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- Five Finalists Named for 2011 ServiceNow Innovation of the Year Award
- Cloud Failures Aren’t The Problem; IT Is
- Ubuntu Splits from Eucalyptus, Chooses OpenStack for Cloud Platform
- On demand cloud computing solutions to take off wo…
- Cloud Computing: Architecting a Microsoft Private Cloud – Private …
- Most European businesses lack a cloud strategy: research
- LITEBI’s Cloud Platform Receives the ISO 27001 Security Certification
- Fujitsu Cuts Ownership Costs and Reduces Risk for Private Clouds
- A good day for you: Canonical switches to OpenStack for Ubuntu …
- Saugatuck Technology’s Cloud Business Summit
- CGS Launches CirriusImpact in Cooperation With NICE Systems and Presence …
- Cloud Computing: Who Currently Owns Your Cloud-Based Storage?
- CTO Power Panel at Cloud Expo New York: Has Cloud Computing Changed
- Featured Whitepaper: Three Steps To Effective Cloud Panning & Design
- Kount Unveils New Enhancements to Operational Platform
- Verizon eyes small software acquisitions
- ServiceNow Names Javier Rodriguez of Sephora as the First IT Hero of the
- Scribe Online Adds SIs and VARs into the Cloud Equation
- The five keys to building a successful cloud services business
- Cloud Computing: The Case for the Heterogeneous Cloud
- Mickos: Amazon and Eucalyptus still rule the cloud
- Reinventing the Server
- In-Touch Insight Systems Announces the Launch of In-Touch Apps – a Mobile
- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS: Defining the Various Cloud Offerings
- Desktone Launches Industry’s First Cloud-Hosted VDI Blueprint for
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Canonical has announced that Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud will adopt theOpenStack cloud platform over Eucalyptus. In other Ubuntu-related news, anUbuntu …(more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)