Daily Cloud Feed - Jun 30, 2011
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- Chinese city draws ire with controversial cloud zone
- Cloud Focus: IT departments will have a ‘big picture’ role
- Structure: OpenStack launches Incubation program - Inside …
- Bocada Enhances Data-Protection-as-a-Service Model With Prism
- vCloud Director | go ahead, mac my day
- Wipro Builds Private Cloud for OnStream
- Function Point Launches New E-mail Integration Application in its
- Spikes in demand get lost in the cloud
- HP plans expansion in China
- Citrix Accelerates Cloud Video Innovation with Graymatics Investment
- uNotifi SaaS Marketing Services Provider for Automotive Industry Launched
- Cornerstone OnDemand Added to Russell Global Index
- HP’s China Plans; Google Plus Demand
- 8×8 to Deliver Cloud Services on VCE Vblock(TM) Infrastructure
- Cloud computing co Gizmox raises $2.5m, teams with Citrix
- 10 best cloud backup strategies for biz continuity
- Enterprise-Level Cloud Computing: Far-off Dream or Present Reality …
- Gartner upgrades worldwide IT spending forecast
- SSG Joins Informatica INFORM Channel Program
- Bruton announces ‘cloud’ steering group
- Dimension Data acquires OpSource
- 3 Steps to Securing the Cloud’s Future
- Rebel Networks Adds Ontario Based King Masonry Yard Ltd to Impressive List
- Discover Case Study: How Cardinal Health uses SaaS tools to improve ALM …
- Basware delivers invoice automation and e-invoicing solutions to Tokmanni Oy
- UPDATE 1-VoiP firm 8×8 signs cloud partnership, shrs rise
- Platform as a Service tempts manufacturers with savings, customization
- Callidus Software Inc. (CALD) Partners with Mapping Analytics to Provide a
- For SF Giants, Dynamic Pricing Software Hits a Home Run
- Collaboration in the Cloud — Why Aren’t You doing it?
- New Telecom Expense Management Solution as SaaS
- Promoting SaaS Ecommerce as an Affiliate - Affiliate Marketing …
- All cloud roads lead to applications
- Speediware Corporation Adds Plan Goal Charting to SpeedEEO
ComputerworldThe city’s Cloud Computing Special Zone will be home to a handful ofstate-of-the-art data centers and is designed to attract investment frommultinational companies and boost China’s status as a center for cloudcomputing. …(more)
Financial TimesBy Stephen Pritchard Businesses that move to cloud computing are not just
changing the way they buy IT. Used well, the cloud can bring about afundamental shift in the relationship between a business and its technologyand in the way IT departments …(more)
Strategic insights on using IT to achieve business goals.(more)
Integration …ChannelPro-SMBBocada, a data protection management software provider, has added theability to send alerts from its data protection service management (DPSM)product, Prism, to trouble ticketing systems from BMC, ServiceNow, andConnectWise. …(more)
My team is conducting research on vCloud Director. I’m interested intalking to org admins who have deployed vCloud Director to their end-users….(more)
MarketWatch (press release)Wipro has also offerings in other layers of cloud including BusinessProcess as a Service (eg loan origination as a service), Software as aService (eg Bank in a Box with leading software vendors, implementationpartner to leading SaaS vendors) and …(more)
Creative …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Function Point Productivity Software Inc. (Function Point) is a web-basedsoftware as a service (SaaS) company, and is located in Vancouver BC Thecompany was founded in 1997 and is a leader in workflow management softwarefor advertising agencies, …(more)
RegisterThe move is the same but the service can differ, providing three distinctapproaches: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service(IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). Each has its own advantages andlimitations. …(more)
China DailyLeo Apotheker, HP chief executive officer, told a news conference inBeijing that the company will place greater emphasis on cloud computing(using the Internet as a hard drive), software and wireless devices such astablet PCs this year to boost its …(more)
MarketWatch (press release)Graymatics is on the verge of bringing something new and innovative tocloud computing, and they now have the opportunity to take it to marketfaster by leveraging key resources and expertise from Citrix that will helpthem achieve the market traction …(more)
TMC NetuNotifi’s SaaS (News - Alert) services leverage database mining, segmentingand customer valuation algorithms in order to help dealers and servicecenters to retain existing customers. Also, marketing to a potentialcustomer base is made more …(more)
MarketWatch (press release)Cornerstone OnDemand is a leading global provider of a comprehensivelearning and talent management solution delivered as software-as-a-service(SaaS). We enable organizations to meet the challenges they face inempowering their people and maximizing …(more)
TheStreet.comNew initiatives include cloud computing offerings and research developmentcenters. HP has struggled to grow its PC business in China, with its marketshare in the country falling to 9.3% in the most recent quarter, down from11.1% in the same quarter …(more)
MarketWatch (press release)8×8’s recent acquisition of Zerigo enables it to add a comprehensive,easy-to-use and powerful provisioning mechanism to the Vblock platform,allowing for rapid and automatic deployment of flexible cloud computingservices. 8×8 intends to market these …(more)
GlobesCloud computing start-up Gizmox Ltd. has signed a strategic cooperationagreement with Citrix Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), which has also invested$2.5 million in the company, as part of a $3.5 million convertible loan.The companies will enable …(more)
IDG News ServiceWhether they are cloud service outages or natural disasters, cloudcomputing can be both a nightmare or a savior to your IT organization:either it halts your business operation or loses your data, or it allowsyou to continue operate your business as …(more)
“Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloudcomputing’ was coined,” said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CONEvents, Inc. “Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing’ and ’software’in two short …(more)
ComputerworldThe effect of migration to public cloud services spending likely will spillover to the software sector as companies spend more onsoftware-as-a-service. “At about $10 billion, software as a service …already accounts for 10 percent of enterprise …(more)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Informatica is a recognized ‘Leader’ in three Gartner Magic Quadrants: forData Integration, Data Quality and Master Data Management, as well as arecognized ‘Leader’ in Forrester’s Information-as-a-Service and DataQuality Waves. …(more)
Irish TimesMinister for Enterprise Richard Bruton said it was crucial the Government,as a major user of IT in the economy, took a lead in the area of cloudcomputing. Minister for Enterprise Richard Bruton has announced plans toestablish a cross-Government …(more)
MyBroadbandDimension Data announced today (30 June 2011) that it has acquired OpSourcein a deal which Dimension Data says will accelerate its cloud computingservices offerings. At the same time, Dimension Data, a US$4.7 billion ICTservices and solutions …(more)
BanktechThe financial services industry has an opportunity to think through thebusiness model for cloud computing in order to minimize the future risks ofoperating in the cloud. By Rodney Nelsestuen, TowerGroup Projections forthe cloud are as numerous as …(more)
of …MarketWatch (press release)DEL MAR, Calif., Jun 30, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Rebel Networks,the wholly owned operating subsidiary of American Diversified HoldingsCorporation /quotes/zigman/486028 ADHC -11.63% announced today that it hasbeen selected by King Masonary …(more)
ZDNet (blog)By Dana Gardner | June 30, 2011, 8:21am PDT SaaS allows us to focus on our
primary core competencies and on what our clients and customers need,rather than focusing on trying to learn how to handle a particularapplication. Dana Gardner is president …(more)
Reuters (press release)Basware has agreed to deliver purchase Basware Invoice Automation ande-invoicing solutions to Tokmanni Oy as a service (SaaS). The value of thedeal is not disclosed. The services will be taken into use in Tokmanni’sfinancial shared service center by …(more)
ReutersO) said it entered into a partnership with Virtual Computing EnvironmentCompany (VCE) to speed up deployment of its cloud computing services on anew platform, sending its shares up to an eight-year high. VCE was formedby Cisco (CSCO. …(more)
SearchManufacturingERP.comWhile most of the buzz has been around SaaS, manufacturers that want toexplore the cloud should know that this movement isn’t just about software– it’s about infrastructure, too. Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerslow-cost cloud infrastructure …(more)
New …International Business TimesBy QualityStocks | June 30, 2011 1:42 PM EDT Callidus Software, a top
market and tech leader in Sales Performance Management (SPM) viaSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, reported today that the Companyhas officially partnered (signed in Q2) …(more)
Network WorldIn 2007, Stanley discovered Qcue, a software-as-a-service application thatanalyzes dozens of factors to provide price recommendations, similar to theway airlines price seats. Stanley was skeptical, until his phone lit up oneAugust afternoon. …(more)
Forbes (blog)Cloud computing and collaboration are a match made in heaven, yet someonemust have forgotten to pay the matchmaker because the union is taking itstime getting consummated. Strong web-based collaborative tools, such asSharePoint, have been around for …(more)
TMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor TelcoExpenses, a provider of
telecom expense management (TEM) solutions, announced it is releasing thenew Wireless Expense Management application on a Software-as-a-Service(SaaS (News - Alert)) platform. …(more)
Growth in the ecommerce industry is making an impact on affiliatemarketers. Software as a service (SaaS) ecommerce models are growing eachday and …(more)
CNETBuild to a platform as a service environment that hides operations tasksfrom you and lets you focus on only the application itself. Ditch buildingyour own applications and acquire functionality through the software as aservice model, …(more)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AP source: Geithner may depart after budget talks 06.30.11 SpeediwareCorporation, providers of SpeedEEO, the all-inclusive web-based software asa service for generating OFCCP compliant Affirmative Action Plans(AAP),announced today the addition of …(more)


