud computing as animminent technical shift in …(more)

Does the jBPM 5 support multitenancy Typically from the databaseperspective there are three multitenancy strategies 1 separate database 2shared database …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)For only US $95, OneInstall’s iSaaS technology allows for 15 days ofunlimited, powerful software delivery technology that provides the familiarJava platform experience for developers to create signed executables andnative executables. …(more)

Marketwire (press release)… Satisfaction as a Service: Leveraging the Cloud to Address the NewTelecom Service Environment. Co-authored by Mike Lingo, CTO and SVP,Professional Services, Cory Vander Jagt, VP Product Marketing, ITX andPlatform Solutions, and Jon Obermeyer, …(more)

Followup on an interesting discussion in Cloud Computing discussion group.What is a tenant ? Is multi-tenancy an important feature of cloud ? Whoare…(more)

Business Wire (press release)Broadview’s cloud-based services target the growing opportunity forSoftware as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). BothSaaS and IaaS allow companies to move software, applications, storage andserver hardware that support …(more)

By Sean Michael Kerner
The OpenStack cloud computing platform, backed by Rackspace, NASA, Cisco,Dell and others, ramps up commercial support options for cloud andenterprise users.(more)

Network WorldTake multi-tenancy. Public clouds spread computing costs over multiple …”With a multitenancy applications, you have a pool of people who do allthis …(more)

InformationWeekBut for those familiar with the economics of cloud computing, you recognizein Staten’s talk an amplification of Joe Weinman’s 10 Rules ofCloudonomics. Joe was a cloud evangelist at AT&T when he composed the 10rules; he now works for HP. …(more)

The Wall Street Transcript (blog)Cloud computing is redefining the enterprise application software space,rendering obsolete some traditional hardware implementation practices andcertain elements of the software stack, and ultimately increasingproductivity, says Brad Zelnick, …(more)

Channel InsiderNow the company wants to become your handy-dandy cloud computing operationsprovider. VMware on March 9 launched a new platform, VMware vCenterOperations, which centralizes and automates administrative control ofdynamic virtual and cloud environments …(more)

Ocean …PR Newswire (press release)In Cloud and other types of cloud computing area, the technology utilizesclient side CPU capacity to enhance computer power and memory. Conventionaltechniques do not facilitate distributed computing globally and are notscalable as many idle …(more)

Multitenancy refers to the ability to run multiple users of an applicationon a shared infrastructure Such an infrastructure makes oblivious the needfor …(more)

Rackspace and its Partners are the OpenStack Experts Helping Enterprisesand Service Providers Deploy and Support OpenStack Clouds …(more)

Get instant access to OpenStack deployment resource and documentation.Learn how to successfully manage OpenStack projects.(more)

Open source project that grew out of partnership between Rackspace and NASAhas been cultivating a wide range of partners and now will offer commercial…(more)

AsiaOneMr Fingerhut told BizIT that supporting software-as-a-service (SaaS) is adeparture from the traditional software model, where bugs were squashed inbatches and issued in the following service packs. With the cloud, fixesare expected every day, …(more)

VanguardBy Emmanuel Elebeke INnovation and computer hardware manufacturing company,
IBM has showcased a series of technology breakthroughs that extend itscapabilities in virtualisation, image management and cloud computing. IBMsaid these new technologies are …(more)

All Things Digital (blog)… and cloud-services outfit that many people think is going to beacquired any day now, said today that it’s moving more deeply into thecloud business with its own infrastructure offering built around OpenStack,open-source cloud-computing software. …(more)

By aearnest
VMblog Guest Post: Diving Into Cloud Computing with Virtualization.aearnest. 8 Mar 2011 7:57 AM. Comments 0. In honor of Cloud Connect 2011taking place this week, Microsoft’s David Greschler considers the cloudreadiness continuum in …(more)

V3.co.ukby Daniel Robinson Rackspace has announced formal service and support fororganisations building cloud projects based on its OpenStack cloudinitiative, including training and certification, deployment services andtechnical support. …(more)

Virtualization Review”Until this announcement, the vCenter and vCloud Director product familieshave delivered most of their value in the areas of VM configuration,self-service …(more)

By David Marshall
Organizations deploying OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system,can now receive formal service and support offerings from RackspaceHosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computingindustry.(more)

PCWorldIn addition, VMware envisions adding WaveMaker to its Code2Cloud service socustomers can use WaveMaker as a service rather than downloading thesoftware. Code2Cloud is a hosted application lifecycle management servicethat supports developers as they …(more)

iT NewsBy Brett Winterford on Mar 9, 2011 3:25 PM (1 minute ago) I am excited to
announce that iTnews will be hosting an event in April that will dissectthe cloud computing contracts of all the major providers, using the expertadvice of one of the world’s …(more)

Understand the meaning of private SaaS, how the enterprise will leverageprivate SaaS, and what the Cloud and PaaS will mean for enterprise IT inthe …(more)

CMSWireBy J. Angelo Racoma (@jangelo) | Feb 10, 2011 Tweet Last year, Rackspace
(news, site) announced that it will be involved in starting an open-source,open-standards cloud initiative called OpenStack (news, site), along withmajor industry players such …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN According to Tucker, the massive growth of cloud
computing has created an environment where “the network is the computer,once again” and that cloud computing starts with a secure infrastructure.But, Tucker said, there is an …(more)

IT-Director.comGigaSpaces Technologies has announced the upcoming release of itssecond-generation cloud-enablement platform, which offers an architectureaimed specifically at enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS) andindependent software vendor (ISV) …(more)

Rackspace is adding new support and services around its OpenStack opensource cloud play with the launch of Rackspace Cloud Builders.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)I routinely get asked questions like the following: What is a typical churnrate for SaaS? How much should I pay my SaaS sales reps? What is a goodtime frame to recover acquisition costs? A few years ago, the best answersI could give were simply …(more)

By Dharmesh Shah
Today s big news is that my company HubSpot announced a major new round ofventure financing Details can be found in the cleverly titled Sequo.(more)

By arungupta
The main theme is to easily run applications on private or public clouds;Application metadata descriptor to describe PaaS execution environment suchas multi-tenancy, resources sharing, quality-of-service, and dependenciesbetween …(more)

Software as a Service (SaaS) presents a classic “disruptive innovation. …to SaaS than others I have a SaaS platform called httpwwwMyOnlineToolboxcomthat …(more)

The HThe OpenStack project, launched by NASA and Rackspace, has been gaining inpopularity as a solution for cloud computing. Rackspace has now announcedthat it will be offering commercial support, training and services aroundOpenStack. …(more)

Rackspace will help enterprises build private clouds using the OpenStackcloud operating system, the company announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dell isseeking …(more)

CSONow customers can manage their encryption keys for Amazon EC2, Eucalyptusand VMware vCloud environments from Trend Micro’s hosted SecureCloudservice or …(more)

ITProPortalWeb hosting and cloud services provider Rackspace has launched a newbusiness line offering services to organisations on the open source cloudplatform OpenStack. The Rackspace Cloud Builder business will providecertification, training, deployment and …(more)

CTRVirtacore offers technologies to the developer market with vCloud Express(public cloud) and the middle market with vFabric Enterprise (privatecloud), …(more)

Management …BenzingaThe Lima News of Lima, Ohio, is live with hosted Atex Advertising and AtexEditorial content management solutions as part of a master Software as aService (SaaS) contract for Freedom Communications’ daily and weeklynewspapers. The Lima News of Lima, …(more)

Subject: Re: multitenancy: max number of namespaces? Print | Individualmessage | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by thisauthor …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewThe company says the new service will extend its well-regarded supportservices outside its own data centers for the first time, providingtraining and certification, deployment services and ongoing support to anyOpenStack deployment. …(more)

vPresence is a virtual desktop service based on cloud computing andvirtualization technology. The service brings full functionality of theMicrosoft Windows 7 operating system to computing devices that have accessto the internet. …(more)

Insight Pharma Reports Announces the Cloud Computing in Life Sciences R&DReport . Sample pages of the Cloud Computing in Life Sciences R&D Reportare available for download at www.insightpharmareports.com - PR11359953.(more)

By David Marshall
Cloud.com, a leader in open source cloud computing software, todayannounced that Logicworks, a leading provider of enterprise hosting andcloud solutions, is using the company’s flagship product, CloudStack, forits public cloud …(more)

By Claire Sale
Keisha Taylor from GuideStar International shared a three-part series aboutcloud computing as it relates to civil society organizations. Her postsinclude cloud learning resources from TechSoup Global, an overview of clouduses in the …(more)

The option to integrate private and hosted cloud is far more palatable to abusiness that wants to exploit the elasticity of cloud computing withoperational demand, but also be assured of cloud ownership.” …(more)

InformationWeekIts vCloud and vShield announcements were about enabling the management ofits ESX Server virtual machines by public cloud providers. …(more)

NetworkComputing.comAt Cloud Connect, Rackspace unveiled a new professional services offering,called Rackspace Cloud Builders, that helps enterprises deploy privatecloud services based on OpenStack. The offering includes training, designconsulting, and support from …(more)

GigaOmFor Cloud.com’s part, it also is heavily involved with OpenStack and plansto integrate OpenStack components into its own product as they mature.That’s a wise idea not only because it helps Cloud.com become part of apotentially large OpenStack …(more)

CTO EdgeLast year, a Gartner study showed that CIOs were looking to cloud computingin more strategic ways, in the hope that the cloud will improve IToperations. So cloud computing will fix all this, won’t it? Actually, cloudcomputing will just compound the …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Cloud computing creates an environment of nearly
infinite scale, but at Cloud Connect on Wednesday, the cloud faithful weretold that real savings comes when cloud footprint can be reduced. In hisCloud Connect keynote on …(more)

OnWindows.comIt’s probably the most important paradigm shift to occur in IT since thebreakthrough of the client server in the 1980s, but how many peopleactually know what cloud computing is and what it does? Speaking to anaudience at the London School of …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AP Interview: Petraeus says tough summer ahead 03.09.11 Orbis Global, Inc,a leading Software-as-a-Service MRM company, has appointed Jeff Parriott tothe position of Senior Vice President - Business Development and Alliances,based in Chicago. …(more)

CRNBut there are numerous misconceptions about cloud computing, despite thecloud starting to gain real traction. We caught up with five cloudexecutives at Cloud Connect in Santa Clara, Calif. this week to find whatthey feel is the biggest cloud …(more)

a …Business Wire (press release)What CIOs Need to Know Before Signing or Negotiating a Cloud ComputingAgreement in 2011 is a time-efficient way to get the most up to dateinformation on the key terms to make sure are included (or not included) inyour cloud computing agreement, …(more)

Tier 3 Platform-as-a-Service Gets $8.5 Funding The insatiable desire toinvest in cloud-based services continues as Tier 3, a company cloud,financial, funding , platform as a service, tier 3.(more)

By Robin Wauters
Tier 3, which bills itself as an enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS)company , today announced that it has scored $8.5 million in Series Afunding …(more)

eWeek”That is a familiar position for the company, whose other highly robust andflexible cross-datacenter solutions, including vCenter and vCloud, havedone …(more)

The only difference in this kind of multitenancy is that the target sitewill remain the same Only the contentdata will be filtered depending on thehost …(more)

No worries if you missed the live broadcast. It is available below. We hada very active session for just under an hour. Hope you enjoy(ed) the show:) For …(more)

TradersHuddle.com”I am impressed with SS&C’s capabilities and expertise in installingcloud-based software products (as Software-as-a-Service) and full services(as business process outsourcing),” said David Varsano. “SS&C is uniquelysituated to capitalize on the …(more)

InformationWeek (blog)With cloud computing gaining so much buzz recently, Keynote Systems threwits hat into the cloud application performance monitoring arena. TheKeynote Cloud Application Perspective (CAP) examines Web applicationperformance inside private clouds, …(more)

Virtualization ReviewA senior analyst and virtualization practice lead at Taneja Group, DaveBartoletti advises clients on server, desktop and storage virtualizationtechnologies, cloud computing strategies, and the automation of highlyvirtualized environments. …(more)

Now hiring! View the Partner Marketing Manager, vCloud Service Providersjob opportunity at VMware in Palo Alto, CA on LinkedIn.(more)

This is why we call it our “Platform as a Service” offering for DrupalCommons. … We become your local Drupal expert, managing software updates,…(more)

UnityExpress, the all-in-one business software for smaller manufacturersand distributors, is now available as Software as a Service (SaaS). …(more)

By Larry Grothaus
I saw a brief article this morning on the Washington Post site about agovernment related cloud computing commission being formed to help providerecommendations to the federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, and the commercesecretary, Gary Locke. …(more)

By Mariah Jen
New facility based in Singapore extends IBM’s global cloud deliverycapabilities to meet growth market cloud needs of businesses in AsiaPacific SINGAPORE,(more)

PR Newswire (press release)MONTVALE, NJ, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Med-Metrix, LLC (Med-Metrix)today announced that it has acquired Health Ware Concepts, Inc. (HWC), aleading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Decision Supporttechnology, Consulting, …(more)

By roylindemann
Software as a Service (SaaS) also known as software on demand is the typeof distribution we have chosen since the beginning of ReadSpeaker todeliver our services. It’s really at the core of how we look at making ouronline text to …(more)

iTWire”We are very excited to bring our globally proven SaaS technology to thismarket,” said Richard Bowman, director, security-as-a-service.”Organisations are struggling to cope with the rise in new vulnerabilitiesdue to Web 2.0/mobile technologies and …(more)

V3.co.ukCloud computing refers to computer resources and services that aretypically hosted online, and are thus “in the cloud” or out somewhere onthe internet, rather than local to the end user. In general, cloudcomputing refers to the consolidation of …(more)

eWeekMcAfee expands its e-mail, Web and endpoint security Software as a Servicecapabilities with its fifth new cloud data center in 12 months. Just a weekafter Intel completed its acquisition of McAfee, it’s back to business asusual as the security …(more)

The NationOn private cloud, it offers solutions to serve all, ranging frominfrastructure as a service (IaaS), with applications on a shared platform;to platform as a service (PaaS), with database and middleware; and softwareas a service (SaaS), with hardware …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)… Selling Solutions, Product Information Management Platform and Dakis’Rapid Interface Development Software. Dakis’ SRA Platform is a Software asa Service (SaaS) leveraging the most advanced web technologies. For moreinformation, visit www.dakis.com.(more)

ZyckoSoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) is set to have more money put towards it byenterprises in the US as they recognise the importance of cloud computing,according to a new report. Such spending will increase by 112 per centbetween 2010 and 2014, …(more)

By Piers Hausjell
News, Reviews & Betas which includes large community peer support.(more)

Layered Technologies, Inc. (Layered Tech), a global provider of manageddedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computing services, onMonday announced that it has been selected by Model N to provide a custom,highly secure …(more)

Turn your datacenter into a secure private or public cloud with Cloud.com’sOpen Source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform.(more)

Is new Infrastructure as a Service provider NephoScale crazy to take onAmazon Web Services? Also, Rackspace has found an OpenStack customer andsecurity …(more)

ZDNet (blog)In my last post, I talked about SaaS applications that are operated byenterprises for employees, partners or customers. Some of these instancesoperate in a mode that people have been describing as ‘private SaaS’, whichmeans that the application is …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Motionsoft, a leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) member management andfinancial solutions to the health and wellness industry has been named the2011 Associate Member of the Year by the International Health, Racquet andSportsclub Association. …(more)

ZDNet AsiaBy Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia on March 8, 2011 (7 minutes ago) Telecoms
player expands its infrastructure-as-a-service platform to Singapore andSoutheast Asia, and targets to churn US$250 million in overall cloudservices revenue over three years. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)His experience, as a Principal Software Engineer and Web Architect at theleading loyalty marketing and college savings platform Upromise, providesYottaa visibility and direct knowledge of one of our primary prospects: thetechnical owner of a suite …(more)

CTO EdgeIn contrast, platform-as-a-service spending is forecasted to increase amere $460 million. By way of corroboration, Gartner says that 50 percent ofdata centers will have high-density zones by 2015. This makes sense becausemore money in the SaaS …(more)

Supply & Demand Chain ExecutiveIt also delivers integration and governance between on-premise applicationsand other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, such as Salesforce,Workday and Google. Software AG said it offers a combination of software,service and industry expertise …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsMulti tenant data transformation: Degree of multi tenancy plays animportant role in data migration strategy. If it is separate databasetenancy migration, …(more)

of …PR Newswire (press release)Combining Dell’s newly announced OpenStack installer and Opscode’s Chefopen source software for cloud infrastructure automation, it is possible toprovision an OpenStack compute cloud from bare metal hardware in one hour.The OpenStack open source …(more)

Offer …PR Newswire (press release)The company is also launching a limited-time offer to Jumpstart OpenStackinstallations. Since its inception in 2006, Grid Dynamics had been usingcloud computing to bring scalability and elasticity to the enterprise IT.The new Cloud Services division …(more)

100 …BenzingaBella Solutions is a leading SaaS (Software as a Service) provider of FieldService Management Software for the Field Service industry. The solutionprovides the ability to streamline business operations by providing CRM,Service Management, …(more)

FiercemobilecontentVideo ringtones and mobile personalization solutions provider Vringo willacquire the assets of mobile software as a service platform providerm-Wise. Per terms of the agreement, Vringo will issue m-Wise 1.9 millionshares of its common stock, …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The SLM solution drives incremental revenue for SaaS companies byincreasing customer adoption, reducing churn, and expanding customerrelationships and loyalty. The SLM solution helps SaaS companies maximizerevenue throughout the pivotal points of …(more)

ZDNet (blog)Rackspace on Tuesday launched a services unit dubbed Cloud Builders todeploy its OpenStack operating system. OpenStack is Rackspace’s effort tobe a platform. Cloud Builders is the combination of Rackspace’s support andthe services operations of Anso …(more)

its …PR Newswire (press release)Vitrue executives cite rapid adoption of its software-as-a-service (SaaS)platform as the driver for growth, making Q4 the company’s best quarter todate. The Vitrue SRM software, which allows brands and agencies tocommunicate with fans across social …(more)

Messages tagged with multitenancy: 1. Category: All, Amazon Web Services,AWS Web Site & Resources, Resources, Japanese Forums, Amazon Web Services…(more)

I’m working with a multi tenancy setup of Exchange 2010 and want to disablethe password expiry on exchange accounts for all of the hosted domains …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)”Cisco and COMDEXvirtual are two recent examples of how our platform,technology and services approach is serving as Marketing-as-a-Service forour customers. We’re also launching new innovations like hybrid events,virtual recruitment events and …(more)

Silicon.comBy Ben Woods, 8 March 2011 10:55 Enterprise CRM and software-as-a-service
provider Salesforce.com has launched Service Cloud 3, which integratesseveral social-oriented elements in order to help companies capitalise onthe opportunities provided by …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewThe move comes a month after the release of VMware vCloud Connector, a freeplug-in that lets administrators immediate deployment and management ofvirtual …(more)

ITworld.comVMware is trying to give IT managers a way to avoid the mainadvantage/curse of virtual- and cloud computing: the ability to avoidseeing ugly details of the infrastructure under the pretty, pretty apps.This morning VMware announced vCenter Operations …(more)

Channel News AsiaBy Ryan Huang | Posted: 08 March 2011 2151 hrs SINGAPORE : Indian company
Tata Communications has launched international cloud computing services,and it has chosen Singapore to begin the global roll-out. Cloud computingallows companies to adopt a …(more)

eMoneyDailyIBM (NYSE:IBM) has announced that a new IBM (NYSE:IBM) Asia Pacific CloudComputing Data Center is opening soon in Singapore, for which the companyhas invested $38 million. The new data center will provide IBM (NYSE:IBM)’scomprehensive cloud services …(more)

NetworkComputing.comA study released at the start of a cloud computing industry conference inSilicon Valley shows businesses embracing cloud computing, althoughcautiously. The study of companies of all sizes and industry types showsthat companies are primarily …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)App computing: Startup firm semYOU presents free applications for simplecloud computing. It’s time to semYOU LOS ANGELES, March 8, 2011/PRNewswire/ — semYOU, the free app computing system that makes usingsoftware and the Internet much easier, …(more)

TheStreet.comIBM has made a major push into cloud computing, launching its ‘Blue Cloud’strategy in 2007, and the growing popularity of cloud services is expectedto drive demand for the company’s servers, software and services. Palmisanoalso used his keynote to …(more)

Organizations deploying OpenStack can now receive formal service andsupport offerings from Rackspace through Rackspace Cloud Builders. CloudBuilders is a new business that will offer training and certification,deployment services, …(more)

CloudTweaks News… and need to manage 1000s to 10000 VMs, VMware’s vCloud Director helpsyou leverage, integrate, and manage multiple cells to scale up to 25vCenter …(more)

ComputerworldBy Julie Bort Network World - Rackspace will help enterprises build private
clouds using the OpenStack cloud operating system, the company announcedTuesday. Meanwhile, Dell is seeking enterprises and service providers forproof-of-concept OpenStack …(more)

GigaOmIt’s a strategy we’ve seen before from cloud startups such as EucalyptusSystems and projects such as OpenStack. Building the baseinfrastructure-as-a-service software is one thing, but it’s a whole otherthing to create all the bells and whistles (eg, …(more)

Dr. Dobb’sSelf-proclaimed champions of the concept of InstallationSoftware-as-a-Service (iSaaS), Genuitec says that OneInstall is well suitedto accommodate start-ups and enterprises that need a fast software deliverysolution for their products. …(more)

CRNVogels urged the dismantling of traditional cloud computing models, whichcreate a metaphorical pyramid out of infrastructure-as-a-service,platform-as-a-service and software-as-a-service, and instead enterprisesand cloud users should focus their …(more)

Infosecurity Magazine (US) (blog)Whether we are talking about IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS(Platform as a Service) or SaaS (Software as a Service), perceived securityvulnerabilities in the cloud are abundant. A common myth is thatorganizations utilizing cloud …(more)

Khaleej TimesAs Dubai hosts the Cloud Computing World Forum today, we take a look at howtechnology is changing the world around us. As businesses evolve into theCloudsphere of the digital world, cloud computing could be betterunderstood as an extension of the …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)CHICAGO, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — SingleHop, Inc., a Chicago-basedon-demand Infrastructure as a Service provider, today announced theexpansion of their recently launched Cascade cloud hosting platform. Withthe expansion, SingleHop customers can …(more)

InformationWeekCompanies are starting to get rid of on-premises apps and usingsoftware-as-a-service options, our survey finds, but most need a betterplan to deal with the risks.That and more in the new all-digital issue ofInformationWeek. Download it now. …(more)

ReadWriteWebBy Klint Finley / March 8, 2011 12:30 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of
our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualizationand cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware.Rackspace announced today that it …(more)

SDTimes.comThese included commercial service and support for OpenStack from Rackspace,and the launch of the Nimbula private cloud product. For companies lookingto host their own open-source private cloud, Rackspace will offer thisOpenStack commercial service …(more)

The companies look to make OpenStack to the cloud what LAMP was to the datacenter.(more)

EContent… including the ability to harness cross-stack elasticity andmulti-tenancy, … any cloud infrastructure, alongside fine andcoarse-grained multitenancy …(more)

On the 2/24 Virtualization Security Podcast we were joined by DaviOttenheimer and Michael Haines of VMware to discuss vCloud security.(more)

The purpose of this group is to share information about vCloud ExpressServices.(more)

So there is always a question that comes up when we install vCenterChargeback with vCloud director. In most cases folks, ask the samequestion. …(more)

MindTree software as a service (SaaS) formula for success blog explainingSaaS business model. Topic includes enterprise software market, SaaSsurvey, …(more)

Proccesing with a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Delivery Model. (availableat www .txvia.com), which identified why currently available SaaS andsoftware …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Pitkowicz most recently served as the Director of Marketing at ePS, a SaaSbased company providing e-catalog, e-procurement, e-fulfillment ande-payment solutions. “Recent endorsements from Kia Motors America and MobisParts America have positioned …(more)

Forbes (blog)Continuing my discussion of ROI in the cloud, let’s move from PaaS(Platform as a Service) to IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). IaaS coversmost things that exist in a data center these days, but are delivered as aservice from a cloud computing …(more)

$32 …Boston GlobeBy Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist HubSpot, the Cambridge marketing software
start-up, is announcing its fourth round of funding today: $32 million fromSequoia Capital, Google Ventures, and software-as-a-service pioneerSalesforce.com. …(more)

We are using vcloud api to create and assign internet services to server…. The issue will be addressed during normal vCloud Express Support hours,…(more)

Jesse draws from a strong background in Software as a Service, havingserved as Community … Real World Cloud Architecture: Build or Buy a SaaSPlatform? …(more)

Express BuzzCHENNAI: India needs to change the gears to become a global delivery leaderin cloud computing, said V Srinivasa Rao, Past Chairman, PMI Team India andHead of Oracle Practice at Mahindra Satyam. Speaking at the conference onProject Management in …(more)

RegisterCloud computing may not be a completely a new way of moving bits and bytesaround to do work, but just the same, incumbents can get pushed down to thefar end of the data center feed trough as has been the case with prior dataprocessing and …(more)

Network World… will require v4 versions along with additional VMware support softwaresuch as vSphere Management Assistant, vShield or vCloud to bepre-installed.(more)

its …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Layered Tech’s scalable infrastructure powers millions of sites andInternet-enabled applications including e-commerce and software as aservice (SaaS). Clients range from large enterprises with advanced datasecurity, compliance and uptime …(more)

Washington PostBy Marjorie Censer As cloud computing picks up steam within the federal
government, senior industry officials are seeking to put their stamp on itsdeployment, signing on to a panel that will make recommendations to thefederal chief information …(more)

IT News AfricaThis move will simplify scalable cloud computing by improving performanceand reducing data duplication. This integration enables clients to optimisecloud delivery with features like automated storage tiering to improveperformance, and thin storage …(more)

BenzingaCloud computing performance-based online ad network, AdCirrus Ltd, tapsindustry veteran to head sales. UK-based AdCirrus Ltd(http://www.adcirrus.com) an industry leader in large-scale textadvertising recently launched performance display advertising …(more)

To implement multi-tenancy, Alfresco has been logically partitioned suchthat each tenant has access to their own set of tenant-specific stores.(more)

CIOLBANGALORE, INDIA: Cloud computing in India seems to be at a crossroads,undecided which way to take. On one hand, many analysts agree that thecloud computing market in India will grow to over a billion dollars by 2015and will see a CAGR of over 40 …(more)

PR Web (press release)Flexiant to demo its flagship product, Extility, at top cloud computingevent in Santa Clara. Flexiant is one of the early pioneers of cloudcomputing in Europe and is now sharply focused on the US, a key market inour aggressive growth strategy. …(more)

HostReview.com (press release)IndSoft.net Announces High Advanced Cloud Computing Solutions powered by aLoad-balanced Cluster of Servers. After launching World’s lowest MegaDomain Name Discount Offer (Domain Name priced at US $ 1/- PA ), A leadingname in the web hosting industry …(more)

The United States has a golden opportunity to become the world’s leadingCloud Computing deployer, and there will be no better evidence of this atthe 8th International Cloud Expo in New York on June 6-9. …(more)

EETimes.comIntel expects to more than double by the end of the year the 25 referenceimplementations for cloud computing it has available through its CloudBuilders program. The processor giant is leveraging interest in the trendto build closer ties with OEMs …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Dan Kusnetzky | March 7, 2011, 3:12am PST Managing cloud computing
environments is similar, but different than managing physical environments.Embotics puts forward their ideas on the subjecdt. Daniel Kusnetzky,Distinguished Analyst and Founder of …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Merrill Lynch predicts that the cloud computing market will reach $160billion in 2011. By focusing on cloud storage for consumers in a marketdominated by enterprise-oriented giants, CX Inc.’s product, CX is rapidlyadvancing on competitive territory, …(more)

Business Wire (press release)The rapid deployment of the new cloud data centers demonstrates thecommitment and ability of McAfee to meet the growing global demand for itsindustry-leading email and web Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) securitysolutions. This commitment is further …(more)

Business Wire (press release)[1] The 2011 Gartner Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant is thefirst such report to include a separate section on Software-as-a-ServiceBusiness Intelligence (SaaS BI) offerings. “Oco’s customer experiencesupports Gartner’s analysis in …(more)

Network WorldBy John Dix, Network World While the term “cloud” still puts many people
off, chances are good that within a few years most companies will have amix of legacy infrastructure, private cloud pods, public cloud services(SaaS or other), and resources at …(more)

the …AddPR.com (press release)(Are you leading or lagging behind the rest of th Techcello is conducting asingle click survey among ISVs to ascertain the adoption trends in the SaaSmarket. The last date for participation in this survey is extended till11th March 2011. …(more)

Service …Help Net SecuritySoftware-plus-service (S+S) and Software-as-a-service (SaaS) arenext-generation software solutions for a number of today’s applications.Implementation flexibility, cost structure and ease of customer supportmake it a product decision differentiator …(more)

CIOLApplications Cloud: This is the underlying Force.com Cloud platform, whichis Salesforce.com’s platform-as-a-service product. The platform allowsexternal developers to create add-on applications that integrate into themain Salesforce.com application …(more)

Marketwire (press release)OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - March 7, 2011) - Halogen Software Inc., aleading provider of talent management software today announced it is one ofthe first software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers in the world to havecompleted the following Type II …(more)

The Hindu… in the sphere of traditional computing and virtualisation, with alittle bit of flirting with the public cloud in the case ofsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for areas like human resources,customer relationship management and e-mail. …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN OpSource is bulking up its cloud computing services
with the addition of hardware-based security and networking for itsservers, a move the company said will give cloud users and cloud providersmore agility and protection. …(more)

Bizjournals.comSoftware maker Conformity Inc. has changed its name to IronStratus Inc. andis refocusing on customers using cloud computing. Austin-based IronStratus,founded in 2008, employs 20 workers. The company develops asoftware-as-a-service product designed …(more)

Today, Xen.org announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0.First , let me congratulate the open source Xen community, including all ofthe …(more)

InformationWeekThe cloud-enabled platform allows “continuous scaling of application dataand services. Think of Amazon style of SimpleDB scaling,” he said.Companies are starting to get rid of on-premises apps and usingsoftware-as-a-service options, our survey finds …(more)

HR …PR Newswire (press release)The Software as a Service (SaaS) system includes new modules for vacationand holiday tracking as well as one for personal data administration.365Kin helps HR staff as well as direct supervisors to approve or deny anychanges and update a central …(more)

InformationWeekWhen the company moved into France and Austria in 2009, it cloned itsexisting e-commerce systems, which Cretney said was the right call thenbecause there wasn’t a hosted or software-as-a-service option it consideredsuitable. But that system, Net. …(more)

Web Development Software offers optimal SaaS performance. ThomasNetIndustrial News Room (press release) Site9, Inc., developer of theindustry’s fastest growing collaborative prototyping tool for websites andweb applications, …(more)

Not answered Multi Tenancy support with multiple domains. Feed from thisthread. Gerardo avatar. Posted 2 days ago (permalink) …(more)

ZDNet (blog)Targeting SaaS ISVs and the PaaS value makes a lot of sense, as this iswhere the services are being forged that will need to find cloud homes, bethem on-premises, public or hybrids. In the history of IT, no one got firedfor helping good apps get …(more)

and …Business Wire (press release)Meyer brings 15-plus years of leadership experience in marketing, holdingexecutive positions at companies that specialize in social technologies andenterprise software as a service (SaaS). Most recently, Meyer served aspresident & CEO of Loomia, …(more)

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, talks about theventure- capital firm’s investment strategy and the outlook for thetechnology industry,(more)

ReadWriteWebBy Alex Williams / March 7, 2011 11:45 AM / 0 Comments This post is part of
our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualizationand cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Today’scloud computing landscape …(more)

Seeking AlphaIn several interviews released to CNBC and WSJ, Savvis CEO had underlinedthat the company was looking for ways to compete with bigger players in thecloud computing arena and that could include partnerships or even a sale ofthe company. …(more)

Hindu Business LinePhoto: GRN Somashekar Tata Consultancy Services wants to increase focus oncloud computing as a part of its effort to get around 10 per cent of itsgrowth from non-linear sources by March 2012. Addressing a conference, MrN. Chandrasekaran, …(more)

Forbes (blog)The story covers some of the more obvious benefits of cloud computing, suchas reducing the costs associated with having underutilized hardware andtime spent maintaining software, but it also drills into a variety of otherbenefits. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)So there’s RIM - within sight of the launch of its unconventional ONX-basediPad-bucking PlayBook tablet, reportedly set for April 10 or thereabouts -and all of a sudden its chief marketing officer Kevin Pardy, imported fromNokia a couple of years …(more)

The …The Wall Street TranscriptOn the technology side, there is an explosion in software-as-a-service(SaaS), mobile computing and social networking, which are generating newdemands for the way people want to use and buy software - these areimportant trends that we are paying …(more)

RegisterUbuntu’s Natty Narwhal, scheduled for next month, will pack APIs for twocloud architectures: OpenStack and Eucalyptus. Shuttleworth confirmed thedual-cloud stance after The Reg reported that OpenStack APIs were beingadded to the forming Linux distro …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Justin Lee, March 07, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM
(www.ibm.com) announced on Monday it has invested $38 million in a new IBMAsia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore. The announcementcomes a couple months after IBM revealed …(more)

AllBusiness (blog)The problem is that so many people see the Gmail outage as a strike againstcloud computing. Here’s a blog post, for example, that said the outage”highlights cloud risks.” And no less an authority than The Wall StreetJournal declared the glitch a …(more)

ReadWriteWebSoftware development firm Echolibre beta launched Orchestra, itsHeroku-like PHP platform-as-a-service, last month. The company is offeringfree beta invites for the service to the first 40 ReadWriteWeb readers whosign-up here. …(more)

Get …Forbes (blog)SAS 70 (Type II), while it doesn’t stand for Software as a Service, appliesto Software as a Service because it’s all about certifying that we complywith best practices for data security and data access methods that we saywe are. …(more)

Look for tension between customization and mass appeal as SaaS providerstry and keep enterprise customers happy while staying true to themultitenant …(more)

Electronic Health Record (EHR), practice management and medical software…. Certified Consultants provide software, training and support services….(more)

Hi Ruben thanks for taking the time talking to us you just launched thefirst commercial developmentasaservice platform for JavaScript and HTML5…(more)

DENVER Feb 28 2011PRNewswire TopSchool a leading SaaS provider of StudentLifecycle ManagementSLM solutions for higher education has launchedTopSchool SLM …(more)

Seeking AlphaThe company has seen significant growth in its sales and customer base inthe past two years; sales are up 74% on the growth of cloud computing andits popular Cloud and Chatter products. Like many expanding companies withsignificant potential, …(more)

IBM is working in the Bangalore, India area with the Karnataka VocationalTraining and Skill Development Corporation (KVTSDC) to develop new jobsthrough mobile Cloud Computing. The state organization is part of India’sDepartment of …(more)

PR-USA.net (press release)”Although limited cloud computing concepts have been claimed by a fewstart-ups in the financial services space they have typically been lackingin areas of importance to banks and prepaid program managers, such asprocessing scale, platform capability …(more)

Clients look to value added resellers for the most advanced technology.(more)

Openstack is celebrating its six month anniversary OpenStack is acollection of open source technologies delivering a massively scalablecloud operating …(more)

Seeking AlphaOther nationwide competitors have begun introducing services they refer toas ‘on-demand’ or ’software-as-a-service’ models, under which software iscentrally hosted and services are provided from central locations. Ibelieve this is a plus for …(more)

Network WorldBy Bob Violino, CSO The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launched a Security
as a Service working group at the RSA conference in February, to helporganizations evaluate and implement security solutions provided via theSaaS model. …(more)

ServiceReadWriteWebStatusNet Cloud Service launched last March with personal, community andprivate plans that were offered as a SaaS. Initial customers includedMotorola Corporation and Canonical Ltd. StatusNet OnDemand is the newservice that the company is launching. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)With the adoption of virtualization, SaaS and cloud computing, the datacenter is transforming into a hybrid computing model, in whichorganizations and end users access applications that run inside theconventional data center as well as in SaaS and …(more)

InformationWeekLook for tension between customization and mass appeal as SaaS providerstry and keep enterprise customers happy while staying true to themultitenant model. By Michael Biddick , InformationWeek We will plant atree for each of the first 5000 downloads …(more)

InformationWeekThat’s why IT should add e-discovery criteria to its list of considerationswhen evaluating SaaS providers, particularly when looking at services suchas hosted e-mail and e-mail archiving, PC and file-share backups, and otherinformation sources that …(more)

InformationWeekBy Adam Ely , InformationWeek Just about any business function supported by
enterprise IT has the potential to be delivered as a service or hostedexternally. Software as a service is particularly popular. Our 2011InformationWeek Analytics SaaS Survey …(more)

By ZUI
He explained evolution of computing during past decades and briefed theaudience on various cloud computing models including Software as a Service(SaaS), Platfom As a Service (Paas) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)….(more)

PR Web (press release)This show allows us to discuss our capabilities and help companiesunderstand our software. CoreCard offers that unique flexibility by makingprocessing available as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as aService (PaaS), as well as, …(more)

eWeekTough to believe in a time of robust cloud computing, but outages happen,analysts note. When Google revealed that some Gmail users were findingtheir messages, labels and other inbox content missing Feb. 27, the clockbegan ticking on the company’s …(more)

I do a lot of consulting with traditional software companies that arelooking to make a transition to the new world of SaaS. Again and again, Isee the same …(more)

Truckee TimesThe topic of Cloud Computing comes up daily in our business. Either aclient is asking about it or we are working on it. There are a lot ofdifferent pieces involved when organizations begin exploring Cloudsolutions, so I thought I would provide a …(more)

MSPmentorCloud computing dominated most of the discussion at Cisco Partner Summitearlier today. However, Cisco Channel Chief Edison Peres (pictured, right)and Senior VP Keith Goodwin (left) reinforced the fact that Cisco continuesto see rapid growth for …(more)

I need as a requirement for my platform support for multitenancy, … Doesanyone have a “step by step guide” in order to get multitenancy workingcorrectly …(more)

InformationWeek… import virtual machines from VMware’s virtualization managementsoftware. The plug-in for VMware vCenter imports VMs, or virtual machines,from a data center into Amazon’s platform-as-a-service through the VMenvironment in vCenter, called vSphere. …(more)

Maureen O’Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, isthe Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media.She is the publisher of famous “Billygrams” and the editor-in-chief of”Client/Server …(more)

We are pleased to offer PowerSchool Software as a Service, which allowsdistricts to save money, reduce risk and foster an effective and efficient…(more)

By administrator
The company attributed most of which focus on data center management, andSaas ( software as a service), users can use former to replace the manualoperation which is need high cost, while use the latter to replace thecostly traditional …(more)

ZDNet UK (blog)Enterprise CRM and software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com haslaunched Service Cloud 3 which integrates several social-oriented elementsin order to help companies capitalise on the opportunities provided bysocial media, the company said. …(more)

Cloud computing offers several key business values, such as standardized ITcapability or service, pay-per-use or metered consumption and self-serviced…(more)

It may sound like a fantasy, but cloud computing is actually the ability tostore data online using the power of the Internet. …(more)

opentaps Open Source ERP CRM ecommerce Warehouse Inventory FinancialsAccounting Purchasing Supply Chain Management Business IntelligenceReporting with …(more)

Aarkstore Enterprise : Google’s Strategy in Cloud Computing. Chrome as yourNext OS. Aarkstore announce a new report ” Google’s Strategy in CloudComputing. Chrome as your Next OS.” through its vast collection of marketresearch report.(more)

Wall Street JournalThe product, dubbed Service Cloud 3, is part of the San Francisco company’sbroader push to make its software-as-a-service technology more of a socialexperience. Salesforce’s service cloud, which has more than 15000customers, aims to aggregate pools …(more)

MSPmentorWhen it comes to cloud computing, successful managed services providers(MSPs) should have a leg up against traditional channel players. That’s theconsensus among Cisco Systems executives who have helped to build thenetworking giant’s managed …(more)

Financial TimesBy Chris Burn and Conrad Thompson As the market for cloud computing
matures, there is growing awareness of its potential among chief executivesand finance directors. However, that awareness tends to be based on threemisconceptions: firstly, …(more)

PC MagazineFor Benioff, cloud computing means energy efficiency. In fact,Salesforce.com released a study that it commissioned with WSP Environment &Energy which estimates that customers of Salesforce.com’s cloud computingservices produce 95 percent less carbon …(more)

Marketwire (press release)The SaaS XDesignOnline Designer allows anyone with an internet connectedPC, Mac or iPad or Android-based tablet computer to design and orderpersonalized gifts. Users simply select the products they want to customizethen upload their favorite digital …(more)

Increasingly, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is becoming a dominant mechanismfor the consumption of software by end users. From a vendor’s perspective,(more)

Multi-tenancy is one of VSG’s very powerful features. An example ispresented demonstrating the ease of use to incorporate a new tenant andresource …(more)

By Environmental Leader
A growing number of respondents are paying for software as a service,instead of on a license basis. And most respondents use some do-it-yourselfsoftware. Even among the many companies buying off-the-shelf solutions, …Last decade there seemed to be a move towards a consolidation of IT systemsover a single platform , White said. Now, companies are determining whichsystems truly need to be integrated. Of the respondents, 23 plan tointegrate their EHS system with …(more)

The Cloud Computing Summit saw executives from IBM, Intel, Google, VMWareand Fujitsu mull over the challenges and opportunities presented by thecloud. Security, standards and bandwidth problems remain - Page 1.(more)

By Bob Apollo
Some organisations are adopting cloud computing faster than others. One ofthe most interesting findings was that companies that were growing by 10%or more per annum were nearly twice as likely to move applications andinfrastructure …(more)

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way businesses address their serverand computing needs, eliminating the time and expense formerly associatedwith server management and provisioning. The cloud API is just the latestway Atlantic. …(more)

The study also concluded that massively scalable, multitenant cloudplatforms are on average 64 percent more carbon-efficient than so-called”private clouds” that don’t use multitenancy. Private clouds typically arerun out of …(more)

CRN.inSecurity-as-a-service (SaaS) is catching on in the IT channel. According toIDC, the SaaS market stood at $2 billion in 2010. Another research firm,Ovum, predicts that SaaS will be high on the agenda of CIOs who are lookingto move some aspects of …(more)

EE HeraldIn-Stat has forecasted public cloud computing model SaaS(software-as-a-service) spending by US businesses will increase by 112%between 2010 and 2014. “Spending is expected to grow significantly acrossall service options of cloud computing, …(more)

Xen Cloud Platform v10 released todayOpenstackOpenvSwitchhttpwwwxenorgproductscloudxenhtml … Start the article foropenstack onWikiHashtags …(more)

Top Tech ReviewsCloud computing is the access, data storage, and general computer use froma remote location. Amazon started as an online retailer in 1995 but hasquickly branched out to other online businesses. It is just one of thecloud service providers in the …(more)

Express ComputerCloud computing which leverages virtualization, multitenancy, pay-per-usemodel, etc., may end up being a classic case of this paradox by makingresource …(more)

ITProPortalAmazon Web Services has opened its second cloud computing outlet in Asia inTokyo, offering local data storage and faster data transfer rates to itsJapanese customers. Jeff Barr, Amazon Web Services evangelist, wrote in ablog post that Japanese …(more)

of …Business Wire (press release)HANNOVER, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pacific Control Systems LLC, Dubai,announced a joint initiative with the Vienna University of Technology (TUVienna) in opening a cloud computing lab dedicated to research anddevelopment on ICT enabled managed …(more)

CIOLMUMBAI, INDIA: NetSuite Inc., provider of cloud-based financials and ERPsoftware suites, and Informatica, provider of data integration software,today announced a strategic partnership to deliver the first cloudcomputing-based solution for deploying …(more)

IT …Business Wire (press release)SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wyse Technology, the global leader incloud client computing, today announced that Wyse executives will bespeaking at the Computerworld Premier IT Leaders Conference in Palm Desert,CA on Monday, March 7, 2011. …(more)

Hill …PR Newswire (press release)Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company that hastransformed the way companies collaborate and communicate. Salesforce.comis leading the effort to bring Cloud 2, the next paradigm for computing, tothe enterprise by offering its …(more)

V3.co.ukXCP also links into the OpenStack Bexar infrastructure as a serviceoffering, which provides cloud space and instances on an ad-hoc basis, andan enterprise-class API management stack with security, monitoring,patching and support features. …(more)

Express ComputerVMware, has announced that VMware vCloud Director has delivered a privatecloud at Hexaware Technologies, a tier II global provider of IT & BPOservices and consulting Services. Hexaware has built its private CloudRAINMAKER leveraging the VMware …(more)

Security …PR Newswire (press release)As a leading mobile security service provider, NetQin not only providesanti-virus services in SaaS model to protect mobile users from the latestsecurity threats, but also cloud scan services built on cloud computingtechnology to help app stores and …(more)

GlobeNewsWire (press release)WOBURN, Mass., March 4, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — LogMeIn, Inc.(Nasdaq:LOGM), a leading provider of SaaS-based remote connectivitysolutions, has named Hilary Schneider to the company’s board of directors.The Internet industry veteran joins LogMeIn as …(more)

VMware vCloud Director has a detailed installation and configurationprocess, which includes setting a unique system name and installation ID.(more)

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SM: So, you don’t have any kind of platform as a service (PaaS) in yourorganization yet? JS: Tell me what you mean when you say that? SM: Youknow, in many similar cases where a lot of applications, especially thekind of cloud movement … There isn’t any in my organization, but then inthe related ones nearby, there is work going on with data warehousing andbusiness intelligence ( BI) applications, using a software as a service(SaaS) or PaaS model inside the company. …(more)

InformationWeekCustomer demand for one-stop shopping has driven consolidation and demandfor completely integrated appliance-based EDWs, and, increasingly, forcloud- and software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based access to the samefunctionality. The past year has seen SAP …(more)

PCWorldThe difference this time around is that the company believes itsreduced-power-consumption 30nm DDR memory could hold the key to the futureof cloud computing. Following on neatly from the Cloud Computing Summit, atwhich a number of the panelists …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)Cloud computing and its antecedents, for instance, has been around fordecades. During the past five years or so, the explosion of availablebandwidth and exponentially more powerful end user devices has enabled thecloud to move from its earlier …(more)

DatamationSalesforce.com released the results of a study that it says shows thatrunning applications in its cloud computing environment instead ofon-premises can greatly lessen those applications’ carbon footprint. As oneof the first to embrace cloud …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Teradata said Thursday that it’s going to buy the 89% of Aster Data Systemsthat it doesn’t already own for $263 million less the $21 million in cashthe “Big Data” analytics company has in the bank. Evidently responding toIBM’s hearty appetite for …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)No sooner had Steve Jobs’ announced the iPad 2 and talked about the”post-PC” phenomenon than Gartner axed its estimates for PC sales growththis year. It sheered its outlook from 15.9% to 10.5% on the assumptionthat laptops and netbooks won’t be as …(more)

eChannelLineBy Mark Cox Online and cloud backup provider Storage Guardian has launched
Storage Guardian Cloud Computing, a new metered computing service forsmaller businesses. It will be available exclusively through the company’snetwork of MSP and VAR partners. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Most of the major IT companies predict a hybrid delivery in the future,where by the future enterprises need to look for a delivery model thatcomprises certain workloads on clouds and some of them continue to be ondata centers, and then looks for a …(more)

The current trend of moving enterprise applications to SaaS-style publiccloud solutions is raising a number of concerns regarding security andgovernance.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Due to merging of the core packet and optical network layers, it will beable to handle unpredictable and heightened network traffic in mobile,video, cloud computing and other data intensive environments. Serviceproviders can improve on delivery by …(more)

The open source ecosystem is dragging vendors into making their productsopen.(more)

Network WorldWhen Open Stack was first announced several months ago many people thoughtthat it could be a major player in the cloud market. Others thought that itcould be just another wannabe standard that would fade under all of thecloud hype. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Open source cloud platform merchant Eucalyptus Systems took a really nastyrabbit punch to the kidneys last year when its buddy NASA so very publiclythrew its support - and its technology - into the development of OpenStack,the rival open source …(more)

Messaging at VMware nowadays revolves around cloud computing.(more)

Cloud computing is attractive to IT organizations tasked with providing awide range of cost-effective business services. These organizations arealso responsible for the security, performance and availability of theservices they …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Dennis Howlett | March 2, 2011, 2:32pm PST Can a SaaS system truly be
regarded as a factor in rescuing a failing company? This Plex Systems casestudy implies a firm ‘yes.’ Dennis Howlett has been providing comment andanalysis on enterprise …(more)

VirtualizationTMCnetThese solutions can be deployed in private or public clouds so thatsoftware licensing providers can leverage the market potential of SaaS(News - Alert) solutions. Revenues can grow by entering new markets,providing customers with more scalable …(more)

QAS.co.nzPrint service providers are among the companies which can benefit from theuse of software-as-a-service solutions. This is according to a recentarticle from MPS Connect, which has been examined on the ZD Net website. Itnoted businesses working in the …(more)

Cloud Computing - Definition of Cloud Computing on Investopedia - A modelfor delivering information technology services in which resources areretrieved …(more)

Platform-as-a-ServiceThe Open Press (press release)Bangalore (OPENPRESS) March 3, 2011 — WOLF Frameworks, a leading Cloudbased Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Venture, headquartered in Bangalore,today announced a unique ‘Pay-as-you-Grow’ pricing. Developing softwareusing traditional development …(more)

IT PROBy Maggie Holland, 3 Mar 2011 at 03:31 Cloud computing adoption is being
driven by the desire to innovate rather than save money. That was themessage sent out during IBM’s Pulse 2011 event this week in Las Vegas asthe man in charge of the cloud for …(more)

The State Journal-RegisterBy Anonymous Dear Mr. Berko: Please explain cloud computing. And what do
you think of cloud computing stocks like Salesforce.com? I am thinking ofbuying 100 shares at its current $140 price because I heard it may be atakeover candidate and lots of …(more)

as …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The Sfile platform is delivered in a true Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)model and operates in a multi-tenant environment with high performanceparallel processor engines to support ESI processing and analysis. Thisenables Sfile to offer a …(more)

Ten LinksCatalog Data Solutions, Inc. is a leading SaaS provider of product search,configuration, and online CAD solutions for Industrial Suppliers. Foundedin 2005 with headquarters in San Jose, CA, Catalog Data Solutions enablesIndustrial Suppliers to …(more)

GigaOmUEC is now shipping with Dell cloud servers, UEC now includes bothOpenStack and Eucalyptus as private cloud IaaS layers, and a government …(more)

Network WorldIt has referred to other regions as datacenters. In this case, AWS was notspecific and was not immediately available to clarify. Amazon Web Services,started in 2006, is believed to have signed up 330000 developers for cloudcomputing. …(more)

NewsbycompanyVienna, VA, March 03, 2011 — With two months behind us in 2011, can youcount the number of times that you’ve already encountered the term “CloudComputing” so far this year? It is certainly probable that you have heardit, read it or even said it at …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)New Galileo Processing solutions provide the benefits of enterprise-gradecloud computing while meeting the specific needs of payment card issuersand card program managers. SALT LAKE CITY, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ –Galileo Processing, …(more)

I really like the last slide, because it clearly breaks down hierarchy ofsoftware layers into what is each vendor service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) is…(more)

SaaS engeering couldn’t be more different. Why? The typical softwareproduct driving a SaaS architecture has exactly one customer: you. You haveone version …(more)

PR Web (press release)Versus alternative ‘trouble-ticketing’ tools, SAManage is organically aSaaS based solution designed to provide powerful metrics and cross-databaseanalytics on asset data. As an organically SaaS tool, SAManage helps toprovide greater analytics and …(more)

Guys I want to know your take on this. What do you think is the thin linebetween multitenancy and Virtual Machines?(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)MUSA, a leading provider of qualification and information technologyconsulting services to companies within the Life Sciences industry, todayannounced the immediate availability of The MUSA Validated Cloud andQualification Outsourcing featuring …(more)

PR Web (press release)Net, a privately held leading hosting solutions provider, announced todaythat it has released a free application programming interface (API) for itsworld-class cloud computing platform, allowing customers to moreefficiently utilize its robust …(more)

Marketwire (press release)”BioID’s Biometrics as a Service platform offers high availability anddependability, is in accordance with security best practices, and providesclearly defined biometric and other security features,” said Ho Chang,BioID CEO. …(more)

ZDNet UKBy Nick Heath , silicon.com, 3 March, 2011 10:56 Software giant SAP is
staking the success of plans to almost double revenue by 2015 on itssoftware-as-a-service ERP platform, Business ByDesign. SAP co-chairman JimHagemann Snabe says that the company …(more)

PR Newswire… multitenant cloud platforms are on average 64 percent morecarbon-efficient than so-called “private clouds” that don’t usemultitenancy. …(more)

And …TechCrunchAnd today, Salesforce is injecting social into the new version of ServiceCloud 3, the company’s customer service SaaS application. As we’ve writtenin the past, the Service Cloud aims to capture crowdsourced pools ofknowledge floating across the …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)(Source: Datamonitor)GlobalSpec, a specialized search engine, informationresource, e-publishing and online events company, has announced itspartnership with Catalog Data Solutions, a SaaS provider of online catalogsand CAD solutions for industrial …(more)

Contact …PR Newswire (press release)NEW YORK, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CLOUDFORCE 2011 — Salesforce.com(NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing company, today unveiled ServiceCloud 3, the next generation of social contact centers. Service Cloud 3will let organizations engage …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)”Gazzang is on the forefront of innovation in theinfrastructure-as-a-service space,” said Frank. “I’m thrilled to be joiningsuch a talented team in developing enterprise-class solutions for opensource stacks and platforms in the cloud. …(more)

Wall Street JournalTwo years ago, the company revamped its payroll software and acquiredprivately-held online payroll processing company PayCycle. Now, it plans tocatch the next wave of expansion with Intuit Full Service Payroll, asoftware-as-a-service product that …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Key advantages of the Aryaka solution include a secure, scalable andreliable WAN optimization and application acceleration platform as aservice, rapid deployment, ease of integration, complete visibility and asignificantly lower total cost of …(more)

OpportunitiesPR Web (press release)This move reinforces HVCI’s strategy of investing in companies with strongrecurring revenue streams by targeting companies that use Cloud-computingor other information technology as a competitive advantage. Grant bringssignificant expertise based on …(more)

CenterBeamGoogle’s web-based email service, Gmail, is one of the world’s most popularcloud computing applications, with approximately 200 million users eachmonth. It is therefore unsurprising that the company faced immense pressureto fix a bug that saw …(more)

Reportlinker gives you unlimited access to Software As A Service in Europe… The crm is the electronic platform that acts like support in theprocess of …(more)

ERP Cloud NewsAt ERP Cloud News, we see this as an opportunity to debate the benefits ofSaaS and outsourcing. As you may have heard, over this weekend, Gmail lostthe data of around 40000 users, or 0.02 percent of Gmail’s estimated 200million users that subscribe …(more)

Drupal …DigitalJournal.com (press release)New Relic is the leading provider of SaaS application performancemanagement services for Ruby, PHP, Java and .NET. It allows development andoperations teams to monitor applications in production, proactivelyidentify performance issues, …(more)

InformationWeekNetSuite says its OneWorld ERP is used in two-tier deployments not only forcost reasons but because its SaaS-based ERP application can be deployedmore quickly and easily than conventional on-premise software. The keywrinkle in two-tier deployment is …(more)

TradersHuddle.comAs a result of the close alignment between the Xen.org and Openstackcommunities, XCP 1.0 integrates seamlessly with the OpenStack Bexarrelease, …(more)

Financial TimesA number of service-centric VARs are looking to third-party software orcontent providers delivering under a Software as a Service (SaaS) model toincrease their overall product offering. As an example, such applicationscould include HRIS, …(more)

eWEEK Europe UKThe pilot scheme to develop a software platform for the monitoring servicewill be completed in June but it has already caused a stir among privacyadvocates around the world. In the West, companies such as Facebook andTwitter are offering mobile …(more)

eWeekNews Analysis: Fears about personal data privacy and security are delayingthe adoption of cloud computing in Europe. The problem is made worse by thelack of clarity in discussions of what cloud computing is all about. …(more)

CTO EdgeI’ll be the first to admit that I love cloud computing platforms, ie,Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) andInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). To be honest about it, I’m utterlyaddicted to them. I use Basecamp HQ for a lot of …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: As cloud computing services gain more momentum, the question that
many IT organizations are starting to ask is not when they will embrace theconcept, but rather who to go with. After all, cloud computing is a nascentmarket where the volume …(more)

San Francisco ChronicleHe’s also worried that this will set a precedent for software-as-a-servicecompanies, like Salesforce.com and Ning, both of whom are Zuora customers.”What happens tomorrow? Apple can say ‘your users want an app experience onthe iPad, so we’re taking …(more)

PCWorldBy IDG News Service, PCWorld Germany’s CeBIT trade show, the largest IT
event in the world, opens to the public with a focus on cloud computing anda visit by Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor. Receive the latest reviews,how-to’s, news, and more. …(more)

DatamationWith all the urgency and excitement revolving around cloud computing thesedays, it’s not surprising that differentiating among the various servicesbecomes important — and one of the top criteria is sure to be performance.In fact, newly-released …(more)

Integrating Software as a Service with Legacy Systems - Baseline. Friday,February 25, 2011, 6:37:39 PM. Members of the SIM Advanced PracticesCouncil ( APC) …(more)

Debian-based Linux platform development experience. … More than 500enterprises, government agencies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors andonline …(more)

Monsters and Critics.comBy Renate Grimming Mar 2, 2011, 2:06 GMT Hanover, Germany - If you use
webmail, post on Facebook and upload photos to Flickr, you are alreadyusing cloud computing, the style of data processing that is in focus atthis year’s CeBIT trade show. …(more)

V3.co.ukLAS VEGAS: IBM took the wraps off four new software products on Tuesday,all designed at pushing companies further down the cloud computing route.At its Pulse 2011 service management event in Las Vegas, IBM unveiled abeta program for high-speed …(more)

With CRM 4.0 came the introduction of the concept of Multitenancy it refersto the ability to deploy more than one CRM Organisations into a single CRM…(more)

CenterBeamAccording to a recent study conducted by consulting and accounting firmBDO, the vast majority of technology companies have already adopted somecloud computing solutions. The study, which polled chief financial officersat 100 US technology companies, …(more)

XconomyThe biggest single chunk of the money went to software andsoftware-as-a-service companies, about 30 percent of the total. Cleantechwas second at about 25 percent. Follow-on investments accounted for 22deals, with 11 companies getting Alliance money …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Dan Kusnetzky | March 2, 2011, 2:10am PST Cloud computing is more about
agility, cost control and being able to do things previously impossiblerather than increased productivity doing what the organization has alwaysdone. …(more)

Fresh Business ThinkingBy Ellen Davnall iomart Group, the cloud computing and managed hosting
services company, today announced continued strong demand for its IToutsourcing services. Together with the recent entry of accountancysoftware producer Sage into the cloud, …(more)

Computerworld New ZealandBy David Watson | Auckland | Thursday, 3 March, 2011 When it comes to cloud
computing it is important to remember there are private and public clouds,with many organisations running hybrids, Gartner Singapore principalanalyst Errol Rasit said at a …(more)

E-Commerce TimesThe administration issued its strongest backing yet for cloud technologywith last month’s release of the “Federal Cloud Computing Strategy.”Officials are using the strategy not only to pull together various cloudinitiatives into a coherent package, …(more)

SunHerald.comUltimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of unified humancapital management SaaS solutions for global businesses, announced todaythat Mitchell Dauerman, executive vice president and CFO, will present atfour investor conferences in March …(more)

Business Wire (press release)Comprehensive Case Management for American Indian Vocational RehabilitationPrograms available for the first time as Software as a Service. LACEY,Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alliance Enterprises, the leading provider of casemanagement solutions for …(more)

Benzinga… and VirtualHealthCheck.com feature wireless, in-home monitoring usingthe VirtualHealthCheck wellness gateway connecting Bluetooth-monitoringdevices securely to a Web-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) diseasemanagement platform.(more)

Techzone360The platform combines the Global Crossing IP Virtual Private Network (IPVPN), Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) Trunking and Global Crossing ReadyAccess hosted audio conferencing services. It supports the functionality ofGlobal Crossing Connect …(more)

By Susan Bate
LAS VEGAS — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today showcased a series of technologybreakthroughs that extend its leadership capabilities in virtualization,image management.(more)

By sourya
Real Estate And Cloud Computing A recent report released by the RoyalInstitution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in the UK set me thinking aboutthe potential.(more)

What is the difference between multi-tenancy and multi-user solutions? …Spring Security and Multitenancy / REST -> How? Best practice? Referenceapp? …(more)

Download multitenancy icws 2010 pdf documents fromhttp://people.apache.org/~hemapani/research/papers/multitenancy-icws-2010.pdf at @EbookBrowse.(more)

The Momentum platform offers advanced multi-tenancy capabilities to helpyou control IT costs, more effectively mange operational resources andcreate clear …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)”Our SaaS telehealth approach allows health care providers to control agentscripting, survey content and contact rules, giving them both control andaccountability into each patient interaction,” said Michael Seringer, VicePresident of Chronic Care …(more)

Utilities for working in virtual cloud environments.(more)

Business WireOther panelists include executives from Zendesk, Rackspace Hosting andOpenStack, and Cloudscaling. Ben Kepes, a blogger for Diversity Limited,…(more)

Cloud …PR Newswire UK (press release)Providing innovative SaaS services to clients in the UK, Europe, andAustralasia, Controlled Projects specialises in software that helpsenterprises with large scale project management and collaborativerequirements, such as Global Infrastructure …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)Check out a stat from a recently-published Federal Cloud Computing Strategypaper authored by federal CIO Vivek Kundra: The Department of Agriculturehas 21 different e-mail systems. As Bernard Golden, CEO of consultingcompany HyperStratus, …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Spoon, a Seattle-based virtualization and Cloud Computing companyspecializing in letting users launch desktop apps via a plug-in but with nofurther installs, has launched its Spoon Cloud Gaming service, a freeservice that delivers on-demand desktop …(more)

Examiner.comToday Spoon, a cloud computing developer and specialist, announced thelaunch of its Spoon Cloud Gaming service. Available for free on Spoon.net,the cloud gaming service allows gamers to access an always growing libraryof games that includes popular …(more)

RegisterAccording to our conversations with RightScale, cloud-builder Cloud.com,and those behind theopen source cloud project OpenStack, the cloud thinghas …(more)

SPI report: 2010 marks substantial return to increased SaaS professionalservices profit.(more)

SYS-CON MediaOpenStack, meanwhile, continue to focus on rapid feature development and,… The work we have done with OpenStack and with Eucalyptus means Ubuntuis an …(more)

SearchCloudComputing.comBy Carl Brooks, Senior Technology Writer Say “IBM” and “cloud computing” in
the same breath and many IT managers will roll their eyes. The IT leader’scloud strategy has been seen by many as a mess. But that may be about tochange. …(more)