May 31, 2011

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

• Broadcom Leads the Way in Security for Tablet, PC, and Cloud Computing

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)

• ‘Cloud’ postgrad course a world first

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)

• eHealthServer.com | Commission Seeks Views on How Best to Exploit …

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)

• Caswell & Cavium Collaborate to Deliver Breakthrough Energy Efficient

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)

• Emailvision launches social product suite

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)

• CA Technologies and Digicor deliver innovative plug-n-play cloud solution

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)

• Application delivery the reason for Cloud: Westpac

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)

• Oxygen-fuelled SAP cloud achieves lift-off

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)

• Archer takes aim at cloud availability, security

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)

• Analysis: Can encryption bring banks to the cloud?

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)

• CA and Digicor team to offer cloud-in-a-box

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)

• CEDAR Announces Appointment of Bill Curran to Senior Executive Position

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)

• Just embrace the goddamn cloud why don’t you?

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)

• VMware Communities Uploading Media via vcloudjavasdk

Media xmlnshttpwwwvmwarecomvcloudv1 xmlnsns2httpschemasdmtforgovfenvelope1xmlnsns3httpschemasdmtforgwbemwscim1cimschema2CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData …(more)

• Heroku Announces Major New Version, “Celadon Cedar”; Includes New …

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)

• Multinationals out themselves as big Aaas fans

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)

• Heroku Announces Major New Version, “Celadon Cedar”; Includes New

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)

• CORESense Partners With Social Candy to Merge Online Shopping with Facebook

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)

• Ironflow Technologies Inc. Announces the Launch of their Leave Management

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)

• Acme Packet Extends Outsourcery’s Cloud with Microsoft Lync

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)

• OpenX Closes $20 Million Series D Funding

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 Finance Banking

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)

• AfterCollege Launches Free Career Services Management Platform for

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)

• Emailvision Launches Campaign Commander Email and Mobile Edition 7.5

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)

• Infrastructure as a Service FailProof Technology Discusses …

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

• Spending on new software projects rises, survey says

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)

• Apple to Announce Details on Cloud Computing Service Next Week

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)

• EMC-Cisco launch cloud computing Centre in Bangalore

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)

• Cloud Computing SaaS and Standards | Cloud Computing Journal

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

• USA.NET’s SaaS Secure Messaging Solution Brings Huge Savings to

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)

• Cloud Computing: SaaS and Standards

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)

• Apple’s iCloud to line up films, music: Can it deliver cloud computing

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)

• Cloud computing: A threat or opportunity?

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)

• Egnyte Survey Indicates Cloud Computing Significant Technology Trend

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)

• Preparing for Cloud Computing Failures

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)

• Cloud Computing: Intel Turns Laptop into Ultrabook

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)

• Cloud Computing Takes Us Into The Future of Technology, Chrome OS Leads The

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)

• Citrix commercializes OpenStack with Project Olympus

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)

• NYSE Offers Data Services via ‘Cloud’

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)

• VMware Acquires Enterprise Microblogging Company Socialcast

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)

• Labor Dept wants to put its email in a cloud

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)