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May 19, 2011

Daily Cloud Feed – May 19, 2011

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

  • Five Finalists Named for 2011 ServiceNow Innovation of the Year Award
  • PR Newswire (press release)SAN DIEGO, May 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Knowledge11 — ServiceNow, thecreators of SaaS for IT management, today announced Intel, Key Energy,Kimberly-Clark, Qualcomm and VeriSign as the five finalists for theServiceNow Innovation of the Year award. …(more)

  • Cloud Failures Aren’t The Problem; IT Is
  • InformationWeek (blog)For years, CIOs have been advised to treat IT as a service. In the past,this meant taking a holistic view of all the systems involved in deliveringapplications–routers, switches, servers, software, etc.–and evaluatingtheir performance as a whole, …(more)

  • Ubuntu Splits from Eucalyptus, Chooses OpenStack for Cloud Platform
  • eWeekCanonical has announced the OpenStack cloud platform will be the coretechnology in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud package which allowsorganizations to launch Linux-based clouds. Enterprises interested in usingUbuntu Server to power their cloud …(more)

  • On demand cloud computing solutions to take off wo…
  • QAS.co.nzBusinesses around the world are ready to embrace the benefits brought by ondemand cloud computing solutions, according to an international surveycompleted by IBM. A study of more than 3000 chief information officers(CIOs) in companies around the …(more)

  • Cloud Computing: Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud – Private …
  • By Adam [MCS]
    This is a multi-author blog aimed at Private Cloud computing with a focuson infrastructure (virtualization, management, datacenter, storage,networking, and other cloud-enabling technology). Content comes fromMicrosoft Services …(more)

  • Most European businesses lack a cloud strategy: research
  • Computer Business ReviewA new research has found that businesses in Europe run the risk of beingleft out of the benefits of cloud computing, with 57% of them believingthat their existing network can cope without any investment. The study,conducted by a provider of managed …(more)

  • LITEBI’s Cloud Platform Receives the ISO 27001 Security Certification
  • PR.com (press release)LITEBI’s Business Intelligence Cloud Computing platform has obtained theISO 27001 certification of security and quality by the company BMTrada.Valencia, Spain, May 19, 2011 –(PR.com)– Under the Cloud Computing model,the user seamlessly connects to …(more)

  • Fujitsu Cuts Ownership Costs and Reduces Risk for Private Clouds
  • SYS-CON Media (press release)Based on the recently agreed-upon reference architecture between Fujitsuand Microsoft for the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track program, Fujitsu isproviding enterprises with ready-to-run, automated and pre-tested privatecloud environments. …(more)

  • A good day for you: Canonical switches to OpenStack for Ubuntu …
  • Canonical has announced that Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud will adopt theOpenStack cloud platform over Eucalyptus. In other Ubuntu-related news, anUbuntu …(more)

  • Saugatuck Technology’s Cloud Business Summit
  • Enterprise IrregularsIn my remarks I indicated that through our SaaS portfolio companies we areseeing increasing and accelerating adoption of cloud computing. Companiesof different sizes, during the last year increasingly from the Fortune 500,and from different …(more)

  • CGS Launches CirriusImpact in Cooperation With NICE Systems and Presence …
  • PR Newswire (press release)The CirriusImpact branded offering provides contact centers of all sizeswith access to scalable, state-of-the-art solutions on asoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) basis. CirriusImpact features hostedapplications that provide multi-channel communication …(more)

  • Cloud Computing: Who Currently Owns Your Cloud-Based Storage?
  • SYS-CON Media (press release)We’ve been talking with our customers for some time about the convergenceof identity, security, and storage. There are a number of factors drivingthis union of technologies and cloud storage provides a great case study tohighlight our point of view. …(more)

  • CTO Power Panel at Cloud Expo New York: Has Cloud Computing Changed
  • Enterprise IT?PRLog.Org (press release)Is there an optimal mix of traditional IT and cloud computing? * What toolsare still necessary to deliver on the promise of cloud computing in theenterprise? * How close are we to achieving Secure Cloud Computing? * Whatare the pluses and minuses of …(more)

  • Featured Whitepaper: Three Steps To Effective Cloud Panning & Design
  • CloudTweaks NewsJim was debating the architecture of a cloud computing solution for hiscompany. It was clear to him they would need a provisioning engine, aself-service portal, and some mechanism for decommissioning services.However, even before he put pen to graph …(more)

  • Kount Unveils New Enhancements to Operational Platform
  • San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Kount, a leading operational provider of fraud prevention technology, todayannounced the immediate availability of its Kount Complete Platform 4.4.Delivered as a Software as a Service (SaaS), Kount Complete providescustomers and partners with …(more)

  • Verizon eyes small software acquisitions
  • ReutersIt nay follow with more acquisitions to boost offerings insoftware-as-a-service, Web-based software it would host at a remote datacenter, CFO Fran Shammo told the Reuters Global Technology Summit. “I dothink there are probably a number of smaller, …(more)

  • ServiceNow Names Javier Rodriguez of Sephora as the First IT Hero of the
  • MonthPR Newswire (press release)SAN DIEGO, May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Knowledge11 — ServiceNow, thecreators of SaaS for IT management, today announced it has named JavierRodriguez, Sephora senior IT service manager, as the first ServiceNow ITHero of the Month. …(more)

  • Scribe Online Adds SIs and VARs into the Cloud Equation
  • IT Business Edge (blog)By date: by Loraine Lawson, IT Business Edge If you’re Boomi or you’re Cast
    Iron, you’re sort of writing software to be delivered as a service so otherSaaS vendors can connect their apps to other SaaS vendors and thego-to-market is through those SaaS …(more)

  • The five keys to building a successful cloud services business
  • ZDNetThey first must come to terms with what kind of cloud-based servicesthey’ll provide: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS? Are they better suited to target theenterprise market, SMB, or maybe even other service providers? They mustalso choose the right technology to …(more)

  • Cloud Computing: The Case for the Heterogeneous Cloud
  • SYS-CON Media (press release)The last few weeks have been rife with turmoil in the cloud computingspace, thanks to everything from outages at Amazon to security breaches atSony. This, in turn, has led to a number of articles conveying extremepredictions about what this turmoil …(more)

  • Mickos: Amazon and Eucalyptus still rule the cloud
  • RegisterThis was OpenStack. NASA has used Eucalyptus for Nebula, a geektasticcompute cloud meant to chomp on more than 100TB worth of images from theWorldWide telescope, but it switched to project to new software that wouldbe folded into OpenStack. …(more)

  • Reinventing the Server
  • CTO EdgeThanks to major drops in the cost of memory, Lark says this style ofcomputing will become especially popular in cloud computing scenarios thatneed to support elastic data requirements. Ultimately, SAP CIO OliverBussmann says that much of our …(more)

  • In-Touch Insight Systems Announces the Launch of In-Touch Apps – a Mobile
  • Data …PR Newswire (press release)In-Touch Apps is a mobile Software as a Service (“SaaS”) solutionexemplifying our vision of Perfect Information. Instantly. “Releasing abeta version of In-Touch Apps to the market will dramatically increase ourscalability, our channels to market, …(more)

  • IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: Defining the Various Cloud Offerings
  • Virtualization Review (blog)Seriously, though, I now have a barrage of e-mails and queries about thedifference between the three main types of services: Infrastructure as aService, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. And what peopleare asking for is an …(more)

  • Desktone Launches Industry’s First Cloud-Hosted VDI Blueprint for
  • Service …TMC NetOfficials with Desktone said that Desktone blueprint, which is designed togive service providers everything they need to provide compelling,profitable cloud offerings as quickly as possible, includes a softwareplatform, a comprehensive reference …(more)

Daily Log News Feed – May 19, 2011

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @logzilla. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

Daily ITIL News Feed – May 19, 2011

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @itilpedia. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.