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- Fujitsu First Major Global ICT Services Vendor to Launch a UK
- Nexaweb Joins Standing Cloud’s Partner Program to Provide …
- VMware Acquires Shavlik Technologies for SMB Cloudware
- New Global IBM Study Confirms Cloud Computing Poised to Take Off at
- Cloud services ramp up: TIA 2011 Preview
- Women have their heads in the cloud
- Horrible Stretch for Cloud Computing Continues – View From Above
- Investorideas.com – Cloud Computing Stock News; IBM and GROUP …
- Huawei taps into Middle East cloud computing market growth …
- CEO Power Panel: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing at Cloud Expo …
- Canonical switches to OpenStack for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud – News …
- PRUSAnet Vieosoft Introduces First Comprehensive Healthcare …
- New Relic moves into real user monitoring (Q&A)
- ICon Receives WBENC Re-certification as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise
- SaaS Business Profile: ServiceSource | Smart SaaS
- Kellermann Says Cloud-Computing Structure Not Yet Secure
- VMWare Acquires SaaS Firm Shavlik Technologies
- www.saas.uk.com – Staffordshire Adult Autistic Society – Autism …
- Contactology Expands with Move to Downtown Durham, NC
- European Commission Needs Help on Cloud Computing Strategy
- Cloud Computing and SaaS World Forum in London
- e2b software Launches Custom Cloud Computing Software Development
- Application transformation necessitates strategic SaaS vendor review
- VMware hooks corporate identities into the cloud
- CUSTOMER SUCCESS: IT Service Leader Lumen21 Improves Service, User …
- inContact Selected to Enhance Contact Center Operations for 200-Seat
- Ubuntu Plans To Base Cloud Service on OpenStack
- SAP Revs up Mobile Application Strategy
- Market Leader Names Joe White Vice President of Sales and Service
- Spend Radar Named as Finalist for Three 2011 American Business Awards
- Sentilla Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ by Leading Industry Analyst Firm
- CEO Power Panel: Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing at Cloud Expo New York
- NetApp adds framework for Hyper-V and Cisco
- CloudPassage Hires Deepa Prashant as Vice President of Finance &
- DARPA wants weapons-grade military cloud computing
- Microsoft Keynote Speech Talks About Cloud Computing ‘Inflection Point’
- Is Rain Forcasted for Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Future?
- Holding Back the Cloud: Security, Security, Security
- Cloud Computing Penetration into Enterprise IT Gaining Momentum
- Former Palo Alto CEO Tackling Cloud Security At Zscaler
- Hara Raises $25M To Manage Energy Use With Software As Service
- VMware Unveils Horizon App Manager
- Bridge Bank Provides $3.0 Million Line of Credit to Workstream
- Birst Provides Technology Platform for Ground-Breaking Financial
- 2004: A VMware Odyssey
- Bridging to SaaS Success A Basic Business Blueprint | Cloud …
- One size fits none: How to secure cloud computing in the enterprise
- DARPA Seeks More Resilient Cloud Infrastructure
- Travelocity Critical System Runs on Windows Azure Cloud
- Ingram Exec: Channel’s Role Won’t Shrink In The Cloud
- VMware unveils Web app management service for Google apps, Salesforce, more
- Why aren’t all enterprises building private clouds?
- Etisalat highlights initiatives in cloud computing domain at the …
- Google Joins Cloud2 Commission Examining Cloud Computing
- SAP, Dell Partner On Cloud
- Web Hosting Provider Horizon Integrates VMware vCloud Director …
- Opinion: We’re doomed to insecurity in the cloud
- Some sites struggle to stay up due to Heroku attack
- Cloud Services, SaaS Pose WAN Bandwidth Challenges
- New Relic Launches Real User Monitoring
- Multitenancy or Multiorganization deployments in CRM Dynamics 2011 …
Self-Service …Asahi ShimbunThis announcement follows on from the launch of Fujitsu’s Infrastructure asa Service (IaaS) in November 2009; Global Cloud Strategy in April 2010 andCloud Consultancy offering in April 2011. Fujitsu’s London North datacentre is the first and only …(more)
By ABMN Staff
Nexaweb Joins Standing Cloud’s Partner Program to Provide ApplicationModernization Platform Platform-as-a-Service solution uses cloud technologyto.. . … Independent software vendors who collaborate with Standing Cloudin the Solution Provider Program will have their application featured inthe Standing Cloud Application Network, which brings together end users;applications and their …(more)
eWeekShavlik provides on-premise and SaaS-based management software that enablesenterprises to manage, monitor and secure their IT systems. VMware on May16 added to its ever-increasing product set by acquiring ShavlikTechnologies, a provider of …(more)
CompaniesPR Newswire (press release)ARMONK, NY, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study ofmore than 3000 global CIOs shows that 60 percent of organizations are readyto embrace cloud computing over the next five years as a means of growingtheir businesses and achieving …(more)
FierceTelecomService providers are offering three distinct cloud service sets:Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), andPlatform as a Service (PaaS). These services allows businesses and evenconsumers to offload applications (storage …(more)
iTWireHe acknowledged SMEs were not expressly asked about their enthusiasm forcloud computing or SaaS, just whether they would prefer to buy or rentsoftware (which to a small business could be interpreted as meaning buyingor renting a bundle of PC gear …(more)
By Ron Miller
It has been a horrible few weeks for cloud computing with several highlypublicized outages from the business’s biggest players, but that doesn’tmean it’s time to abandon the cloud just yet.(more)
Cloud Computing Stock News; IBM and GROUP Business Software AG (OTCBB:GBSX)Sign Cloud Computing Joint Cooperation Agreement.(more)
Huawei, a specialist in providing next-generation telecommunicationsnetwork solutions for operators around the world, showcased its cloudcomputing strategy and end-to-end solutions for…(more)
Cloud Computing, the long-held dream of computing as a utility, has thepotential to transform a large part of the IT industry, making softwareeven more attractive as a service and shaping the way IT hardware isdesigned and purchased. …(more)
Canonical switches to OpenStack for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud News Linux forDevices: Canonical announced the open source OpenStack cloud platform willbe the …(more)
Vieosoft’s open standardsbased platformasaservice architecture works withan … Rapidly Deploy a Futureproof Solution With Vieosoft there is nosoftware or …(more)
CNETNew Relic CEO and founder Lew Cirne (the company name “New Relic” is ananagram of his name), spawned the first SaaS-based APM start-up in 2008 asan entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital. Today, New Relic isannouncing what it says is the …(more)
BenzingaFounded in 1997, ICon is a national provider of Software as a Service(SaaS) solutions for independent contractor compliance, risk assessment andconsulting, contractor invoice management and payroll and benefitsmanagement. …(more)
The company launched in 1999 and really started out offering both SaaS anda managed service solution for customers who wanted to improve theirend-to-end …(more)
Washington PostMay 16 (Bloomberg) — Tom Kellermann, chief technology officer at AirPatrolCorp. and a member of US President Barack Obama’s commission on cybersecurity, discusses the security of cloud-computing services following adata breach of Sony Corp. …(more)
ITProPortalVMware has improved its software as a service (SaaS) products through theacquisition of Shavlik Technologies, a leading name in the virtual machinemanagement market, although exact financial details were not disclosed. …(more)
www.saas.uk.com saas.uk.com The Staffordshire Adult Autistic Societyprovide a wealth of knowledge about Autism Autism Courses and informationabout www.saas. uk.com stats.(more)
PR Web (press release)Even a global software company like Contactology needs a sense ofcommunity. – Drew Adams, CEO & Co-Founder Contactology, a provider of emailmarketing software as a service (SaaS), announced today its move to newoffices located at 316 Holland Street …(more)
PCWorld (blog)By Jennifer Baker, IDG News The European Commission wants feedback on how
to manage its cloud computing strategy for Europe, where legislation istrailing behind the new technology. Digital Agenda Commissioner NeelieKroes launched a public …(more)
Data Center KnowledgeThe 3rd Annual Cloud Computing and SaaS World Forum, which is Europe’slargest event on cloud and SaaS, will take place June 21-22 in London atOlympia Exhibition, Event and Conference Venue. Early registration ends May20. …(more)
PR Newswire (press release)CHARDON, Ohio, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — e2b software (www.e2bsoft.com),a business software developer, announced today that the company now offerscustomized business software development services deployed via cloudcomputing technologies such as …(more)
SearchCIO.comApplication transformation — moving from an aging app to a SaaS product –delivers productivity and flexibility that weren’t possible previously.With the information that’s readily available, it’s easy for a savvy ITmanager to justify the expense …(more)
iT NewsBy Brett Winterford on May 17, 2011 10:01 PM (5 minutes ago) VMware has
launched software that allows IT administrators to manage end-user accessto SaaS applications using commonly-deployed identity management tools.Dubbed VMware Horizon App Manager, …(more)
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)As a company that sells services in the cloud, Lumen 21 sees SaaS as a wayto tap the power of a variety of IT services without the burden ofmaintaining and supporting the infrastructure, freeing up resources forother critical needs. …(more)
RetailerSYS-CON Media (press release)inContact (NASDAQ: SAAS), the leading provider of on-demand contact centersoftware and contact center agent optimization tools, announced that amajor US-based specialty retailer has selected the inContact cloud-basedcall routing solution to power …(more)
Peace FM OnlineThe Ubuntu Linux project will use OpenStack as the foundation for its cloudRelevant Products/Services service Relevant Products/Services. Theannouncement was made Tuesday at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, a gatheringfor the open-source project now …(more)
PCWorldMobility is one of three strategic areas SAP is pushing of late, along within-memory computing and SaaS (software as a service). SAP executives areexpected to discuss all three topics during a keynote address Tuesday. …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release)White brings more than 20 years of sales, business development andexecutive leadership experience to Market Leader, with a successful recordof driving rapid sales and revenue growth in software-as-a-service (SaaS)businesses. …(more)
DigitalJournal.com (press release)New Product or Service of the Year – Computer Software – Software as aService The American Business Awards are the only national,all-encompassing awards program honoring great performances in business andis widely recognized as the premier business …(more)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)As enterprises transition from IT as a cost center to IT as a service, bestof breed companies are realizing the need to deliver more services to thebusiness in a cost-effective manner. Sentilla enables intelligentoutsourcing, private and public …(more)
PRLog.Org (press release)He is a champion and leader in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), first steeringthe design of a platform in 2001 to solve application development anddeployment problems for customers moving to web- and cloud-basedinfrastructures. A Rock Star Faculty, …(more)
ZDNet UKBy Jack Clark (@mappingbabel), ZDNet UK, 17 May, 2011 15:54 Storage
specialist NetApp has joined Microsoft’s Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track programmewith a framework that is tuned for workloads virtualised on the company’shypervisor. …(more)
AdministrationPR Newswire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CloudPassage, a pioneeringsecurity SaaS company, today announced that Deepa Prashant has joined thecompany as Vice President of Finance and Administration. Prior to joiningCloudPassage, Prashant was Acting …(more)
RegisterAccording to DARPA: Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging trend within boththe commercial sector and the Department of Defense (DOD). A plan releasedby the Federal Chief Information Officer’s Council (CIO) in December 2010for reforming Government …(more)
ITProPortalMicrosoft has detailed how organisations can utilise the power of the cloudcomputing in their day to day operations. Speaking during a keynote speechat the company’s TechEd 2011 conference in Atlanta, Microsoft corporateVice President Robert Wahbe …(more)
TechnoratiThe standard operating procedures for in-house management of services is toprovide a redundancy and the same should be a standard for Cloud Computing,this gap is as some say the immaturity of the cloud vendor but not thetechnology, and sadly if this …(more)
Financial-Planning.comSplitting up computing power on remotely located servers into “virtual”desktop machines whose workings are indistinguishable from conventionaldesktop computers actually sitting on or under a desktop is one of thesignature features of cloud computing …(more)
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)(EON: Enhanced Online News)–The US Cloud computing market is poised forstrong growth, as an increasing percentage of enterprise informationtechnology is now becoming Cloud-based. According to new research fromWaveLength Market Analytics and Winn …(more)
CRNCloud security, to be exact: Bess earlier this month was named COO ofZscaler, a fast-rising SaaS vendor with channel chops and a strong buzz.”I’m a habitual builder of companies, and I’ve got a few more left in me, Ithink,” said Bess, …(more)
Wall Street JournalRicardo Angel of GE Energy Financial Services said that GE, NRG andConocoPhillips are in discussions with Hara about becoming customers, aswell as partners in selling Hara’s software as a service. Even as itsmarket grows, indicated by several strong …(more)
InformationWeek”End users are using more and more [software-as-a-service] basedapplications … and going through all different types of devices.” Thoughsome IT pros have a problem with it, the trend is here to stay. And ITmanagers “are really trying to find ways …(more)
Marketwire (press release)Workstream supplies Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for PerformanceManagement, Compensation Management, Recruitment and other critical humancapital areas. The company’s TalentCenter is used by employers in a widerange of industries. …(more)
Benchmarking …SYS-CON Media (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 05/17/11 — Birst, a leading providerof Software-as-a-Service solutions for business intelligence (SaaS BI) andanalytics, today announced that its technology is serving as the platformfor SVB Analytics’s new …(more)
SearchVirtualDesktop.comCurrently, VMware is making a concerted push into the cloud-computingmarket with products and initiatives such as vCloud Director, VMforce andCloud Foundry. Recently VMware has enjoyed record growth, as demonstratedby its recent acquisitions and Q1 …(more)
Established and new ISVs telcos hosters and other tech providers arelaunching SaaS services at an everincreasing pace and that’s great Howevermany of …(more)
ZDNetFar-sighted organizations are using cloud computing to propel innovation,get an edge over competitors and improve productivity. You can’t afford tolet security worries scare you away. Commentary – Cloud computing is thenext phase in delivery of …(more)
InformationWeekBy Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The research arm of the Department
of Defense (DOD) is seeking to develop cloud-computing-based infrastructurethat builds resiliency directly into the network to more effectivelysupport military missions. …(more)
Forbes (blog)Taking into account the high level of interest in private and public cloudcomputing this year, the conference includes extensive information on howattendees can begin to take advantage of the cloud, partners supporting it,and customers who are …(more)
CRNBy Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Cloud computing is a disruptive technology that
has triggered fears over the future of channel relationships. But ReneeBergeron, vice president of cloud computing and managed services at IngramMicro, believes that VARs and …(more)
BetaNewsAt TechEd 2011 in Atlanta, Microsoft put a great deal of emphasis on theaccelerating adoption of cloud-based SaaS solutions among corporations whowant the ability to deliver and run applications on the widest array ofhardware possible. …(more)
SearchCloudComputing.com… of about 10 times the price of a public cloud for the same unit ofservice given the combined effect of scale, demand diversification andmultitenancy. …(more)
Addressing a power packed audience at the Strategic Keynote session, on theopening day of the 3rd International Cloud Computing Summit, Mr. AbdullaHashim, Senior Vice President, ICT, at Etisalat,…(more)
By Adam Swidler
This comes on the heels of the Administration’s “Cloud First” policy, animportant first step in helping the federal government take advantage ofthe benefits cloud computing has to offer. The Commission will makerecommendations to the …(more)
Information ManagementSAP and Dell are expanding their existing partnership in the areas of cloudcomputing and in-memory databases. The announcement, made at SAP’s annualSapphire conference in Orlando, will see SAP’s applications be madeavailable for deployment on Dell’s …(more)
May 13, 2011 — Web hosting provider Horizon Data Center Solutionsannounced on Friday that it has completed its integration of VMware’svCloud Director to …(more)
Computerworld New ZealandOn top of that, clouds have unique risks that aren’t found elsewhere,including multitenancy (multiple customers sharing the same database), …(more)
ComputerworldBy Nancy Gohring IDG News Service – A potential DDoS attack on Heroku, the
Ruby platform-as-a-service provider now owned by Salesforce.com, iscreating availability issues for its customers. The problems started onMonday when Heroku reported that a …(more)
InformationWeekThe trend that we’re seeing is that people really want to be splitting offtraffic that’s destined to the Internet–the Salesforce.com or other SaaSand cloud-based applications–and go directly to the Internet as opposed toleverage the WAN bandwidth …(more)
Network WorldNew Relic, a SaaS application performance management (APM) solutionsupplier, today announced the extension of their response time visibilityinto the browser. New Relic customers can now see an end-to-end view ofresponse time from the browser, …(more)
Multitenancy or Multiorganization deployments in CRM Dynamics 2011 …Organizations multitenancy Organization Information MS CRM databaseorganization MS …(more)