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ReadWriteWebBy Alex Williams / April 9, 2011 6:00 PM / 0 Comments This post is part of
our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualizationand cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read thecase study about how IBM …(more)

In addition, the company has adjusted the pricing of storage on its vCloudExpress offering so that users are charged for the peak storage capacityutilized over the course of the month, instead of being charged for thetotal disk space …(more)

rPath announced that rPath X6, its newly-launched flagship product, nowsupports OpenStack and VMware vCloud Director for private and hybrid cloudcomputing …(more)

ComputerWeekly.comCloud is a new channel of technology enablement that organizations of allsizes can use to leverage business applications with an on-demand,platform, or software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. Cloud is designed to helporganizations move from a capital …(more)

CRNBy Rick Whiting, CRN Saying businesses are ready to move from experimenting
with cloud computing to full-scale production, IBM Thursday unveiled whatit calls IBM SmartCloud, a new cloud service delivery platform of hardware,software and services for …(more)

One Stop ClickA number of leading cloud computing organisations have joined forces tocreate the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC), which is geared towardsboosting cloud computing adoption. Some 45 companies have come together tocreate the new body, …(more)

By Ray
Cloud Computing Economics: 40-80% Savings in the Cloud? Given the state ofthe global economy and the increasing adoption of Cloud computing it’s no.(more)

Latest news on Cloud Computing : Having data exist outside the organizationcan pose challenges to compliance, governance, and business intelligence –all …(more)

Malaya(PLDT), through a partnership with software giant Microsoft and Asia’sleading IT solutions company Datacraft, a subsidiary of Dimension Data ofthe NTT Group, will soon offer cloud computing service solutions for itscorporate clients. …(more)

Philippine StarMany cloud computing services for corporate clients are public and are inconstant danger of being attacked,’ says Trend Micro executive vicepresident and chief development officer Oscar Chang. MANILA, Philippines -The world is currently seeing the …(more)

The networking giant is actively working with the open-source community tomake cloud networking more efficient and dynamic. Read this blog post byDave …(more)

Usually, configuration based multitenancy works well for solution providerstargeting SMEs, who are willing to adopt to industry best practices. …(more)

Stock Market WeeklyThe organization is a provider of cloud computing (also referred to assoftware as a service or (SaaS)) contact center services and networkconnectivity. The company has a 52 week high of $ 3.75 and a 52 week low of$ 2.12. Average volumes of shares …(more)

As the higher education market prepares for a period of unprecedentedchange, institutions will increasingly seek new ways to do more with less.(more)

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IT infrastructure services provider Terremark Worldwide has launchedPriority Support service, a storage pricing model for users of its vCloudExpress …(more)

SaaS - Software as a Service - means that we, as your service provider,take over the full responsibility of your IT infrastructure. …(more)

Telecom Reseller (press release)The growth and use of IP protocols, software based media processing andbroadband networks has spawned the opportunity for many IT andcommunications solutions to be delivered from the network cloud. At times,CaaS, or Communications as a Service, …(more)

CRNCloud computing hype spiked this week as Dell and IBM both unveiledambitious plans to increase their presence in the data centervirtualization and cloud computing markets. Dell is planning to spend $1billion in the next two years on 10 new data …(more)

CTO EdgeWhen it comes to invoking cloud computing services, IT organizations areusing the cloud to primarily address backup and archiving. IT organizationsdon’t really want to have to buy the IT infrastructure needed to house thedata that is rarely accessed …(more)

GigaOmBy Derrick Harris Apr. 8, 2011, 3:30pm PT No Comments According to a post
on Bloomberg this morning, Microsoft plans to spend 90 percent, or $8.64billion, of its $9.6 billion annual R&D budget on cloud computing, whichbegs the question of where that …(more)

The standards organization is beginning with cloud interoperability issueswith hopes to minimize cloud fragmentation.(more)

Posts Tagged ‘SaaS’. What is Cloud Computing? Posted by MaryKate | Filedunder Tips and Tricks | Apr 8, 2011 | Tags: Amazon, Cloud computing, IaaS,…(more)

Before I move on to other Oracle cloud platform offerings, wanted to justspend a little time on database multi tenancy outside the context of …(more)

Local: Fri, Nov 19 2010 11:03 am. Subject: proposal - extendauth_membership with “reference auth_context” to support multi-tenancy …(more)

its …PR Web (press release)ScanSeek is the latest IntelliTrack software product to be offered as aSoftware as a Service (SaaS) solution. ScanSeek is a rapid applicationdevelopment tool that allows IntelliTrack customers to quickly develop datacollection applications. …(more)

IntelliTrack, Inc. Announces Software as a Service (SaaS) Capabilities forits … - PR Web (press release) - SaaS Directory.(more)

pluGGd.inBy sinha on 9, April, 2011 No comments What is SAAS? What is Cloud? Well,
evolved souls are aware of the nitty gritty of these technologies, but alot of business leaders/middle managers are unaware of SAAS and mostimportantly,practical use cases of …(more)

eSecurity PlanetBy Geoff Webb Cloud computing: If you haven’t heard this term by now then
you are definitely not in IT. But, since you are even reading this far, I’mgoing to assume that consuming IT services via the cloud is something youand your business are …(more)

GMANews.TVUse of cloud technologies for IT infrastructure will accelerate rapidly in2011 as new cloud services are brought to market, and users will lookbeyond the basics of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) andInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to source business …(more)

ExecutiveBiz (blog)Vice President of IMB Software Standards Angel Diaz said this council isdesigned to focus on the reality of what provides the greatest cloudcomputing benefits for clients. Diaz also talked about the companyrequesting client feedback to work together …(more)

Patch.com… we do not provide the application itself but the platform for cloudenabling the application.” Still mystified? Roberson said there are severalways to think about cloud computing. For the average consumer, she saidd,it is “software as a service. …(more)

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The IEEE created a ripple in the cloud computing community this week byweighing in with its own proposals for cloud computing standards.(more)

PCWorld (blog)By Stephen Bell, computerworld.co.nz- Despite the rise of cloud computing
and the thin client, Intel continues to place its bets on a continuedgrowth in demand for desktop power as well as power at the server. At theAustralian-NZ presentation of …(more)

Upstream Commerce, which provides an automated competitive pricing andproduct analytics Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for online retailers hasraised $1.25 …(more)

InformationWeekTen data centers and a 12 research centers are planned to help customersmove to cloud computing on Dell technology. By Antone GonsalvesInformationWeek Dell plans to spend $1 billion over the next nine months toopen 10 data centers worldwide and …(more)

GigaOmBy Derrick Harris Apr. 7, 2011, 7:20am PT No Comments Dell s undertaking a
sweeping effort to improve its place in the cloud computing market withseveral new data centers, services and a converged infrastructure system tocompete with Cisco’s Unified …(more)

Cloud computing means creating systems in which business data and softwarecan … Dell’s focus on cloud computing is part of its strategy to shiftemphasis …(more)

FinFacts IrelandTo put some perspective on where the cloud in Ireland currently stands incomparison with the US, a recent report on cloud adoption demonstrated thatInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) adoption was far higher in the USA thanin Ireland, while Software …(more)

Forbes (blog)There were also announcements about provisioning and applicationdevelopment software, selling access to unlimited storage as a service, andvirtualization, both with several providers (you, VMWare), and in athree-year partnership with Microsoft, …(more)

AMAG’s IT needs are more efficiently and cost effectively served by publiccloud providers, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and …(more)

By Facundo Villaveiran
Third and final video-answer from our Free Social Media Summer Twist. Hereis the bunch of fresh social media ideas, straight from Tenerife for ourfinal winner: Doocuments.com. The goal of these video-answers is todeliver, …(more)

ComputerworldBy James Niccolai IDG News Service - In announcing its cloud computing
services on Thursday, IBM stressed repeatedly that private clouds — orthose that exist behind the corporate firewall — are as important to itsstrategy as those in the public …(more)

CIO MagazineCloud computing is one of the most significant technological trends we havewitnessed and has the potential to change the very way we work. It is,however, important for CIOs to understand that we are currently in apre-standard era of cloud computing …(more)

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Computer Business ReviewAxis Technology Software, a provider of enterprise data masking offerings,has introduced DMsuite Cloud Edition, the Software as a Service (SaaS)version of the data masking platform. The new offering is a cloud-baseddata masking offering, …(more)

By Jonathan Mariano
This hints at the cloud-based SAAS (Software as a Service) model that C3 iscreating their ERM platform. The image between the C and the 3 resembles acarbon dioxide molecule. But what does C3 stand for, and what exactly doesthe …(more)

BusinessWeekComputer maker Dell Inc. said Thursday that it plans to invest $1 billionin data centers in the current fiscal year, which ends in January 2012, topush “cloud computing,” — that is delivering software, data storage andother services to customers …(more)

InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek Senior VP Steve Mills will flesh out
IBM’s cloud computing strategy at an event in San Francisco Thursday,emphasizing IBM’s vision of recognizing “client defined clouds” and cloudresources customized for individual …(more)

Partner …TMC NetBy Susan J. Campbell, TMCnet Contributing Editor Tenzing Managed IT
Services, a provider of hosting solutions for SaaS (News - Alert) providersand eCommerce systems integrators, has announced its placement in theBranham300 2011 edition. …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeNew Pricing for Terremark vCloud Express. Terremark (TMRK) announced theaddition of new levels of support and an innovative new storage pricingmodel for users of its vCloud Express offering. The company also updatedits pricing model for virtual …(more)

CIO Weblog (blog)A major development for companies facing payment headaches has beenprovided via a new software as a service (saas) model. This saas featurewill soon be able to provide users with smooth one-piece online paymentoptions, which are very cost effective …(more)

Forbes (blog)By CHRIS BARTH Yesterday, Dell Inc. announced that it will spend $1 billion
this fiscal year, in an effort to build out its Cloud computingcapabilities. The planned expenditure will be focused on the creation of anumber of next generation Cloud data …(more)

eWeekIBM is a founding sponsor of the Object Management Group’s (OMG) new CloudStandards Customer Council (CSCC), which will focus on helping end usersadopt cloud computing. Indeed, OMG announced that IBM, CA, Kaavo, Rackspaceand Software AG joined the …(more)

RegisterThe business case for adopting cloud computing is already clear for many:it can save a lot of money, and give companies access to technologies thatare otherwise be beyond their means. But for IT professionals, shiftingtechnology and data offsite …(more)

TechNewsWorldBy Jay Lyman Perhaps the biggest reason I — and many others in my firm who
follow open source software and enterprise IT — am so bullish on cloudcomputing is the user empowerment and enablement that has occurred. Opensource software began teaching …(more)

Austin American-StatesmanBy Lori Hawkins Austin-based Spanning Cloud Apps, which develops
cloud-computing applications, has raised $2 million to expand itsengineering and sales efforts. The company sells Spanning Backup, a backupservice for Google Calendar, Google Docs and …(more)

PR-USA.net (press release)Corporations are increasingly looking to cloud computing in order toaccelerate value in business financials and reduce costs. Driven by thegrowth of cloud computing, cloud storage is quickly growing from arelatively small percentage of the overall …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Facebook has been quietly working on building an energy-efficient datacenter at the lowest possible cost for a year or two and Thursday it opensourced the infrastructure it created under what it calls the Open ComputeProject, figuring that many eyes …(more)

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Northern Colorado Business ReportI want to revisit the cloud and some productivity tools from one of theleading providers of software as a service or SaS; 37Signals has literallywritten the book (and a programming language) on the subject. TheChicago-based software development firm …(more)

ProjectMarketwire (press release)Utiba Americas is unique in offering a mobile financial services platformthat has been widely deployed and that handles significant transactionvolumes, and in offering this platform as a service, not only as atraditional software license. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Google is losing its product development chief Jonathan Rosenberg, whoreportedly felt he couldn’t give the company’s brand new retread CEO LarryPage the open-ended commitment to stay on the job that Page wanted. Or sothe story goes. …(more)

ComputerWeekly.comThe combination of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) andSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) provides ultimate expandability costeffectively and unlimbers organizations for SaaS rapid change. SaaS is adelivery model that unloads software over the internet …(more)

ECM Connection (press release)M-Files Cloud Vault running on Azure is offered as a service priced at $39per month, per user. M-Files is also available as an on-premise softwaresolution that can be purchased as a paid-up license. For more information,please contact Motive Systems …(more)

San Francisco ChroniclePlenty of software as a service (SaaS) companies have some sort of freeoption, but the goal is to have the majority of users pay. A restaurantthat offers free appetizers is not a freemium business, and neither is37signals. Marketing. …(more)

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CRNSMBs are investigating their options in the cloud computing services space,and in many cases they’re turning to managed service providers (MSPs) tohelp them sort out what’s what in the cloud. This puts MSPs in the uniqueposition to demonstrate the …(more)

TruckTrend MagazineIt has teamed up with Microsoft to create a content distribution networkbased on cloud computing. The new system will be built on Microsoft’sWindows Azure platform, which stores data remotely - in “the cloud” - andallows users to access their …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)While you may not fully understand what The Cloud is (who really does), orhow Cloud computing impacts businesses worldwide, you will. Some estimatesput the market for Cloud computing at $140+ billion by 2014, nearly 3 timescurrent figures. …(more)

Network World… opportunity to grow by extending their current businesses via cloudinfrastructure-as-a-service (private and/or public), software-as-a-service(Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite and/or Office 365),platform-as-a-service (Windows …(more)

Enterprise Storage Forum”When Brocade Communications reported fiscal first quarter earnings, thecompany said clients were investing in data center networking to adopt’virtualization” and “cloud computing,’ increasingly popular technologiesthat allow companies to manage …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Intel has trotted out its latest 32nm Westmere-EX or E7 Xeons, whichsupport up to 10 cores connected by a ring bus and are supposed to deliverup to 40% better performance than the eight-core Nehalem-EX chips theyreplace. Amusingly the things are …(more)

When were dealing with multitenancy at the application level, we’re oftenlimited to cross-grain multi-tenancy as we don’t have full control over the…(more)

Why buy when you can rent? It’s the new credo among savvy spenderseverywhere — IT shops included. More and more companies are renting spaceon a cloud …(more)

McAfee Security-as-a-Service solutions are designed to provideorganizations with a comprehensive set of security products built in aSoftware-as-a-Service …(more)

By Todd Bishop
Microsoft and Toyota have entered a new strategic partnership to build anext- gen information and telecommunications platform for Toyota’s vehiclesbased on the Redmond company’s Windows Azure cloud computing system. …(more)

By marcy hoffman
Reduced costs: Cloud computing reduces your hardware (computers, software(all those downloaded programs), networking management and overall ITexpenses. In addition, with cloud computing, you pay for what you use. …(more)

SearchCloudComputing.comIBM has opened the door on a public cloud Infrastructure as a Serviceoffering for the enterprise. The company has quietly added the SmartBusiness Cloud - Enterprise to its Smart Business Cloud product line. SBC -Enterprise is a pay-as-you-go, …(more)

Virtualization.comrPath has announced that rPath X6 now supports OpenStack and VMware vCloudDirector for private and hybrid cloud computing environments. OpenStack isthe open source cloud operating system and emerging open cloud standardbacked by more than 50 …(more)

OpenStack is Rackspace and NASA’s joint open cloud OS project, which isalready supported by dozens of major companies. And, now rPath announcedthat its …(more)

Their aim is to develop and deploy telematics applications on Microsoft’sWindows Azure “cloud computing” platform, with the plan to start withToyota’s …(more)

GigaOmBy Derrick Harris Apr. 6, 2011, 9:38pm PT No Comments After years of
talking about cloud computing but offering services that bore littleresemblance to the public infrastructure-as-a-service clouds with whichmost people are familiar, IBM is finally …(more)

InformationWeek IndiaWhat are the advantages for companies in the cloud computing or SaaS spaceto use technologies from Akamai? Be it the SaaS, PaaS or IaaS space –every company relies on the network to deliver a service. You may have abig data center, …(more)

SAAS DirectoryVacation Storebuilder, an advanced Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) e-commerceplatform for vacation rental companies to deploy targeted websites,provides The Hugh Merkle Team @ Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors with aStone Harbor & Avalon New Jersey …(more)

Platform as a Service refers to the delivery on-demand of platforms forvarious software services, such as web services or business applications,…(more)

A SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) for analysing financial datasets on aPrivate Cloud platform to detect suspicious cases of money …(more)

CarAdviceBy Brett Davis | April 7th, 2011 Toyota president, Akio Toyoda, and
Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, have just announced a partnership deal whichwill introduce Microsoft’s Windows Azure ‘cloud computing’ platform intoToyota plug-in hybrid and electric …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)We’ve talked at length about cloud computing and cybersecurity, but cloudcomputing can also have an effect on physical security through itsapplication to intelligence. The US Army has recently launched its firsttactical cloud in Afghanistan, …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)NASDAQ) said that it expected the quarter one guaranteed software as aservice (SaaS) contract value to gain 33 percent over Q4 in 2010, accordingto reports with Tech.sina.com.cn on Thursday. The company attributed theremarkable SaaS sales to a 94 …(more)

Basically i want to go down the route of having a a multi tenancy systembut to be more economical i would need to have a shared database and shareddb for …(more)

All Things DigitalDell will run both private and public clouds, and will offer MicrosoftAzure as well as VMWare and Openstack, an open-source cloud architecture ithas …(more)

InfoWorldIEEE, the international standards-making organization, is jumping with bothfeet into the cloud computing space and announcing the launch of its newCloud Computing Initiative. The IEEE is trying to create two standards forhow cloud applications and …(more)

Experian QASManufacturing industry chains are being transformed by new technologiessuch as cloud computing, new research from Microsoft has found. Thecomputing giant has noted that a growing number of organizations arelooking to take advantage of the benefits …(more)

BusinessCloud9At a time when the UK government Cloud Computing strategy is on hold for afew months, the public sector is moving to ‘back office’ adoption of theCloud at least as fast as the commercial sector. That’s the bold claim isbased on a survey carried out …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)These case studies will share unique uses of SaaS for IT collaboration andglobal business process automation. Javier Rodriguez, Sephora’s Senior ITService Manager, will share how several Sephora business units outside ofIT are now using the IT …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Perimeter E-Security was selected as one of the 100 top, private on-demandand SaaS companies based on a set of five criteria: innovation, marketpotential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz. “It’s anhonor to be recognized among the …(more)

BusinessWeekThe company said it had a 94 percent first-quarter renewal rate forsoftware-as-a-service — a type of cloud computing that refers to softwarehosted remotely instead of on your own computer. And it believes itscontract backlog will rise 5 percent …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)ProFicient on Demand is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution thatmonitors and controls real-time process data from any global source. Thepackage is an all-inclusive quality system that includes the fullfunctionality of ProFicient SPC as well as …(more)

MarketingSYS-CON Media (press release)PHOENIX, AZ — (Marketwire) — 04/07/11 — DICOM Grid, provider of a cloudsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for medical imaging managementapplications, today announced the appointment of Todd McNitt as senior vicepresident of sales and marketing …(more)

The first step is to evaluate your workloads, says Mark White, CTO forDeloitte Consulting’s technology practice.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The company drives innovation by enabling the reliable, secure, andscalable delivery of complex software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Ecommerceapplications. “Our EVEREST managed hosting platform is designedspecifically to address the unique business …(more)

CNET (blog)This effort will focus on infrastructure-as-a-service,platform-as-a-service, virtual desktop-as-a-service and IT outsourcing,Dell announced today. “Technology advances, delivery methods and the moveto disruptive IT models like cloud are changing the …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)The Company’s Managed Cloud provides the flexibility and scalability ofinfrastructure-as-a-service (”IaaS”) while ensuring that client data ismaintained with utmost security and privacy. FiberMedia’s Managed Cloudoffering supports a wide range of …(more)

IDG News ServiceIn addition to hosting virtual storage, desktops and e-mail backups, Dellsays these data centers will serve up VMware, OpenStack and Azure clouds….(more)

TIMEBy Chris Gayomali on April 7, 2011 Yesterday afternoon, Toyota and
Microsoft announced a new $12 million partnership that aims to bring cloudcomputing on the road. This team-up will grant the industry-leadingautomaker’s vehicles access to streaming …(more)

InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek I saw the look of consternation on some
faces: Doesn’t cloud computing involve a lot more complexity? Haven’t wealready managed to create too much complexity on our own, without yourassistance? …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Larry Dignan | April 7, 2011, 7:24am PDT Dell outlined plans to invest
$1 billion in cloud computing services this year and build data centers todeliver services. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanetas well as Editorial …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeThe Dell modular data center will be the lynchpin of its plans to build aglobal network of data centers to support its cloud computing business.Computing giant Dell is deploying a fleet of 10 data centers around theworld to host cloud computing …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)These enhancements to AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service allow customers tomore easily integrate their cloud computing environment and their AT&T VPN,with simplified purchasing, configuration, and management. A new, highlyflexible model for …(more)

Server WatchIn an article on E Commerce Times, the significant strategic undertaking oftransitioning to the cloud is examined. Although setting up virtual serversin the cloud is relatively easy and can be done quickly, designing andimplementing an integrated …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 04/07/11 — Corporations are increasinglylooking to cloud computing in order to accelerate value in businessfinancials and reduce costs. Driven by the growth of cloud computing, cloudstorage is quickly growing from a …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewDell said these new cloud services include infrastructure as a serviceofferings for both compute and storage, platform as a service forapplication development and deployment, and an SaaS-level virtual desktopas a service offering built on …(more)

Internet EvolutionThere is enormous interest in such IT outsourcing strategies as cloudcomputing and software as a service (SaaS). But in neither area is ITresting easy regarding data governance. So when does SaaS governance reallymatter — and if you’re evaluating …(more)

Cloud Computing Conference will take place in Brisbane, Australia. TheCloud Computing Conference organized by iCMG will take place inAustralia,Brisbane on 19 May 2011. - PR11422677.(more)

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by …Marketwire (press release)The show will focus on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), a rising trend thatoffers an alternative to traditional software approaches. Hosted by EricKavanagh, this segment will feature industry veteran consultant JoeNorthern, principal of MD Strategies, …(more)

Express …Business Wire (press release)MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:TMRK), a leadingglobal provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced theaddition of new levels of support and an innovative new storage pricingmodel for users of its vCloud …(more)

Computerworld (blog)Five years ago, it was unclear to many that what was then known as”on-demand” — subsequently “software as a service” and eventually “cloudcomputing” — would turn out to be as revolutionary a trend in big-companyIT as client-server was 15 years …(more)

Key …PR Newswire (press release)The company has posted back-to-back, record-breaking quarters, riding thegrowing trend of businesses adopting SaaS-based software platforms tomanage their increasingly expanding and sophisticated social communities onFacebook, Twitter, …(more)

Terremark says its new priority support service for vCloud Express grantscustomers immediate access to its technical support team, including liveinteraction with the company’s cloud computing experts. …(more)

By Andrew
Predictable bursting, e.g. End of month for finance. Type of cloud services- Software as a Service (SaaS) for users - Platform as a Service (PaaS) fordevelopers - Infrastruce as a Service (IaaS) for IT. Datacentre evolution…(more)

Redmond Channel PartnerWith Windows Intune’s availability, Redmond’s cloud lineup for partnersspans the back office, CRM, systems management and Infrastructure as aService. By Scott Bekker Late last month, Microsoft launched WindowsIntune, giving partners one more major …(more)

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By tom.laszewski@oracle.com
Exalogic - Applications in the cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS). Bytom.laszewski@oracle .com on April 5, 2011 8:42 PM. Exalogic is ‘cloud in abox’ for all of your applications. ‘Cloud in a box’ means you can get yourcloud hardware and …(more)

Zenoss enterprise through an important release production beta Vcloudfollow vmware mar express, powered by vmware virtual Our data centers sep iput …(more)

E-Commerce TimesConsider that by 2015, one-third of spending on new CRM software will beSaaS, according to Gartner (NYSE: IT). Worldwide spending on socialsoftware to support sales, marketing and customer service processes willexceed US$1 Billion worldwide by 2013, …(more)

All Things Digital (blog)by Arik Hesseldahl Say what you will about about the constant appearance ofcloud computing as the buzz phrase of the moment in tech circles. For allits vaunted simplification of corporate computing environments that lead tobillions in cost savings, …(more)

More Stories By Cloud Ventures. Neil McEvoy is the Founder of the CloudVentures Group, an industry forum for incubating and accelerating new CloudComputing start-up ventures. Join @ http://Cloud-Ventures.net. Cloud ExpoBreaking News …(more)

As industry calls for closer collaboration, Microsoft launches ReferenceArchitecture Framework for Discrete Manufacturers Initiative to acceleratecloud …(more)

By Charles Babcock InformationWeek The venerable IEEE is wading into the
chaotic and roiled realm of cloud computing, seeking to set standardsthrough a …(more)

Keys to achieving true multi-tenancy in enterprise settings … Accordingto a recent ZDNet report, this has made multi-tenancy a critical issue incloud …(more)

Southern Pines PilotYou may have heard the terms “cloud computing,” “cloud storage” and/or”cloud services.” In all of these, the cloud simply means the Internet, butthe new terminology is indicative of a big change that is already takingplace. …(more)

TMC NetRecently, Virtual Internet announced that by 2020, 80 percent of allcomputing provisioned through the Internet will be cloud computing. Anexplosion of interest in private and public cloud services in the firstphase of 2011. …(more)

Global SaaS-based Digital Content Creation Market 2009-2013. It provides analternative to implementation or maintaining content creation software.(more)

Solution …BenzingaCloudSpeak provides SMB organizations a competitive advantage by deliveringan enterprise-grade communications and collaboration solution usingcloud-based Unified Communications-as- a-Service (UCaas). Tiverity, anaward-winning Unified Communications …(more)

at …PR Web (press release)Secure-24 will showcase Oracle Application Hosting and Cloud Computingsolutions in Booth 650 at COLLABORATE 11, April 10- 14, 2011 in Orlando.Secure-24 leverages leading technologies in virtualization, storage,private cloud computing, …(more)

E-Commerce TimesIf you’ve investigated cloud at all, you know about SaaS (Software), PaaS(Platform), IaaS (Infrastructure), and possibly several other “as aService” options. It’s entirely plausible that some combination of all ofthese options will co-exist in an …(more)

Equinix.com/OpenStack) and Rackspace Hosting(www.rackspace.com/cloudbuilders) announced on Thursday that they havepartnered to develop an OpenStack cloud …(more)

Let’s just say first: I VMware vCloud Director ROCKS! I have been using itfor about 2 weeks; and, this product is going to make IT …(more)

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PR Web (press release)TheCurrencyCloud.com, a new SaaS / PaaS currency firm wins pre-launchaccolade at high-profile Tech and Venture Capital conference.TheCurrencyCloud.com, a SaaS / PaaS currency firm currently in pre-launchbeta, won the ‘demopit competition’ at the …(more)

Business Wire (press release)Secured Total Contract Value (STCV) is the contract dollar amount for theduration of the contracts for all SaaS contracts secured, including newlogo contracts, upsell, rental, as well as all renewals received by the endof the quarter. …(more)

TMC NetInteractive Intelligence’s solutions can be deployed via an on-premises orcommunications-as-a-service (CaaS) hosted model. Interactive Intelligenceis no stranger to recognition for its accomplishments. The company is amongSoftware Magazine’s 2010 …(more)

TMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor The overall managed security
services market, including customer premise equipment (CPE),Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)), and cloud services, isexpected to reach $17 billion by 2015, …(more)

of …TMC NetIn a press release, the company explained that the new SaaS (News - Alert)solution integrates infrastructure monitoring and ready-to-use ITIL-basedservice management capabilities in a single package. Based on the NimsoftMonitoring Solution or …(more)

Service …Business Wire (press release)The Gartner CRM SaaS vendor market guide provides a comprehensive list ofvendors that offer SaaS as a deployment option. In March, smartFOCUSunveiled its latest SaaS offering, codenamed Arjuna. Arjuna is a completerevision of smartFOCUS’s core …(more)

Designed to serve as the catalyst for innovation in the cloud computingarena, it is the first broad-scope, forward-looking cloud computinginitiative to be …(more)

Benzinga… today announced that The Triangle Group, a leading provider of qualityend-to-end supply chain logistics solutions, will deploy LogFire’s newWMS)”>Software as a Service (SaaS) warehouse management system (WMS) in twolocations. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)SAN DIEGO, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Service-now.com, the creator ofmodern software-as-a-service (SaaS) for IT management, today announced itis named a finalist in two categories at the prestigious Financial SectorTechnology (FST) Awards. …(more)

GigaOmThe product, called Nimbula Director, promises to give both serviceproviders and traditional organizations an Amazon EC2-likeinfrastructure-as-a-service experience within their own data centers oreven in hybrid environments. …(more)

TMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor Mountain Media, an e-commerce
solution provider and Maintenance Partner, a Software as a Service (SaaS(News - Alert)) company, announced they launched an integrated solution tomake Maintenance Partner’s Asset …(more)

By Jeffrey
SPI could be referred to as SPI which stands for Software as a Service. Wecan also say it is platform as a service which is one of the mostappropriate service model and considered to be one of the feature richplatforms. …(more)

BloombergMicrosoft needs more customers to ensure success for Azure, its cloudsoftware for enabling companies to build and provide software that can bedelivered as a service over the Internet. Microsoft Chief Executive OfficerSteve Ballmer and Toyota …(more)

ITProPortalIndustry association IEEE has launched an Initiative which proposes thedevelopment of a guide and standard for cloud computing. Speaking to thinq_the organisation’s chairman of all things cloudy David Bernstein explainedwhy common industry-wide …(more)

CRNThe move gives CA another weapon in the cloud computing and virtualizationarms race, one that will help it target federal clients. Base Technologies,a McLean, Va.-based IT player that has a growing list of federal,commercial and health-care …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Dell is putting its money where its mouth is when
it comes to cloud computing, spending bundles of cash to acquire companiesto give it an edge as Dell’s cloud computing strategy takes shape. Dell didnot respond to CRN’s …(more)

Network WorldBy Bernard Golden, CIO The spread of enthusiasm for cloud computing seems
unstoppable. Cloud computing — a term that was unknown prior to 2007 –has been named by Gartner as the number one priority for CIOs in 2011. Onecannot recall a technology …(more)

BaselineBy Andrew Greenway Government leaders today need to come to terms with
cloud computing as a growing aspect of the IT landscape. It will affect howagencies develop and manage IT strategies, control information and investin technology. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Gazaro’s Data-as-a-Service offerings include real-time pricing intelligenceand analytics allowing retailers and manufacturers to optimize pricing,increase sales, margins and customer loyalty. For consumers, Gazaro’sdeal-finding service saves time …(more)

Digital …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Kount Inc., an Idaho-based company that specializes in card-not-present(CNP) fraud prevention, and Vindicia, a leading provider of SaaS billingsolutions, have agreed to partner to provide world-class fraud mitigationservices and billing options to …(more)

By sourya
Missouri-based Savvis (formerly Savvis Communications Corporation)experienced a 45.3% increase in stock price between 31 December 2010 and 31March 2011, followed by Rackspace Hosting (36.4%) and Limelight Networks(23.2%).(more)

There are currently no widely accepted standards for cloud computinginfrastructure. As a result, each cloud provider tends to have its ownrequirements for VM packaging, management, provisioning, and billing. …(more)

As part of its leadership in advancing cloud computing technologies, IEEEStandards Association (IEEE-SA) has formed two new Working Groups (WGs)around IEEE P2301 and IEEE P2302. IEEE P2301 will provide profiles ofexisting and …(more)

IDG News ServiceWhen it comes to the decision whether to subscribe to asoftware-as-a-service (Saas) approach for certain IT functions, finance iswhere the buck should stop. Having data exist outside the organization canpose challenges to compliance, governance, …(more)

Forbes (blog)The US defense community is clearly taking the necessary steps towards therational use of cloud computing. A joint collaborative environment seems tobe a very important focus. by Kevin L. Jackson by Kevin L. Jackson by EricSavitz Currently, …(more)

eWeekTo the surprise of virtually no one who works in or follows the enterpriseIT world, a new survey reported that cloud computing services and systembuilding continue to become more prominent in both augmenting and replacingolder data center equipment. …(more)

Multitenancy Use Cases. Skip to end of metadata. Page restrictions apply;Added by Carly Bogen, last edited by … Multitenancy Use Cases. Labelsparameters …(more)

IT Jungleby Alex Woodie Pacific Timesheet, a provider of software as a service(SaaS)-based timesheet and attendance solutions, recently announced theavailability of a Web-based crew timesheet feature designed to be used byworkers in construction and field …(more)

Cloud computing is a significant trend with the potential to increase …Intel IT is developing a cloud computing strategy based on growing thecloud from …(more)

By Beth Schultz
AMAG’s IT needs are more efficiently and cost effectively served by publiccloud providers, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) andsoftware-as-a- service (SaaS), than by internal systems and applications.(more)

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Back from the SAAs. Pretty exhausted, thought I’m actually in better shapethan I am after most meetings. Don’t know how I feel about Sacramento, butthe meetings themselves were pretty good. Blogistically, I was reallybummed out not …(more)

PlatformTMC NetGluster is an open storage software platform that delivers scale-outstorage for public, private, and hybrid clouds. With more than 10000customers in Scandinavia City Network is a hosting provider in northernEurope.(more)

Brian Madden(Of course given Desktone’s multitenancy and security requirements, it’salso pretty clear why they offer VDI and not Terminal Server hosting. …(more)

InformationWeek IndiaNetmagic’s engineering team jointly collaborated with VMware and Cisco todevelop a high performance Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform thatmeets global standards and will allow organizations to leverage benefits ofusing a cloud environment …(more)

Hot …TMC NetApr 05, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — Gale Technologies, a providerof software solutions that power IT as a Service for the lab, data center,and cloud, announced that Network Products Guide, a technology research andadvisory guide, …(more)

I’ve deployed exchange 2010 sp1 in /hosted mode with multi-tenancy. One ofour customers have split domain so i want to change the AcceptedDomain forthat …(more)

iTWireBy Stuart Corner The IEEE - which now bills itself as “the world’s largest
professional association advancing technology for humanity” - is takingsteps to bring global standardisation to cloud computing with what it saysis “the first broad-scope, …(more)

ashdowngroup.comIT professionals are struggling to decide whether cloud computing is thetechnology for them, according to new research. A study by ICT servicesprovider 2e2 highlighted that over half (57 per cent) of businesses areundecided if cloud services are …(more)

OpenNebula.org is an open-source project aimed at building the industrystandard open source cloud computing tool to manage the complexity andheterogeneity …(more)

ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)Perceptive offers the DataLabs EDC solution, as well as other solutions inits eClinical Suite, as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, whichis entirely hosted, maintained and supported by Perceptive’squality-assured eClinical platform. …(more)

During his tenure with SYS-CON Media, he launched Cloud Computing Journal,Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CONMedia, …(more)

By Joshua M Brown
Media: Talking Cloud Computing Stocks on Yahoo. Joshua M Brown; April 4th,2011. I had a lot of fun at Yahoo’s new studio to tape their show Breakout.Matt and Jeff are great guys and know their stuff. Here we talk about CloudComputing …(more)

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)

PR-USA.net (press release)Riverside, CA, April 5, 2011 - Surado Solutions, the developer ofon-premise and cloud based Online CRM solutions, announced the deploymentof enterprise cloud computer services to deliver its International CloudSaaS Surado CRM Online initiatives. …(more)

SunHerald.comUltimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of unified, end-to-endhuman capital management (HCM) SaaS solutions for global businesses, willbe hosting a conference call on Tuesday, April 26 at 5:00 pm Eastern timeto discuss its financial …(more)

SolutionInsurance News Net (press release)iPartners’ Insurance Scorecard Business Intelligence solution is an easy touse SaaS solution designed specifically for the P&C industry. The suiteoffers a complete analytics solution including: performance managementdashboards and scorecards, …(more)

CRNNimsoft Unified Manager provides an intuitive and bi-directionalintegration between monitoring and service management and is availableeither on-demand (SaaS) or as an on-premise solution, said Chris O’Connell,director of product marketing for …(more)

TechCrunchOvertone, which has raised $20.5 million in funding, develops a SaaSapplications that allows companies to monitor social media platforms andanalyze customer sentiment, emerging issues, and topic trends. Overtone’splatform will be added to Kana’s …(more)

DigitalJournal.com (press release)”To date, our primary focus has been on building our cloud-based PriceIntelligence Platform into an infinitely scalable system for storing andanalyzing retail pricing. Going forward, we will be commercializingData-as-a-Service analytics and insights …(more)

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Network WorldXigo documents indicate that enterprises can expect an average of 5% to 20%recurring savings on their wireless bills using the free SaaS, whichprovides cost allocation, inventory management, reports, invoice datacapture and other services. …(more)

MSPmentorThe new offering, called Nimsoft Unified Manager, combines monitoring andservice management in a single SaaS solution. It’s based on software thatNimsoft quietly acquired in December 2010, according to Nimsoft Director ofProduct Marketing Chris …(more)

GlobesUpstream Commerce, which provides an automated competitive pricing andproduct analytics Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for online retailers hasraised $1.5 million from YL Ventures, a global venture capital firm.Upstream Commerce helps online retailers …(more)

cloud/SaaS …Marketwire (press release)CAMPBELL, CA–(Marketwire - April 5, 2011) - Market research firmInfonetics Research recently released its Managed Security Services andSaaS with Service Provider Scorecards report, which analyzes and forecaststhe market for SaaS, CPE-, …(more)

TMC NetLeveraging software as a service (SaaS (News - Alert)) model, the newreleases introduces new capabilities for transforming complex,multi-division planning, reporting and analysis in organizations — rangingfrom midsized companies and nonprofits to …(more)

RegisterPreviously, the appliances worked with backup software from Symantec(NetBackup and Backup Exec) and IBM (Tivoli), and it hooked into cloudstores services from Amazon (S3) and AT&T (Synaptic Storage as a Service).Now, it plugs into EMC NetWorker, …(more)

eChannelLineThe acquisition significantly expands KineticD’s portfolio of SaaS andsoftware offerings that can accelerate cloud backup and recovery solutions.Both Toronto-based KineticD and Atlanta-based ROBOBAK market themselves toSMBs, but notwithstanding this …(more)

SaaS …PR-USA.net (press release)Today, Duquesne University and Unimarket, the innovators in SaaScollaborative eProcurement, are excited to announce the signing of anagreement to implement eProcurement throughout the University. As one of 87private independent colleges in the state …(more)

InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek The venerable IEEE is wading into the
chaotic and roiled realm of cloud computing, seeking to set standardsthrough a cloud computing initiative launched Monday that will focus oncloud interoperability. …(more)

Wall Street JournalSteve Fisher, executive vice president of technology for Salesforce.comInc. (CRM), said regularly updating the core software behind its cloudcomputing applications frees customers to focus on applying innovationinside their buisness rather than …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)”Prime Time selected Zumasys because of the strength and cost-effectivenessof their cloud computing solution, as well as their solid experience andclear understanding of the agriculture industry,” says Raun Singleton, CFO,Prime Time International. …(more)

OStatic (blog)by Sam Dean - Apr. 05, 2011Comments (0) In the rapidly emerging cloudcomputing arena, providers of platforms and solutions tend to fall into twocamps. In the first camp, players such as Amazon and Microsoft pitch theircloud computing platforms as …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Founded in early 2010 by three young like-minded individuals, they had adream of being the fastest Cloud Computing platform in Australia. One yearand many sleepless nights later, they have done just that. Using acompletely custom software stack, …(more)

TMC NetThe Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) enabler’s success is largely due tothe revolutionary cloud capabilities of its flagship product, VxDatacenter,according to company officials. Hexagrid’s VxDatacenter platform is acomprehensive IaaS cloud …(more)

ServiceThe Viodi ViewHe said that Interactive Intelligence’s CaaS offerings for the contactcenter all deliver excellent security, choice and flexibility over a provenand reliable software platform. Jason told me there were several importantadvantages Interactive …(more)

Using a completely custom software stack, and an innovative architecturedesign, the OrionVM Cloud platform was recently benchmarked by cloud reviewwebsite Cloud Harmony as having the fastest network-backed storageperformance in the …(more)

ezRez Software, Inc. enables its partners to sell any combination of travelproducts including air, car, hotel, trip activities, packaging and travelinsurance to anyone, anywhere in the world. Its Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) platform …(more)

By Clearcode
It is tempting to believe that the development of the software as a servicemarket will result in anyone being able to innovate with web-basedapplications, the same way social media made it possible for anyone topublish and profit from … So, saying that with the emergence of Web 3.0,platform as a service and cloud computing anyone is ready to innovate is alittle premature. Looking at how these service providers evolve, it is fairto say that barriers to entry will …(more)

SearchCloudComputing.comIT shops may have an unlikely new suitor the next time they search for acloud computing relationship. Computer hardware maker Dell will attempt amajor renovation of both its image and product line to keep pace with thefast-moving cloud market, …(more)

the …TMC NetHexagrid delivers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computingsolutions that empower companies to build public or private cloudscustomized for their unique organizational structures, profitabilityobjectives, and policy requirements. …(more)

Dell Equinix and Rackspace have rigged up an OpenStack cloud demonstrationand test environment that theyll show off at Equinix data centers inSilicon …(more)

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MyCustomer.comSalesforce.com intends to integrate Intuit’s QuickBooks Online accountingapplications into its CRM Software-as-a-Service offering in a bid to targetthe small business market more effectively. Under the terms of the deal,Intuit will resell the …(more)

IDG News ServiceAMAG’s IT needs are more efficiently and cost effectively served by publiccloud providers, including infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) andsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS), than by internal systems and applications. Ifall goes according to plan, …(more)

in …Citybizlist (press release)WOBURN, Mass., - LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM), a provider of SaaS-based,remote-connectivity solutions, today announced that the United StatesDistrict Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted LogMeIn’smotion for summary judgment of non …(more)

IDG News Service”We’re talking about either pure software or packaged hardware and softwaresolutions that instantiate infrastructure as a service - meaning, when youturn the system on, you immediately can do some provisioning of virtualmachines, virtual disks and …(more)

UCStrategiesThere is kind of your software as a service model, there is private andpublic clouds. We are actively and aggressively working in all of thosedifferent areas. You will see some of these stood up by our businesspartners; a great example is Meetrix …(more)

ComputerworldEnterprise IT executives are starting to take advantage ofsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS), for example, to clear out their applicationbacklogs, Barnes says. “Instead of being the roadblock and having thebusiness upset with them, they’re looking at that …(more)

ComputerworldBMC Cloud Lifecycle Management, Cloud.com CloudStack, Microsoft Hyper-VCloud and VMware vCloud are software-based examples, Staten says. “They’reall pretty much first generation and are still maturing, but they’re allvery capable,” he adds. …(more)

TechEyeMega-corporation Microsoft is attempting to persuade the world and itscanine friend to accept its view of cloud computing. And today it claimedthat cloud computing is changing the manufacturing industry, based on asurvey of 152 business and IT …(more)

V3.co.ukby David Neal IT professional association and standards group, the IEEE,has started a cloud computing initiative that it expects to be a “catalystfor innovation” in the area. According to the group it is its backing, as aglobal standards …(more)

Experian QAS Data Quality News (UK)Cloud computing on hosted systems will have a role to play in thegovernment’s new ICT strategy. Plans have been announced by Minister forthe Cabinet Office Francis Maude, who revealed a cloud computing schemewith implementation plans is to be …(more)

IDG News ServiceSeventy one percent of businesses are concerned about managing cloudcomputing, according to a survey. The companies are worried about thepotential complexity of controlling a software as a service setup, thesurvey found. Additionally, over half of …(more)

ComputerworldBy Beth Schultz Network World - As cloud computing moves from hype to
reality, certain broad trends and best practices are emerging when it comesto the public cloud vs. private cloud deployment debate. Anecdotally andfrom surveys, it’s becoming clear …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)I’m returning to the US this week after spending the past 14 months inAsia, observing Cloud Computing and the nations of the world from thisvantage point. I’m pessimistic, and this view comes after a long life of(potentially deluded) optimism. …(more)

The NationThe other will specialise in providing software-as-a-service via cloudcomputing to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Globe Tech will bea provider of digital content, such as online maps, aerial photographs andsatellite images as well as …(more)

by …SYS-CON Media (press release)STUDIO CITY, CA — (Marketwire) — 04/04/11 — iQuote Xpress, a leadingprovider of on-demand configuration and quoting software as a service(SaaS), announced today that it has been selected by International BrandsDesign Trackpoint division to …(more)

MarketWatchHe noted that while Flo TV did not pan out as a service, the companydeveloped some new technology as a part of the offering that improves theefficiency of moving data to devices and can incorporate that into futureproducts. …(more)

ZDNet (blog)On the Intuit business model: The company will increasingly work off of asoftware as a service model going forward. And mobile will increasinglyrepresent a growth market. Intuit started on the desktop, but now 60percent of its customers are online …(more)

RFPConnect.comintY, a broad based SaaS vendor, has become the latest company to join theCloud Industry Forum (CIF), established to promote trust, security andtransparency within the sector. intY delivers solutions both directly andindirectly to service providers …(more)

SaaS …PR.com (press release)Annapolis, MD, April 04, 2011 –(PR.com)– Today, Duquesne University andUnimarket, the innovators in SaaS collaborative eProcurement, are excitedto announce the signing of an agreement to implement eProcurementthroughout the University. …(more)

RFPConnect.comThe deal involves implementation of multiple Ebix services working in anon-demand SaaS basis, namely EbixEnterprise, LuminX and Ebix CRM interfacedwith each other to provide a turnkey end-to-end solution. Ebix’s enterprisesolution will replace four …(more)

We are preparing to setup a multi tenancy SharePoint 2010 farm. Thru theuse of feature packs you can define which site collection has access towhich …(more)

Dell, Equinix and Rackspace have rigged up an OpenStack cloud demonstrationand test environment that they’ll show off at Equinix’ data centers inSilicon Valley and Virginia and Rackspace’s data center in Chicago. …(more)

Business Wire (press release)… today unveiled its new high-performance payment processing platform,Payment WorkSuite SM . With its extensible design, administrative controlsand multiple layers of security, this advanced Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)technology aims to transform …(more)

GlobeNewsWire (press release)PORTLAND, Ore., April 4, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lecere Corporation (PinkSheets:LCRE), a Software-as-a-Service development company, announced todaythat it achieved revenue of $1333.38 in January, 2011, $1736.91 inFebruary, 2011, and $1943.58 in …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)As a program member, Savtira Corporation will contribute its Carrier-Class”Entertainment Distribution Network” (EDN) to stream all digital media fromthe cloud to any device and its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) e-commerceplatform. …(more)

fundamentally …DMN Newswire (press release)”Adaptive Planning continues to leverage the SaaS model to deliverinnovative solutions in the BPM space,” said Craig Schiff, CEO of BPMPartners, an industry analyst firm. “These solutions are attractivealternatives to improve planning, reporting, …(more)

Assisted …Marketwire (press release)The software-as-a-service (SaaS) application is intuitive, easy-to-use andaccessible from any web-enabled platform, giving care providers anefficient, cost-effective solution for menu planning, nutrition and mealtracking, and resident data …(more)

Physicians implementing electronic health records should consider cloudcomputing as a way to improve security, says healthcare IT consultantPatricia …(more)

SYS-CON MediaOne of the Design Patterns of the Multi tenancy is Shared Nothingarchitecture. … Multi tenancy expects to avoid upfront costs for thetenants, …(more)

I have enabled multi-tenancy in my installation. … Re: Multitenancy Inofbiz. You will need two difference sites and each site having its ownstore and …(more)

15 Min on Multitenancy. Creative Commons License … which raisedinteresting question on what should be the right approach to multi-tenancy….(more)

Launching …DigitalJournal.com (press release)Payscape Advisors, a nationwide provider of electronic transactionprocessing services, announced today that they have entered into a longterm partnership with BillingOrchard.com. Payscape Advisors will provideBillingOrchard with comprehensive front …(more)

Huffington Post (blog)Software is moving to the cloud and so is school. Cloud-based computingmakes applications available anywhere, anytime, across multiple devices.Software-as-a-service allows us to tailor what we use and how much we buy– take your pick of five …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)SearchAmerica, a part of Experian, offers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)products and services to more than 500 hospitals nationwide and is theindustry leader in financially clearing patients through its addressverification, prediction of payment, …(more)

Part 2 of the blog series on multitenancy This blog is about the executiondetails of implementing multitenancy You can read the first part here …(more)

rPath X6 now supports OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage) and vCloudDirector. This clearly makes rPath attractive for enterprises with theexpected …(more)

A Look at Practical Platform-as-a-Service Architecture for Java and PHPApps … Craig has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and…(more)

Customer …PR Newswire (press release)The Workday Integration Cloud Platform is a comprehensive integrationplatform-as-a-service (iPaaS) on which Workday customers and partners canbuild complex, custom integrations to and from Workday and deploy andmanage them in the Workday Cloud. …(more)

ITWeb (blog)The hardest and costly part of working with software-as-a-service (SaaS) isoften the integration required to plug into on-premise applications andthird-party services, says Information Week. Workday, the SaaS-based ERPsystem provider, says that it’s …(more)

PCWorldThe companies are worried about the potential complexity of controlling asoftware as a service setup, the survey found. Additionally, over half ofIT directors said they feared they would lose control of infrastructure ifthey shifted systems to the …(more)

SummitDirectionsMag.com (press release)George Hamilton’s research focuses on cloud computing, including serviceorchestration and software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service andplatform-as-a-service offerings. Before joining Yankee Group, he served asDirector of Product Marketing …(more)

EETimes.comThe IEEE is kicking off two efforts to ease the take off of cloudcomputing, a design guide and a standard for interoperable cloud services.The work marks the first time a formal standards organization has come togrips with issues in cloud services, …(more)

ITProPortalCloud computing is transforming the manufacturing industry value chain asmanufacturers begin to realise the benefits of cloud based computing,Microsoft has claimed. According to the Microsoft Discrete ManufacturingCloud Computing Survey 2011, …(more)

Daily News PulseBy Alex Warne on April 4, 2011, 12:13 pm Cloud computing is used to
describe applications and services hosted and run on servers connected tothe Internet that end users do not have to maintain or support. Forexample, Chyron offers broadcasters its …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeMost agree that cloud computing is an evolutionary technology conceptrather than revolutionary. Cloud computing’s predecessors include both gridcomputing and utility computing and perhaps SaaS to a certain degree. Allare necessary parts or …(more)

Enterprise Communications EuropeAs companies jostle to establish themselves in the forefront of the rapidlyexpanding cloud computing market, acquisitions seem to be happening on anear daily basis. Cisco keeps with the trend by announcing it has boughtthe privately-held company, …(more)

By Seth Eliot
How Cloud Computing Changes the Way We Produce Software. by Seth EliotCreating services in the cloud enables new capabilities and features toimprove your product and empower your team. But the cloud also introduceschallenges as to …(more)

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) …(more)

An Interview with Uri Cohen - GigaSpaces product manager on Multiteancy inSaaS and PaaS application and GigaSpaces approach to multitenancy.(more)

AuctionbytesMonsoon offers software that sellers download and install, plus a SellerHub hosted software option; Fillz has several Software as a Service (SAAS)packages. Is it harder to sell books online than, say, collectibles orclothing? For the most part, …(more)

InvestmentNewsIt is available either as a software-as-a-service deployment or as anon-premises module within FaceTime’s Unified Security Gateway product.Socialite is marketed as a comprehensive solution for both moderating andarchiving social networks. …(more)

ZDNet UK… you will be working within the Human Resource Management function ofour prestigious Consulting client, you will work on implementations oftheieir market leading ’software as a service’ propositions for largeglobal clients. …(more)

PR-USA.net (press release)Flexera Software, one of the world’s leading providers of application andsoftware solutions, have announced their attendance at the 3rd CloudComputing World Forum, taking place on the 21st and 22nd June at Olympia,London. …(more)

SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world’s leading i-technology media company onbreaking technology news.(more)

BriefDABCC.comA private—cloud computing environment comprised of virtual machinesenables Greater responsiveness as well as improved resource utilization.Servers and desktops can now be delivered in minutes and resourcesdynamically allocated and reallocated to …(more)

Software as a service (SaaS) made it easier and cheaper to use computersespecially … pesky: RT @OhioSmartSchool: For NewTech, a digital platformmeans …(more)

By Kevin Remde
This is a blog of Microsoft Software, technology, and IT Pro-related news,musings, and rants by Kevin Remde, IT Pro Evangelist - Microsoft.(more)

Tom’s Hardware GuideWhile cloud computing through something like Chrome OS helps take care ofthat for casual applications, until everything is cloud-based users willneed to take care of things for themselves. According to winrumors, a newfeature that might make it into …(more)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

“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)

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)

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)

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)

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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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)

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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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)