April 2011

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

• 2011 End User Device Survey

InformationWeekIn our 2010 InformationWeek Analytics SaaS Survey, 47% of respondents wereusing software as a service. In our April 2011 survey, 60% said they wereusing applications in the cloud, up 13 points in a year–an impressive jumpfor a technology category …(more)

• What is PaaSPlatform as a Service | SOA Zone

… where PaaS sits There are 3 defined service layers to the cloudInfrastructure as a ServiceIaaS Platform as a ServicePaaS and Software as aServiceSaaS …(more)

• Tablets are growing, and computing is heading for the cloud

istockAnalyst.com (press release)We’ll look at QRcodes — those crossword-like squares that are popping upin printed ads — as well as a summarize developments in tablets and cloudcomputing. You may have noticed little boxes filled with black and whitesquares in some ads recently. …(more)

• Virtacore Systems Knowledgebase :: vCloud Express

The Virtacore vCloud Express panel allows you to capture a vApp afterconfiguring each Cloud Server to redeploy rapidly without the need toreconfigure …(more)

• Finance’s Role in Stopping Users from ‘Going Rogue’ with SaaS …

By Sandra Gittlen
Subscribing to a software-as-a-service approach needs input from the CFO’soffice.(more)

• Re: Multitenancy In ofbiz – msg#00000 – user.ofbiz.apache.org

I have enabled multi-tenancy in my installation. … Re: Multitenancy Inofbiz. You will need to create and mount two web apps, one for each store,…(more)

• Service Management On Premise or On Demand, SaaS, Hosted ITSM

Create a pure SaaS model by combining a subscription license with hosting,a traditional model with purchased licenses and on-premise installation,…(more)

• The Top 100 Bloggers on Cloud Computing

SYS-CON Media (press release)Ever since I first published here my tentative list of Top 50 Bloggers onCloud Computing it became clear that an expansion would be needed beforetoo long. Thanks to community feedback via my Twitter account(http://twitter.com/jg21) here goes with an …(more)

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

• Kodak Theatre, Home of Academy Awards, Relies on Brivo to Ramp Up Security

BenzingaBrivo Systems LLC, leader in Software as a Service applications forsecurity management, today announced that the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood,CA, has chosen Brivo Systems to substantially upgrade security at thefamous venue. …(more)

• This Week in Cloud, March 31, 2011: VMware R&D head starts VM storage

company …SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)OpenStack founder, Rick Clark, has left Rackspace over concerns aboutopenness. Read this ReadWriteWeb article and this blog written by Rick formore info. Amazon Web Services now allows customers to run cloudapplications on hardware dedicated to them …(more)

• HP taps Google’s print server in the sky

RegisterGoogle Cloud Print was first revealed last April as a service in support ofMountain View’s browser-based Chrome OS, which was at that time intended toappear at the end of 2010. At its announcement, Cloud Print was also saidto be able to print from …(more)

• Ubuntu’s high-risk Linux Narwhal beta floats

RegisterOn the server side, the Amazon-like Eucalyptus 2.0.2 jostles for room withOpenStack in the Universe is a technology preview, with a recent snapshotof the 2011.2 release codenamed Cactus. Shuttleworth made it sounds likeUbuntu will in future be …(more)

• Can Cloud Computing Clear the Air?

CFO.com MagazineBut here comes cloud computing, promising to transform IT into something nomore mysterious than electricity: flip a switch and access all thecomputing power and applications you need. The promise of cloud is thatthere will no longer be any need to …(more)

• AppZero CEO to Present at Cloud Expo 2011 New York | Cloud …

“Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloudcomputing’ was coined,” said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CONEvents, Inc. “Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing’ and ‘software’in two short …(more)

• TargetX | CRM Multi-tenancy and life in Scranton, PA

Whether she knew it or not, Adrienne benefited from what’s calledMulti-tenancy. In Adrienne’s case, every time the apartment complex addedservices or made …(more)

• Cloud migration requires network retooling

SearchSecurity.comby David Newman Cloud computing promises many benefits: It can reduce ITcosts and downtime while vastly increasing storage, mobility andprovisioning options. But, it’s also a potential security nightmare:perimeters disappear, clients and servers …(more)

• SaaS system helps New Look manage 185pc order growth

Logistics ManagerFast fashion retailer New Look reckons it can now process 185 per cent morepurchase orders than five years ago after adopting a supply chainmanagement solution developed by ediTRACK. Lighthouse, the ediTRACKsoftware as a service that New Look is …(more)

• Project Management Providers at SaaS Directory

Search SaaSDir’s marketplace of experienced Project Management providers tohelp find the best management service for your business.(more)

• Simplifying Cloud Computing for Retailers

StoresThe ARTS cloud computing whitepaper helps retailers start at the verybeginning by providing basic definitions of the services supported by thecloud, including infrastructure as a service, platform as a service andsoftware as a service. …(more)

• HP unveils answer to IBM’s Watson

InfoWorldbased company into a platform-as-a-service provider by announcing a dataanalystics supercomputer similar to IBM’s Watson, the DeepQA machine thatrecently bested the two greatest human champions ever on “Jeopardy.” Butwhereas IBM’s Watson takes the …(more)

• Friday Review: Let’s get physical

Total TelecomDuring that time, the market will shift from being dominated bysoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) to a greater proportion ofinfrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), said Gareth Williams, senior analyst atAnalysys Mason. “It’s a very different market from …(more)

• How LiveProfile Netted 1M Users in 5 Days

GigaOmIt just completed a major system upgrade late Thursday to make sure it canscale properly to meet demand going forward, and Karl also creditsinfrastructure-as-a-service company SoftLayer with providing servers onshort notice to help scale, …(more)

• Appko Announces Appko Cloud Training – Cisco UCS for Virtual Private Clouds

PR Newswire (press release)Appko Cloud Training is a part of a new series of services fororganizations looking to adopt cloud computing. Appko Cloud Training isdifferent because it focuses on hands on deployment of Cisco UCS fortechnical organizations looking to become …(more)

• Keynote Address Takes Attendees to the Cloud at the iHT2 Health IT Summit

in …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Mark Blatt, MD, MBA, director of global healthcare strategies for theDigital Health Group at Intel Corporation, travels the world speaking onintegrated, mobile computing and the emergence of cloud computing services.On March 23, at the Institute for …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Nokia Claims All Apple Products Infringe Its Patents

SYS-CON Media (press release)An administrative law judge with the International Trade Commission (ITC)decided Friday that Apple’s iPhone, iPod and Macs don’t infringe fiveremaining Nokia patents. The ITC now has to decide if it will adopt hisposition like it decided on Friday …(more)

• Project Skyway starts accepting applications on Saturday

Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)The three-month program will accept ten companies that sell software as aservice or have a mobile focus. More details on the program’s criteria canbe found here. Project Skyway said it will give companies at least $6000 infunding, space, …(more)

• Open Source Fact and Fiction: OpenStack Continues The Quest To Be …

New test environment from Dell, Rackspace and Equinix is open to customersto try.(more)

• VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals CBT RapidshareZone Forum torrent

Download VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals CBT from rapidshare,megaupload, hotfile, fileserve ,filesonic VMware vCloud DirectorFundamentals CBT torrent, …(more)

• Cloud Computing Tracking and Blogging | Cloud Computing Journal

Named one of the World’s 30 Most Influential Cloud Computing Bloggers in2009, and Top 50 Bloggers on Cloud Computing in 2010, he is the Founder andEditor …(more)

• Recap of CloudConnect, and the Future of Data

By Steve Yi
The unique opportunities that public cloud and platform-as-a-service (PaaS)bring to developers and businesses is the ability to focus specificallyuser experience and features that benefit users, rather than focusing onnon- functional …(more)

• HIG Capital Announces Sale of Allegient Systems, Inc

Montreal GazetteClients use Allegient’s proprietary SaaS-based software suite and in-houseauditing expertise to more strategically manage their vendors throughworkflow process improvement, bill review cost containment and businessintelligence. …(more)

• Following Milestone Acquisition, Salesforce Expands Toolkit with Intuit …

SAAS DirectorySalesforce.com CRM offering and Intuit’s business accounting QuickBooksOnline service are 2 of the most prominent SaaS products out there, and nowthey’ve teamed-up to further boost the customer flow. Intuit will resellSalesforce.com’s CRM solution, …(more)

• InsPro Technologies Corporation Announces 2010 Financial Results

StockhouseThis improvement is the result of ongoing restructuring activities offsetby continuing investment in the Company’s software platform, InsProEnterprise. — Revenues from continuing operations of $6.1 million in 2010,compared to $6.8 million in 2009. …(more)

• Facebook Platform Developer Forum / Software-As-A-Service (SAAS …

Software-As-A-Service (SAAS) based Contest Application. We are delighted toannounce our first SAAS (Software-As-A-Service) based Photo Contestapplication. …(more)

• Job: Boston-based Software-as-a-Service Leader Seeks Analytical …

Ten years of product excellence and over 2000 successful customers haveestablished Bullhorn as the leading provider of SaaS solutions for the $90B…(more)

• Microsoft Adjusts Volume Licensing for Cloud Computing

Web Host Industry ReviewAccording to a Microsoft spokesperson, the new licensing option “enhancesbusiness opportunities [for partners] by paving the way for qualifiedMicrosoft customers to take advantage of cloud computing without having tobear the economic burden for …(more)