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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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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)

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/OnlineEnterprise Application. inlevel published a report presenting how toprepare Request For Informations (RFI) when applications are offered underthe …(more)

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)

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)

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 …Completely based on open source software and open standards, so thatcustomers can use …(more)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

Cloud Computing for Recyclers Creates Access Anywhere, Anytime. Silvanus360cloud computing enables recyclers to access web enabled activity andreports anywhere and anytime that internet connectivity is available.(more)

Economic TimesThe acquisition will mark Polaris’ entry into the cloud computing space forfinancial technology solutions, the company said in a filing to the BombayStock Exchange. Iconic business executive John Sculley ended his stint aschairman of IdenTrust after …(more)

eWeekThe recent Amazon EC2 outage and the Sony PlayStation Network data breachhave served to renew concerns in enterprises that cloud computing isinherently less secure that private, self-contained data centers. Amazon’sElastic Compute Cloud and Elastic …(more)

Washington PostCloud computing uses a common IT infrastructure, which advocates say meansthe government can reduce costs while improving flexibility and ease of usefor federal employees. Last year, the Office of Management and Budgetunveiled the government’s new …(more)

TalkinCloudAs reported, Office 365 is Microsoft’s all-on SaaS platform, offeringExchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online and other cloudapplications. Quest has extensive experience with Microsoft-related cloudmigrations. For instance, Apptix has …(more)

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By Moran, Brian
But the future of cloud computing, database in particular, is still a bitcloudy . In fact, I suspect that in the short term, it won’t be traditionalmainstream line of business database apps that move to the cloud. I thinkthat database …(more)

Seeking AlphaWe’re driving leadership across Desktop Virtualization, deliveringsignificant new technologies in the networking business and expanding ourSaaS [Software-as-a-Service] footprint, trends that can be clearly seen inthe financials. …(more)

Computer Business ReviewCloudBees, a provider of cloud computing for Java, has unveiled RUN@cloudPrivate Edition, which extends the company’s Java Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) to private cloud environments running on OpenStack or vSphere. Thenew new offering allows …(more)

with …PR Web (press release)Mentor Scout is provided under the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deliverymodel, requiring no in-house installation. More information is available athttp://mentorscout.com. Mentor Scout develops Web-based software thatfacilitates mentoring-related …(more)

PR Web (press release)Talk-2-Me, a new Software as a Service (SaaS) solution offers a costeffective and innovative way for customers to contact companies andindividuals. True Voice Technologies today announced they will launch theirnew Talk-2-Me SaaS solution at Canada …(more)

Siliconindia.comBy SiliconIndia, Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 23:39 Hrs Vadodara: Indusface
announced the expansion of its global partner program. This is done byrefining the pricing, the technical support, training, customertracking,sales and marketing support and …(more)

VatorNewsCloudPassage, a security SaaS company, completed a Series A round offinancing led by Benchmark Capital. Digitalsmiths, provider of video searchand discovery products, closed an oversubscribed $12.5 million expansionfinancing round led by Technicolor …(more)

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RegisterThe company’s vCloud Director, on the other hand, is a cloud fabric. Itwraps around multiple instances of ESX hypervisors and vCenter controllersand adds capacity management, metering and orchestration functions, as wellas a self-service portal. …(more)

Software as a Service. The SaaS, or on-demand, delivery model is rapidlybeing adopted by small to mid-sized businesses as well as globalenterprises. …(more)

BenzingaFor the third year in a row, Alpharetta, Georgia-basedSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of Warehouse Management Systems(WMS), Deposco, has been named Top 100 Logistics IT Provider by InboundLogistics magazine. Deposco offers on-demand supply …(more)

Paystream AccountingLimited company contactors operating in the UK’s IT sector could be amongthose to benefit as one expert urged businesses to embrace software as aservice (SaaS). Websence, an internet security firm, has claimed that SaaSoffers a number of pros, …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)As the industry shifts to Cloud 2, Huddleston and the salesforce.compartner program provide partners the means to deliver social, mobile andopen cloud computing solutions utilizing the Force.complatform-as-a-service. 2010 was an important year for …(more)

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eWeekWeb site personalization, segmentation, and analytics platform developerPersonyze announced the official launch of its software-as-a-service (SaaS)solution that provides Web site owners and marketers a suite of tools thatprovide advanced …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)As a global Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, Cornerstone is subjectto a variety of revenue recognition regulations, including EITF 08-01 (ASU2009-13). NetSuite OneWorld gave Cornerstone a proven international ERPsolution that delivers EITF …(more)

SunHerald.comSALT LAKE CITY — inContact (NASDAQ: SAAS), the leading provider ofon-demand contact center software and contact center agent optimizationtools, will hold a conference call on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 4:30 pmEastern Time to discuss results for …(more)

Wall Street Journal (blog)Check out RAX, EMC, CRM, SAAS and RHT. (iBankCoin) The latest on NaturalGas Trucking names like CLNE and WPRT. (TRB) Meet the new head of MerrillLynch Wealth Management, John Thiel. (Financial Planning) Anotherbroker-dealer private placement …(more)

NetworkComputing.comAt the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit going on this week in SantaClara, Calif., participants in this open source community provided detailson two interrelated open source projects, OpenStack Compute for developinga cloud-based server …(more)

Marketwire (press release)TOPEKA, KS–(Marketwire - Apr 28, 2011) - One of the nation’s largestfraternal financial services organizations has selected the se 2 enterpriseSaaS (Software as a Service) platform for conversion of its variableannuity block of business. …(more)

TMC NetThis PerformSmart SaaS solution will provide HR strategies and technicalexpertise, and has been developed as an effective, flexible solution fortransforming talent. Steve Huey, Insperity Performance Managementpresident, said in a release, …(more)

Mobile EnterpriseFiberlink, the Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) company, announced that theUnited States General Services Administration (GSA) is leveragingFiberlink’s cloud-based MaaS360 platform to secure and manage its laptopand desktop computers. …(more)

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GCN.comThere are also concerns about the potential loss of physical control ofdata and data leakage associated with multitenancy and shared cloudenvironments, …(more)

GCN.comFor some, it was panic-as-a-service. As of this writing, Amazon hadrestored essentially all of EC2’s lost services and completed itspostmortem, though a full explanation had yet to appear on its AWS statusdashboard. Initial posts on the dashboard …(more)

PCWorldBy Keir Thomas, PCWorld At present there’s a complicated Chess game taking
place when it comes to cloud computing. Some companies, like Google withits Docs suite, have dived straight in. However, Google has the money toevolve products–Docs started …(more)

Network WorldBy Ellen Messmer, Network World A survey of 127 of cloud computing
providers suggests many regard security as being mainly their customer’sproblem, and indeed, see their own proficiencies in low cost and speed ofdeployment services. …(more)

Network World”What this episode demonstrates is that cloud computing does not absolvethose responsible for designing and deploying applications fromunderstanding how the dependencies of the underlying platforms impact theavailability, resiliency and …(more)

InformationWeek (blog)The release at Sapphire of a software development kit for that platformwill boost partner interest and demand, he said. In the on-demand,software-as-a-service sector, SAP seems to be over-cautious about theroll-out of its Business ByDesign suite. …(more)

Search StorageTwinStrata supports public storage cloud providers AT&T Synaptic Storage asa Service, Amazon S3, and EMC Atmos. CloudArray also supports privatestorage cloud platforms from Mezeo Software and Scality. With its supportof block storage through native …(more)

CRNThe deal comes with ERP software makers scrambling to adapt their offeringsto the cloud computing market. SAP, for example, has launched a massivesolution provider effort around its SAP Business ByDesignSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) application. …(more)

CRNSlideRocket’s eponymous flagship product is a SaaS application for buildingbusiness presentations that are stored online. Through a Web-basedinterface, users can handle all parts of the process, from designing slidesand compiling content, …(more)

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ZDNet (blog)Much has been written about these failures already, with plenty of debateparticularly from those who doubt cloud computing’s credibility. [...]Oliver Marks is a founding partner at SovosGroup.com which providesseasoned independent consulting …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)”Verizon understands that enterprises require a business-class cloud totruly harness the power of cloud computing,” said Kerry Bailey, Verizongroup president, cloud strategy and services. “Our successful completion ofindustry-recognized examinations …(more)

This ability to plan for your resource fluctuations is one of the manyadvantages of cloud computing. IT has the ability to scale up and down atwill, and, as a business unit manager, you have the added advantage ofpaying only for what …(more)

Economic TimesMUMBAI: Financial technology company Polaris Software Lab today made aforay into the cloud computing space by making an investment in a digitalidentity authentication services provider, IdenTrust. At 12:20 pm, sharesof Polaris Software were trading …(more)

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Wall Street JournalBy HARINI SUBRAMANI MUMBAI — Chennai-based financial technology company
Polaris Software Lab has entered the cloud computing space by acquiring an85.3% stake in IdenTrust Inc., a US-based services provider offeringdigital authentication services to …(more)

Mobile Computing NewsAccording to Greenpeace, the facility which has been earmarked for Apple’scloud computing efforts, will have the equivalent energy consumption of80000 American homes. While running an operation as big as iTunes, the Appstore, Mobile Me and whatever …(more)

InfoWorld… decide to go to the cloud for an enterprise application and open anaccount with Salesforce.com or some other SaaS (software as a service)provider, they typically don’t consider how that SaaS app will integratewith their existing software. …(more)

Fraud …Marketwire (press release)”Demand for Web fraud detection software and services are at an all-timehigh,” she added. “We expect the next 18 months to be just as dynamic interms of the Web fraud detection vendor landscape as the past months were.”Gartner specifically describes …(more)

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Network World”This is not platform as a service or software as a service. This is rawinfrastructure that requires the user to have some responsibility for howthey implement things.” Amazon lets customers host applications in multiple”availability zones” for an …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CloudPassage, Inc., apioneering security SaaS company, today announced that it has completed aSeries A round of financing led by Benchmark Capital. Kevin Harvey, GeneralPartner at Benchmark, …(more)

SAAS Directorybased supercenter chain, has selected Plex Online as the cloud/software asa service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solution forits manufacturing processes. Meijer, the inventor of the “one-stop shopping…(more)

PR Newswire (press release)His SaaS delivery expertise is particularly important as we continue todrive greater adoption of our solutions into the Enterprise.” Schanz joinsIntraLinks from Sterling Commerce, where he was vice president, global B2Bservices, for the past four …(more)

InformationWeekCloud computing can be diluted into uselessness when mixed with immaturetechnologies and poor practices. By Dave Methvin InformationWeek At firstglance, this past week was a disaster for cloud computing PR. Aproblem–make that a meltdown–in an East …(more)

ReutersO) in March said it plans to buy privately held software company newScaleInc, in a deal that would ramp up its cloud computing services. * US phonecompany Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) in January bought IT servicesprovider Terremark Worldwide …(more)

ITProPortalThe global cloud computing market is expected to grow from $40.7 billion to$240 billion by 2020, a new report has predicted. According to a reportreleased by market research firm Forrester Research, the market for cloudcomputing is set to grow by …(more)

ITProPortalUK-based small and medium sized enterprises are adopting cloud computingservices slower than their European counterparts, a survey has found.According to a Europe wide survey of 1600 SMEs conducted by virtualisationfirm VMware, around 48 percent of …(more)

Virtual …TechCrunchIn July last year, Rackspace caused quite a splash in the cloud computingworld when it decided to opensource the software behind its cloud storageand computing platforms to create Openstack, an Iaas-based cloud platform(more on that from the …(more)

iT NewsCloud Builders was based on the Bexar release of the open source cloudoperating system OpenStack, which introduced features to streamline theinstallation process for enterprises users. Since Rackspace also used theOpenStack operating system in its …(more)

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SearchCloudComputing.comLast week’s Amazon Web Services outage has exposed a deep divide betweenwhat users have come to expect from online services and what cloudcomputing is able to deliver. If your systems failed in the Amazon cloudthis week, it wasn’t Amazon’s fault. …(more)

Light ReadingLarry Steele, vice president of software as a service (SaaS) at Savvis,says that tying cloud services to transport services is a natural nextstep, and most likely a positive one, unless telecom operators try tocreate standardized cookie-cutter …(more)

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CenterBeamHowever, in the cloud computing industry, services are rarely free. Apple’sdigital cloud storage application will cost users an annual fee, accordingto GottaBeMobile. The initial reports are the cloud-based music serverswill cost patrons around $20 …(more)

TMC NetBy Deepika Mala PivotLink, the premier provider of business intelligence
solutions delivered via Software as a Service, has appointed BruceArmstrong as the company’s president and CEO. He has also been named toPivotLink’s board of directors. …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Amazon’s cloud outage, which lasted about four days
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I spoke about multi-tenancy - what it is and why it’s increasingly relevantfor Rails development. It dives a little into four of the many approachesand …(more)

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San Francisco ChronicleThe mechanics of cloud computing will be the focus of the OpenStackConference and Design Summit in Santa Clara this week. The OpenStackproject is an attempt to create open standards for clouds, making it easierto deliver software, services and …(more)

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XconomyWhen I met in January with Service-now.com founding CEO Fred Luddy, he saidthe company that provides software-as-a-service for IT management hasenough momentum to carry it through an IPO. Today, if I’m reading the tealeaves correctly, the San Diego …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Today, the world’s most recognizable and innovative companies rely on SaaSfrom Service-now.com to transform IT to achieve IT 3.0. Founded in 2004,Service-now.com was recently named by Inc. 500 as one of thefastest-growing companies in the world and …(more)

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Network WorldThese are: IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)and SaaS (Software-as-a-Service). Overall, Forrester’s report, “Sizing theCloud”, predicts that the global market for cloud computing — includingthe public cloud, …(more)

Application …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AP survey: Only oil shock can stop economy now 04.26.11 New Relic, Inc.,the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performancemanagement (APM) solutions, and Voxel, a leading provider of Cloud Hostingand Managed Servers, …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Kruck becomes the leader of Varolii’s professional services team, whichdeploys Software-as-a-Service applications for proactive outboundcommunications (business-to-consumer, automated text messaging, interactivevoicemail and email communications) …(more)

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San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Ms. Given points to skyrocketing data center energy bills and newopportunities in virtualization, cloud computing, and SaaS as some of the”game changers” that are rendering conventional 2D spreadsheet-drivenmanagement approaches obsolete. …(more)

RegisterNova, the compute engine and fabric controller that underpins Nebula, wasopen sourced by NASA last year, and it’s now part of the OpenStackbuild-your-own cloud open source project cofounded by NASA and Rackspace.NASA Ames CIO James Williams spoke …(more)

GigaOmOpenStack and vCloud will look a lot better. I’d say that other cloudproviders will look a lot better, but outages can and have happened topretty much every cloud provider on the market. In fact, AWS has been amongthe best in terms of availability …(more)

TMC NetOfficials with ANDTEK said in the release that the company’s servicefacilitates companies with opportunity to offer unified communicationsservices as Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) and thus useexisting cloud services. …(more)

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Channel Tech CenterMost of those cloud computing efforts aimed at solution providers in thechannel as aimed primarily at independent software vendors that want todeliver their applications using a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.In fact, as cloud computing …(more)

Cloud computing is changing the rules of the game for many industries.Every day we hear compelling stories about how banks use cloud-basedsolutions to help customers pay bills online, health care institutions tapcloud networks to …(more)

The NationBy Jirapan Boonnoon During his visit to Thailand to promote cloud
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Enterprise Irregulars… on enhanced service buses or PAAS (platform as a service) environmentsallow resellers and customers to create significant functional, verticaland horizontal product extensions that are automatically applied to newversions of the base software. …(more)

IDG News ServiceCloud computing makes the argument for protecting data, rather than theperimeter, stronger, according to encryption solutions provider SafeNet.Cloud computing makes the argument for protecting data, rather than theperimeter, stronger, according to …(more)

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IT PRO IndiaUntil recently, Microsoft’s position in the cloud seemed really grim butwith the advent of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products including Office365 and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings such as Windows Azure, itmanaged to retain its market …(more)

Virtacore Systems, Inc., an industry leader in hybrid cloud services,announced today the availability of the company’s vCloud Express Expressoffering.(more)

PR.com (press release)Arlington Heights, IL, April 25, 2011 –(PR.com)– Supply Vision, Inc., aleading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to the supplychain industry, has been selected as a Top 100 Logistics IT Providers byInbound Logistics. …(more)

SAAS Directory… of the industry’s first ever collaborative exchange platform forretailers, with the announcement that it is launching a new solution suite,offered in a hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) format, focused onenabling a more synchronized supply chain.(more)

Lawyers WeeklyBy Luigi Benetton On a network diagram, icons for things like phones,
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Light ReadingThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) hopes itsCloud Computing Initiative will lessen these hesitations. The effortincludes two standards development projects. The first, dubbed P2301, isessentially a design guide for …(more)

San Francisco ChronicleIT to provide an environment that responds quickly to business needs.Public Clouds have demonstrated their value; now Private Clouds arebeginning to emerge. Join us for a workshop where risks and benefits ofmoving your application to public or …(more)

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StrategiesNetworkComputing.comNo discussion of enterprise IT is complete without a discussion of cloudcomputing, but that “cloud is not necessarily the answer to everyquestion,” she said. HP helps clients sort out various cloud options likepublic or private cloud adoption and …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced it had been selected asa Best of Interop finalist for the Cloud Computing and Virtualization awardcategory, recognizing Quest Software’s technological advancements in thisspecific category. …(more)

InfoWorld (blog)The party line around enterprise cloud computing is that the cloud isalways a welcome addition to IT technology portfolios. However, in the realworld, that’s not always the case. Indeed, IT is still skeptical about thevalue and use of cloud …(more)

CRNThe problem to be solved today involves the direct reps, service providersand traditional solution providers when hardware and software are deliveredas a service by vendors like Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Rackspace, Amazon,Verizon Terremark, NetApp, …(more)

By Patrick Gray
One of the more difficult areas for IT leaders to come to terms with arethe legal implications of cloud computing. Patrick Gray talks to a legalexpe.(more)

Cloud Computing to be Analyzed Technologically and Economically in MajorEvent Next Month. “The Vision” Conference brings Together Major IndustryPlayers to discuss Aspects of the Cloud Solution for Enterprise andConsumers …(more)

GlobeNewsWire (press release)PORTLAND, Ore., April 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lecere Corporation (PinkSheets:LCRE), a Software-as-a-Service development company, today announcedthat it was able to successfully deliver services to clients during therecent Amazon Web Services …(more)

Channel Tech CenterIn the performance of your duties as a service provider, you’ve developed atool, a protocol to make the job easier. You’ve built a product. Now youwant to market the product on its own. Or, maybe you want to pursue some ofthat sweet VC money that is …(more)

InfoQ.comThe OpenStack project gathered late last week, and amidst Amazon EBSdebacle, held a webinar to both elaborate on new features introduced inCactus and describe anticipated elements of the upcoming Diablo release.While the Cactus release is not likely …(more)

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TMC NetAcumatica customers can select to deploy the application on-premise or asSaaS (News - Alert), and pay an upfront license or an annual subscription.J.Goodin, a fashion jewelry manufacturer and distributor, switched fromNetSuite to Acumatica to …(more)

ReadWriteWebBy Klint Finley / April 25, 2011 3:00 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of
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Hollywood ReporterService interruptions in Amazon’s cloud computing web services on Thursdayas well as Sony’s PlayStation Network on Friday raised questions about thepromise of cloud services just a week after the subject grabbed hugeamounts of attention at the …(more)

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VentureBeatAs Amazon’s web services outage passed its third day, the debate on thefuture of cloud computing is under way. The outage is costing web sitessuch as Reddit and Quora considerable losses as users turn elsewhere to gettheir social media needs met. …(more)

PR Web (press release)OW2 to give a live demonstration showcasing the integration of theCompatibleOne collaborative project with OpenStack. OW2 Consortium, theopen source community for infrastructure software, is participating in theOpenStack Conference, Santa Clara, CA, …(more)

RedDotRubyConf 2011 in Singapore is over. It was an amazing event (ryantakes notes so we don’t have to - day#1 day#2) Somehow I managed to cheatmy way …(more)

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Inquirer.netSecurity firm Trend Micro Inc. said companies like Facebook had grown fromdorm-room startups to multibillion-dollar firms in only a few yearsprecisely because of cloud computing, or computer services hosted throughthe Internet. …(more)

Economic TimesSAN FRANCISCO: The black out at Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) datacentre has cast a shadow over cloud computing, which has been hailed as asturdy, reliable and inexpensive storage and network solution, especiallyfor small and medium …(more)

ZDNet (blog)When we look at the business model development of the SaaS/cloud vendors,they have to run much faster to achieve a given level of sales becausetheir price points are typically lower. That’s not universally true.Workday is an exception where they …(more)

Wall Street JournalThe sales pitch for cloud computing is simple: Companies pay a third-partyvendor to run one or more of their systems, like email or payroll, on itsown servers. In theory, the clients save a bundle on hardware, software andpersonnel costs and can …(more)

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Newswire Today (press release)NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Arlington Heights, IL, United States,04/22/2011 - Supply Vision, Inc., a leading provider of Software as aService (SaaS) solutions to the supply chain industry, has been selected asa Top 100 Logistics IT Providers by …(more)

eWeek”Engaging with an SAAS [software as a service] vendor requiresunderstanding things like their architecture, their disaster-recoverycapability and similar issues, because worst-case scenarios always seem toemerge eventually.” Morphlabs, which was one …(more)

Pensacola News JournalCloud computing refers to data not stored locally on one computer. Ratherthe data is in “the cloud,” where it can accessed from anywhere and isoften protected by password or other security measures. CRN Magazine,formerly Computer Reseller News, …(more)

One of my fearless predictions for 2011 involved CNN’s Wolf Blitzer talkingabout Cloud Computing. Now, with the Amazon AWS debacle, this may come topass. I won’t know directly, as I avoid all American TV media. …(more)

PR Web (press release)Common Goal Systems (http://www.common-goal.com) will be showcasingenrollment-friendly cloud computing solutions at the National CatholicEducation Association (NCEA) Conference in New Orleans. The first solutionis TeacherEase, a web-based gradebook …(more)

Fibre2fashion.com… the industry’s first ever collaborative exchange platform forretailers, with the announcement that it is launching a new solution suite,offered in a hosted software-as-a-service (SaaS) format, focused onenabling a more synchronized supply chain. …(more)

VAdvert Press Center (press release)Earlier today at the SMART Technology World conference in San Francisco,Microsoft Windows Embedded General Manager Kevin Dallas illustrated whatclouds and cloud computing have in common, and explained why the Internetof Things is going to change the …(more)

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Publishers, libraries, corporations, and other organizations may licenseebrary’s platform under a Software as a Service (SaaS) model tocost-effectively …(more)

24/7 Wall St. (blog)Odd, that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) should announce that it had sold 350million copies of Windows 7 just as Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) cloud computingservice collapsed and left client’s website and download services marooned.Windows 7 is viewed by many …(more)

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ITChannelPlanetVendor plans to build new cloud computing data centers, open solutioncenters, unveils new solutions and services and three-year strategicalliance with Microsoft. Dell Inc. said that it will invest some $1 billionin its current fiscal year into …(more)

Open source cloud computing platform advances with enhanced API andauthentication in new Cactus release. Read more at internetnews. com.(more)

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IDG News ServiceHe talked about the move from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to a SaaS-basedsystem for budgeting. Interestingly, he said that finance led the way onthis decision with input from IT. When I asked if IT minded financechoosing a SaaS, he said no, …(more)

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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)

open …SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)OpenStack released its third update since launching in July. According tothis CRN article, which describes some of the new features, between 150 and170 developers have contributed code to OpenStack so far. Enhancementsinclude extending the API and …(more)

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for 2011PR.com (press release)The report is written by Yefim V. Natis, Eric Knipp, Teresa Jones, PaoloMalinverno, Thomas Skybakmoen, Thomas E. Murphy, David Mitchell Smith,Benoit J. Lheureux and analyses vendors who offer “Platform as a service(PaaS). According to the report, …(more)

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TMC NetSmoothstone is known for their IP telephony work, selling software-drivenapps that exist in the cloud and are delivered through asoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The Smoothstone product portfolio willbe available to West’s base of clients, …(more)

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Washington Post (blog)By Hayley Tsukayama Just in time for Earth Day, Greenpeace published a
report Thursday on cloud computing that asserts Apple is the company withthe dirtiest data. The report looks at the practices of several techcompanies that rely on cloud computing …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Google has been ordered to pay $5 million by an East Texas jury that foundfor Bedrock Computer Technologies LLC in an almost two-year-oldLinux-related patent case. Patent watcher Florian Mueller, who broke thestory, says the case has “major …(more)

InternetNews.comUbuntu 11.04 ‘Natty’ will include the open source OpenStack cloud platform,but only as a technology preview. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories bythis author: The Ubuntu 11.04 Linux release is due out next week and withit will debut a new open …(more)

IDG News ServiceFeldman, a former finance manager at Clorox before becoming Spunkmeyer’ssenior director of financial planning and analysis, chose a cloud-computingsoftware-as-a-service offering to replace the “siloed” Excel-based process.When Joel Feldman first was …(more)

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The Business InsiderBut when a competitor emerges from the pack as a service leader, you haveto do a lot of things right. Suddenly achieving service leadership costsmore and takes longer. It may even be impossible if the competition has toomuch of a head start. …(more)

eWeekFounded in 1992, TeamPraxis offers Web-based ConnxMD practice-managementsoftware as well as EHR and workflow applications. Hospitals, insurancecompanies, pharmacies and laboratories also use the SAAS (software as aservice) products. …(more)

iHealthBeatHumedica — a provider of software-as-a-service clinical businessintelligence services — has raised $20 million in an equity funding round.Germany has ordered electronic heath card terminals and desktops from SCMMicrosystems. …(more)

ReadWriteWebAnderson says the NSA may even open-source some of its software, taking acue from NASA and its involvement in OpenStack. He said a “security”wrapper could be used to protect sensitive code. Anderson says the NSA isreplacing cryptologic centers in …(more)

eWeekRightScale and Zend have announced a new open Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS)solution for PHP developers. RightScale and Zend Technologies announced ajointly-developed solution for deploying and managing PHP applications withhigh availability, …(more)

ComputerworldWorkXpress is a platform as a service. It has created an entirely visualdrag-and-drop development environment using Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP toallow app development without writing code. Its users, which include manybusinesses, have built apps …(more)

Before we get into the specifics of how best to manage risk when planningto move assets to the cloud, let’s look at a few numbers to help usunderstand what the Joneses are doing. Is cloud computing alreadymainstream? - Page 1.(more)

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istockAnalyst.com (press release)April 21–True Corporation has joined with Microsoft to jump on the cloudcomputing bandwagon in order to create a new revenue stream and maximiseuse of its telecom network. The US-based software leader is also looking toestablish a cloud-based data …(more)

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Investor’s Business DailyEMC said customers are “extremely interested” in cloud computing. VMwaresaid software virtualization has hit the mainstream. IBM had strong growthin foreign markets, especially China where year-over-year sales jumped 33%compared with the company’s …(more)

RegisterA superset of VMware’s hypervisor tools, called vCloud and providing afabric for managing server slices on a large scale, continues to gettraction as well, with Softbank signing up to use vCloud for itsinfrastructure cloud services. …(more)

ZDNet UKBy Jack Clark (@mappingbabel), ZDNet UK, 21 April, 2011 05:00 Ubuntu 11.04
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Fresh Business ThinkingBy Max Clarke Bring-Your-Own-Device work policies, availability of
high-speed networks and an inexorable shift to virtualized and cloudcomputing environments, are all serving as catalysts that drive the growthof tablet presence in the enterprise. …(more)

ZDNet AustraliaBy Larry Dignan, ZDNet US on April 21st, 2011 (10 minutes ago) Oracle and
SAP, two giant predominately on-premise ERP vendors, are at an interestingcrossroads where both will be talking more about software as a service andtrying to prove their cloud …(more)

The GuardianA cloud computing service provider has claimed an agreement with a centralgovernment working group to make it the first supplier in the field to dealwith government as a single customer. Huddle said it has developed commonterms and conditions and a …(more)

Continuity Central (press release)Almost two-thirds (62 per cent) of IT managers state that concerns aboutsecurity are an obstacle to cloud adoption, according to online researchfor Kaspersky Lab. The research, undertaken by YouGov, found that among theIT managers and directors …(more)

We talk about SaaS or Software as a Service (Software as a service), whereare the external companies that provide software, their know-how, theirservers, …(more)

Self-Service …PR-USA.net (press release)Virtacore Systems, Inc., an industry leader in hybrid cloud services,announced today the availability of the company’s vCloud Express Expressoffering. The public cloud solution, based on VMware vCloud technology,provides virtual servers from a …(more)

BusinessCloud9A week after VMware unveiled the company’s Cloud Foundry open sourceplatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, CEO Paul Maritz has been talking upthe firm’s Cloud Computing credentials. Cloud Foundry promises to make itmuch easier for developers to get …(more)

Cloud Hosting Firm PeakColo Achieves VMware vCloud Certification | The WebHost Industry Review - Web Hosting News.(more)

By Juan Carlos Perez
“Google Earth Builder is Google’s mapping platform in the cloud, fororganizations that deal with mapping data, whether it’s hundreds ofterabytes or a few base maps layers,” said Dylan Lorimer, Google’senterprise Earth and Maps …(more)

How well does your SaaS contract serve you? Learn about the terms youshould negotiate with your next SaaS contract.(more)

NetSpend Selects Actiance Socialite SaaS Platform to Ensure Compliance andSecurity of Social Media. Enables the safe and productive use of unifiedcommunications and Web 2.0, including blogs and social networking sites -PR11447584.(more)

RegisterThe server distro includes Eucalyptus 2.02, which is the latest stablerelease and which includes security and performance tweaks, as well as atechnology preview of the “Cactus” OpenStack 2011.2 cloud fabric beingchampioned as an alternative to …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)Currently, SaaS, platform as a service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as aservice (Iaas) are the three popular service types of Cloud computing.Previously, CDC Software announced that its total contract backlog (TCB)will also rise to a new high since …(more)

PR Web (press release)As part of their regular SaaS platform feature release cycle, OrderDynamicsdelivers another important upgrade to its multi-channel Order ManagementSystem (OMS) within its eCommerce Platform. The recent update to the fullyintegrated Call Center …(more)

InformationWeekCloud computing, particularly infrastructure as a service, ups the agilityante even further by blurring the relationship between software andhardware. Who would have thought, even five years ago, that software couldautonomously request more hardware …(more)

By Sri Prakash, CIO In a troubled economy, cloud computing seems like a
great cost saving alternative and it is. Whether in good times or bad, anypragmatic …(more)

Multitenancy with hibernate filters … Hibernate related, but i think itwould be interesting for everyone that work on a multi tenancy system withSEAM. …(more)

NetworkComputing.comJust weeks after Rackspace Hosting unveiled Rackspace Cloud Builders, a newprofessional cloud services offering based on OpenStack that helpsenterprises deploy private cloud services, the company is officiallylaunching Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers …(more)

CRNSmoothstone’s range of SaaS-based offerings include VoIP, application-awareMPLS, unified threat management, unified messaging, contact center andmobile integration. “Smoothstone’s expertise at delivering cloud-basedunified communications solutions …(more)

of …4-traders (press release)Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY) (www.cbeyond.net/smb), a leading provider ofIT and communications services to small businesses, today announced theCbeyond Cloud Services division has been selected by Microsoft as a 2010Hyper-V Cloud Provider of the …(more)

TMC NetIndependent software vendors will also find PaaS a highly attractive optionfor delivering software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)) applications.Gary Kim is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Gary’sarticles, please visit his …(more)

GigaOmBy Stacey Higginbotham Apr. 21, 2011, 7:00am PT No Comments Today, Amazon’s
Web Services including its Elastic Compute Cloud, relational database andits platform as a service Elastic Beanstalk offerings have all hit somebumps in the road, …(more)

TMC NetApart from providing telecom operators a way to set up tailored M2Mservices for enterprise customers, the Device Connection Platform alsobrings a ’software as a service’ business model to the market, therebyfacilitating low initial investment in …(more)

CRNBy Brian Prince, CRN In mid-December, Gartner released a report projecting
software-as-a-service (SaaS) revenues within the enterprise applicationmarket would hit $9.2 billion in 2010, an increase of nearly 16 percentfrom 2009 when it stood at an …(more)

HostwayThe Sand Hill Group’s Software CEO/CFO Outlook 2011 study revealed that ofthe 100 company chief executives and chief finance officers questioned, themajority believe that cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) will drive thelargest amount of …(more)

By Robert_Duffner
Scott Morehouse: I direct the software and product development activitiesof Esri. I’ve been involved in building information systems for workingwith maps and geographic data for 25 or 30 years. We built systems forworkstation and …. Scott: I think the whole distinction between platformas a service and infrastructure as a service is a false one that creates alot of confusion. I prefer to think in terms of “system as a service.” Tobuild a system, you use the …(more)

By y-0117
Capabilities similar to those of Biz-Talk to integrate Windows AzurePlatform applications with existing LOB and databases and third-partySoftware as a Service (SaaS) applications. Composite App. For buildingapplications with a …(more)

ITProPortalOracle’s Software-as-a-Service offers a multitenancy feature, which allowsmultiple companies to use the same instance of a program without sharingdata, …(more)

ITProPortalTechnology giants Facebook, Hewlett-Packard and OpenStack are among the 74companies that have decided to become members of the Open Invention Network(OIN) this quarter. The Open Innovation Network is a group of organisationsdedicated to protecting …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)”His expertise and experience in scaling successful SaaS companies make hima perfect fit to join us at this pivotal moment in our growth.” Prior tojoining Salsa Labs, Donnelly served as President and COO of Fishbowl, aleading provider of web-based …(more)

ReportTreehuggerBut while cloud computing can make our lives easier when it comes totraveling, communication in business, storing and sharing pieces of ourlives like photos, and connecting with friends, it also has an increasinglysignificant carbon footprint. …(more)

CTO EdgeA plethora of applications are being considered for the cloud, but it maytake at least another year before cloud computing goes mainstream in theenterprise. It seem like the more we talk about cloud computing, especiallythe private kind, …(more)

Greenpeace Study Targets “Dirty Power” in Cloud Computing | The Web HostIndustry Review - Web Hosting News.(more)

By Christina Hernandez
From quicker transfers to the operating room to less radiation exposure, acloud computing approach to file sharing is meant to improve care at UCSan.(more)

What I am having a hard time figuring out is how sites like Wordpresscomand Typepad handle the multitenancy at the application level …(more)

InformationWeekBy Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute
Cloud, which offers computation as a service to thousands of businesses,and its Relational Database Service, began experiencing errors shortlybefore 2 am PDT on Thursday at …(more)

The FrontRange SaaS is based on an advanced Web 2.0 multi-tenant platformand is architected specifically for the Internet. It delivers a wide rangeof IT …(more)

Marketwire: Breaking news, press releases, social media news releases,business news.(more)

Email and data is stored on Cloud4’s platform (distributed infrastructure),… Communication as a service; Back up as a service; Software as a service…(more)