April 2011

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

• Post Mortem: When Amazon’s Cloud Turned On Itself

InformationWeekA simple network configuration error should not be the source of amonumental hit to confidence in cloud computing. But apparently it is. Whathappened next is not so different from what we speculated in Cloud Takes AHit; Amazon Must Fix EC2 a week …(more)

• vCloud Director vApp hot clone in less than one hour Solution Video

Did you have trouble getting things “just right” in our previous tutorial”Create your own vCloud Director vApp hot clone in less than one hour”?(more)

• Think the cloud isn’t risky? Ponder these numbers

CNET (blog)There is an agreement between consumer and company and if you fail to liveup to that agreement, then there should be real consequences. by VSSMGuyApril 29, 2011 3:57 PM PDT I’m hoping that these software companies getaway from “cloud” computing and …(more)

• Leading Financial Company Taps se2 SaaS Business Processing Platform

RFPConnect.comOne of the nation’s largest fraternal financial services organizations hasselected the se2 enterprise SaaS (Software as a Service) platform forconversion of its variable annuity block of business. Modern Woodmen ofAmerica analysts will now process …(more)

• The Art of Service Announces Expansion of Cloud Computing Certification

PathwayTMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan The Art of Service, an IT service framework provider,
announced that it has expanded its cloud computing certification pathway tomake it more comprehensive and applicable to IT customer service. The Artof Service, …(more)

• Rackspace’s CNAMES Helps Integrate Cloud Files with Sites

EContent (press release)Cloud Files is built on OpenStack’s Object Storage technology and servescontent through its Akamai-based Content Delivery Network (CDN) offering.In addition to CNAMES, Rackspace Cloud Files now includes features likeedge purge, which lets customers …(more)

• Forrester Predicts SaaS Will Own All Other Cloud Segments

Earlier this week — during the Amazon EC2 outage — Forrester Researchreleased its report “Sizing the Cloud,” which projects the size of thecloud and its …(more)

• Knowledge Sharing on Cloud Computing Between Government and Public Sectors

CloudTweaks NewsCloud computing can be one such technology. Considering that the USgovernment spends $80 billion annually on technology, there’s a huge markethere. Factor in other periodic investments like defense, health, educationand infrastructure, and the total …(more)

• Danish Startup Launches Software-as-a-Service Platform to Match …

The software-as-a-service platform is based on a series of proprietaryalgorithms, decision trees, and interdependency models, which theAarhus-based firm …(more)

• Cloud Computing Poised to Escalate | Cloud Computing Journal

A recent report from analyst firm Forrester called “Sizing the Cloud”indicates that cloud computing business will continue to play a significantrole in the overall growth of the tech industry. The report predicts thatcloud computing …(more)

• The Future of Cloud Computing vs. Mobile and Desktop Computing

By Chinmoy Kanjilal
Amazon has taken cloud to the next level. Software-as-a-service makes cloudan essential part of the process and it forms the backbone of web-services.(more)

• Cloud Computing: VMware Makes a Move on Office

SYS-CON Media (press release)It’s bought SlideRocket, a five-year-old San Francisco SaaS-based businesspresentation ISV that leverages cloud computing, collaboration, socialmedia and mobile computing platforms, giving it a practically perfectchecklist score, especially if you …(more)

• CIOs must take steps to manage risk and unexpected costs during cloud

sourcing …AME InfoThe $820bn IT services market is changing quickly and dramatically, ascloud computing and offshoring become mainstream, and CIOs should takesteps to manage inherent risks and unexpected costs during the cloudservices revolution, according to Gartner …(more)

• NetSuite: In the Sweet Spot

Barron’sBy MARK VEVERKA | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR The cloud-computing company is
gaining traction as it signs up more customers for its full suite ofbusiness software. NetSuite (ticker: N), a provider over the Web ofenterprise software as a service, …(more)

• Despite major outage, forecast still sunny for cloud computing

Tulsa World”There are risks associated with cloud computing,” he said. “Some ofAmazon’s customers lost some content.” However, he noted that such outagesare uncommon, and a failure on the size of Amazon’s shutdown is rare.Seattle-based Amazon said Friday that …(more)

• Ignore the Panic: RIM Still Has a Bright Future

Barron’sCenturyLink paid $3.2 billion in cash and shares to buy Savvis, one of thesmaller but still key players in the fast-growing business of cloudcomputing. That was a 50% premium over what Savvis had been worth earlierthis year, but prices had been …(more)

• Why helpdesk software is vital for websites selling services

First of all, the primary reason why you need live help software as aservice orientated business is the same as if you were any other type ofbusiness, to beat out the competition. When people search online forservice providers they …(more)

• Joining DotCloud – bulknews.typepad.com

By miyagawa
… to collaborate with the co-founders Solomon Hykes and Sebstien Pahl andsoftware engineers Sam Alba and Jerome Petazzoni, and can’t wait to seewhat I can do to make DotCloud even more awesome Platform-as-a-Serviceprovider. …(more)

• Testing Out Vcloud

Investing in voice to text vcloud software is both advantageous for peopleand organizations alike and costs will quickly be recovered within weeks.(more)

• CloudBees Opens Up Java Platform as a Service to Private Clouds …

Resources and News to Develop Software for a Cloud Infrastructure …instant- scale, no-IT-headaches Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) toprivate cloud …(more)

• Insperity Launches Performance Management SoftwareasaService …

Related NewsSoftware as a Service. Danish Startup LaunchesSoftwareasaService Platform to Match Researchers with 30 Apr 2011 0808 …(more)

• Danish Startup Launches SoftwareasaService Platform to Match …

Danish Startup Launches Software-as-a-Service Platform to Match Researcherswith Sequencing Providers – SaaS Directory.(more)

• Anatomy of failure: Mobile flops from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia

MacworldThe PC was first, then the Internet, then software as a service(Salesforce.com has created a huge business by explictly seeking out thesepeople and avoiding CIOs). In 2007, Apple added mobile to their arsenal,and they picked it up with a vengeance. …(more)

• Enterprise app store solution AppCentral goes multi-platform

IntoMobileThat’s where AppCentral is looking for the business, delivering itssolution as a SaaS (Software as a Service) or on-premise solution, usingwhich companies can distribute, secure and manage corporate apps. In otherwords, the AppCentral Mobile App …(more)

• Recent inlevel.com Report Shows New Aspects of RFI in Cloud/SaaS …

Recent inlevel.com Report Shows New Aspects of RFI in Cloud/SaaS/OnlineEnterprise Application. inlevel published a report presenting how toprepare Request For Informations (RFI) when applications are offered underthe …(more)

• eBridge Connections Continues to Expand Accounting Integration in the Cloud

PR UrgentWith integration support for over 40 accounting/ERP packages, includingMicrosoft Dynamics, Sage, Intuit QuickBooks and many others, eBridgeConnections makes a critical step towards providing best in class Softwareas a Service (SaaS) solutions to the …(more)

• Senior IT Leaders and End-Users will meet in San Diego to Discuss Cloud …

PR-USA.net (press release)On June 13-15, 2011, Opal Events will bring to San Diego, California, TheBusiness of Cloud Computing Forum. Cloud Computing is the latest disruptivetechnology. Enterprises, large and small, are looking to cloud computingproviders for savings, …(more)

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

• enStratus Support Portal : Terremark/vCloud Express

Discussion of issues relating to Terremark/vCloud Express and usingenStratus with Terremark. This forum is a great place to interact withothers using …(more)

• CloudBees Opens Up Java Platform as a Service to Private Clouds …

CloudBees Opens Up Java Platform as a Service to Private Clouds …Completely based on open source software and open standards, so thatcustomers can use …(more)

• Users cite problems with Dell Boomi SaaS integration suite

SearchDataManagement.comDell this week released a fresh update to its recently acquired BoomiAtomSphere SaaS integration suite, but at least two companies will not beusing the product anytime soon. Carl Wright, vice president of sales withstorage area network firm Coraid, …(more)

• Announcing SpotCloud for OpenStack

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)SpotCloud, the world’s best place to buy & sell cloud computing capacity,is happy to announce support for the OpenStack platform. The open sourceSpotCloud OpenStack Connector is available for immediate use as a freeApache-licensed download …(more)

• Workday Blog: Why Multi-tenant SaaS is the Best Alternative to ERP …

CIOs who are considering SaaS hear all sorts of things from ERP softwarevendors hoping to tap into the momentum of cloud computing. Among the mostcommon …(more)

• Platform as a Service-Understanding the Business Benefits …

Platform as a Service provides the entire infrastructure essential toeither design or deploy general, social, business and enterprise levelsoftware …(more)

• Ubuntu releases ‘Natty Narwhal’ v.11.4 with OpenStack cloud support

V3.co.ukFor enterprises the new version includes preview support for the OpenStack’Cactus’ release, as well as continuing to support the Eucalyptus standard.The server version of the operating system is also available on Amazon’sEC2 cloud service. …(more)

• High Scalability – High Scalability – PaaS on OpenStack – Run …

By Nati Shalom
The fact that OpenStack is opensource allows us to think differently on thethings we can do at the platform layer. We can create a tighter integrationbetween the PaaS and IaaS layers and thus come up with better set oftradeoffs into …(more)

• Cloud computing for small business 101

ABC Technology and GamesMany small businesses are still uncertain about cloud computing and wonderif it can help boost profitability without being extremely risky. To figureit out, it’s best to start by defining cloud computing in small businessterms. …(more)

• PHP Fog Announces General Availability of Its Cloud Platform as a

Service …Review seeker (press release)By marketwire MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and PORTLAND, OR — (Marketwire) –
04/28/11 — Today at Under The Radar, PHP Fog announced that its Cloud PaaSfor PHP developers will be generally available within the next 30 days.PHP, the foundation of web-scale …(more)

• Amazon’s Big Mistake

Redmondmag.com (blog)Amazon Web Services’ four-day outage was a defining moment in the historyof cloud computing — not only for its impact but for the company’sdeafening silence. The widely reported outage at Amazon’s Northern Virginiadatacenter left a number of sites …(more)

• Citrix rises as 1Q, outlook beat analyst views

BusinessWeekThe company said demand rose for its software-as-a-service, desktop andnetworking offerings. For the second quarter, Citrix expects a profit of 54or 55 cents per share, excluding special items, on $515 million to $525million in revenue. …(more)

• Endavo Media Selects Internap’s High-Performance Content Delivery Network

for …Sacramento BeeEndavo Media is an OTT Video Services Platform provider enabling qualitydelivery of enhanced video services for telecommunications companies, andplanet-wide syndication for content producers and broadcasters. Endavo’sPlatform as a Service (PaaS) …(more)

• Cloud computing and Internet sucks energy, emits CO2, says …

Computer servers in data centers account for about 2% of global energydemand, growing about 12% a year, according to Greenpeace.(more)

• Cloud Computing | Inc. Technology

Much has been written on cloud computing: what it is, the opportunities andpitfalls associated with various incarnations, and the shift in howbusinesses …(more)

• Amazon: Networking Error Caused Cloud Outage

Data Center KnowledgeLast week’s lengthy outage for the Amazon Web Services cloud computingplatform was caused by a network configuration error as Amazon wasattempting to upgrade capacity on its network. That error triggered asequence of events that culminated in a …(more)

• VMware acquires cloud-based presentation provider

CIOLSlideRocket delivers presentation solutions that leaverage cloud computing,collaboration, social media and mobile computing platforms. More than 20000customers and 3,00000 users leaverage Slide Rocket to build, deliver andshare presentations. …(more)

• Apple’s purchase of iCloud.com domain ‘confirmed’

Apple InsiderCiting his own sources, John Paczkowski of Digital Daily reported Fridaythat Apple did purchase the iCloud.com domain from Swedish cloud computingcompany Xcerion. Those sources declined, however, to say whether therumored $4.5 million purchase price …(more)

• Cloud labeled as a ‘revolution’

CenterBeamAccording to the Wall Street Journal, the advent of cloud computing may belikened to the Industrial Revolution based on the platform’s “promise toshape our future world.” The cloud’s biggest impact will be felt in thebusiness sector, as virtualized …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Windows Sales Weaken for Second Time in a Row

SYS-CON Media (press release)Microsoft came in with its fiscal Q3 numbers Thursday and Windows revenueswere off for the second quarter in a row. This time they dipped 4% comparedto last year settling at $4.44 billion because of Apple and a nasty 40%year-over-year decline in …(more)

• Ennovasys Announces Mobile Workforce Management Solution TrakForce as SaaS

and …TMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor Ennovasys, a provider of enterprise
mobility solutions, announced it is offering mobile workforce management(WFM) solution TrakForce as both Software as a Service (SaaS (News -Alert)) and Private Cloud. …(more)

• New IBM SaaS Pricing and Channel Financing Options Aimed at Builders of

Cloud …ITChannelPlanetVendor offers new monthly rental pricing for ISVs delivering SaaSapplications with IBM middleware, and new financing programs for channelpartners building cloud computing technical environments. IBM Corp. isoffering cloud-focused channel partners …(more)

• Workforce Optimization: Ten Ways Cloud Computing Can Help Your Business

TMC NetBy David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor Industry observer Chris Bucholtz
recently put together a good list of ten ways cloud computing can help makeyour business stronger. And for good measure, he tosses in a pretty gooddefinition of the cloud as …(more)

• Cloud computing getting more complex by the day (AMZN, GOOG, AAPL)

FavStocksAs many questions as there is regarding cloud computing, the move willcontinue. Despite all of the risks involved, I think it remains a cheaper,better and even often more secure method of running things. That is whycompanies like Microsoft (MSFT), …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Google Raises Price of Apps for Business

SYS-CON Media (press release)Used to be companies could run Google Apps for Business for nothing for upto 50 users. No more. Effective May 10, Google is lowering the bar to 10users on new customers. Above that businesses are going to have to fork out$50 a user a year with a …(more)

• Poll: Is OpenStack Now More Attractive Following the Amazon Web Services

Outage?ReadWriteWebThe OpenStack Conference and Design Summit is happening this week. Thegroup assembling represents a community that in less than a year hasattracted a worldwide developer group and enough influence to attractorganizations such as Canonical, …(more)

• PHP Fog Launches Cloud Platform-as-a-Service

eWeekPHP Fog launched its new PHP-based cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS)offering at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, Calif. PHP Foghas announced that its Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) platform will soon beavailable for general use. …(more)

• Internap scores customer win with Endavo Media for CDN services

FierceIPTVEndavo offers clients a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution foracquisition, management, monetization and multi-screen distribution ofdigital media, including live and on-demand video, audio and pictures. Thecompany, earlier this year, …(more)

• VMware, Why Are You Buying SlideRocket?

InformationWeekSlideRocket is software as a service. Slides are built using Adobe’s Flexlanguage, which runs in the Flash player on PCs and allows animations,video, or other multimedia to appear in the slides. SlideRocket has adaptedits user interface to be able …(more)

• CTG Introduces Vendor Risk Management Software Solution

PR Newswire (press release)As a flexible, Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, this product allowsorganizations to buy the services required to meet specific needs. CTG RPMpinpoints vendors that pose a potential risk by combining third-party datawith information from the …(more)

• Why the Time is Right for Billing Platform Modernization

Insurance & TechnologySoftware-as-a-service and cloud-based solutions are appealing, viableoptions with reputable providers, but most carriers have a wait-and-seeattitude toward SaaS/cloud core systems. Like this article? Sign up forInsurance & Technology daily e-mail …(more)

• PHP Fog Launches Cloud Platform as a Service Application …

PHP Fog launched its new PHP-based cloud platform-as-a-service offering atthe Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, Calif.(more)

• NetSuite shares jump on higher billings

MarketWatch1, amid rising interest in software-as-a-service in which businesses pay afee to use a vendor’s network for such tasks as keeping track of customersales and managing payroll. Research In Motion warns of slack sales for itsBlackBerry smartphones in …(more)

• Amazon.com apologizes for multi-day cloud computing outage

Los Angeles TimesAmazon.com issued an apology Friday for its multi-day cloud computingoutages last week. The outages, which struck April 21 and ran throughSunday, left many popular social media sites shut down while theSeattle-based company worked to get its Amazon …(more)

• Is It Really SaaS If?

Enterprise IrregularsBy Naomi Bloom on April 29, 2011 I’ve long since put to rest the whole
multi-tenancy debate around SaaS. If it isn’t multi-tenant, then it isn’tSaaS. You can host/subscribe single tenant software, and with piles ofvirtualization and other techniques …(more)

• AT&T Building a Private Cloud With Open Stack

GigaOmBy Om Malik Apr. 29, 2011, 11:40am PT No Comments Josh Kleinpeter, a
software engineer with AT&T Interactive, a division of AT&T, mentionedAT&T’s plans during a panel discussion at the Open Stack Summit, currentlyunder progress in Santa Clara, Calif. …(more)

• Cloud Hosting Marketplace SpotCloud Releases OpenStack Connector

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Liam Eagle, April 29, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REIEW) — Cloud hosting
resources marketplace SpotCloud (www.spotcloud.com) announced this weekthat it has created the open source SpotCloud OpenStack Connector, an easytool for companies building …(more)

• AWS And OpenStack An Interesting Contrast Worth Considering During …

Having attended the OpenStack Design Summit this week and at the same timefielding calls from Forrester clients affected by the Amazon WebServicesAWS …(more)

• Heroku Named #2 in Bay Area Employee Survey of ‘Best Places to Work’

PR Newswire (press release)Heroku is the leading Ruby platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease ofuse, automation, and reliability. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA,Heroku is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloudarchitecture. …(more)

• Expansion of Envista Map-Based SaaS Solution for Right-of-Way Management …

SYS-CON Media (press release)The first and currently only company to offer a Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) solution for map-based ROW management, Envista has doubled revenueeach of the last two years, and increasingly, municipalities, utilities,higher education, state and federal …(more)

• CloudBees Takes PaaS Private

CTO EdgeThe Run@Cloud Private Edition platform for building Java applications canbe deployed on top of either VMware vSphere or the open source OpenStackplatforms deployed on a private cloud. Labourey says that within theenterprise VMware is the dominant …(more)

• Talk-2-Me SaaS Solution to be Launched at Canada 3.0

TMC NetTrue Voice Technologies (News – Alert) is all set to launch its newTalk-2-Me SaaS solution at Canada 3.0 in Stratford Ontario May 2-4, 2011.Making an announcement to this effect, Doug Moffat, Founder of True VoiceTechnologies Inc., said that the new …(more)

• Synnex Set To Deliver Software Licensing, Warranty Services Renewal Platform

CRNAnd with the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) explosion there is even more cashbeing left on the table. Synnex, the Greenville, SC distributor that ismoving fast into high margin services, is about to change that with abreakthrough new services platform …(more)

• Please add suport for vCloud Server NAT Networking

By gruvin
A number of vendors are coming online with vCloud server solutions, whichthey are providing with VMWare vSphere technology, etc. Most of these (if.(more)