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with …PR Newswire (press release)Technologies such as cloud computing may also require repeatedauthentication throughout the work day. Broadcom’s secure SoCs ease the useof cloud computing applications by eliminating the need for repeated log inand authentication through …(more)

IrishExaminer.comBy Niamh Hennessy IRELAND’S bid to become a global software hub received a
massive boost with news that Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) is to offerthe world’s first degree in cloud computing. The move is expected toincrease the country’s profile …(more)

The European Commission is seeking views from citizens, businesses, publicadministrations and other interested parties on how to fully benefit from’cloud computing’. Cloud computing enables.(more)

Servers …Marketwire (press release)This enclosure integrates blade switches for the fabric interconnection,memory and required storage interfaces for Cloud Computing and Storageapplications. Caswell is demonstrating this appliance in Cavium’s suite theGrand Hyatt hotel during …(more)

BizReportA new offering from SaaS provider Emailvision may help marketers bridge thegap in social and mobile advertising efforts. Called Campaign Commander,the suite of products was created to increase message relevance andsubscriber engagement; …(more)

for …PRWireCombining CA 3Tera Applogic virtual fabric, Cloud in a Box is used intandem with Digicor’s hardware solutions to deliver IaaS, Paas and SaaS allin a single environment for no more than $45000 (as at 31 May 2011)*. TheCA 3Tera AppLogic cloud …(more)

CIO AustraliaCloud computing definitions may vary greatly, but according to WestpacBanking Group’s head of engineering, it exists merely for the delivery ofapplications. Michael Gindy considers the Cloud as a whole-of-business toolto deliver applications to a …(more)

DelimiterGerman software giant SAP doesn’t appear to have placed a big emphasis onselling its applications in Australia over the past few years under the newstyle of software-as-a-service or cloud computing model. But all that mightbe about to change, …(more)

iT NewsBy Brett Winterford on May 31, 2011 3:10 PM (14 minutes ago) The Australian
Government is ready to adopt cloud computing services for a wide variety ofagency applications, according to its foremost IT policy-maker GlennArcher, but some maturity is …(more)

iT NewsVentura, stressing that it was his personal opinion and not necessarily thecorporate position of his employer, said he was grateful for the clarityAPRA’s November 2010 open letter on cloud computing to the banking andfinance sector provided. …(more)

CRN AustraliaLaunched today at the CeBIT 2011 technology show in Sydney, Cloud-in-a-Boxcombines CA 3Tera Applogic virtual fabric with Digicor’s server and storageofferings to allow the deployment of infrastructure as a service, platformas a service and software …(more)

BenzingaThe company’s software as a service platform allows businesses to rapidlyenhance and improve their communications, while simultaneously reducingtheir costs. Today - with all the choices of how to communicate - from theweb, to email, …(more)

IT PRO (blog)So the European Commission is consulting with the great unwashed about thebenefits of cloud computing. Better late than never I guess, perhaps Ishould be happy that that EC has actually heard of the cloud at all.Apparently it will be ’seeking views’ …(more)

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Heroku is the leading open platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease ofuse, automation, and reliability. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA,Heroku is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloudarchitecture. …(more)

Register”PaaS” (platform as a service) does the same thing for the operatingsystems and software tools you were using. The next logical step, “AaaS”(applications as a service) didn’t hit quite the right note when pronouncedas a word, so they dubbed it …(more)

Process …PR Newswire (press release)Heroku is the leading open platform as a service (PaaS) focused on ease ofuse, automation, and reliability. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA,Heroku is a passionate and active supporter of Ruby technologies and cloudarchitecture. …(more)

PR Web (press release)CORESense (http://www.coresense.com) the leading SaaS(Software-as-a-Service) provider of end-to-end eCommerce and retailsoftware solutions announced they are partnering with Social Candy toprovide CORESense’s clients the ability to quickly and …(more)

SystemSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)Ironflow Technologies Inc. launches their new product, “Time-Off Manager”,an online software-as-a-service (SaaS) that enables companies to managetheir employees’ leave and absence. Ironflow Technologies Inc. wants tomake everyone’s job easier. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The company has one of the broadest cloud product offerings for businessesin the world, covering hosted software applications(software-as-a-service), virtualized infrastructure(infrastructure-as-a-service) and unified communications solutions as …(more)

Business Wire (press release)… the company’s Software as a Service revenue serving product for largepublishers. With the recent launch of the new OpenX Enterprise platform,OpenX offered the online advertising market the first true total revenueserving platform. …(more)

Software as a Service The Hostess with the Mostest by Kelty Wallace …were provided with software based on a generic platform written by the SaaSprovider …(more)

Colleges …Marketwire (press release)The Software-as-a-Service solution includes group management tools, aprofessional networking platform, student and alumni databases, job andinternship management, usage tracking, and integration with AfterCollege’spatented process of connecting …(more)

TMC NetBy Calvin Azuri Emailvision, a provider of software as a service (SaaS
(News - Alert)) for email marketing, announces the launch of CampaignCommander Email and Mobile Edition 7.5. The Campaign Commander has beendeveloped to provide full support for …(more)

FailProof is a startup Infrastructure as a ServiceIaaS provider delivering… business with IaaS Platform as a ServicePaaS or Software as aServiceSaaSNews …(more)

Network WorldBut growing SaaS adoption also means that companies are increasinglycomfortable with heterogeneous application environments, so supplierrationalization is not seen as so critical anymore,” Kisker wrote.Thirty-four percent of respondents considered …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Justin Lee, May 31, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Apple
(www.apple.com) confirmed on Tuesday that it will announce details nextMonday for its upcoming iCloud services offering at its annual WorldwideDevelopers Conference. …(more)

IBNLive.comManoj Chugh, President, EMC India and SAARC, said: “While Cloud Computingis a huge buzzword in technology, adoption is taking its time as CIOs areseeking the reassurance that cloud computing infrastructures are reliable,scalable, and secure. …(more)

Before the adoption of mainstream enterprise SaaS large enterprises inmultiple verticals have worked together and established standards forexposing …(more)

Broker-DealerTMC Net”This case study affirms our financial services market leadership andability of our SaaS (News - Alert) Secure Messaging solution to provideeverything a broker-dealer needs to manage messaging in a secure,compliant, comprehensive and cost-efficient …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Examples of repetitive business process that can be leveraged by majorindustry verticals are listed below; this list is not exhaustive but givesan idea why the enterprises consider SaaS as important part of their goalin reducing the CAPEX and OPEX …(more)

basics?ZDNet (blog)By Larry Dignan | May 31, 2011, 11:37am PDT Apple CEO Steve Jobs will
launch its iCloud service in a move to move to bring its iTunes juggernautinto the cloud computing era. The company will clearly have the contentlined up, but the information …(more)

InfoWorldBy Paul Krill | InfoWorld Cloud computing enables companies to off-load
infrastructure and application maintenance to providers, reducinglicensing, overhead, and capital investment costs. One obvious result isthat cloud service providers end up …(more)

among …TMC NetIn this regard, cloud computing has emerged as a significant technologytrend capable of revolutionizing information technology processes and theIT marketplace. Expected growth of cloud computing services has been placedat approximately $42 billion …(more)

GoverningProblems in April with Amazon’s cloud computing platform sparked mediaquestions about cloud computing’s readiness for prime time. The wellpublicized incident on April 21 brought down a number of websites,including news aggregator Reddit and Q&A site …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Caught between the iPad and the Mac Air, Intel has responded with theUltrabook, a thinny-thin clamshell laptop design with tabletcharacteristics like a touchscreen, solid-state memory, long standbybattery life and instant-on that’s meant to sell at …(more)

WayGeek WIth LaptopThe Chrome OS is part of a new technological wave called cloud computing.In this system, the computer that a person uses to access a service becomesirrelevant, because all the storing and data processing takes place on aserver sometimes located …(more)

InfoWorldThe OpenStack project, a ubiquitous open source cloud computing platformfor public and private clouds, has been gaining traction with organizationsthese past few months, while also nabbing a fair amount of media attention….(more)

Wall Street JournalAmazon Inc.’s Web-based services, often listed as a model forinfrastructure-as-a-service offerings, suffered from a technical glitchlast month that caused several websites and Internet services to crash orhave limited availability for days. …(more)

ReadWriteWebBy Klint Finley / May 31, 2011 3:00 PM / 0 Comments VMware announced today
that it will acquire Socialcast, an enterprise microblogging and socialnetwork software-as-a-service. The move expands VMware’ssoftware-as-a-service portfolio, …(more)

Washington TechnologyLabor officials published a Request for Information at the Federal BusinessOpportunities website on May 26, asking about the availability andcapabilities of software-as-a-service e-mail solutions in the marketplace.To be considered, the solutions …(more)

TVNZIBM is planning to capitalise on the global interest in cloud computingthrough a state-of-the-art data centre in Auckland. IBM’s Greg Farmer toldTVNZ the $80 million investment is the largest the tech giant has made inNew Zealand in the past 20 …(more)

iTWireBy Stuart Corner Ubiquisys - a developer of femtocells and small cellular
base stations - has teamed up with Intel to develop small LTE base stationsthat will incorporate Intel chips to provide processing power for userapplications and services. …(more)

IrishExaminer.comCloud computing firm Marketo has begun recruiting for staff in sales,marketing, support, consulting, development and back-office positions. Thecompany, which grew sales by more than 300% last year, sells web tools forsalespeople and marketers. …(more)

Server WatchProject Olympus is the Citrix distribution of the OpenStack platform.OpenStack began as a joint effort of Rackspace and NASA in July of 2010.The effort has since expanded to over 60 industry partners including Citrix(NASDAQ:CTXS), Dell and Cisco. …(more)

By Claire Rogers
Superstructure is moving to a “software as a service” model, which will seecustomers subscribe to access its software over the web rather than hostthe software internally. That move will lower the cost of support and allow…(more)

Citrix formally announces the name and direction of their OpenStack opensource cloud virtualization stack initiative. Read more at internetnews.com.(more)

We recommend starting at the top, by providing SaaS. SaaS is relativelystraightforward to get up and running on AppLogic if you choose the rightsoftware. …(more)

Network WorldA few years ago, the Salesforce CRM solution was one of a small number ofenterprise applications that companies were just beginning to acquire froma software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider. There is no doubt that ITorganizations are increasingly using …(more)

ITWeb (blog)Already recognised as a provider of infrastructure as a service from itsAfrica-leading data centres, Business Connexion has announced a newrelationship, which sees it growing its presence in the software as aservice environment. …(more)

Hello, I have a project that was created using the Oracle DB andMulti-Tenancy. I exported the project, re-installed 6.25 Beta and thenimported the project …(more)

ReutersSEOUL, May 30 (Reuters) - KT Corp , South Korea’s second-biggest mobileoperator, said on Monday that it had agreed with Japan’s Softbank Corp toset up a cloud computing joint venture worth $65 million. KT will hold a 51percent stake and Softbank the …(more)

3 …FinFacts IrelandBy Michael Hennigan, Founder and Editor of Finfacts A US cloud computing
marketing firm Marketo is to create 125 jobs in Dublin over the next 3years and IDA Ireland has termed today’s announcement a “great win.”Technology company hype suggests that …(more)

to …Gamut NewsAs disclosed on May 24, 2011, the existing platform has effectively maxedout at a cap of 16.1 Million users and Ortsbo is compelled to acceleratethe initial launch of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Platform plannedfor mid June. …(more)

Computer Business ReviewWDaaS will offer a pre-configured appliance (hardware, software andservices) that can be managed remotely by Wipro. In addition, forenterprises seeking a hosted or cloud offering, Wipro delivers desktops andapplications as a service from a dedicated …(more)

Computer Business ReviewCA Technologies and Verizon have collaborated to enable CA Technologies tooffer its IT management software through Verizon’s cloud offering,Computing as a Service (CaaS). Under the collaboration, CA Technologieswill host its Clarity PPM, …(more)

Philadelphia InquirerAirClic Inc., a Trevose provider of software for mobile supply chain andlogistics operations, has appointed Daniel Corwin senior vice president ofsales and Matthew Foroughi as vice president of software as a serviceoperations. …(more)

emerging …AME InfoTopping the list are HR and talent in emerging markets such as the MiddleEast region, workforce analytics and HR technology in the cloud,particularly software as a solution (SaaS). “One thing is for certain, weanticipate a series of HR trends will …(more)

RTE.ieMARKETO UPBEAT ON IRELAND’S CLOUD COMPUTING CAPABILITIES - Despite thepressure from Europe to raise our corporate tax rate, another SiliconValley company seems happy to start employing here. IT firm Marketo is tocreate 125 jobs in Dublin over the …(more)

Small Business TrendsMany software applications covering a multitude of different businessfunctions are available allowing you to simplify your operations reducingtime and cost. PR Web Google offers new software platform for business. Inan attempt to enter into the …(more)

In the survey, we defined cloud computing as a “model for enablingconvenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computingresources (e.g., …(more)

The future of cloud computing and which companies stand to gain or losefrom this technology, with Larry Haverty, Gabelli Global Multimedia TrustFund; …(more)

RediffApara Mehta, who became popularas Savita, the tyrannical mother-in-law inEkta Kapoor’s iconic show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahi Thi is back with a newshow. In Hamari Saas Leela, that’ll be aired today at 7 PM on Colors, theactress plays a …(more)

TMC NetMay 30, 2011 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) — 8×8, Inc., a provider of businesscommunications and cloud computing solutions, has upgraded its contractwith World Telecom Group, or WTG, to offer 8×8 cloud-based VoIP and UnifiedCommunications services to …(more)

In my one of my previous posts (GigaSpaces OpenStack Explained) I made areference to the joint work that we are doing with Citrix through theintegration …(more)

VAdvert Press Center (press release)CDW LLC, a leading provider of technology products and services tobusiness, government, education and healthcare, today announced the resultsof its first Cloud Computing Tracking Poll, an assessment of current andfuture cloud computing use in …(more)

Times of IndiaHurd’s successor, Leo Apotheker, said this month that he inherited acompany ill-equipped to win business from companies that want to switch tocloud computing. AMD board members ousted CEO Dirk Meyer in January amidfrustration with the company’s lack …(more)

Not receiving up as well most space upon your internet computer, VCloud;might additionally be archived as well as stored that enables users to savevoice …(more)

Re: Possible to get events from vCloud director? Since the vCloud API 1.0does not provide this. vCloud Java SDK 1.0 also does not. Regards,. RajeshKamal. …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: Cloud computing provides many advantages with which it is
difficult to argue and, to a great extent, SMBs are listening. However,these businesses, which often lack the IT and telecommunications expertiseof enterprises, are not ready to move …(more)

Linking …PR Newswire UK (press release)In addition to this offer, SMEs can also take advantage of all the featuresof Risc Group’s Digital Confidence platform in SaaS mode, based on the STSGroup software suite (probative value archiving solutions for digitalobjects or documents, …(more)

The AustralianSAP Australia is finally one step closer to launching ByDesign, itssoftware-as-a-service product that was unveiled in 2007. Asia-Pacific chiefSteve Watts said ByDesign would hit the local market in the third quarter.He declined to provide specific …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)NetQin was one of the first companies to recognize the growing securitythreats targeting smartphone users and is now a leadingSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider, serving both greater China andglobal clients. The company focuses on serving clients …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeThe $65 million joint venture is designed to offer cloud computingservices, with an emphasis on disaster recovery services for Japanesefirms. KT Corp. will own 51 percent of the joint venture, with Softbankowning the rest, the companies said. …(more)

ReutersThe series D round brings total investment in OpenX to $50 million, asinvestors bet the software-as-a-service platform will win a big chunk of astill relatively undeveloped online ad market. “DoubleClick has beendominant for so long. …(more)

Barron’sMorgan Stanley’s technology equity-research team offered something that youcould take with you on your Nook, Kindle or iPad, and that you definitelywouldn’t want to carry around in printed form: a 104-page research reporton cloud computing. …(more)

San Jose Mercury NewsIn Japan, the automaker said it has teamed up with San Franciscosoftware-as-a-service pioneer Salesforce and Redmond, Wash., techmegabehemoth Microsoft to set up a social network for Toyota owners. Forexample, owners of a plug-in Prius hybrid could …(more)

TheServerSide.comApparently, there is a growing need for a “cloud-based integration platformas a service (iPaaS)” and MuleSoft is filling that void, providing aproduct that “offers the simplest way for SaaS providers and integrators toon-board new customers, …(more)

San Bernardino SunSAN BERNARDINO - The several tech firms offering “cloud computing” servicesmeans business owners face a new choice: store data on a third-partyservers or invest in one’s own hardware and employees who know how to useit. …(more)

Times of IndiaInnovative entrepreneurs have used the situation to create a marketplace tooffer ‘employees as a service’ or EaaS - reminiscent of SaaS (software as aservice) that became popular, thanks to its promise of lower operatingcosts because the users paid …(more)

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Reference > Availity Selects SAVVIS IT Infrastructure Services to SupportGlobal Software as a Service Transaction Processing Model : Leader inHealthcare Information Exchange Deploys Hosting, Network, and ManagedSecurity Services Underpinning More Than One Million Transactions Per …With an IT services platform spanning North America, Europe, and Asia,SAVVIS is an industry leader in delivering secure, reliable, and scalablehosting, network, and application services. …(more)

ComputingForbes (blog)Starting this week, we’ll be kicking off an on-going series of interviewswith the people behind the technologies in Cloud Computing and SocialBusiness. The interviews should provide insightful points of view from acustomer, industry, …(more)

Middle East Events (press release)Located at Stand J9, ADNEC, Abu Dhabi, CA Technologies will be presentingon the risks of cloud computing. Other focus areas include the Arcotsolution for fraud prevention and advanced authentication and other keysolutions that are critical for the …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)(Note: Normally I write about Cloud Computing. But I wanted to pause for asecond; will return to the Cloud tomorrow!) Memorial Day is my favoriteholiday. There’s a solemnity to it. No fireworks, no presents, noredemption. There is a barbecue and the …(more)

3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo Call For Papers andSponsorship Opportunities Now Open! June 23-24, 2008 New York City.(more)

CA Technologies will focus on sharing their latest innovations andsolutions to the financial sector at MEFTEC 2011, May 30-31. Located atStand J9, ADNEC, Abu Dhabi, CA Technologies will be…(more)

GigaOm29, 2011, 11:00am PT No Comments After years of hype, the IT industryfinally had a rude awakening this spring, reminding us that cloud computinginfrastructures are vulnerable to the same genetic IT flaw that plaguestraditional data center …(more)

But of course, there’s more to multitenancy than meets the eye. There areactually different degrees of ….. Cloud Multi-tenancy Includes NetworkBandwidth …(more)

Invest in Cote d’Azur NewsletterThe majority of CIOs interviewed identified decision analysis, mobility andcloud computing as the main innovation projects supporting their company’sgrowth and competitiveness. This trend applies both in France and globally….(more)

Citrix announced this week its OpenStack-based cloud platform including aCitrix-certified version of OpenStack and a cloud optimized version ofXenSe.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Sounding like a guy starting to flex his activist shareholder muscles,Greenlight Capital chief David Einhorn, who made his bones shorting anunder-capitalized, over-exposed Lehman months before its collapse, told aninvestment conference Wednesday …(more)

GISuser.com (press release)In addition to operating theGISmarketplace.com, Skygone’s depth andexperience with geospatial technology, cloud computing,software-as-a-service (SaaS), virtualization, green technologies and datacenter consolidation services has made Skygone a go-to …(more)

ZDNet (blog)You can’t isolate your business from the cloud, you have to co-exist withit Since 1998, Phil Wainewright has been a thought leader in cloudcomputing as a blogger, analyst and consultant. He founded pioneeringwebsite ASPnews.com, and later Loosely …(more)

The HLibcloud arrived in the Apache Incubator in November 2009 with an initialfocus on cloud computing functionality and is currently developing supportfor cloud storage and load-balancing. To move out of the Incubator, aproject has to show that it has …(more)

TMC NetBy Madhubanti Rudra Communication Intelligence (News - Alert) Corporation
(CIC), a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions and therecognized leader in biometric signature verification, has promoted SaaSexpert, Robert H. Williams, …(more)

As if the number of players leveraging open source tools for cloudcomputing wasn’t getting diverse enough, Citrix has announced a new,commercial cloud …(more)

Software execs say software as a service has more domains to conquer, willgradually … 3It is inevitable that deep vertical fullsuitesoftwareasaservice …(more)

InfoWorld (blog)Cloud services brought in about $3 billion in 2010 from its three maincomponents: infrastructure (IaaS), platform (PaaS), and software (SaaS)offerings. In IaaS, Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) made about $500million in 2010, and Rackspace …(more)

NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire - 05/24/11) - Senda, a leading provider ofsustainable mobility software and 3scale, a leading platform in APIManagement SaaS for …(more)

F5’s Silva Discusses the Issues of Multitenancy for Enterprise Information… that combines virtualization and multi-tenancy capabilities to helpcustomers …(more)

Learn about Cisco, NetApp and VMware’s new Secure Multi-Tenancy featuresand how they can be applied to external cloud environments.(more)

There’s been a lot of discussion about multi-tenancy since the arrival ofcloud computing. Multi-tenancy is the act of hosting multiple non-relatedresource …(more)

OpenStack has grown amazingly and picked up serious corporate support inits first year. Understanding how helps to explain why the initiative haslegs and …(more)

GigaOm From open source software such as OpenStack to projects such as Libcloud tojust multi-language support on PaaS platforms, we’re at least at a placewhere cloud users can be confident their applications can be moved fromcloud to cloud, if need be, …(more)

By Jason Hiner
The two hottest topics in technology in 2011 are mobile and the cloud. We’dlike to get a real world perspective on which one is the bigger inno.(more)

PCWorldBut perhaps more disturbingly, even those who have heard of cloud computinglargely don’t get it, according to Newtek’s study. Of those who werefamiliar with the concept of cloud computing, only one could actuallydescribe what it means. …(more)

InformationWeekMore than 45% of US government IT officials don’t think cloud computingwill save their agencies enough money to make it worthwhile, an Ovum reportfinds. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek Despite insistence from USCIO Vivek Kundra that the …(more)

OStatic (blog)26, 2011Comments (0) As if the number of players leveraging open sourcetools for cloud computing wasn’t getting diverse enough, Citrix hasannounced a new, commercial cloud platform called Project Olympus, which isbased on OpenStack. …(more)

Hopefully quick question regarding filer management in a multi tenancyscenario. We may be looking to migrate from an EMC Celerra to a Netappfiler. i’ve …(more)

PRWireAccording to David Marshall, Managing Director of PerformanceCentre, thenew version represents a breakthrough for the company and for it’scustomers in terms of world leading functionality and usability. Some ofthe key new features to be announced …(more)

Apple’s cloudbased music service has been a rumor for sometime now Howeverbased on some recent reports the service could be launching as soon as nextmonth …(more)

Business Solutions Magazine6fusion, the leading provider of 100% channel focused Infrastructure as aService (IaaS) platforms and services announced today the formal release ofintegration between their UC6 Cloud Management Platform and the Autotaskcloud-based IT Business …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Dan Kusnetzky | May 27, 2011, 3:11am PDT Most companies don’t have
either the necessary tools nor the skills to address data loss orinformation security in cloud computing environments. Kroll Ontrack thinksit has the tools and skills to help. …(more)

CyberCoders is hiring! View and apply for the Software Engineer - .NET - C#- Leading SaaS Solutions Company Job at CyberCoders in Boston, MA.(more)

ZDNet UK (blog)Project Olympus, an infrastructure platform engineered by Citrix, blendsthe OpenStack cloud framework with a cloud-tweaked version of CitrixXenServer. Announced on Wednesday at Citrix Synergy, Project Olympus willbe useful for public cloud providers …(more)

Campaign …PR Newswire UK (press release)Emailvision, the world leader in software as a service (SaaS) for emailmarketing, announces the launch of Campaign Commander Email and MobileEdition 7.5. The latest version of Emailvision’s flagship productintroduces significant new product …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Ironic in that Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has put forward the mostforward-looking government Cloud strategy on the planet, and the NISTcontinues to set the global standard for clarifying what Cloud Computing isall about. The US government has a golden …(more)

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanetBy Paul Rubens May 27, 2011 Traditional security software vendors are
encountering a serious challenge from a new breed of companies likeZscaler, which offer security as a service, delivered exclusively from thecloud. In response many of the best …(more)

RFPConnect.comServing as a bridge between the business and technical communities, theSaaS Enterprise Solution Architect speaks each group’s language andunderstands each group’s priorities. You will be the foremost expert on theSaaS solution and serve as an …(more)

InformationWeek (blog)Mark Symonds, president and CEO of Plex Systems, is representative of notjust software as a service but how SaaS can rapidly expand its reach. Weare used to thinking of software as a service as a NetSuite accountingsystem or a Salesforce.com CRM …(more)

The good news is multitenancy is one of the key enablers of the PublicCloud value proposition But of ….. Cloud Multitenancy Includes NetworkBandwidth …(more)

InformationWeekSaaS management software is closing the gap with new services able tomanage systems in multiple clouds alongside internal VMs. By Kurt MarkoInformationWeek A frustrating reality when renting cloud-based servers(IaaS) is that, while the cloud makes …(more)

ZDNet (blog)Citrix this week launched its major cloud infrastructure initiative, onebased on OpenStack. At its annual conference known as Synergy, Citrixannounced Project Olympus, which consists of a Citrix-certified version ofOpenStack and a cloud-optimized …(more)

Verizon’s hosted software delivery option will serve as a complement to CA… as a ServiceIaaS so it is a computing based platform and CA has chosento …(more)

ZDNet UKCloud Gateway sits at the ‘front door’ of enterprise datacentres andorganises the delivery of software-as-a-service, web and Windowsapplications to end users, according to Citrix. At the other end, CloudBridge sits at the ‘back door’, extending the …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Justin Lee, May 27, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting
provider Internap (www.internap.com) recently revealed it is developing apublic infrastructure as a service cloud platform that will complement itsexisting cloud storage …(more)

Cloud …PR Newswire (press release)New center’s Trusted Enterprise Service portfolio brings advanced security,trust, and performance to cloud computing. Next-generation data center hasalready received national recognition and industry awards for innovation,design, availability, …(more)

ifactum.com - Information Technology News - There’s been a lot ofdiscussion about multi-tenancy since the arrival of cloud computing.Multi-tenancy is the …(more)

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Cloud Computing: Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Show Prospectus Now Shipping.Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities for Cloud Expo Silicon Valley are nowavailable - PR11512374.(more)

“Project Olympus is the Citrix distribution of the OpenStack platform.OpenStack began as a joint effort of Rackspace and NASA in July of 2010….(more)

Citrix is moving to commercialize the open source OpenStack project thatit’s been smitten with since Rackspace and NASA dreamed it up last summer….(more)

InformationWeekThe software as a service provider must provide service desk, assetmanagement, client management, network service monitoring, and systemmanagement tools, among others. By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek TheGeneral Services Administration (GSA), …(more)

InformationWeekGiven the rate of personnel turnover in corporate America today, this statfrom The Sales & Marketing Institute isn’t all that surprising: 71% of thebusiness cards you collect will have at least one piece of outdatedinformation within a year. …(more)

ReadWriteWebToday Citrix announced that it will launch a newinfrastructure-as-a-service based on the OpenStack platform. The newservice is called Project Olympus and will be available for as both apublic cloud and as a platform for private clouds. …(more)

PRWireSydney, 26 May 2011 - Australia continues to lead the adoption of cloudcomputing in Asia Pacific with 43% of enterprises now using cloud computingin some form and 41% of IT decision makers indicating that cloud computingwill be a top priority for …(more)

CRNSince then, it has built up a strong community and preliminary support formore cloud services like cloud storage and load balancers as a service.According to the ASF, with one simple API operations teams can write onceand deploy anywhere to avoid …(more)

San Jose Mercury NewsBy Patrick May In one of Silicon Valley’s biggest real-estate deals in
years, cloud-computing pioneer VMware confirmed Wednesday that it’sexpanding its headquarters in the Stanford Research Park, taking over anadjacent one million square feet of …(more)

CloudPR Newswire (press release)”More and more companies are using cloud computing to fundamentally improvethe way they do business. The combination of CA Technologies leading ITmanagement solutions and Verizon’s world-class cloud computing platformwill enable more customers to …(more)

Easily build secure cloud environments that dramatically increaseefficiency and business agility with Green House Data’s Cloud Hostingsolutions from …(more)

Adecco Engineering and Technical, a division of the world leader in therecruitment of engineering and information technology professionals, …(more)

Companies …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Cloudability, a new Portland-based web startup, has been chosen by GigaOmas one of the most promising cloud computing companies for 2011. Each year,GigaOM, a leading media company that covers web and cloud industry news,uses a panel of expert judges …(more)

The web’s technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the hottesttech stories from all around the web on a single page.(more)

CRNBy Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Citrix Systems on Wednesday unveiled NetScaler
Cloud Gateway, a new product that gives organizations a place to aggregateand deliver a full range of IT services, including SaaS applications, Webapplications, …(more)

Reuters IndiaZTE Corp, China’s No.2 telecommunications equipment maker, aims to doublerevenue from cloud computing products next year to more than $4 billion, acompany source said. SHENZHEN (Reuters) - ZTE Corp, China’s No.2telecommunications equipment maker, …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Ken Hess | May 26, 2011, 3:00am PDT Virtualization and cloud-computing
will save the desktop operating system but we really just need a way tolaunch applications. Daniel Kusnetzky, Analyst and Founder of KusnetzkyGroup LLC, is responsible for …(more)

Seeking AlphaConcerning IIJ being well-positioned in cloud computing in Japan, it turnsout that the company has been a pioneer in getting Japan connected to theweb since day-one, and continues to build networks for leading companiesand the government. …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsZumasys has achieved both VMware vCloud Power status and the NetApp GoldService Provider designation. Specializing in migrating custom softwareapplications to the Cloud Zumasys claims that it is the first provider toachieve this status. …(more)

Raskino: This is hard to tell, since Cloud Computing is not one “thing.” Alot of technologies exist in the cloud. There is SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and a lotof different products. Some products might be at the peak of inflatedexpectations …(more)

CMS CriticCrownPeak, the market leader in cloud Web Content Management andOptimization, offers a software-as-a service solution built to empowermarketers to develop and deliver website content and optimize campaignswith speed, ease and sophistication. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)At the conference, Callidus will showcase its SaaS-based suite of solutionsthat optimize each phase of the sales talent lifecycle to drive effectivesales execution, including the core pillars of sales assessments andselection, onboarding, …(more)

eWeekNearly three-quarters (71 percent) of small businesses surveyed by NewtekBusiness Services said they have never heard of cloud computing,underlining a fundamental lack of knowledge about the technology. Based ona poll of approximately 1800 …(more)

Cable&Wireless …PR Newswire (press release)The partnership joins GlassHouse’s consulting expertise with C&WWorldwide’s range of hosting services, including its new cloud computingoffering, Flexible Computing, to provide customers with consultation tohelp them migrate to cloud based services. …(more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)VERNON HILLS, Ill.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–CDW LLC, a leadingprovider of technology products and services to business, government,education and healthcare, today announced the results of its first CloudComputing Tracking Poll, an assessment of …(more)

Enterprise-Class …TMC NetGartner expects that in the global cloud computing market of 2011, the sizeof the PaaS+SaaS segment will amount to US$84.63 billion, and the size ofthe IaaS segment will be roughly US$6 billion. That means there is hugespace for operators to build …(more)

New …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)In the new Microsoft cloud computing course, students will learn to installand configure Windows prerequisites and Public Key Infrastructure forMicrosoft cloud infrastructure environments. They will learn to deployorchestration to provide on-premise …(more)

One of the most important characteristics of Public Clouds is multitenancyPut multiple customers on the same physical infrastructure sharing the same…(more)

SYS-CON MediaOne of the most important characteristics of Public Clouds is multitenancy.Put multiple customers on the same physical infrastructure, sharing thesame …(more)

TopNews New ZealandCitrix will launch its own version of open source infrastructure cloudplatform OpenStack, company’s chief marketing officer Wes Wasson announcedon Tuesday. Wasson said OpenStack, which was originally created by NASA andRackspace, …(more)

The concepts surrounding multitenancy are multiple virtual machineinstances ….. Cloud Multitenancy More Than Meets the Eye …(more)

There’s been a lot of discussion about multitenancy since the arrival ofcloud computing Multitenancy is the act of hosting multiple nonrelatedresource …(more)

ITProPortalCitrix has launched a new cloud computing platform that will alloworganisations to deliver a mix of SaaS apps to end users . The CitrixNetScaler Cloud Gateway, the company explains, will present ITadministrators with a single point of control for …(more)

Software AdvicePeers like RightNow (RNOW) and the human resources SaaS companies tend tosell to larger organizations and therefore have smaller customer counts. Inaggregate, this universe of publically traded SaaS vendors has over 160000customers. …(more)

CRNBy Chad Berndtson, CRN WAN optimization and acceleration startup Aryaka
this week unveiled a new partner program titled Emergence in hopes ofpushing its cloud-based WAN optimization platform through the channel. WANoptimization-as-a-service is an …(more)

InformationWeekIn other words, use big league, cloud software to build your owninfrastructure as a service. OpenStack is an open source project that waslaunched by Rackspace and NASA in July. It has the backing of 60 vendors,including Cisco, Ubuntu Linux …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)SaaShr.com), a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) basedWorkforce Management Solutions with a major focus in HR, Payroll, and Timeand Labor Management, has announced today the launch of its AncillaryProduct and Service Marketplace for …(more)

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Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is one of the best options available for abusiness when it comes to CMS tools. The simplest definition of SaaS woulddescribe it as software that is deployed over the internet. With SaaS, theuser licenses …(more)

T.H.E. JournalThe research, “CDW-G 2011 Cloud Computing Tracking Poll,” conducted byO’Keeffe & Co. on behalf of CDW-G, found that the vast majority of K-12institutions are using some form of cloud technology, though most don’tseem to know it. …(more)

Server WatchBy Amy Newman (Send Email) Citrix’s Synergy virtual computing festival
started Wednesday, and you can be sure there will be plenty ofVMware-bashing going on, along with a whole raft of announcements aboutcloud computing, server virtualization, …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Justin Lee, May 26, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud technology
provider Citrix (www.citrix.com) announced on Thursday it has launched twonew SaaS tools providing new cloud computing platforms to IT clients. Thenew products allow providers …(more)

Hindu Business LineBut what really got the audience cheering was his future vision for Indiain which he saw 300000 new jobs being created in the next five years in theareas of cloud computing. He said that cloud computing transformations willenable businesses to drive …(more)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is part of the clever Tieto CloudServices portfolio, offering customers a well designed set of cloud based…(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Speediware Corporation, providers of SpeedEEO, the all-inclusive web-basedsoftware as a service for generating OFCCP compliant Affirmative ActionPlans(AAP), announced today the addition of an Organizational Chart Builderas an included feature for …(more)

IT PROOpenStack will form the basis of a Citrix product coming out in the secondhalf of 2011. By Tom Brewster, 26 May 2011 at 01:05 Citrix is preparing torelease a version of the OpenStack cloud platform as it looks to become oneof the major forces …(more)

Wall Street JournalCloud-computing application company Active Network Inc.’s initial publicoffering of at least 11 million shares priced at $15 each Tuesday, belowwith the expected price range of $16 to $18 a share. The pricing contrastswith the high demand for other …(more)

Bizjournals.comBusiness owners and IT decision makers can learn about the advantages ofcloud computing at a free workshop June 9 in Albuquerque. POD Inc. willteach participants about opportunities offered by cloud computing, apay-as-you-go system that offers …(more)

Intel is quietly making a move into software as a service — a move thathas helped other hardware providers like HP and Dell counter.(more)

By Amarja Pawar
The idea of Cloud Computing is nothing new. In fact, the underlying conceptdates back to the 1960s when John McCarthy, a retired Stanford professor,delivered.(more)

Enterprise IrregularsBy Evangelos Simoudis on May 24, 2011 Last October I wrote about emerging
data analytic services that could be offered under the term Insight as aService. More recently Mark Suster wrote about the need for data as aservice, and Gordon Ritter in his …(more)

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Reuters (press release)Tieto has launched its integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offeringfor business-critical 24/7 needs. The offering is part of the Tieto CloudServices portfolio, offering customers a well designed set of cloud basedservices to support the core …(more)

eWeek… on the company’s Hybrid Cloud platform that is designed to enableserver manufacturers, software vendors, and service providers to offersmall businesses the advantages of cloud computing with applications anddata running on their own premises. …(more)

By Matt Rosoff
Intel is quietly making a move into software as a service — a move thathas helped other hardware providers like HP and Dell counter the effects offalling consumer PC sales. Intel is a chip maker first and foremost, …(more)

IT PROBy Jennifer Scott, 25 May 2011 at 12:08 Much has been made of the new
challenges cloud computing has brought to IT departments, but a new reportclaims things aren’t that different from before. In a survey by VansonBourne of 250 UK chief information …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)NephoScale, a leading cloud services provider, is making cloud computingmore secure with a new out-of-band VNC (Virtual Network Computing) ConsoleAccess for its Windows and Linux Cloud Servers. NephoScale’s VNC ConsoleAccess is the first to use …(more)

PR-USA.net (press release)At Zumapalooza, the company’s 5th annual Customer Solutions Summit beingheld today at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, Zumasys announced that itis the first provider to achieve both VMware vCloud Power status and theNetApp Gold Service Provider …(more)

ITProPortalFujitsu has announced plans to bring its Global Cloud Platform to NorthAmerica, with businesses getting a free three-month trial before signing upfor the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering. The company’s GlobalCloud Platform is already …(more)

ProjectPR Newswire (press release)”More than half our customers use multiple cloud vendors, since addingLibcloud compatibility we’ve been able to more effectively support theircomputing aims in the cloud through cross platform compatibility,” saidRobert Jenkins, CTO of CloudSigma, …(more)

Marketwire (press release)Our SaaS solution for open source compliance is well-suited for thiscollaboration among stakeholders,” said Kim Weins, senior vice president ofOpenLogic. “With this new version of OLEX, many different participants canefficiently work together to …(more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)(EON: Enhanced Online News)–SYSPRO, a global, independent developer ofenterprise resource planning (ERP) software, has today announced theavailability of an Aberdeen Group Research Report on SYSPRO BusinessLive,the company’s new SaaS (Software as a …(more)

E-Commerce TimesOne thing that usually misses inclusion, at least where SaaS companies areconcerned, is the cloud model, which I consider as important as the salesand marketing piece. By “cloud model,” I mean even more than you mightthink. …(more)

for …PR Newswire (press release)This unique security-management-as-a-service platform is now available forbeta, allowing easy deployment, configuration, and management of securitypolicies using standard operating system security elements. “Cloudtechnology has seen extraordinary …(more)

ZDNet (blog)I’ll be joined by top ZDNet and TechRepublic experts and we’ll dive deepinto the recent problems of cloud computing, and whether it’s still safe toentrust your data to the cloud. It’s at 1:00 PM ET (that’s 10:00 AM PT and5:00 PM GMT). …(more)

FierceGovernmentITCloud computing is not a cost-saving strategy, said a Defense Departmentofficial May 24 at an event in Fairfax, Va. “If we’re doing cloud purely tosave money, we’re going to fail,” said Air Force Brig. Gen. Steven Spano,Air Combat Command Director …(more)

CTO EdgeAs cloud computing continues to evolve, it’s becoming pretty clear that ITorganizations are going to have to start integrating applications outsidethe four walls of the data center. To help address this issue, JNBridgereleased today version 6.0 of …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Based on a poll of approximately 1800 respondents, one of the key findingsfrom May’s survey was small business owners’ apparent lack of CloudComputing knowledge. The full May 2011 results showed the following: Do youknow or have you ever heard of …(more)

White Paper: By now, many organizations have taken advantage of thebenefits cloud computing can provide. So how can you gain even morebenefits from your …(more)

MarketPR Newswire (press release)Platform ISF is a next-generation cloud management software product forenterprises to build and run private and hybrid clouds. As demonstrated inthe review process, Platform ISF creates a sharedinfrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) computing …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsInstaCompute harmonize the true essence of Cloud Computing, by bringing ineconomies of scale and to cater business from all sizes and complexity,providing mission critical Information System resources without eveninvesting a penny in their …(more)

SaaS …4-traders (press release)Today’s modern enterprise is aggressively adopting a new generation ofcloud-based apps and SaaS services to achieve greater agility and improvedeconomics. The hidden cost of migrating to these cloud services is anincreasingly fragmented …(more)

BuiltXconomyMany firms confine themselves to investing in Web or software startups, butEmergence is far narrower than that: the four-partner firm restricts itselfsolely to early-stage investments in Software as a Service, or SaaS-basedcompanies. …(more)

Effort …Gamut NewsThis simple, yet powerful SaaS offering will utilize extensive predictivemodels, along with actual customer experiences, to help organizationsquickly assess and improve sales and service interactions. Customer surveytools, reporting, and advisory …(more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)At the same time, IT is under growing pressure to take advantage ofincreasingly ubiquitous and low-cost cloud computing capacity from externalcloud and hosting providers. Until now, however, those goals have beendifficult to achieve without …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)There’s a lot of talk about making use of cloud computing for backup andrecovery these days. The problem is that not many cloud computing servicesgo out of their way to make that activity cost effective for customers.That’s the case being made by …(more)

TMC NetOfficials with MetraTech Corp said that the telecom billing and mobilebilling specialist has joined forces with Cisco, InfoVista and otherinternational names to define an end-to-end cloud computing servicesmanagement framework. …(more)

TerminalsPR Newswire (press release)WARWICK, RI, May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — ADI Time LLC(http://www.aditime.com), a leading developer of cloud computing time andattendance management software-as-a-service (SaaS) for small-to-mid-sizedbusinesses and divisions of large enterprises, …(more)

GigaOm25, 2011, 1:46pm PT No Comments It was just a matter of time before someonecommercialized the open-source OpenStack cloud-computing software, andCitrix today became that someone with the launch of Project Olympus. It’s abold move to announce an …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Federal, state and local governments, along with
higher education, are keeping their distance from the public cloud model,instead favoring private and hybrid cloud computing environments, anextensive Quest Software Public …(more)

Java Worldtransform Software AG into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider.The press release also carefully acknowledges the value of Terracotta’sopen source developer community and related enterprise reach. Whilemomentum has been growing around PaaS …(more)

Total Economic Impact Study Reveals 84% Customer ROI and Rapid PaybackPeriod | Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online publication devotedentirely to virtualization technologies.(more)

The platform, Mule iON, is designed to help cloud-based software providers… iON could become a means to building integration as a service toenterprises. …(more)

From the blogs: Jonathan Bryce explains why Ubuntu Linux is used byOpenStack and why OpenStack is a once-in-a-lifetime open sourceopportunity.(more)

XconomySan Diego-based Accelrys (NASDAQ: ACCL), which outlined its scientificSoftware-as-a-Service strategy for me just a couple months ago, says it hasacquired privately-held Contur Software AB of Stockholm, Sweden, in a dealvalued at $13.1 million. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Here’s one of the big ones: “Has Cloud Computing Changed Enterprise ITForever and for Always?” This is a CTO Power Panel, to be held at 12:45pmon Tuesday, June 7. It features Dr. Rich Wolski, CTO and Co-Founder ofEucalyptus Systems; Vineet Tyagi, …(more)

Network WorldBy Jon Brodkin, Network World Salesforce.com’s acquisition of the Heroku
cloud platform last December has led to some confusion about how Salesforceplans to pitch two completely separate platform-as-a-service offerings. Thecompany already had perhaps …(more)

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Moneycontrol.comNorbert, an existing customer of theirs, is looking to change over to a newoperating environment that Four-Soft provides through SaaS contract. Thetotal contract value of the project to be implemented in Chile is slated tobe around USD 100000, …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Transition Manager also can be used to facilitate application migrations bytaking into account the overall hybrid environments including a mixture ofphysical, virtual, cloud and SaaS based services. Transitional DataServices is a consulting and IT …(more)

InfoWorld (blog)In one stark assessment of the muddled nomenclature, nearly two-thirds ofrespondents to a question in the Quest survey saw “a lot” or a “moderatelevel of” confusion about the difference between cloud computing andvirtualization.(more)

Telegraph.co.ukCloud computing is the one crucial piece of technology that enables driversto interact with their cars . By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo 10:30AM BST 24May 2011 The technology allows data and software to be stored and processedremotely, …(more)

CTO Edge From a technology perspective, when all is said and done concerning cloudcomputing, there may not be a whole lot new. That doesn’t mean that cloudcomputing doesn’t represent a seminal moment in the development ofenterprise IT; it just means it’s …(more)

http://virtacore.com This video is a general overview of vCloud Express (apublic cloud) by Virtacore.(more)

By Martin Zwilling
Cloud computing is still all the rage in the business world these days. YetI find that most busi…(more)

By Neil Vidyarthi
What’s Next for Cloud Computing? Find Out at Structure 2011.(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)IS Tools is a leader in the Platform as a Service (PaaS) sector with morethan 50K paying customers including several Fortune 500 companies. Thecompany’s cloud computing software is simple enough to allow users tocreate and distribute business …(more)

Tkae control of all your SaaS and web applications with simple secureaccess to cloud applications from any device with VMware Horizon AppManager.(more)

Computerworld (blog)Cloud computing is made up of a variety of layered elements, starting atthe most basic physical layer of storage and server infrastructure andworking up through the application and network layers. The cloud can befurther divided into different …(more)

Partners …PR Newswire (press release)As part of the partnership arrangement, ExtraDev and TBS will be working ona variety of offerings that leverage TBS Multi-Function Product (MFP) anddocument management solutions, with ExtraDev’s Cloud Computing capabilityand patented document …(more)

San Francisco ChronicleIntel is quietly making a move into software as a service — a move thathas helped other hardware providers like HP and Dell counter the effects offalling consumer PC sales. Intel is a chip maker first and foremost, but itdoes venture into software …(more)

PCWorldBy Nancy Gohring, IDG News Fujitsu is launching its
infrastructure-as-a-service offering in North America in a few months, andwill start offering interested customers a free trial next week. Beginningon May 31, organizations can sign up for a free …(more)

Charlotte ObserverRobert Willett - rwillett@newsobserver.com “Cloud computing” lets computerusers access resources such as document storage, software programs andsophisticated computing services over the Internet. Shifting to cloudcomputing would allow: Small retail …(more)

New E …All Things Digital (blog)But last weekend, the software-as a-service provider did something it hadnever done before. The company filled coolers with beer, rented a nachomachine and opened its doors to a bunch of hackers who would vie for $25000in prize money to build new …(more)

Hong Cai, Ning Wang, Ming J. Zhou. (July 2010), pp. 40-47. It has becomemore and more obvious that in Cloud Computing, applications are key driversto make …(more)

Brian Madden (blog)by Brian Madden Last week VMware officially launched VMware Horizon AppManager, the first phase of their “Horizon” project which extendson-premise user identities and app provisioning into cloud and SaaS apps.This is definitely a “v1″ launch (well …(more)

IT JungleIn a recent IBM survey of CIOs, 60 percent of organizations said they areready to embrace cloud computing over the next five years as a means ofgrowing business and achieving competitive advantage. This figure nearlydoubles the number of CIOs who …(more)

Network WorldWhat happens when you no longer care what hardware your apps are runningon? Not to mention what operating system or virtualization platform By TomHenderson, Network World Network World has conducted multiple tests ofcloud-based services over the …(more)

Genetic Engineering NewsOnce described as less a technological advance than a new business model,cloud computing offers small biotechs access to big technology and heavycomputing power relatively cheaply. Ranging from complete ITinfrastructures in the sky to basic data …(more)

IDG News ServiceUsers get to see a listing of applications to choose from, and an idea ofwhat’s involved to use them, along with all-important costing, which is anintegral part of the cloud computing model. Novell’s management applicationtakes care of the details …(more)

University of Texas at Dallas (press release)As cloud computing changes the way companies run their business, the UTDallas School of Management is grooming tomorrow’s business leaders to gainan edge with this emerging technology. The school is one of six USinstitutions chosen to partner with …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Salesforce.com is a fast-growing enterprise cloud computing company thathas been in operation for more than 12 years. The company has nearly 100000customers worldwide, including large enterprises, small and medium-sizedbusinesses, and government …(more)

Network WorldWavelink Avalanche 5 is a SaaS-based MDM application poised towards simplemobile device management. Wavelink tried to get their Smartphone Consoleready in time, but didn’t make it. What we did see was encouraging.Avalanche 5 places a strong emphasis …(more)

ARNnetComputing technology is improving, and software technologies to supportmultitenancy are becoming more prevalent. This is coming together to make…(more)

Computerworld AustraliaSurf Lifesaving Australia (SLSA) has extended its partnership with Fujitsu,moving its core IT systems to the computing giant’sinfrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform. The organisation is mid-waythrough the establishment of a new IT system to …(more)

RTT News From 2012, Software AG expects accelerated sales growth in the BPEbusiness, and expects to achieve dynamic growth through new cloud-basedsolutions and ‘Platform as a Service’ offerings in the medium term. by RTTStaff Writer.(more)

BenzingaActionHRM, developer of the only comprehensive, small business-focusedHuman Resources management system delivered via software as a service(SaaS), will unveil its newly enhanced HRMS software and recruiting moduleat the American Payroll …(more)

Today’s …BenzingaBruce Hoernecke, CEO of BBH Solutions (http://www.bbhinc.com), says thatcloud computing can free up valuable office space for more productivepurposes. With commercial lease rates in New York City rising over thefirst quarter of 2011, …(more)

Procurement Leaders NewsIT procurement or sourcing managers are often “overlooking” key risks whenevaluating cloud computing contracts, experts have warned. According toGartner, the cloud delivery model includes risks that are often unclear oroverlooked when assessing the …(more)

TelematicsFox BusinessBy Tokyo Bureau TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.TO) and
California-based Salesforce.com Inc. said Monday they have agreed to createa private social network for Toyota customers and Toyota cars. The twocompanies said in a press release …(more)

BenzingaThe DocuLex Archive studio subscription-based software as a service is a100% secure, browser-based solution that is an easy-to-use, productiveelectronic document management system for any business environment seekingsecure instant document access. …(more)

BenzingaAssureSign’s electronic signature software can be installed on premise forlarger clients or as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, and providesDocumaker users with easy customization and branding options. Additionally,as one of the only …(more)

Today’s …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The term ‘Cloud Computing’ refers to technology applications that can behosted in a remote data center and delivered to the end user on demand(as-a-Service) over an internet connection. In ‘The Cloud’, organizationscan utilize a vendor’s powerful …(more)

Business Solutions Magazine (blog)… also incorporating Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS). This creates acomplete service solution that allows channel partners to provide a singlemonthly price for hardware, software, and services with absolutely noinvestments, all from a single source. …(more)

Microsoft …SYS-CON Media (press release)Cobweb Solutions, the UK’s leading cloud services provider, has todayannounced that it is hosting an Accelerating the Adoption of Cloud-basedMicrosoft Communication & Collaboration Software-aa-Service (SaaS) seminaron Wednesday 8th June, …(more)

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission called on Monday forcontributions to an EU strategy on cloud computing, saying the remotetechnology could …(more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)According to a recent report from Gartner, an entirely new sector willemerge to address this issue, defined as integration platform as a service(iPaaS). By 2016, Gartner has predicted that at least 35% of all large andmidsize organizations worldwide …(more)

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It is also possible to run your database systems in the cloud usingDatabase-as- a-Service (Daas). It is even possible to run your entire ITsoftware and hardware infrastructure in the cloud usingPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS). …(more)

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6fusion’s UC6 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform provides anend-to-end cloud management platform for public, private and hybrid clouds,viewable in a single console. … Autotask Corporation provides the world’sleading hosted IT Business Management software built specifically for VARs,MSPs, and other technology solution providers to help them run theirbusinesses better. …(more)

ModelSYS-CON Media (press release)Integrated Suite: Innovation Insurer is a fully-integrated software suitethat includes Insurer Policy, Insurer Claims and Insurer Analytics. Rule ofOne Design: Integral to Innovation Insurer’s new design is a commonarchitecture and platform built on …(more)

InternetNews.com From the blogs: Jonathan Bryce explains why Ubuntu Linux is used byOpenStack and why OpenStack is a once-in-a-lifetime open sourceopportunity. By Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: I’ve beenfollowing the open source OpenStack cloud …(more)

Start moving toward secure cloud computing with VMware vCloud solutions andservices. Leverage the power of cloud computing while retaining theflexibility …(more)

VMware vCloud Partner Network Training English | MPEG4 175kbps | 320 x 240| AAC 56kbps | ~ 20h | 1.3 GB Genre: eLearning VMware Partner Exchange isan.(more)

White Paper: If your organization has decided to take advantage of cloudcomputing benefits such as increased agility and flexibility, you may bewondering: …(more)

Cloud Computing Articles for tag - software as a service. … The firstgeneration of Software as a Service (SaaS) applications has given businesspeople …(more)

From infrastructure costs to IT personnel issues, there are many questionsE&P companies are faced with when considering whether to bring theiraccounting …(more)

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PR Newswire (press release)SAN DIEGO, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — At Zumapalooza, the company’s 5thannual Customer Solutions Summit being held today at the Hard Rock Hotel inSan Diego, Zumasys announced that it is the first provider to achieve bothVMware vCloud Power status …(more)

CRNBy Rick Whiting, CRN Software AG will acquire Terracotta Inc., a developer
of in-memory computing technology, in a deal that will allow Software AG toexpand its cloud-computing offerings and boost the performance of itsbusiness process management …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: by Arthur Cole, IT Business Edge Arthur Cole spoke with Phil
Brotherton, vice president and general manager for the Microsoft BusinessUnit of NetApp, about how Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track will helpenterprises manage their clouds. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The third webinar will focus on evaluating and adopting the Software as aService (SaaS) model for eDiscovery to lower costs and mitigate the risk ofunpreparedness. Participants will view examples from leading eDiscoverypractitioners on how SaaS can …(more)

ADT MagazineWolfram Jost, CT of Software AG, said the acquisition would support hiscompany’s midterm strategy to become a platform-as-a-service provider. “Wetotally believe in the cloud business model for the future,” he said,”whether it’s public, private, …(more)

Computerworld… Oracle could take a look at PaaS (platform-as-a-service) vendors suchas Joyent or Engine Yard, according to Wang. For social applications,Oracle has a wide variety of choices, among them oft-rumored acquisitioncandidate Jive Software. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Contur is a leading provider of such ELN capabilities via aSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Most R&D organizations continue to relyon paper notebooks to document some or all of their laboratory work. Usingpaper notebooks is inefficient, …(more)

Wall Street Journals (INTC) venture capital arm Monday said it has invested $24.5 million infour new companies, bringing its total investment since 1991 to $10 billionand expanding its reach into key focus areas such as cloud computing andmobile technology. …(more)

GCN.comNinety percent of federal IT managers recently surveyed either say theiragencies don’t have or report being unaware of whether their agencies havea cloud computing exit strategy, according to a survey commissioned byQuest Software Public Sector. …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)This document from the National Institute of Standards and Technologyprovides a definition of cloud computing, describes cloud benefits andissues, presents an overview of cloud tech and offers recommendations onhow organizations should weigh the …(more)

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Cloud …PR-USA.net (press release)Marlabs Inc. today announced that it is partnering with RigstarCommunications, a provider of full lifecycle communication services to oiland gas organizations, for the launch of their new ‘Managed CloudComputing’ solution. …(more)

PR-USA.net (press release)The center was designed in collaboration with HP, a partner of ConsolidatedGraphics, and incorporates advanced high-density HP servers, storage, andnetworking systems needed to power the company’s advanced Hybrid Deliverycloud computing solutions. …(more)

BusinessCloud9It’s only a couple of weeks since an SAP exec was quoted as suggesting thatAmazon’s Easter outage was going to make it harder to sell Cloud Computing.All that was forgotten this week though as SAP added Amazon Web Services toits list of partners in …(more)

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In the IT industry, technology and the usage evolves faster than in perhapsany other industry. As a rule of thumb, systems can grow 10 times undertheir.(more)

Trade ArabiaMore than 60 per cent of organizations are ready to embrace cloud computingover the next five years as a means of growing their businesses andachieving competitive advantage, said a recent study. The IBM study whichcovered more than 3000 global …(more)

However, in recent years, the new breed of SaaS software companies hasbecome successful with a largely direct sales force, selling directly tobusinesses …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsA growing number of providers offer cloud services and products whileSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) are nowcommonly used to reduce corporate costs. Other enterprises rely onInfrastructure-as-a-Service to run their …(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)

Hindustan TimesOn the flip side, semi-conductor design as a service industry is thrivingin India and fabrication need not necessarily be done in India. Doownership and national pride matter in the age of international trade andglobalization? If so, how much? …(more)

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