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Document Management News (press release)Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open sourcesolutions, today announced an expansion of its cloud ecosystem with theestablishment of the OpenShift Partner Program, focused on the Company’sPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) …(more)

EIN News (press release)PHP Fog is available at http://phpfog.com and offers free accounts so thatany PHP developer can access the platform. “The response to our betaprogram has been insanely wonderful, and we are so grateful for all thefeedback from the early testers,” …(more)

Search NetworkingRiverbed Technology, which released Cloud Steelhead last year for AmazonWeb Services, announced plans to address Software as a Service (SaaS)performance in a strategic alliance with Akamai Technologies, a contentdelivery network (CDN) and Web …(more)

scorecardSYS-CON Media (press release)CAMPBELL, CA — (Marketwire) — 05/10/11 — Market research firm InfoneticsResearch today released excerpts from its new Worldwide Messaging SecuritySaaS Provider Scorecard, which analyzes and ranks the top messagingsecurity SaaS providers. …(more)

CRNBy Joseph F. Kovar, CRN One of the biggest challenges to adopting cloud
computing is gradually being overcome as customers start to get access tocredible metrics they can use to quantify the benefits of moving parts oftheir IT infrastructure to the …(more)

Tom’s GuideIt seems as if the overall software-as-a-service and general cloudcomputing party has been blurred by enthusiasm, visions and ideas, whilethe basic requirements such as security were pushed into the background.Imagine yourself 5 years out from now. …(more)

V3.co.ukChief executive Zach Nelson said that the goal of the programme was tooffer SaaS services to large enterprises and in the process givelarge-enterprise capabilities to smaller businesses. “Today were bringingthe power of large systems to all of you …(more)

The first 100% open source cloud platform for enterprise applications.(more)

InformationWeekInformationWeek: Citrix CEO Mark Templeton described four power centersthat seem to be emerging in the cloud: Amazon/Xen, VMware, Microsoft Azure,and OpenStack. Do you agree with that assessment, and would you modify itin any way? …(more)

By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
Deploying Applications in the Cloud While there’s more talk than actual useof cloud computing in the enterprise, a Zeus Technology survey looks at thebeginnin.(more)

Multi tenancy with Unity. 1. Hi everybody! I’m trying to implement thisscenario using Unity and i can’t figure out how this could be done: …(more)

In a multi-tenancy environment, multiple customers share the sameapplication, running on the same … Multi-tenancy is contrasted with amulti-instance …(more)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cisco and Xerox are partnering to provide cloudcomputing and print products in a bid to bolster the amount of services andhardware …(more)

Today the Ubuntu project announced that future versions of the Ubuntu Cloudwill use OpenStack as a foundation technology OpenStack the rapidly growing…(more)

Cloud and SaaS(Software as a Service) Issues and solutions using Cloud andSaas in the construction business. C.(more)

QAS.co.nzA software-as-a-service company which provides services for New Zealand andother countries around the world has changed its name this week. StepStoneSolutions, which provides software-as-a-service solutions in talentacquisition and talent management …(more)

Sacramento BeeEMC Ionix UIM is unique purpose-built management software for the VblockPlatform, the industry’s first completely integrated offering for convergedinfrastructure and cloud computing. Ionix UIM simplifies the management andoperations across multiple …(more)

Health Talk & YouOn August 3, 2009, the Company acquired Adventa Control Technologies, Inc.inContact, Inc . (NASDAQ:SAAS) percentage change surged 4.33%, to close at$4.10 and its overall traded volume was 324742.00 shares in the lasttrading session. …(more)

By Joe Panettieri
Canonical’s Ubuntu is shifting its cloud strategy, emphasizing theOpenStack open source cloud standard from Rackspace & NASA, and downplayingEucalyptus.(more)

Economic Times”The demand for software as a service model among Indian enterprises andSMBs has grown many-fold over the last few years,” Hughes CommunicationsIndia VP, Enterprise Business, Shivaji Chatterjee said. The MicrosoftHosted Exchange will provide more …(more)

TMC NetCyPortal further expands Cyan’s software and software as a service (SaaS)capabilities and is a key component of Cyan’s Service Level Aware Network(SLAN) framework. CyPortal has been designed as a platform capable ofsupporting a range of services and …(more)

CNETSomehow, cultivating those interests at graduate school positioned him fora job pushing the limits of cloud computing at Google. Two years ago,Wheeler had a good gig at a cutting-edge IBM chip manufacturing plant inNew York, where he worked on …(more)

GlobeNewsWire (press release)As seasoned IT services executives, both Andy and Vern bring a wealth ofCloud computing experience, specifically in their recent roles asprincipals of Executive Operations Management (EOM), a boutique consultingfirm in the DC metropolitan area, …(more)

A huge brainstorm?cloud computing?is blowing across the tech landscape. Twostrategies?one calm, one stormy?could help investors capitalize.(more)

SearchTelecom.comIts recent Terremark acquisition helped expand Verizon’s cloud servicescapacity to 20 countries and made Verizon into a Platform as a Serviceplayer. But why SAP decided to go with Verizon as its first mobileapplication enablement partner goes beyond …(more)

Cloud …PR Newswire (press release)NetSuite’s SuiteCloud is a comprehensive offering of on-demand products,development tools, and services designed to help customers and commercialsoftware developers take advantage of the significant economic benefits ofcloud computing. …(more)

FierceFinanceIn a similar vein, Goldman Sachs recently brought together a group ofpublic and private companies and institutional investors for anoff-the-record Cloud Computing Conference in Menlo Park, Calif. About 200attendees showed up, according to Venture …(more)

Force …PR Newswire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), theenterprise cloud computing (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/)company, today announced the success of Hospital Housekeeping Systems (HHS)in using Cloud 2 technologies …(more)

By Marc Jacob
Its cloud services are gathered on Cloud Plaza, an online selling platform.In this web shop, customers and resellers can buy applications fordesktops, laptops and smart phones. An up-to-date Software as a Serviceoffering leads …(more)

By Klint Finley
Following a private beta, the platform-as-a-service (hosted on Amazon WebServices) PHP Fog is now generally available following a private beta. Ithas a free option offering … … Simplot Australia initially used VMwarevirtualization software and Intel hardare to create a test and developmentenvironment. The wholly owned subsidiary of the J R Simplot Company saw theimmediate benefits and has not looked back since. Today, more than 60% ofthe IT infrastructure at …(more)

By Bert Latamore
So SAIC, a traditional, U.S.-based outsourcer, is offering this assoftware-as-a -service (SaaS). Not only does this provide these smallerutilities with a solution to their own problem of managing expensive peakelectrical use, …(more)

PCWorldBy Joab Jackson, IDG News Canonical has switched its cloud software stack
to the open-source OpenStack, the company announced Tuesday. The currentversion of its Ubuntu Server, version 11.04, uses the Eucalyptus platform.Ubuntu Server 11.10 will …(more)

Performance …Marketwire (press release)LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire - May 11, 2011) - According to a surveyconducted during Interop Las Vegas 2011, nearly 70 percent of respondentshave deployed or plan to deploy cloud computing, but nearly as many admitto not having confidence in the …(more)

SaaS?ComputerWeekly.comCloud-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications can cut IT costs aswell as increasing productivity and competitiveness. But large-scale clouddeployments are still rare and enterprises still face security, downtimeand customisation concerns …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)”This was evident, for example, among internet companies, which acquiredmultiple social networking companies, and among established software andSaaS companies, which bought multiple SaaS companies,” says Steger. Alsoexemplifying this pattern were …(more)

CNETby Jack Clark The shift, announced yesterday at the Ubuntu Developer Summitin Budapest, Hungary, means that Eucalyptus–once the core cloud forUbuntu–has been sidelined in favor of OpenStack. “The Ubuntu team has beenworking closely with the …(more)

MSN Money”As we look ahead to the remainder of 2011, we expect to see a combinationof growth, profitability and cash flow that is a standout in theSoftware-as-a-Service sector,” said Anthony Plesner, IntraLinks’ CFO. “Wewill also continue to invest in …(more)

Small …Marketwire (press release)eGestalt.com), a world leading provider of cloud-based, SaaS-delivered,security and information technology governance, risk management andcompliance (IT-GRC) solutions for small to mid-size organizations, todayannounced a White Paper that spells out …(more)

PCWorldBy Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Count NetSuite among the growing number of
SaaS (software as a service) vendors positioning themselves as providers ofnot just stand-alone applications, but also a rich development stack thatpartners and customers can use …(more)

By Larry Grothaus
Redmondmag.com covers the announcement from CA Technologies that they’rebringing their ARCserve backup and recovery solutions exclusively to theWindows Azure cloud computing platform as a SaaS solution in the secondhalf of this year. …(more)

InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek There are “incredible economies of scale
in cloud computing” that make it a compelling alternative to traditionalenterprise data centers, said Zane Adam, general manager of Microsoft’sWindows Azure cloud and …(more)

TMC NetBy Deepika Mala, TMCnet Contributor Salesforce.com (News - Alert), the
enterprise cloud computing company that has transformed the way companiescollaborate and communicate has released its first quarter fiscal 2012results on Thursday, May 19, 2011, …(more)

By Sam Dean
The Ubuntu team has been working closely with the OpenStack project andthis will form a strong basis for Ubuntu Cloud product in the future. Thisdecision clarifies the direction of Ubuntu Cloud over the next 12 months,as the project …(more)

Register”Through Snaps, we provide connectivity to a range of data sources, whetherthese are SaaS [software as a service) sources on the internet ortraditional database sources like Oracle or MySQL.” The SnapReduce privatebeta will be available “very …(more)

TMC NetBy Carrie Schmelkin, TMCnet Web Editor Over 90 percent of the world’s
business users can now benefit from Aryaka’s WAN optimization-as-a-serviceplatform now that Aryaka has expanded its network points of presenceglobally. This expansion enables a …(more)

partners …ZDNet (blog)The company also forged a partnership with Accenture, which going to builda global software as a service ERP practice around NetSuite. Zach Nelson,NetSuite CEO, is expected to roll out a bevy of products and partnershipsto court large enterprises. …(more)

Marketwire (press release)Using a set of patent-pending algorithms that analyze all of a brand’ssocial media content — including posts and responses — down to theindividual object level, this software as a service (SaaS) platformprovides specific recommendations regarding …(more)

Deloitte, which provides professional services around the world, acquiresthe end-to-end Software as a Service (SaaS) BI provider Oco.(more)

CRNExecutives say that the security modules, which can be managed by McAfee’sePolicy Orchestrator or McAfee SaaS Control Console, can be used inon-premises appliances, a pure SaaS environment or a hybrid of both cloudand on-premise infrastructure. …(more)

Business Wire (press release)BT, as a champion of the Enhanced Cloud Service Management Catalyst, servesas an enterprise consumer and retailer of complex cloud computing services,providing the context for exploring how BT can provide unique businessvalue through an ‘enhanced’ …(more)

Its …PR Newswire (press release)Its cloud services are gathered on Cloud Plaza, an online selling platform.In this web shop, customers and resellers can buy applications fordesktops, laptops and smart phones. An up-to-date Software as a Serviceoffering leads companies to a range …(more)

Living in a multi-tenancy building has some great benefits, such as in manycases instilling a greater sense of community than we tend to get just inthe …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)DGScreen’s cloud-based digital signage solution is a combinedhardware/software solution offered on a SaaS (Software as a Service) modelfor a low monthly fee. Designed to enable any size business to benefit fromdigital signage, DGScreen offers all …(more)

InfoWorld (blog)It’s interesting to see the number of people calling for the downfall ofcloud computing after the recent Amazon Web Services outage and, of course,Sony’s huge PlayStation Network security blunder that potentially let loose100 million credit card …(more)

Computer Business ReviewCSC cloud computing and software services vice-president Siki Giunta saidby validating improved resource utilisation and operational efficiency withtheir own implementation of SAP ERP HCM, they can now offer the sameperformance to their customers. …(more)

CRN - UKDuring the event’s introductory keynote, the firm’s chief marketingofficer, Jeremy Burton, said EMC had been extolling the virtues of cloudcomputing since its last partner summit, and those that had not yetembraced the concept need to start now. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)OrangeScape is a rare breed technology platform company, founded in 2003with a vision to simplify business application development through visualdevelopment paradigm in the “Cloud”. OrangeScape provides a VisualPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to build …(more)

American Banking NewsOur solutions include secure hosted environments for virtual servers anddesktops, cloud-based disaster recovery, hybrid cloud using VMware vCloudConnector …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The Ubuntu project announces today that future versions of Ubuntu Cloudwill use OpenStack as a foundation technology. The Ubuntu project isgathered in Budapest, Hungary to discuss future development plans that willculminate in the October release of …(more)

Chicago TribuneAP CHAMPAIGN — The US Air Force is giving the University of Illinois $6million to build a center devoted to cloud computing. The News-Gazettenewspaper in Champaign reports the University Center of Excellence inAssured Cloud Computing was …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Art of Service, one ofthe world’s premier IT service framework companies, now offers its CloudComputing Foundation Course on the iPad. Now the career-driven ITprofessional can take the valuable and …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)The CSA is a coalition of industry practitioners, corporations,associations and other key stakeholders who promote the use of leadingpractices for providing security assurance within cloud computing. PwC ispleased to begin its membership by hosting …(more)

CenterBeamCisco and Xerox recently teamed up to bring a reliable means of mobileprinting to cloud computing, reports the Economic Times. Now, Cisco willoffer Xerox’s printing services on its network equipment, and Xerox willsell Cisco’s cloud to its clients. …(more)

TiE50 …Marketwire (press release)Acquia received the award in the Software/Cloud Computing category andchosen as one of the 50 most enterprising startups of 2011. The 50 winnersselected from 291 finalists and over 1600 nominations, and representingfive sectors that are driving …(more)

Security …PR Newswire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CloudPassage, a pioneeringsecurity SaaS company, today announced that information security expert andindustry veteran Christopher Brenton has joined the company as CloudSecurity Architect. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)In addition, PayCommerce announced a free single-user edition of itsSaaS-based electronic global invoicing solution. PayCommerce is providingISOs, banks and other resellers with a cloud-based SMB solution they caneasily implement for their customers …(more)

Small Cap NetworkThe driving factor behind this run-up: exponential growth in its cloudcomputing business. Its five year top line growth of 41.2 per cent and 33.9per cent growth in profits just underline the transformation Rackspace hasundergone. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Obviously born to pay retail, Microsoft is gonna ante up $8.5 billion cashmoney to scoff up Skype and turn it into its new Skype Division with CEO,Cisco veteran Tony Bates, as president. Bates will report to Microsoft CEOSteve Ballmer. …(more)

Silicon.comBy Nick Heath, 10 May 2011 15:57 Cloud computing will play a critical role
in helping organisations meet the threefold challenge of an explosion indata, IT budget costs and security threats, according to EMC CEO Joe Tucci.Speaking at EMC World in Las …(more)

Providence JournalVMware, VMware vCloud, VMware View, VMware vShield, and VMware vSphere areregistered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the UnitedStates …(more)

ManagersSacramento BeeBecause DataCare case management is a Web-based solution that providessoftware as a service (SaaS), it allows complete access to tools andinformation, no matter where employees are working. It also gives morecontrol to owners and managers. …(more)

ComputingPR Newswire (press release)”Service providers play a vital role in fulfilling the promise of hybridcloud computing, which is why EMC has committed resources across thecompany to help enable the success of our service provider partners and ourpartner program,” said Howard …(more)

FierceCIOThe findings were released as part of the Ponemon Institute’s “Security ofCloud Computing Providers” report, which polled 103 cloud service providersin the United States and 24 in six European countries. Even moreinteresting and shocking is the …(more)

InformationWeekThe solicitation accounts for wide variations in customer demand, as itseeks vendors for private cloud, government-specific cloud, and publiccloud computing options, as well as an option that will meet the securitydemands of agencies doing business …(more)

Providence JournalTogether with our other cloud infrastructure and management products suchas VMware vCloud(R) Director and vCenter(TM) Operations, UIM’spolicy-driven …(more)

PlatformTMC NetLMD, an IT and mobile e-solution services provider, relies on its extensiveapplication expertise, the vast data center and network expertise ofLintasarta, and Hexagrid’s leading Infrastructure as a Service software togive customers a full line of …(more)

Computerworld (blog)When we talk about the “public cloud,” most of us are referring to thehosted, multi-tenant servers that software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendors useto run their systems. In recent years, the generally accepted definitionhas expanded to include the …(more)

Version.PR Web (press release)”The P3Expeditor system now utilizes cutting edge SaaS and Cloud Computingtechnologies,” states P3Software CEO Caleb Tower. “This makes it instantlyavailable to a wider audience, by eliminating software installation andfirewall configuration. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Cloud computing is not just about the technology. It’s also about trust.Customers are trusting cloud providers to host data and sites that may (formany companies) be the only place the company exists. These aren’tbrick-and-mortar businesses with web …(more)

CIO InsightIt’s not something that just began with the popularity of cloud computing,managed services and offshore outsourcing, although certainly thewidespread acceptance of these alternative source for skills has been a bigfactor in the acceleration of what …(more)

San Antonio ExpressAlthough the hosting and cloud computing company fell short ofexpectations, analysts are optimistic about the company’s growth. Profit atthe hosting and cloud computing company jumped to $13.8 million, or 10cents a share, compared with profit of …(more)

Forbes (blog)In sequence, senior executives from Thomson Reuters, Xerox, State StreetBank, Invensys Controls, Pitney Bowes Wells Fargo, Sanmina-SCI and Marshhighlighted the business value of cloud computing. What set this conferenceapart was the fact that …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), theenterprise cloud computing (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/)company, today announced the release of Jigsaw 2 which instantly brings thebenefits of accurate business …(more)

Washington TechnologyBy Alice Lipowicz The General Services Administration has issued a request
for quotations for cloud computing services, including email-as-a-service,office automation and electronic records management. The Federal CloudComputing Initiative is …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)CEO Steve Ballmer described Microsoft’s $8.5 billion cash offer to buySkype as “unsolicited” during a webcast press conference Tuesday morning.Skype CEO Tony Bates, soon to be president of a new Microsoft SkypeDivision, sidestepped answering a …(more)

Information Technology strategy insight for senior IT management -resources to understand and leverage information technology.(more)

PlatformeChannelLineThe solution is a single platform with multiple security modules, whichconsolidate, enhance and rebrand existing McAfee security solutions to givea choice of a SaaS or appliance deployment. “We have enhanced and changedthe packaging of our …(more)

PlatformeChannelLineThe solution is a single platform with multiple security modules, whichconsolidate, enhance and rebrand existing McAfee security solutions to givea choice of a SaaS or appliance deployment. “We have enhanced and changedthe packaging of our …(more)

ZDNet AustraliaThe webinar, entitled Cloud Computing: New Realities and Guidelines,focused not only on how cloud computing is changing the way IT is handledin businesses of all sizes, but also examines the challenges organisationsare facing. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)This will foster a global SaaS boom. To explain these dynamics we can lookat the Canadian Government. They’re one of the slower movers but as one oftheir CIO’s state, they will be pulled towards it more as vendors comeforward with SaaS solutions …(more)

So If I enable the multi-tenancy with namespaces with App Engine, how …multi- tenancy and namespaces. Just do the exact same things you would …(more)

This talk describes our motivation and lessons learned by converting it toa multitenancy enabled piece of software, replacing the SQL databasebackend with …(more)

Business Wire (press release)Centralized management and reporting is also provided through integrationwith the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform. The security modules can bedeployed as an on-premises appliance, a Software-as-a-Service solution or ahybrid combination of both. …(more)

IT Jungle… projects (or some tools that Red Hat has acquired that will become opensource eventually) into a cohesive whole, while the latter plunksCloudForms onto Amazon’s EC2 cloud to turn it into a platform-as-a-servicecloud for running applications. …(more)

CRNThe services include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), cloud consultingservices, and private cloud deployments, according to Xerox. Finally, thealliance brings Xerox’s mobile print solution to Cisco virtual desktops andthe Cisco Cius tablet, …(more)

Business Wire (press release)As the momentum in cloud computing and improving sales productivitycontinues to grow, BigMachines has grown by licensing its enterprisestrength software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution to more than 150000 users.BigMachines continues to grow its staff …(more)

Commodity OnlineTEXAS, USA (Commodity Online): SunGard has announced that it added areal-time position and margin monitoring component, Kiodex Control, to itsKiodex Real Time commodities risk management solution, delivered on aSoftware-as-a-Service basis. …(more)

eWEEK Europe UKAbout 55 percent of the respondents offered software-as-a-service, followedby 34 percent offering identity-as-a-service, and 11 percent withplatform-as-a-service. Approximately 65 percent of the respondents offeredpublic cloud services, …(more)

A high-level overview on iland’s cloud factory powered by vCloud Director,and how it empowers users to deploy environments, manage user interactions,…(more)

Wall Street Journal (blog)By Ben Rooney It isn’t just Sony that has suffered from the hacker breach
of their network, the whole cloud computing movement has taken a bit of aknock, or perhaps has had a wake-up call. We reported the findings of asurvey by the Ponemom Institute …(more)

InformationWeek IndiaRed Hat’s first shot at cloud computing was too painful for customers,needing either deep open source expertise or a consulting contract with RedHat. Now, Red Hat’s coming out with something more promising, aplatform-as-a-service called OpenShift …(more)

MicroScope (blog)While substantial growth in cloud computing and its various sectors isbeing predicted, reports are that firms in the UK are a little behind theglobal take up. Linda Endersby investigates. There might be differences ofopinion about speed and size but …(more)

Hat …PR-USA.net (press release)”Nimbula has brought an innovative cloud computing platform vision to themarket,” said Sarangan Rangachari, senior director, Cloud Ecosystem at RedHat. “Nimbula is a great partner for Red Hat’s open source cloud computinginitiatives and our growing …(more)

ComputerworldUKYou could argue that there is similar value to deploying VMware vCloudDirector as I&O peers would be able to help as fellow administrators, buteveryone …(more)

EE Times UKIntegrated Device Technology (IDT) has introduced a family of low-power,precision temperature sensors targeted at Double Data Rate 2 and 3 (DDR2and DDR3) memory modules, solid state drives (SSD), and computingmotherboards. …(more)

CRN - UKBy Peter Lorant The growth of cloud computing is undeniable. Back in the
early days the first wave of customers that were attracted to the cloudwere generally motivated by the cost savings that this new model promised.But now, as we enter the next …(more)

Clustered …Business Wire (press release)The VIPRION 2400 combined with F5’s flexible vCMP technology will open upmore business opportunities for IT-as-a-Service and cloud offerings, withthe solution providing true virtualization and the ability to isolate ADCresources. …(more)

Management AppSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)Smartsheet.com, a leading Software as a Service (SaaS) company, offersbusinesses an intuitive online project management and collaboration tool.The ease of use of the familiar spreadsheet-like interface, coupled withfile sharing and work automation …(more)

GlobeNewsWire (press release)PARK CITY, Utah, May 9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Park City Group (NYSEAmex:PCYG), a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of unique supply chainsolutions for retailers and their suppliers, today announced that RandallK. Fields, Chairman/CEO, …(more)

(VDI)SYS-CON Media (press release)Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of cloud-hosted Desktops as a Service, todayannounced that QueBIT, a consulting organization specializing in IBM Cognosperformance management solutions, has selected the Desktone Cloud for itsvirtualization environment. …(more)

Forrester recently surveyed more than 1000 firms across North America andEurope to better understand software-as-a-service (SaaS) adoption and thebusiness …(more)

Cloud Computing - With Atlantic.Net’s highly scalable and industrial gradecloud computing platform backed by world-class infrastructure and highly…(more)

By Jennifer Zaino
The product of Datagraph Inc., one of the New Orleans-based startups withseed funding from Chris Schultz’ Voodoo Ventures, Dydra is essentially adatabase-as- a-service for storing, publishing, and querying RDF data onits multitenant architecture. The idea is to let users focus … Theservice can be used from any programming language running on any platformon any device, Dydra promises; it uses W3C open standards, and users’ datadoesn’t wind up locked in its platform. …(more)

TMC NetBy Carrie Schmelkin Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)– along with
Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and cloud computing– ischanging the way that companies purchase their technology. Organizationsare now able to deliver and control …(more)

TMC NetThese services are typically divided into three categories:Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) andSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)). Cloud computing permits afunctional separation between a user’s computer and …(more)

Network WorldThe US Air Force said today it would spend $6 million to set up astate-of-the-art cloud computing research center at the University ofIllinois. The Air Force’s Assured Cloud Computing (ACC) Center, will focuson developing technology to ensure …(more)

Sacramento BeeBy Datapipe JERSEY CITY, NJ, May 9, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Datapipe, a
leading provider of managed services and infrastructure for IT and cloudcomputing, announced today that it will be sponsoring Startup 2011, whichis being held on Tuesday, …(more)

eWeekThe event debuted a “Red Hat CloudForms” cloud-computing initiative andrelated “OpenShift” development platform. The final version of Red HatEnterprise Linux (RHEL 6.1) is not yet generally available, but wasreleased to select partners this week at …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)It looks like it could be weeks yet before Sony’s PlayStation Network andQriocity online services come back on after hackers stole personal data onan estimated 100 million user accounts. A leery Sony told Bloomberg Mondaymorning that it was delaying …(more)

ComputingTradersHuddle.com (press release)… are based on the HP FlexNetwork architecture, the industry’s onlyunified architecture for the data center, campus and branch enablingenterprises to fully harness the power of media-rich content,virtualization, mobility and cloud computing. …(more)

UNCG University NewsThat’s the assessment of Dr. Nir Ksherti, an associate professor ofbusiness administration in UNCG’s Bryan School of Business and Economics,who presented his findings on cloud computing and cybercrime to theInternational Telecommunications Union, …(more)

TMC NetOpenShift, Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, providesdevelopers with a choice of languages, frameworks and clouds to develop anddeploy applications. Officials with OpSource said that the company willserve as the first Infrastructure …(more)

SaaS …SYS-CON Media (press release)However, even with these great tools, there are dangers and pitfalls thatcan derail the best-laid plans for delivering new software-as-a-service(SaaS) applications. Often the choices are to trust largeplatform-as-a-service (PaaS) players who …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Vyatta is disrupting the networking industry by delivering a software-basednetwork operating system that is portable to standard x86 hardware as wellas common virtualization and cloud computing platforms. Vyatta softwareprovides a complete …(more)

TMC NetBy Jyothi Shanbhag To enable enterprise businesses to easily switch to
groupware and collaboration software solution without any cost barriers,Bynari, Inc. introduced two new programs called SaaS (News -Alert)-on-Premise and the Trade-up-Server …(more)

Enhanced Governance and Control for Private Clouds.(more)

Total TelecomBy Steven D. Jones, Dow Jones Newswires Cloud computing companies are
aggressively adding security features in a campaign to protect theirservices that are picking up steam after a series of high-profile break-insand outages. …(more)

Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits : Blog -SpokePOV MiniPOV SIM reader Tools MintyBoost Gift Certificates Digg ButtonAVR …(more)

Although Cloud Computing has been a very hot industry topic for some timenow, adoption by Government is still in its earliest stages. However itdoes offer new solutions to some very well established IT challenges, mostnotably …(more)

Architecting a vCloud is intended to serve as a reference for cloudarchitects. The target audience is VMware Certified Professionals familiarwith VMware …(more)

ComputerworldUKBy Bernard Golden | CIO US | Published 10:37, 08 May 11 Last week marked
the second OpenStack Design Summit. OpenStack, if you’re not familiar withit, is an open source project founded by a joint effort and codecontribution of NASA and RackSpace; …(more)

PR-USA.net (press release)The 6 percent growth in software revenue in second quarter of fiscal 2011was fueled by growth in our Saas products, XataNet and Xata Turnpikeincreased 8 percent and 39 percent, respectively. Fiscal 2011 secondquarter software revenue accounted for …(more)

Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director, by John Y. Arrasjid, Ben Lin,Raman Veeramraju, Steve Kaplan, Duncan Epping, and Michael Haines, providesuse …(more)

National Business ReviewNB: A shorter version of this article ran as part of the NBR’s specialreport on cloud computing. Cloud computing offers many benefits, includinglower IT costs, stronger security and a more agile business. How should youbuild a business case to reap …(more)

How does multitenancy with namespaces in app engine works My applicationhas …. Spring Security and Multitenancy REST How Best practice Referenceapp …(more)

By Dick Benton
In this installment, I will highlight two additional examples of servicesin the cloud model — Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as aService (PaaS). Let’s look at these two cloud strategies, and considerbenefits and …(more)

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Cloud for Open Source Developers. Red HatOpenShift allows developers to focus on building applications not theinfrastructure. …(more)

Software as a Service considerations. With all the hype and increasingpopularity of SaaS BI, organizations are used to hearing the positiveaspects of …(more)

This ECAR research bulletin provides an understanding of how the evolutionof software as a service (SaaS) will impact the relationships and roles of…(more)

ZDNet (blog)You could say that the remarks were cheerleading for the troops, who CA isdepending on to advance its cloud computing and as-a-service solutions. Butit’s interesting to see a vendor that has spent decades selling intoon-premises data centers (a …(more)

By Simon Jakesch
The OpenStack project is just about 1 year old now and while I’ve kept aneye on their effort, I haven’t really had a chance to really dig in untilnow. After attending the Conference and Summit last week week.(more)

Virtualize your operations using CoreVault’s own standout datacenters: ourvCloud Director service enables you to build secure multi-tenant privateclouds …(more)

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The HThe new product is based around VMware’s recently open sourced CloudFoundry PaaS (platform as a service) project. The company have made use ofthe open source project at cloudfoundry.org and extended it to support itscommercial ActivePerl and …(more)

By IBNLive.com editor@ibnonline.com
The Sony data breach that compromised the personal data of more than 100million customers of the Japanese electronics conglomerate may claim yetanother victim - the cloud computing industry.(more)

Maureen O’Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, isthe Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media.She is the publisher of famous “Billygrams” and the editor-in-chief of”Client/Server …(more)

Moneycontrol.comIn a special panel discussion of Building Networks of the Future andBuilding Global Companies on behalf of Brocade and CNBC-TV18, Mike KlaykoGlobal Head and CEO of Brocade shared his views on the future of cloudcomputing in India. …(more)

InternetNews.comBy Sean Michael Kerner: More stories by this author: Internap Network
Services Corporation (NASDAQ:INAP) is set to provide public cloud servicesfor both VMware and the open source OpenStack cloud platforms. By providingboth stacks, Internap is aiming …(more)

By HPNetworking
For Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), the ability to accelerate applicationdevelopment implies cost reduction but also time-to-market acceleration andpotentially higher margins and/or winner-take-all dynamics. ForSoftware-as-a- Service …(more)

I heard the word multi-tenancy about a year ago when it was brought up in arequirements meeting I was part of. While I can’t disclose the entire …(more)

By Nihal Sharma
It’s an online-only Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) offering that letsdevelopers build and host applications on Red Hat. In its components fordevelopers to deploy their applications rapidly are : Power, which deploysapplications to the …(more)

It has always been assumed that traditional vendors would resist the moveto SaaS because the SaaS business model doesn’t work with the maintena.(more)

CRNBy Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Brocade on Tuesday cited the growing importance of
supporting the transition to cloud computing with the introduction of theindustry’s first end-to-end 16-Gbps Fibre Channel portfolio along withtechnologies to unify Ethernet …(more)

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Seeking AlphaBy 2012, the Software-as-a-Service market is projected to grow at a 20%
CAGR to $21 billion; the Platform-as-a-Service market is projected to growat a 160% CAGR to $9 billion; and the Infrastructure-as-a-Service market isprojected to grow at a 60% …(more)

to …Virtual Strategy MagazineThe event will be an opportunity to get an in-depth update of how Wyse isadvancing desktop virtualisation into the mainstream and providing viablepaths for organisations to migrate to cloud computing solutions. Wyseoffers the industry’s broadest …(more)

The DiplomatBy Jeffrey Carr On a recent trip to Beijing and Shanghai to attend Huawei’s
analyst summit, Gartner analyst Lydia Long learned that Huawei is planningto become a one-stop-shop ‘cloud computing’ provider. In other words,Huawei will not only be making …(more)

By michaelide@itproportal.com (Michael Ide)
In an attempt to counter Microsoft Azure, Red Hat has come up with its owncloud platforms, designed with both…(more)

Large-scale cloud computing has the unique properties of massive amounts ofdata twinned with huge aggregate performance requirements. Putting all thedata on low-cost storage results in unacceptable performance; however, …(more)

By Todd Bishop
That was a core question earlier this week when I moderated a panel ofexperts in cloud computing, business intelligence, and mobile appdevelopment during an event held by the University of Washington’sProfessional & Continuing …(more)

By Klint Finley
Dashboard software-as-a-service provider Netvibes and enterprise Javaplatform builder eXo have teamed up to create Netvibes Studio, acloud-based development environment for building cross-platform widgets.Widgets built …(more)

The company launched its new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) product calledOpenShift, as well as its CloudForms infrastructure as a service (IaaS)software at the event. OpenShift could emerge as an open source alternativeto Microsoft’s …(more)

By Dick Benton
Some examples of services in the cloud model include Infrastructure as aService (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service(PaaS). These services may be provided by internal or external serviceproviders, or both. …(more)

Sydney Morning HeraldCloud computing is a way of renting capacity in a provider’s data centreand connecting to it over the internet. The provider’s staff carries outthe maintenance and upgrades of hardware and software and customerstypically pay a monthly subscription …(more)

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Dr. Dobb’sInitially compliant with only Python and Perl, Stackato is based on theCloud Foundry open Platform-as-a-Service project initiated by VMware.Stackato’s technology proposition to developers is to enable thedeployment, management, and scaling of Python …(more)

TheStreet.com”Customers are increasingly seeking to build agile, flexible ITinfrastructures, whether through cloud computing, SaaS or virtualization,”said Bob Beauchamp, BMC’s CEO, in the statement. BMC, which partners withCisco(CSCO) on cloud computing, …(more)

American Banking News (press release)BlackDog has made a strategic decision to expand its recruiting softwareproduct line to include this new SAAS based product in conjunction with itspopular Gopher for Recruiters desktop application. Gopher ATS has all thefunctionality of the desktop …(more)

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EventPR.com (press release)The CIO Cloud Summit, June 14-16, 2011 in Scottsdale, Arizona, will bringtogether CIOs and IT executives who are researching, implementing or wantto optimize cloud computing projects at their organizations. The event isan opportunity for attendees …(more)

Utah Businessby PR or News Wire inContact (NASDAQ: SAAS), a leading provider ofon-demand call center software and call center agent optimization tools,announced that a Fortune 500 global wireless company selected inContact tosupport the launch of a new consumer …(more)

GigaOmInside the enterprise, software as a service (SaaS) products such asSalesforce’s eponymous customer relationship management (CRM) system arehistorically adopted by individual business units (marketing, sales, etc.)rather than rolled out across a …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Larry Dignan | May 6, 2011, 3:03am PDT Red Hat this week enhanced its
JBoss middleware portfolio and bolstered its cloud computing efforts.Couple those moves with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the company is nolonger a one-trick tech company. …(more)

Continuity Central (press release)There are undeniable benefits to cloud computing: the elastic computingmodel it supports provides unprecedented flexibility to respond rapidly tochanging business requirements, server and desktop consolidation can leadto much higher resource …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Gigya, Inc., software as a service (SaaS) technology that makes sitessocial, has been named a “Cool Vendor” in the Cool Vendors in CRMMarketing, 2011 report by Gartner, Inc. The report, authored by AdamSarner, Kimberly Collins, and Ed Thompson, …(more)

TechEyeThe handbags at dawn war between Microsoft and Google over cloud-basedofferings just got a bit nastier, with Vole’s Software as a Service bod TomRizzo moaning that there was a tax on Google Apps because you need Postini,help desk support, …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsHyderabad, India based Brio will be offering a complete email solution onthe cloud with Google Apps and Google Postini. Brio is a business partnerfor implementing Google Apps and Google Postini services. The company notesthat Google provided …(more)

TechNewsWorldBy Jay Lyman The biggest change and impact to the Linux landscape and
market to date has been the advent of cloud computing. True, this doesbuild from the spread of virtualization and use of VMs on Linux, but cloudcomputing has meant deeper changes …(more)

InfoWorld (blog)Thus, the core benefit of cloud computing — shared resources — can belost when creating and maintaining a private cloud. Considering therelative costs and benefits of a private cloud, many enterprises start withpublic clouds instead. …(more)

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Logistics Online (press release)Concord, NC /PRNewswire/ - Cardinal Logistics Management Corporation, aleading dedicated transportation solution provider, announces its dedicatedtechnology solutions are now available as Software as a Service (SaaS)under the name Cardinal Hosted …(more)

Internap will be leveraging the open source OpenStack platform and VMwareas part of its public cloud offering By providing both stacks Internap isaiming …(more)

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in …TMC NetThe said event will provide a large platform for the world’s globalsecurity experts to discuss network security posture and infrastructurechallenges facing organizations. At the event, the experts will discuss thetopics focused on security. …(more)

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SYS-CON Media (press release)Red Hat took a flying leap Wednesday and landed with both feet on the cloudwhere it hopes to knock VMware, which it perceives as its biggest enemy,for a loop. It announced that it’s going into both theInfrastructure-as-a-Service and the …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)With the arrival of Cloud 2, the salesforce.com partner program offers anecosystem which provides partners the means to deliver social, mobile andopen cloud computing solutions. The company continues to build its partnercommunity by enhancing its …(more)

9NEWS.com”Frankly, I don’t think this legislation will have any effect on cloudcomputing. Companies are migrating to ‘the cloud’,” Vladeck said. They aremigrating to it because the cloud’s shaping up to be the best place fordigital data storage for consumers …(more)

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Web Host Industry ReviewBy Nicole Henderson, May 06, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web host
FiberCloud (www.fibercloud.com) announced on Thursday that it has addedcloud servers using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to its product line.According to the press release, …(more)

OfferingVirtualization.comVirtacore Systems, provider of hybrid cloud services, has announced theavailability of the company’s vCloud Express offering. The public cloudsolution, based on VMware vCloud technology, provides virtual servers froma shared resource pool for a low …(more)

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E-Commerce TimesBy Dick Benton The shortest lead time to cloud benefits appears to be by
way of PaaS, while the largest financial return might be from targeted useof SaaS services. PaaS may provide the quickest implementation, but itspricing complexities make …(more)

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Online PR News (press release)Today when Cloud/SaaS/Online software applications are becoming morepopular, enterprises face new opportunities and also new challenges duringsoftware acquisition. The report “Cloud/SaaS/Online Enterprise ApplicationsAcquisition: What Makes a …(more)

ReutersBy Jim Finkle and Liana B. Baker BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Sony data
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Cloud …PR Newswire (press release)LONDON, May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — SMEStorage today announced that it hasenabled support for OpenStack Swift Object Storage within its Open CloudSaaS Platform and its on-premise Cloud appliance. Swift is a sub project ofOpenStack and provides a …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Justin Lee, May 06, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK hosting
provider Fasthosts Internet (www.fasthosts.co.uk) announced this week ithas been awarded the Hyper-V Cloud Partner for 2010 by Microsoft, duringits annual Global Hosting Summit in …(more)

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New …Marketwire (press release)Zuora’s Founder and CEO, Tien Tzuo, is speaking today at the Goldman SachsCloud Computing Conference on a panel entitled “Selling SaaS to theEnterprise.” Zuora is a silver sponsor of the NetSuite Suiteworldconference, May 9-12, 2011, …(more)

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At its users conference this week, Symantec released a slew of upgrades toits midrange backup, enterprise archive and data management products andsaid it will begin offering a SaaS model.(more)

By Radu Tyrsina
A Hewlett Packard executive has inadvertently revealed the company’s cloudcomputing plans on his profile on…(more)

By ilene.aginsky@intel.com
What does cloud computing, information security and IT consumerization havein common? Among other things, they are included in three new audiopodcasts from Intel IT. These podcasts are great for downloading andlistening on your …(more)

HP …CFO WorldCIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value inEnterprise Software for seven consecutive years in the CIO Insight MagazineVendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technologywith its operating system platform, …(more)

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BloombergBy Ragnhild Kjetland - Wed May 04 22:01:17 GMT 2011 SAP AG (SAP), which
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Scientific AmericanThis is now changing as scientists come to rely on software and storagedelivered via the Web, aka “cloud computing,” as a resource for organizingand analyzing research data. Biotech and physical sciences are two fieldsin particular that are …(more)

Security ManagementBy John Wagley Security is a relatively low priority for many cloud service
providers, according to Security of Cloud Computing Providers, a new studyconducted by the Ponemon Institute. Cloud providers and customers also havewidely differing views on …(more)

That makes it imperative to dramatically increase computing efficiency,which is how Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are already making adifference. …(more)

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The HAt the Red Hat Summit currently being held in Boston, Red Hat hasintroduced OpenShift, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution which Red Hatsays has been specially tailored to the needs of open source developers.The PaaS is based on technologies …(more)

InquirerBy Dean Wilson LEADING LINUX BRAND Red Hat has launched Openshift, a
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at …Virtual Strategy MagazineMr. McNaught will address the financial, productivity, legal, and securityimpact that BYOC and the advent of the iPad has on enterprises, and howvirtualization, cloud computing and zero clients provide IT with thearsenal to support BYOC. …(more)

Cloud …Business Wire (press release)In addition, Red Hat announced that it has recognized the UW-Madison CHTCas the first recipient of its Red Hat Cloud Leadership Award for itsadvancements in cloud computing based on the open source Condor project andRed Hat technologies. …(more)

V3.co.ukby Rosalie Marshall SAP is blaming cloud computing giant Amazon WebServices (AWS) for difficulties it says the industry is experiencingselling software-as-a-service. Sanjay Poonen, head of SAP’s globalsolutions business, told Bloomberg that the …(more)

Marketwire (press release)ISAE-3402 is the global standard that provides assurance to customers of aService Organization’s Controls (SOC’s) and outsourced services, such asSaaS or application management services. With the independent ISAE-3402certification, BWise’s service …(more)

Practical EcommerceCloud computing is a term that’s frequently discussed, and also frequentlymisunderstood. Google Docs would be an example of cloud computing, whereas,Microsoft Office, locally installed on a computer, is not. Among the manyhosted, cloud platforms on …(more)

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Its …PR Newswire (press release)The Platform, based on virtualization technology, was developed as a basiccloud computing infrastructure with various cloud modules, includingprivate cloud, government cloud and business cloud. The Platform providesan efficient resource sharing …(more)

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PRLog.Org (press release)In an industry first for StratoGen, it has become the first cloud providerto launch a self-service, hosted VMware solution based on VMware vCloudDirector. Organisations can sign up online to instantly create a bespokevirtual datacentre, …(more)

VatorNewsPowerReviews, a social commerce SaaS solutions provider, announced Thursdaythat it has secured $10 million in a round of financing led by Four RiversGroup, with participation from Woodside Fund and previous investors MenloVentures and Tenaya Capital …(more)

Network WorldBy Bob Violino, CSO Symantec Corp. recently announced new enhancements to
its Symantec.cloud portfolio of software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings,bringing more of the company’s technologies to the cloud. The new offeringsare designed to improve …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Liam Eagle, May 05, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting
provider Internap (www.internap.com) announced on Wednesday that it ispreparing to launch a public infrastructure as a service cloud, built inpart on the OpenStack cloud …(more)

RegisterPlatform as a service (PaaS) abstracts much of the infrastructure away. Youdeploy an application onto a pre-existing platform which provides servicessuch as data management, transactions, identity and authentication.Google’s App Engine is an example …(more)

InformationWeekWith Forge.mil, DISA has effectively set itself to redistribute CollabNet’sproducts in a software-as-a-service model. DISA actually supports twoversions, SoftwareForge, which has about 9000 users, and ProjectForge, aversion for projects that require …(more)

eWeekRed Hat didn’t have a data lifecycle management product/service in itscatalog, so BMC Software came to the rescue with its well-establishedplatform. BMC described its new Red Hat product as a tightly integratedturnkey DLM platform that will consist …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeLimelight Networks (LLNW) announced the acquisition of Clickability, asoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of web content management (WCM)tools. San Francisco-based Clickability helps enterprise marketers andonline publishers create, …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewCloudForms incorporates both comprehensive application lifecycle managementand the ability to create integrated clouds from a wide range of toolsacross physical, virtual and cloud computing resources. Built on Red Hat’stechnology, the cloud builder …(more)

Washington PostWhat exactly is cloud computing? And how can you keep your informationsecure? Join Symantec’s Francis deSouza, senior vice president of thecompany’s Enterprise Security group Thursday, May 5 at 2:30 pm ET, to chatabout how cloud computing works and …(more)

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ConferenceMarketwire (press release)ATLANTA, GA–(Marketwire - May 5, 2011) - Virtual Premise, a leadingSoftware as a Service (SaaS) provider of real estate information managementsolutions, today announced that a record number of people have registeredfor its upcoming VP|Connect 2011 …(more)

PCWorld”The role of the IT person is changing,” said Greg Bouncontri, chiefinformation officer for Pitney Bowes, during one panel on cloud computingat Wired magazine’s CIO Leadership Forum in New York. “There will be someskillset shifts within our …(more)

ComputingNetworkComputing.comComputer network equipment maker Brocade is introducing a first-to-marketline of 16Gbps fibre channel (FC) switches and other equipment as itcontends that fibre channel is going to be the dominant switchingtechnology in cloud environments. …(more)

GigaOmNeither feature is particularly sexy by cloud computing standards, but bothshould improve the experience for enterprises as they move applications tothe cloud. AWS now offers a new feature called Identity and AccessManagement, which goes by the …(more)

Business Wire (press release)Now, LLS can fully explore the benefits and features of cloud computing andvirtualization that simply weren’t possible before.” The ComputerworldHonors awards will be presented at the Annual Laureates Medal Ceremony &Gala Awards on June 20, …(more)

SolutionInsurance News Net (press release)*SunGard Financial Systems is pursuing a visionary initiative to transformsome of the key functionality of its core systems into components creatingsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS)-based solutions. Infinity uses aservice-oriented architecture (SOA) …(more)

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TMC NetFor those who don’t want to run their own hardware, there are number ofsoftware-as-a-service (SaS) hosting plans. Softswitch-as-a-Service is acost-e?ective way to license SIP switching software. Instead of incurringhardware management and software …(more)

PR-USA.net (press release)eZCom Software, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider ofmulti-enterprise supply chain solutions, announced today that it has beennamed to the 2011 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100. This is the fifthconsecutive year that eZCom Software …(more)

Forbes (blog)By BRAD PETERS In the commentary about the recent catastrophic crash of
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By Matt Rosoff
Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker announced that HP was making a big pushinto cloud computing last month, but didn’t go into much detail, except tosay it was building “platform-as-a-service” (like Microsoft’s WindowsAzure) and …(more)

Computerworld AustraliaArchitecting a vCloud is intended to serve as a reference for cloudarchitects. The target audience is VMware Certified Professionals (VCP)familiar with VMware products, particularly VMware vSphere (vCenter Server,ESXi, vShield Manager), …(more)

Network WorldA new software-as-a-service available from CopperEgg, RevealStorage can bedeployed in minutes and avoid the hardware and software build-outsnecessary with other performance management products. Users deployingCopperEgg’s RevealStorage pay on a …(more)

ZDNet (blog)The JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6, which is expected to be madegenerally available in early 2012, offers support for Java EnterpriseEdition 6 and the creation of Platform-As-A-Service (Paas)-ready platforms.Both of these capabilities make …(more)

PR Web (press release)SaaS-on-Premise and the Trade-up-Server programs are two new initiativesthat allow businesses to migrate to Bynari Collaboration Suite (BCS) withminimal investment. BCS is a scalable and easy to use all-in-one email andcollaboration solution for …(more)

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Scientific AmericanBy Larry Greenemeier | May 4, 2011 HEAD IN THE CLOUD: Microsoft researcher
and “life logger” Gordon Bell considers cloud computing to be a new chapterin the eponymous Bell’s Law, which describes how different approaches tocomputing arrive, …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Logicalis also announced its IBM Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering,enabling customers to leverage services such as on-demand disasterrecovery, application test and development, or full application hosting.Tom Kelly, managing director of Logicalis …(more)

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that …SYS-CON Media (press release)Merit Medical Systems, a global medical device manufacturer, has investedheavily in SaaS (Software as a Service) applications to improvecollaboration between its mobile sales force, employees, and distributors.The company is using an integrated …(more)

RTT News(RTTNews) - Tata Communications Ld., a leading provider of the new world ofcommunications, said it had launched its Virtual Proxy or vProxy managedsecurity service in partnership with Zscaler, provider of multitenant SaaSsecurity. …(more)

GigaOm4, 2011, 6:13am PT No Comments Managed service provider Internap hasannounced that it will be offering a public infrastructure-as-a-servicecloud built atop the OpenStack platform. The service will be available inthe third quarter of this year, …(more)

Scientific AmericanBy Larry Greenemeier | May 4, 2011 DEFINING THE CLOUD: The success of cloud
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ConnectedPlanetBy Joan Engebretson Internap hopes to differentiate its new cloud computing
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CloudTweaks NewsUnfortunately, it seems that cloud computing service providers believe in acompletely different ideology. For them, it’s passing the buck that hasbecome an established norm, especially regarding security. While the recentoutage at Amazon has …(more)

Posts tagged ‘multi-tenancy’: … the challenges of meeting global demandfor access to data, and how use multi-tenancy storage in the cloud . …(more)

Centers …Marketwire (press release)The PacketExchange Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution is used byleading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers and enterprises globally. Tofind out more about PacketExchange’s global Ethernet network deliverysolutions visit …(more)

SearchSecurity.comWe’re seeing very clearly that not all SaaS [Software as a Service]providers are created equal. Francis deSouza, senior vice presidentEnterprise Security Group, Symantec Corp. This was the message ofexecutives at Symantec Corp., who kicked off their …(more)

E-Commerce TimesEverything from software to infrastructure is now available as commodityservices, easily accessed through the Internet. Pervasive and companieslike it are talking about data as a service (DaaS), and with DaaS comes theneed for data integration as a …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)This has included a focus on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), CloudInfrastructure, Social Computing, Advanced Analytics and Mobility - amongother key trends and technologies reshaping enterprise IT strategies andservices. …(more)

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PCWorldBut subscription-based SaaS (software as a service) ERP, which now accountsfor just $1 billion of total ERP revenue, will grow 21 percent each yearthrough 2015, doubling to 4 percent, according to the report. ERP vendorswill “have to field …(more)

Security …PR Newswire (press release)The Force10/Intel solution provides small and medium enterprises with acost-effective option to overlay quality of service networking and SSO onto SaaS provider applications. For medium and large enterprises, thesolution enables cloud-bursting for …(more)

ComputerworldBy Bernard Golden CIO - Last week marked the second OpenStack Design
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SearchDataManagement.comThe move was part of a general cloud computing push in evidence at theevent. Red Hat is emphasizing some of the open source aspects of cloudcomputing — Hadoop was among examples cited — suggesting that its opensource lineage positioned it uniquely …(more)

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HP …Business Wire (press release)The performance, scalability and robust developer/application ecosystemdelivered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux have made it a compelling operatingplatform for running applications in the cloud. Red Hat EnterpriseVirtualization was architected from the …(more)

WebHosting.InfoFasthosts Internet Ltd, a web hosting provider, yesterday announced that ithas been awarded the Hyper-V Cloud Partner for 2010 by Microsoft, duringtheir annual Global Hosting Summit, taking place in Bellevue, USA. Thecompany claims that the award …(more)

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CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN HP refused to comment Wednesday on the cloud
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Entrepreneur …PR Newswire (press release)Shekhawat established Fieldglass as an early Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)innovator, at a time when the model had little success. SaaS is now thepreferred delivery model for VMS solutions, and Fieldglass is helping theworld’s largest companies manage …(more)

ZDNetIf IT doesn’t fulfill the need, the employee can easily use their creditcard to buy inexpensive SaaS or cloud applications, without ever notifyingIT. If, for example, IT refuses provide email access on an employee’stablet device, there’s nothing to …(more)

Reuters”We are seeing a surge in demand because companies are looking to developand manage flexible IT infrastructure, whether its cloud, or SaaS(software-as-a-service) or virtualization,” CEO Bob Beauchamp told Reuters.Technologies like SaaS and …(more)

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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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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)

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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
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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)

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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)

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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)

DigitalJournal.com (press release)Symmetry today also launched i IN THE SKY, an enterprise-level IBM i basedcloud solution for software as a service (SaaS) vendors and organizationsrunning business applications and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)software, including those …(more)

IT JungleThe vCenter console costs $6244 just for the software, and if you want tocluster together a bunch of vCenters to make a private cloud with aself-service portal, capacity planning, and the vCloud Director fabric, addanother $325 per virtual machine …(more)

SQL Server MagazineCloud computing is a relatively new concept in the SQL Server community, soit shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are still a lot of questionssurrounding the migration process, data security, and cloud applicationperformance. …(more)

The Epoch TimesBy Joshua Philipp A customer watches a monitor of Sony’s PlayStation 3
video game system at a Tokyo electric shop on April 27. After hackers stoleusers passwords, Birthdays, and other personal information, Sony pulled theplug on its Playstation …(more)

Correction …Marketwire (press release)The Company plans to move forward with other opportunities that are similarin structure to those which it struck with SaaS Technologies Inc. that hasresulted in the development of Ortsbo. Intertainment recently announced anagreement to increase its …(more)

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PR Newswire (press release)A contract to develop the global training curriculum and deliver aSaaS-based e-learning platform for a leading media and entertainmentprovider. Continued growth in the healthcare industry driven in part by thecompany’s HIPAA and HITECH Acts …(more)

ERE MediaNew software-as-a-service offerings, Internet applications, desktopsoftware extensions, mobile applications and social media platforms, aremaking more advanced talent management solutions not only possible, butalso economically feasible for even …(more)

AllBusiness (blog)A lot of entrepreneurs and business owners are talking about the cloud orcloud computing. Cloud computing describes a way to access software andapplications remotely through online storage of your computer files. One ofthe best known names in …(more)

Ervik.asThis video demonstrates the deployment and management of an OpenStackcloud, with the software packaged as a virtual appliance. This allowsservice providers to track, install, and upgrade their cloud as a singlevirtual machine image, avoiding the …(more)

Supply Chain Market (press release)… consumer goods companies, today announced that The Triangle Group, aleading provider of quality end-to-end supply chain logistics solutions,will deploy LogFire’s new Software as a Service (SaaS) warehouse managementsystem (WMS) in two locations. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CloudPassage, Inc., a pioneeringsecurity SaaS company, today announced it was one of four cloud securityvendors included in the list of “Cool Vendors in Cloud Security Services,2011″ dated April 21, …(more)

Marketwire (press release)Energenic selected Locus’ SaaS-hosted software to implement a newenvironmental compliance management system to meet its business andregulatory requirements, specifically for managing and reportingenvironmental, compliance, and sustainability …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Phil Wainewright | April 26, 2011, 2:09pm PDT The chart in Larry
Dignan’s blog post end of last week reporting Forrester’s projection for a$241 billion cloud computing market by 2020 clearly shows the relativemarket shares for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. …(more)

What happens when you combine a retail store with a cloud computingservice? … In a larger arena, the close association of Amazon with cloudcomputing has …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Much has been written about the Amazon failure that really put theenterprise adoption to Cloud a bit on the back foot. Amazon’s outage wascaused by a failure of the underlying storage - the Elastic Block Storage.The Elastic Block Store (EBS) is a …(more)

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ZDNet (blog)Gartner analyst, Lydia Leong, offers sage comments on this point: There area lot of moving parts in cloud IaaS [Infrastructure as a Service]. Any oneof them going wrong can bork your entire site/application. Your realproblem is appropriate risk …(more)

InformationWeekLike cloud computing itself, the cloud side of the Riverbed technology issold as a service. Of course, customers also need a Steelhead appliance(which can be physical or virtual) at every site where they want to use thetechnology. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)AMAX introduces the AMAX CloudMax private cloud appliance developed forenterprises seeking a pre-packaged, pre-integrated total hardware/softwareplatform with management automation, network security, and advancedengineering in a ready-to-deploy …(more)

The open source SpotCloud OpenStack Connector is available for immediateuse as a free Apache-licensed download(http://dl.enomaly.com/spotcloudopenstack). …(more)

Destination CRMCloud9 Analytics is the global leader in SaaS performance managementapplications delivered directly to line-of-business managers to increaserevenue. The Cloud9 Pipeline Accelerator Suite enables sales management andoperations to more effectivel. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Platform as a Service Clouds (PaaS). Platforms like Microsoft’s Azure andRackspace’s Cloud Sites offering are the best known public flavors of thistype of cloud, and VMware’s Cloud Foundry is a good example of a privateflavor. …(more)

cloud …ZDNet (blog)By James Staten | April 28, 2011, 9:23am PDT Having attended the OpenStack
Design Summit this week and at the same time fielding calls from Forresterclients affected by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage, an interestingcontrast in approaches bore …(more)

TMC NetBy Carrie Schmelkin 6fusion’s next generation cloud computing platform, UC6
Version 3.1., will now be available to the general public, theInfrastructure as a Service leader announced recently. The release providesnot only expanded hybrid cloud …(more)

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)NET, Guthrie will focus on building interest in the tech industry to createapplications for Windows Azure, the Platform as a Service (PaaS) Microsoftofficially launched last year. An internal memo and details of thereorganization are available on …(more)

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Content …GlobeNewsWire (press release)TEMPE, Ariz., May 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Limelight Networks, Inc.(Nasdaq:LLNW) (”Limelight”) today announced the acquisition ofClickability, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of web contentmanagement (WCM) tools. …(more)

TMC NetEnvista offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) solution formap-based ROW management. Municipalities, utilities, higher education,state and federal government and international entities are increasinglyturning to Envista as a …(more)

TMC NetIn addition, the company also won a contract to develop the global trainingcurriculum and deliver an SaaS (News - Alert)-based e-learning platform fora leading media and entertainment provider. Alpine continued its growth inthe healthcare arena …(more)

Clouds, both public and private, strive to provide secure multi-tenancy.Each service provider and each cloud software vendor promise that tenantsare …(more)

Internet.comIn addition to the major players like Salesforce, Amazon and Google, abewildering array of start-up firms offer tools and services for cloudcomputing — and their numbers seem to grow by the day. Here, we havehighlighted 15 promising cloud computing …(more)

Investor’s Business DailyBy DONNA HOWELL, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 05:20 PM ET The cloud
computing trend had a strong start this year, with big firms like Netflix(NFLX) and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) advancing their use of the cloud forflexibility and profit. …(more)

InformationWeekDozens of sessions and technology demonstrations on cloud computing andother advanced IT platforms will be part of the program. The sprinkles?Those are for cakes to mark the fact that this year’s show representsInterop’s 25th anniversary. …(more)

TMC NetA provider of the Ruby platform-as-a-service software, Heroku enables Webapplication developers to build, deploy, and scale Ruby applications whilehaving the burden of system administration lifted from their shoulders. Inan employee survey, …(more)

is not figuring out how to find $$ for R&D or infrastructure but the go tomarket, particularly around pricing and comping sales on SaaS model, how touse their channel and how to not cannibalize traditional product sales. …(more)