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- enStratus Support Portal : Terremark/vCloud Express
- CloudBees Opens Up Java Platform as a Service to Private Clouds …
- Users cite problems with Dell Boomi SaaS integration suite
- Announcing SpotCloud for OpenStack
- Workday Blog: Why Multi-tenant SaaS is the Best Alternative to ERP …
- Platform as a Service-Understanding the Business Benefits …
- Ubuntu releases ‘Natty Narwhal’ v.11.4 with OpenStack cloud support
- High Scalability – High Scalability – PaaS on OpenStack – Run …
- Cloud computing for small business 101
- PHP Fog Announces General Availability of Its Cloud Platform as a
- Amazon’s Big Mistake
- Citrix rises as 1Q, outlook beat analyst views
- Endavo Media Selects Internap’s High-Performance Content Delivery Network
- Cloud computing and Internet sucks energy, emits CO2, says …
- Cloud Computing | Inc. Technology
- Amazon: Networking Error Caused Cloud Outage
- VMware acquires cloud-based presentation provider
- Apple’s purchase of iCloud.com domain ‘confirmed’
- Cloud labeled as a ‘revolution’
- Cloud Computing: Windows Sales Weaken for Second Time in a Row
- Ennovasys Announces Mobile Workforce Management Solution TrakForce as SaaS
- New IBM SaaS Pricing and Channel Financing Options Aimed at Builders of
- Workforce Optimization: Ten Ways Cloud Computing Can Help Your Business
- Cloud computing getting more complex by the day (AMZN, GOOG, AAPL)
- Cloud Computing: Google Raises Price of Apps for Business
- Poll: Is OpenStack Now More Attractive Following the Amazon Web Services
- PHP Fog Launches Cloud Platform-as-a-Service
- Internap scores customer win with Endavo Media for CDN services
- VMware, Why Are You Buying SlideRocket?
- CTG Introduces Vendor Risk Management Software Solution
- Why the Time is Right for Billing Platform Modernization
- PHP Fog Launches Cloud Platform as a Service Application …
- NetSuite shares jump on higher billings
- Amazon.com apologizes for multi-day cloud computing outage
- Is It Really SaaS If?
- AT&T Building a Private Cloud With Open Stack
- Cloud Hosting Marketplace SpotCloud Releases OpenStack Connector
- AWS And OpenStack An Interesting Contrast Worth Considering During …
- Heroku Named #2 in Bay Area Employee Survey of ‘Best Places to Work’
- Expansion of Envista Map-Based SaaS Solution for Right-of-Way Management …
- CloudBees Takes PaaS Private
- Talk-2-Me SaaS Solution to be Launched at Canada 3.0
- Synnex Set To Deliver Software Licensing, Warranty Services Renewal Platform
- Please add suport for vCloud Server NAT Networking
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)
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)