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- What the Amazon Outage Means to Enterprises | Cloud Computing Journal
- Limelight adds CMS service with $10 million buy of Clickability
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- ‘Cloud computing is driving the next wave of data fragmentation’
- Victoria Privacy Commissioner issues cloud computing guidelines
- Stuckey & Co. Shops Commercial Insurance Comparative Raters, Picks …
- Ness Technologies Named as a Software Product Development Partner to
- TalentSoft Continues its International Expansion: 10 new Large Accounts in
- How to upload customised templates via vCloud Portal? – vCloud …
- VMware vCloud Consulting Service Offerings | Consulting Services
- .Net Developer – C#, ASP.Net, SQL – Software as a Service Job in …
- Can you save money with cloud computing?
- Replicon Recognized as a Top Canadian Tech Company
- Stuckey & Co. Shops Commercial Insurance Comparative Raters, Picks …
- Informatica Cloud update addresses growing trend toward ‘hybrid IT’
- Ubuntu 11.04 Cloud Servers with full root access & Free Trial
- Informatica Powers Hybrid IT With Cloud Data Integration
- Does SaaS offer more security for IT departments?
- Demand for Symantec.cloud SaaS Offerings Demonstrates Customer Need for …
- NetSuite Customer InkJet Superstore Jets Past Competitors Using EasyAsk …
- Study Island Announces Winners of Project-Based Learning Activities Contest
- Cloud Futures: Advancing Research and Education with Cloud …
- SaaS and Cloud Consolidation and IPO’s Continue | Smart SaaS
- Cloud computing opens new horizons for Internet
- Wringing More Value From Enterprise Cloud Computing With Open Source
- Why CenturyLink’s Savvis deal is no big deal
- Italtel and Cordys Partners in Cloud Computing
- Net Optics Brings Cloud Computing Solutions to Interop
- CA Technologies Enables Logicalis UK to Deliver Flexible, Efficient, and
- Limelight buys Clickability for $10 million
- Emdat Partners with Esker to Ensure Fast Delivery of Critical Medical …
- Caveat emptor in the cloud
- Herakles & NextCloud Launch Enterprise Class Cloud Computing
- Symantec unveils SaaS storage products
- CloudPassage SaaS Security Solution Available Within GoGrid Cloud
- Limited contractors SaaS approach
- True Textiles, Inc. Replaces On-Premise Analytics Application With
- CloudPassage Delivers Elastic Cloud Server Security Within the GoGrid Cloud
- Brocade Sharpens Focus on Service Providers
- Red Hat Does Database for Cloud Computing Platforms
- Cascading Clouds of Failure
- How to Plan Now for Hybrid Cloud Management
- Has On-Premise Call Center Software Died? Free Webinar
- Survey: Many organizations in a fog when it comes to cloud computing
- The Software Licensing in the Cloud Conundrum
- VMware Restores Cloud Foundry Service After Outages
- Software Equity Group Sees Improving Valuations, M&A Activity, in …
- CDN Operator Limelight Networks Acquires Clickability Content …
- Salesforce Wraps Up Radian Deal | FavStocks
- Rapidly evolving IT trends make open source, agile application …
- Rackspace Shutters Slicehost for OpenStack Future
- Brocade Launches CloudPlex Stack
- Wringing More Value From Enterprise Cloud Computing With Open Source
- Cloud Computing of PaaS with Windows Azure Connect (1/2) – Yung …
- Cloud Computing and the Importance of Code Diagrams – Carpe Datum …
- Cloud Computing and the Role of IT Professionals in SMBs …
- Making the Software Licensing, Warranty Renewal Process a Bit Easier
- CA CEO: Cloud Computing Adoption Underestimated
I feel uniquely qualified to help answer these questions because for manyyears I have had the privilege of having a front-row seat as cloudcomputing progressed from concept to rapid market adoption, first atmanaged hosting and cloud …(more)
FierceOnlineVideoContent delivery network Limelight Networks (NASDQ: LLNW) has acquiredClickability, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of content managementsystem for companies like the Minneapolis Star Tribune and PR Newswire, ina stock and cash deal worth …(more)
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InformationWeek IndiaHow does Informatica’s cloud-based integration-as-a-service resolve thisissue? Can you give us some examples to explain this? The Informatica cloudis built from the ground up for line of business self-service. We developeda brand new user interface …(more)
The AustralianVICTORIA’S Privacy Commissioner Helen Versey has warned that the cost ofaddressing privacy and security issues may outweigh expected capital andoperational savings for agencies wanting to shift to cloud computing. MsVersey has told state government …(more)
PR Web (press release)RealTimeExpress is a Software as a Service (SaaS) commercial insurancesoftware application that provides quotes from multiple insurance carriersby completing a single entry. RealTimeExpress was designed and developed tohelp agents and managing …(more)
StepStone …PR Newswire (press release)The 60-person Ness team is leveraging Ness’ Adaptive Agile framework fordistributed teams to help StepStone Solutions accelerate the developmentits SaaS-based talent management systems. The Ness capability adds to otherdevelopment centers operated …(more)
the …PR Newswire UK (press release)PARIS, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — TalentSoft, a leading player inSaaS-based Integrated Talent Management, cements its strong internationalgrowth with the acquisition of 10 new clients in the first quarter of 2011.A unique optimised integrated …(more)
The uploading of VMware images is in the works at this time, watch thefront page of the vCloud Express Community Site for Release Notes and aRelease Date. …(more)
VMware vCloud Consulting Services help accelerate your journey to thecloud. Our complete range of services will help you adopt and expand aflexible cloud …(more)
Net, SQL – Software as a Service job in Manhattan, New York, US. Read the.Net Developer – C#, ASP.Net, SQL – Software as a Service job descriptionand find …(more)
ZDNet (blog)By Larry Dignan | May 3, 2011, 3:00am PDT The common perception is that
cloud computing can save you a bundle, but a Forrester Research noteindicates that the calculus is complicated. In fact, companies that don’tmanage resource consumption well …(more)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)All Replicon products are offered in software-as-a-service (SaaS) versions.Web TimeSheet Project & Billing enables businesses to track time againstprojects or any business activity while also monitoring costs. The Time &Attendance edition eliminates …(more)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The RealTimeExpress comparative rater is a Software as a Service (SaaS)application that allows commercial insurance agents to enter informationone time and simultaneously receive quotes from a number of leadingcarriers to compare side by side. …(more)
SearchDataManagement.comThe latest version of Informatica’s cloud-based data integration platform– Informatica Cloud Spring 2011 — includes new features geared towardorganizations that want to increase the level of interaction betweenin-house and Software-as-a-Service …(more)
TMC NetPatrick Baillie, CEO commented ‘One of the key benefits of using CloudSigmais our open software layer. That means that its easy to add the latestsoftware releases to our platform offering our customers the very bestoperating systems. …(more)
GlobeNewsWire (press release)Cloud computing adoption by IT has been constrained by the lack ofenterprise capabilities such as performance, scalability, availability,manageability and support. The Informatica Cloud Summer 2011 releasedelivers enterprise-class functionality …(more)
Women in Technology03/05/2011 SaaS (software as a service) could offer IT departments greatersecurity and could even be more trustworthy than relying on internal ITprofessionals, it has been claimed. Spencer Parker, group product managerat Websense, noted that more …(more)
Marketwire (press release)( NASDAQ : SYMC) today announced that customers will now benefit fromenhancements to the Symantec.cloud portfolio of SaaS services. The companyannounced a number of new service enhancements which will bring more ofSymantec’s technologies to the …(more)
PR Newswire (press release)BURLINGTON, Mass., May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Anyone who has ever searchedfor the proper ink cartridges for their printer model can tell you aboutthe dizzying array of options and combinations that can quickly frustrate abuyer. …(more)
GlobeNewsWire (press release)A complete listing of the winners can be found at:http://www.studyisland.com/pblcontest/ Archipelago Learning (Nasdaq:ARCL)is a leading subscription-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider ofeducation products used by approximately 13 million …(more)
By Lee Stott
I hope you can attend the Cloud Futures 2011 Workshop on Advancing Researchand Education with Cloud Computing, taking place in Microsoft ConferenceCenter, Redmond, WA, June 2-3, 2011. Please note that Windows AzurePlatform 180 Day …(more)
The market is really starting to get frothy and there are many bigSaaS/Cloud deals happening and companies going public with very largemarket caps. …(more)
Korea TimesCloud computing is also expected to majorly change our daily lives. Mostpeople store data on their personal computers, smartphones or USB flashdrives, but now they can store the information on a cloud, or servercomputer, and use it wherever and …(more)
LinuxInsider.comBy Mark Hinkle Not all cloud-computing platforms are created equal,
especially when it comes to one of the most important features of acloud-computing environment, the API. If you have multiple clouds or ahybrid cloud environment where private and …(more)
InfoWorld (blog)Although this seems like a cloud computing superdeal on the surface, thecloud computing angle is really very thin. Many managed hosting servicesproviders have seen the cloud computing light, which means that they canget a much higher valuation if …(more)
PR Newswire (press release)Cordys technology joins Italtel’s innovative direction both in CloudComputing and in specific vertical sectors namely Energy Management ande-Health. Italtel, leading company in the development and integration ofproducts and services for fixed and …(more)
Server WatchAs part of an integrated access monitoring platform, Net Optics, Inc. hasannounced that an unprecedented wide range of its solutions will providemission-critical network access and monitoring for the InteropNet. Relyingon Net Optics’ new Phantom …(more)
Cost …PR Newswire (press release)In addition, CA ecoSoftware helps enable Logicalis UK to provide customerswith more accurate data center efficiency metrics and energy billings, bothof which have become increasingly important when providing cloud computingservices. …(more)
FierceContentManagementClickability, a web content management product sold in the Software as aService (SaaS) model was sold Monday to Limelight Networks for $10million–cheap money in the scheme of things and an interesting pickup forLimelight, which helps companies …(more)
Business Wire (press release)Our business is a Software as a Service model and we’ve always said that wewant to be a system that everybody relies on but nobody has to think about.Faxing was becoming not only a thorn in our side internally, but it wascausing our customers to …(more)
Network WorldJust as I finished writing the last issue (“SCIMing the provisioninglandscape”) an interesting new study — about cloud computing providers –popped into my inbox. Entitled “Security of Cloud Computing ProvidersStudy,” it was commissioned by CA …(more)
PR Newswire (press release)”The combination of our highly resilient data center operations andNextCloud’s advanced cloud computing architecture, will meet the levels ofsecurity, availability and performance that our customers need.” “TheHerakles NextCloud solution combines …(more)
ComputerworldBy Lucas Mearian Computerworld – At its Visions 2011 conference in Las
Vegas this week, Symantec announced plans to offer its midrange backup andenterprise-class archive software products as SaaS offerings. The companyalso announced that its …(more)
EContent (press release)CloudPassage, Inc. announced that their SaaS (software-as-a-service) cloudsecurity solution is available as a Partner Service Image within the GoGridinfrastructure. CloudPassage is intended for use in the cloud and deliversmulti-layer defense for …(more)
Paystream AccountingLimited contractors could be among the smaller UK enterprises that couldbenefit from ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) applications, within their ownIT solutions. SMEs could adopt this model to free up their IT departments,according to content security …(more)
Birst’s …Marketwire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – May 3, 2011) – Birst, a leading providerof Software-as-a-Service solutions for business intelligence (SaaS BI) andanalytics, today announced that True Textiles is using Birst’s low-cost,highly scalable solution to …(more)
PR Newswire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CloudPassage, Inc., a pioneeringsecurity SaaS company, today announced that its software-as-a-servicesecurity solution is now available as a Partner Server Image within GoGrid,a leading cloud infrastructure …(more)
Data Center KnowledgeBrocade also announced support for the Open Stack cloud computing suite, aswell as continuing support for the OpenFlow standard for open networkingconfiguration. The company also outlined its CloudPlex visipon for thevirtual enterprise of the future …(more)
GigaOmData grids extend the type of scalability often associated with cloudcomputing resources to the data layer, and also speed access to data bystoring it in a server’s memory instead of in a away from the applicationin a traditional disk-based database …(more)
MIT Technology ReviewBy Erica Naone Recently two major cloud computing services, Amazon’s
Elastic Compute Cloud and Sony’s PlayStation Network, have sufferedextended outages. Though the circumstances of each were different, detailsthat the companies have released about …(more)
ComputerworldBy Galen Schreck CIO – There’s no question that cloud computing will be the
trend to alter organizations’ infrastructure the most over the next fewyears, especially as firms transition from basic server virtualization tothe private cloud. …(more)
TMC NetWith the proliferation of cloud computing and SaaS (News – Alert)-basedsolutions now available, is it possible that on-premise call centersoftware solutions will go the way of the bag phone? TMCnet has partneredwith Five9 to offer a free webinar: …(more)
solutionsFierceVoIPGlobal organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud for ITsolutions, a new reports says, with over 68 percent of companies sayingthey’re either involved, or considering, cloud computing strategies. ITSMprovider Axios Systems said 51 percent …(more)
IT Business Edge (blog)By date: One of the thorniest issues when it comes to cloud computing is
software license management. Both software vendors and customer alike,albeit for different reasons, are concerned about how software licensing inthe cloud will evolve, …(more)
Redmondmag.comCloud Foundry, introduced on April 12, is a cloud service that VMware istouting as the first open platform as a service, or PaaS. VMware offers itsown hosted version of Cloud Foundry, aimed at letting developers buildapplications and run them on its …(more)
By Bruce V. Bigelow
The quarterly report includes indexes that track the value of publicsoftware companies, public Internet companies (so it doesn’t includeFacebook), and public software-as-a-service companies. The median valuationof public software …(more)
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Content delivery network firm LimelightNetworks ( www.limelightnetworks.com) announced the acquisition of softwareas a service provider Clickability (www.clickability.com) for about $10million in a combination of common stock and cash. … Clickability’s webcontent management and web marketing tools are complementary with theLimelight video platform, site acceleration, mobility, and EyeWonderadvertising services. …(more)
By Zacks Research
The enterprise social software market is expected to grow at a 5-year CAGRof more than 50%. Social media is now a global phenomenon, making its markin every sphere and segment through brands such as Facebook (with over 500million users) , … This acquisition has enabled Salesforce to advance inthe Cloud 2 platform . Heroku’s Ruby-based platform-as-a-service will allowSalesforce’s customers to easily develop advanced applications. Despite allthe prospects, …(more)
ZDNetGardner: Many of the SaaS providers are doing multitenancy and providingapplications as services on demand at a very attractive and aggressiveprice point. …(more)
GigaOmRackspace bought Slicehost in 2008 to serve as the foundation of itsRackspace Cloud business, but since Rackspace is now betting its cloudcomputing future on the OpenStack platform built along with an open sourcecommunity, there is little reason to …(more)
Server WatchBrocade is also embracing the open source OpenStack cloud platform as partof its cloud architecture. OpenStack was started in 2010 by Rackspace andNASA. It has since expanded to include more than 40 technology vendors. TheOpenStack Cactus release …(more)
By Mark Hinkle
You’re an IT manager responsible for keeping your infrastructure up andrunning while squeezing every bit of value from your budget. You’reinterested in the latest trends and have done your research. Manyenterprises rely on their …(more)
By y-0117
Personally, I see Windows Azure Connect is a killer app to facilitate theadoption of cloud computing. For all IT pros, this is where we take off andreach out to the sky while dancing down the street with a cloud at ourfeet. …(more)
By BuckWoody
Cloud Computing and Large Scale Data Architectures.(more)
By Jason Miller
Zoomerang surveyed decision-makers in U.S. businesses with less than 1000employees to understand their familiarity with cloud computing and the roleof IT professionals within those companies. A Zoomerang online survey wasused to …(more)
TMC NetThis summer, Synnex will introduce its online portal that will helpsolution providers to keep track of software licensing, subscription-basedSoftware as a Service (SaaS (News – Alert)) products from multiple vendorsand warranty renewals. …(more)
CRNBy Chad Berndtson, CRN Business adoption of cloud computing enablers, from
virtualization management to software-as-a-service, is happening fasterthan even the most optimistic projections, according to BIll McCracken, CEOof CA Technologies. …(more)