April 2011

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• Cloud Computing for Recyclers Creates Access Anywhere, Anytime

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• Polaris buys 85% stake in IdenTrust for $20 million

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)

• Sony, Amazon Uptime, Security Problems Aren`t Unique to the Cloud

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)

• Government closing data centers as part of federal IT overhaul

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)

• Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Migrations: Quest Assists Partners

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)

• Next-Gen Rackspace Cloud Files with Akamai Integration | Cloud …

Nicole covers news on technologies including Cloud Computing,Virtualization, AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, SOA, and WOA. You canforward your press releases via email at her home pagepatromanski.ulitzer.com. …(more)

• Database Cloud Computing: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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)

• Citrix Systems’ CEO Discusses Q1 2011 Results – Earnings Call Transcript

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)

• CloudBees unveils RUN@cloud Private Edition

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)

• Regional HR Group Forms Nearly 100 Mentoring Relationships in 1 Month

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)

• True Voice Technologies Launches Talk-2-Me SaaS Solution at Canada 3.0

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)

• Indusface expands Global Partner Program through SaaS

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)

• What you need to know – 04/27/11

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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• More than one way to build a cloud (and there always will be)

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)

• Serene Corporation – Software as a Service

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)

• SaaS WMS Provider, Deposco, Named Top 100 Logistics IT Provider for 2011

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)

• Will limited company contractors benefit as expert highlights pros of SaaS?

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)

• Salesforce.com’s Ron Huddleston Recognized as a 2011 Channel Chief by …

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)

• OpenStack Design Summit 2011

Learn how open source is defining cloud infrastructure standards.(more)

• Facebook Integration Added to Personyze

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)

• NetSuite OneWorld Powers Another Tech IPO

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)

• inContact Sets First Quarter 2011 Conference Call

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)

• The Good Leads

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)

• Open Source Cloud Stack Community Grows Quickly

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)

• se2 Enterprise SaaS Chosen by Modern Woodmen

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)

• Insperity Debuts PerformSmart, a Performance Management SaaS Solution

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)

• GSA Manages Laptops with Fiberlink

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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• AWS and OpenStack: an interesting contrast worth considering during

cloud …ZDNet (blog)Having attended the OpenStack Design Summit this week and at the same timefielding calls from Forrester clients affected by the Amazon Web Services(AWS) outage, an interesting contrast in approaches bore out. You couldboil it down to closed versus …(more)

• 5 pitfalls that can scuttle a move to the cloud

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

• Lesson from Amazon’s cloud crash: Plan for the worst

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)

• VMware Buys Another Slice of the Cloud With SlideRocket

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)

• Cloud computing providers: Clueless about security?

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)

• Amazon outage a valuable lesson in cloud security

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)

• SAP Product Promise Pushes Ahead Of Profit

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)

• TwinStrata expands cloud storage gateway hardware, software

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)

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• Infor-Lawson Set To Mount ERP Software Offensive

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)

• VMware Acquires Business Presentation Iconoclast SlideRocket

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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• Be prepared

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)

• Verizon Completes SAS 70 Type II Examination of Cloud Computing Data Centers

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)

• The Improbability of Resource Planning | Cloud Computing Journal

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)

• Polaris Software forays into cloud computing space; stock up

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)

• Dell Boomi Certifies Partners In Cloud, Adds Cloud Integration Features

CRNAtomSphere is a multi-tenant as-a-service offering that helps users avoidinstalling and maintaining integration software or appliances by givingcustomers frequent software updates to keep up with the innovation in SaaSand cloud apps. …(more)

• Polaris Software Acquires Stake in U.S. Company

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)

• Apple’s environmentally conscious production takes a hammering

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)

• How to integrate with the cloud

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)

• ThreatMetrix Positioned as a “Visionary” in the Magic Quadrant for Web

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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• Cloud failover a challenge for Amazon competitors, too

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)

• CloudPassage Receives Series A Funding From Benchmark Capital

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)

• Meijer to Implement Full Suite of Plex Online Solutions

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)

• Will Schanz Named as IntraLinks Executive Vice President, Services

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)

• Go Cloud Or Go Home

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)

• Factbox: Recent deals involving cloud-computing companies

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)

• Cloud Computing Market Predicted To Hit $240 Billion By 2020

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)

• UK Businesses Adopt Cloud Computing More Slowly Than Continental Rivals

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)

• Openstack-based Midostack Lets Companies Scale And Manage Flexible

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)

• Rackspace targets Aussie business with cloud-building service

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)

• Virtacore Launches vCloud Express ChannelProSMB

The public cloud product is based on VMware’s vCloud technology andprovides virtual servers to customers through Virtacore and its partners.(more)

• Ubuntu 11.04 Adds OpenStack to Linux | Linuxcom

Ubuntu 11. 04 ‘Natty’ will include the open source OpenStack cloudplatform, but only as a technology preview. Read more at internetnews. com.(more)

• A crack in the cloud: Why the Amazon outage caught so many by surprise

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)

• Savvis Exec Argues Against Cloud Standards

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)

• Why People Are Trying Out VCloud

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• Apple’s cloud will include annual fee

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)

• Bruce Armstrong Joins PivotLink as President and Chief Executive Officer

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)