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Even though most cloud storage is encrypted and protected, consumers muststill exercise caution to avoid phishing schemes and other attacks.(more)

PR Newswire (press release)In order for cloud computing to be cost efficient for scientific use,clouds must be optimized for scientific applications, according to a paperwritten by Lawrence Berkeley Lab as part of its Magellan Project. IBM iscurrently the only major vendor to …(more)

TMC NetThis week, the leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation datacenter services announced a cloud computing-focused data center alliancewith CoreSite (News - Alert), a US provider of powerful, network-rich datacenters. …(more)

Discovery News”Cloud computing” is one of those phrases that, in the hands of a marketingpro, can mean anything, but in general it refers to moving your data, yourapplications or both from an individual computer you can touch with yourfingers to a Web-based …(more)

InformationWeekIn contrast to Ipanema’s managed appliances, Aryaka offers WAN optimizationas a service with no client-side hardware or software except an optionalappliance that it claims the vast majority of installations don’t use. Ledby Trinity Ventures, …(more)

T.H.E. JournalSignificant growth trends were seen in the categories ofsecurity-as-a-service, security information and event management, andsecure Web gateway products. “Products within the security market areundergoing rapid evolution, in terms of both new …(more)

This is particularly relevant as Google markets its App Engineplatform-as-a-service…. Although the platform has made improvements inthe past year, many developers have been unhappy with its restrictions. …(more)

Australian Personal ComputerWe take a look at the cloud computing revolution and how it’s paid off fora number of businesses who have made the switch to the new technology. Ifcloud computing was still something of an overhyped joke in 2010, 2011 isthe year of the punchline. …(more)

GCN.comBy Rutrell Yasin Seven months after its launch, the Open Data Center
Alliance has published and released eight usage models that define ITrequirements for cloud adoption and a vision for cloud computing. Themodels cover areas such as enhanced …(more)

Just wondering if anyone out there has used Doctrine in a multi-tenancyapplication? That is, you have a single MySQL database, but many users and…(more)

BusinessCloud9Multitenancy: There will always be a concern about security breaches whenmany different companies are sharing the same physical resources. …(more)

ZDNet AsiaTo this end, Fujitsu is looking beyond IaaS, which Baty expects to be”commoditized” in the next 3 to 4 years, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) andsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS). It also looking to provide”activity-as-a-service and content-as-a-service”, …(more)

MSFT …San Francisco ChronicleWhen it became obvious Apple would come out with a cloud computingoffering, it would be interesting to see how they would do thingsdifferently from Google, the most prominent consumer cloud computingcompany. And indeed, Apple’s vision for the cloud …(more)

The Story Of Colt’s Transformation To Vmware Vcloud on WN Network deliversthe latest Videos and Editable pages for News & Events, includingEntertainment, …(more)

E-Commerce TimesAs for Xen, the open source hypervisor recently figured importantly inCitrix’s announcements at its Synergy conference, which included ProjectOlympus, a Citrix-certified version of the OpenStack open source cloudcomputing stack, backed primarily by …(more)

PR.com (press release)Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) and Unimarket announced today theimplementation of Unimarket’s SaaS Collaborative eSourcing solution toimprove bidding operations, achieve savings and offer collaborativebid-sharing opportunities to other Ohio …(more)

Marketwire (press release)”We are excited to join the Callidus family of SaaS solutions and lookforward to continuing to innovate our product to deliver the best onlinelearning system on the market,” said Rich Chetwynd, Founder & CEO ofLitmos. “Callidus’ global coverage …(more)

Eworldwire (press release)PK) today announced that it has launched its online video platform asSoftware as a Service. The marketing interface has been redesigned toinclude a strong array of video collateral supporting the product, and thesignup process has been enhanced to …(more)

Last night at Cloud Expo, I got some time with Cloud.com’s CMO PederUlander to learn how they are working with two key partners, OpenStack andRightScale. …(more)

Computer Business ReviewIBM has launched new high performance computing (HPC) cloud offerings tohelp clients tackle advanced scientific and technical computing workloadslike analytics, simulations for product development, climate research andlife sciences. …(more)

Kansas City infoZineCloud computing has become a growing trend in the consumer sector, withcompanies such as Google and Apple releasing cloud-based offerings. ButGmail, Google’s cloud-based email service, has fallen victim to hackers whorecently obtained access to …(more)

Employer: Accenture, Location: UK Wide, Contract type: Permanent, Dateposted: 10 Jun 2011.(more)

Data Center KnowledgeThe Global Cloud Platform delivers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) overa network of Fujitsu’s data centers. SOASTA’s CloudTest to be resold byIBM. SOASTA announced that it has signed a global distribution agreementwith IBM under which IBM Global …(more)

InformationWeekIBM survey shows that analytics leads the priority list for midmarket CIOs,followed by mobility and cloud computing. By Kevin Casey InformationWeekAnalytics tops the 2011 to-do list of CIOs at midsize businesses, accordingto a survey conducted by …(more)

Smart Data CollectiveIn previous blogs I wrote about the benefits of private cloud computing andthe benefits of public cloud computing based on the unique models of each.Sitting between secure, dedicated private cloud computing and open, lowcost public cloud hosting is …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled that Microsoft has to pay the $290million patent infringement judgment awarded to little Toronto-based i4itwo years ago after a Texas jury found that Word 2003 and 2007 willfullytrod on its XML IP. …(more)

ReadWriteWebCovering this market is difficult: SaaS vendors love to tweak theirpricing, disappear without warning, be acquired and then devolve into aminor feature of the acquiring company, or just decide to eliminate aproduct line (as Flowr did for its …(more)

VanguardSome people have drawn the comparison for cloud computing to the way awater company pools and shares its supply from rivers, wells andreservoirs, so you can use the water whenever you choose at home. Thismeans the cloud can connect people to the …(more)

Business Wire (press release)… technology (IT) professionals attending this week’s Cloud Expo from arange of major industries (excluding technology providers) reveals gapsbetween IT pros and their non-technical senior executives regarding thepotential of cloud computing. …(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)

GigaOm From Eucalyptus to Openstack, and OpenNebula to Nimbus, open-source isgrowing in importance at all layers of the cloud compute stack. Today’sCIOs see open-source as a viable alternative to proprietary software bothin their own data center as well as …(more)

TMC NetBy Anshu Shrivastava, TMCnet Contributor Marketing services company
BriefLogic has released BriefLogic.com, saying that it’s the first of itskind software as a service (Saas) application that will enhance enterprisemobility and help enterprise …(more)

and …PR Newswire (press release)(OTCQB: QFOR), a leading IT consulting company (”Quadrant 4″), todayannounced the launch of a set of new initiatives for Cloud Computing, DataManagement and Managed Services for the financial, health care, and retailverticals. …(more)

TMC NetAt Cloud Expo, RightScale unveiled RightScale myCloud, a simple to set up,easy-to-use and cost-effective management platform for hybrid and privatecloud computing. The free edition of RightScale myCloud presentsorganizations with a powerful …(more)

CMSWireThat is not to say that the large number of enterprises that don’t have aset strategic plan won’t move to the cloud, but simply that manyenterprises are not thinking about cloud computing in a strategic way.Notable in this respect, according to the …(more)

m-Wise provides a platform used by leading content owners and serviceproviders to manage, deliver and monetize mobile entertainment, content andapplications. The m-Wise mobile software as a service (SaaS) platform isused to power …(more)

Server WatchThe V-Commander software can run on either a virtual or physical appliance.Currently, Embotics does not offer the product in a hostedSoftware-as-a-Service cloud model. “We don’t do that today, it’s aconceptual type of deployment, and we haven’t seen …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)ELK GROVE, Calif., June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — SaaS content managementsystem (CMS) Granite Horizon In The Cloud now provides enhanced mobilefeatures and a new search engine (SEO) optimization tool. In The Cloud(ITC) subscribers now can easily …(more)

By Garrett Wilkin
The API is the philosophical core of the software as a service model. Thereare other aspects needed for the full SaaS experience such as live customersupport, training, and ongoing strategic collaboration, but when you getright down to it the customer is buying the software’s functionality for agiven period of time. This is very similar to a pay per API call model, …Create native cross-platform mobile apps at the speed of web with OpenPlugELIPS Studio …(more)

By Cord Blomquist
True lock-in would mean driving consumers down a one-way street where theirdata can’t be moved to another platform (think Facebook prior to late lastyear) or driving up switching costs through cancellation fees ala thetelecom industry. … Open standards and low-commitmentsoftware-as-a-service offerings make the web an appealing place for geekswho always want the coolest, most advanced bit of software. But, to theaverage consumer, getting all of those web-based …(more)

I’m wondering why vCloud Express isn’t more popular. I set up a smallproject on vCloud Express at Terremark. While I tested it thoroughly andeverything …(more)

Bitbrains’s VMware vCloud service is an enterprise-class High PerformanceComputing solution build on top of supercomputing technology that providesa …(more)

By Matt DeLuca
Battling to keep to a clear course on cloud computing, Microsoft may havefinally found its way with the beta launch of Office 365. Attempts atengineering their own cloud computing community have so far beenscattershot, …(more)

By Angela Bartels
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PCWorldIBM’s HPC cloud products and services will become available in the thirdquarter. Nancy Gohring covers mobile phones and cloud computing for The IDGNews Service. Follow Nancy on Twitter at @idgnancy. Nancy’s e-mail addressis Nancy_Gohring@idg.com.(more)

BenzingaFusion-io’s products are geared towards high-end cloud computing customersand enterprise shops. Since they hold the performance crown in SSDs,Fusion-io can command large premiums and ultimately huge margins for theirtechnology. …(more)

Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–DataSource Mobility will host an online seminar, June 30th , 10 am CDT, explaining how you can deploy cloud computing technology tomanage your wireless networks, for less!!! DataSource Mobility recommendsbest-in-class technology …(more)

Washington PostJune 9 (Bloomberg) — Jan Muehlfeit, European chairman of Microsoft Corp.,talks about the outlook for computer and software manufacturers. He speaksfrom Vienna with Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television’s “On The Move….(more)

multitenancy - Full Download: 2792 downloads at 2577 kb/s … No resultsfor any of “multitenancy” (0.004s) RSS Feed. Could not match your exactquery. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)SAN DIEGO, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — ServiceNow, the creators of SaaSfor IT, today announced it has been recognized as an IDG ComputerworldHonors 2011 Laureate. ServiceNow was nominated by Morgan Stanley forcreating the first platform of cloud …(more)

Kansas City StarWe direct your attention today to a thoughtful piece at Cnet about how thefull-ahead push toward cloud computing could mean trouble for mobilecommunications. First, a few basics. Cloud computing means storing stuff –pictures, music, videos, etc. …(more)

TMC NetBy David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor Ultimate Software, a vendor of
unified human capital management SaaS (News - Alert) products for globalbusinesses, has announced the Spring 2011 release of UltiPro HCM. AllUltiPro SaaS customers will be live …(more)

Increasing …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Free Online Consumer Service and API Enable Easy and Affordable InteractiveChart Creation and Distribution iCharts (www.icharts.net), a Software as aService (SaaS) company that is empowering the world to explore and sharevisual data, today announced …(more)

Marketwire (press release)Built on the most widely used open source application infrastructureproducts, Mule ESB, Mule iON integration platform as a service (iPaaS), andTcat (enterprise Tomcat server) provide an ideal combination of simplicityand power to today’s web …(more)

How should one find the additional skills for a services offering? RajeshRanjan investigates, Services and Outsourcing,Web,Careers and Skills,SaaS,Service …(more)

GlobesDigital Fuel is a veteran developer of SaaS IT financial managementsolutions. CEO Israel Dancziger, CTO Gilad Raz, VP engineering Yakov Kogan,and Benny Lehman who died in 2004, founded the company in 2000. The companyhas a large number of investors, …(more)

10000 …PR Newswire (press release)The SaaS model permits a simple product roll out and ease of use. Alongwith continuous feature updates 2X MobileDeviceManager(http://www.2x.com/mobiledevicemanager/) offers an all-in-one package toprovide administrators and end-users the …(more)

SystemsCampus TechnologyBy Dian Schaffhauser A company with its own learning management system
(LMS) for academic and corporate use has taken the social networkingaspects of its LMS and turned them into an add-on product that will workwith competing LMSes. …(more)

The Daily StarThere r various types of cloud computing available, like Saas(Software as aService) or Utility Computing and MSPs (Managed Service Providers). TheSaaS type of cloud computing delivers a single application through thebrowser to thousands of customers …(more)

ComputingWeb Host Industry ReviewBy Justin Lee, June 09, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Independent IT
organization The Open Data Center Alliance (www.opendatacenteralliance.org)announced this week it has published its first set of IT user requirementsfor cloud computing in an …(more)

TMC NetBy Raju Shanbhag Looking forward to opportunities ahead for its Searchlight
Scientific HPC cloud computing business, Searchlight Solutions has statedin its shareholder update that the company is confident and optimisticabout the future of the cloud …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)”The industry collaboration opportunities unlocked by the cloud computingevolution need a central nexus, and we’re excited to participate with theCSA in helping create that nexus.” CloudPassage Halo is a securitySoftware-as-a-Service built from the …(more)

Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–Online Tech will host another educational cloud computingseminar at NextEnergy and TechTown in metro Detroit on Tuesday, June 21st.The 5 hour seminar will provide information about cloud computing and thestrategic implications for …(more)

By Peter Cohen
SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors helps software-as-a-service (SaaS)companies acquire and retain customers. We help these companies identifyall the audiences involved in the decision to purchase and renew theirservice. …(more)

By Dan Croak
thoughtbot has launched three SaaS products in 2011: Copycopter,Trajectory, and Radish. Not bad for a consulting company! Some were startedas far back as the summer of 2010 and we worked on them about one or twodays a week. …(more)

ConnectedPlanetTransverse touts the system as the industry’s only SaaS-based real-timesubscription and usage-based rating and billing solution. With real-timebilling and usage-based subscriptions on the rise, Connected Planet talkedwith Transverse CEO James Messer …(more)

CloudIntegration DevelopersMule iON goes beyond ESB in the cloud, providing an integration platform asa service (iPaaS) to enterprise architects, SaaS providers and SIs. IDN’sCloud Integration in 2011 series takes a look at Mule iON with MuleSoft CTOand founder Ross Mason. by …(more)

Nodejitsu, the original Node.js platform-as-a-service, has open-sourcedseveral of its tools, some of which are used in its own production stack….(more)

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud computing, in which full-fledgedapplication …. Test drive backup, recovery and availability software fromCA ARCserve. …(more)

Internet.comNew integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offerings aim to relieve thepain of SaaS and cloud integration, which has been so onerous that manyorganizations have pulled the plug on SaaS projects. New integrationplatform as a service (iPaaS) …(more)

software …New York Daily NewsBY David Holmes Cloud computing, or simply “the cloud,” is a term used todescribe data or software resources that can be accessed over the internet.On the heels of Apple’s headline-grabbing iCloud announcement Monday, NewYork-based tech company …(more)

June 07 2011 609 AM PlatformasaservicePaaS cloud computing in whichfullfledged application development and deployment capabilities areprovided rather than …(more)

V3.co.ukThe company said that the IaaS system would join the Oracle on Demand andPlatform as a Service brands to flesh out its cloud computing strategy.”Oracle is radically simplifying cloud deployment with a pre-tested, singlevendor solution for enterprise …(more)

Marketers …BenzingaBriefLogic Today Unveils a First of Its Kind SaaS Application for Marketersand Agencies at Federated Media’s Conversational Marketing Summit in NewYork. Agencies Cheer. BriefLogic, a marketing services company, todayannounced the release of …(more)

Much of SaaS purchasing comes from business groups outside of the ITdepartment, according to a Forrester Research report.(more)

Asahi ShimbunThe Global Cloud Platform delivers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) -virtual information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, suchas servers and storage functionality - over a network from Fujitsu’sdatacenters. …(more)

By By Tam Noda
Despite questions on security on cloud computing, small andmedium-enterprises (SMEs) in the Philippines are looking into adopting thetechnology as a business solution, a latest study said.(more)

easy-to …Computer Business ReviewIt combines the CA 3Tera AppLogic cloud platform with ScaleMatrix’shardware offerings to deliver on-premise private clouds, helpingenterprises and service providers accelerate delivery of IaaS, PaaS andSaaS in a single, easy-to-deploy environment, …(more)

Financial …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)New alerts have been added to the system Function Point ProductivitySoftware Inc. (Function Point) is a web-based software as a service (SaaS)company, and is located in Vancouver BC The company was founded in 1997 andis a leader in workflow …(more)

iland vCloud Services Order Form. Now that you are ready to take control ofyour cloud, please answer these few questions to help us expedite yourorder. …(more)

AccountingWEB.co.ukStuart Lauchlan looks at the portents for the latest attempt at worlddomination from Steve Jobs & Co. Now that Apple has decided to launchitself into the fast-growing Cloud market, mainstream media outlets such asthe Daily Mail have been dishing up …(more)

Washington PostJune 8 (Bloomberg) — Piers Linney, co-chief executive officer ofOutsourcery, discusses the growth of cloud computing amid Apple Inc.’sintroduction of its new online storage service, iCloud. He spoke yesterdaywith Andrea Catherwood on Bloomberg …(more)

InfoWorldA recent survey conducted by the Microsoft-Accenture consultancy Avanadeshows some obvious things, such as the fact that cloud computing is now amature technology. However, it also shows that cloud computing causes someheartburn within many …(more)

NetworkComputing.comA group of 280 global companies has joined together to lay down industrystandards for cloud computing that cloud providers would adopt to assurecustomers of what they’re getting for their investment in the cloud. TheOpen Data Center Alliance on …(more)

Not sure whether this is the right place to post this questionIm new toOpenstack and trying to write a java application by using Openstack API Iread admin …(more)

BenzingaPowered by VMware vCloud Director, the GNAX Cloud allows customers tomanage a virtual infrastructure through a simple web interface, maximizingresource utilization while enhancing the security, reliability andflexibility of enterprise IT …(more)

ITWeb (blog)There is a powerful tool in the VMware suite called vCloud Director thatlets you spin up or drop servers as they are needed. Trouble is, to bereally useful it needs to be automated so that depending on traffic loadsand incoming connections, …(more)

ZDNet (blog)An extension of the recently announced Unified Integration Platform, TalendCloud is designed for organizations looking to manage their dataintegration processes, whether on-premise, in the cloud, via software as aservice (SaaS) or for hybrid …(more)

Salesforce …TechCrunchAs field service software, ServiceMax essentially helps manage othercompany’s equipment at their sites. ServiceMax software automates workforceoptimization, advanced scheduling and dispatch, parts logistics, inventoryand depot repair, and installed …(more)

PCWorldBy Chris Kanaracus, IDG News The options for cloud and SaaS (software as a
service) data integration grew larger on Wednesday with the announcement ofTalend Cloud, a new product from open-source vendor Talend. Talend Cloudbuilds on the company’s set …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Paula Rooney | June 8, 2011, 8:13am PDT Red Hat isn’t the only open
source provider pursuing the Platform-as-a-Service market for developers.This week, Acquia and Engine Yard announced they have joined forces tocreate a cloud service for Drupal …(more)

Bradenton HeraldThe combination of Certica and dataMetrics will provide school districtswith a broader set of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to track andanalyze student, school and teacher data, while providing a foundation forfuture application expansion …(more)

IT Business Edge… unless a private cloud provides self-service capabilities, dynamicorchestration and support for multitenancy across two or more data centers,…(more)

ITworld.comThe vCloud Connector plugin to its vCloud management app is designed tomake it easier to move virtual machines from one cloud to another using theOVF standardized virtual-machine format standard. It doesn’t like othercompanies’ VMs very much, …(more)

Christian Science MonitorBy Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor / June 8, 2011 The rapid rise
of cloud computing, coupled with a slew of increasingly powerful mobilecomputing devices, is killing the PC faster than analysts had predicted. Infact, some now say, …(more)

on …Gamut NewsSpecifically, the Company provides the following industry news as sourcesfor its optimism: Company management believes that the cloud computingindustry took a major step forward with the recent announcement by Apple ofits cloud service. …(more)

Experian QAS AustraliaVolunteers working for Surf Life Saving have been given the gift of time,after employing software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service meantthey could devote themselves to the job at hand. A raft of servicescompleted by the charity have now …(more)

Sydney Morning HeraldThe operation of global markets will be irrevocably transformed by thegrowth of cloud computing, an internet researcher says. Professor MikeNelson, a visiting internet researcher from Georgetown University inWashington, in the United States, …(more)

RegisterWith VMware rolling the functionality of its Lab Manager VM jukeboxingsoftware and its Lifecycle Manager (which does just what the name suggests,managing the creation, deployment, and destruction of virtual machines)into its vCloud Director stack, …(more)

ITWeb (blog)Flexibility - Cloud computing offers greater flexibility than pastcomputing methods. * More mobility - Employees can access informationwherever they are, at any time rather than having to remain at their desks.* Allows IT to shift focus …(more)

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Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com announced recently thathundreds of government organizations in the United States, including morethan half of federal cabinet-level departments, have already adopted itscloud computing …(more)

openPRThe ranking, published on June 1st recognizes Gizmox alongside Amazon,Cloudera, Engine Yard, GitHub, Google, Hadoop Project, OpenStack,Salesforce and …(more)

Economic TimesKOLKATA: The public cloud computing market in India is estimated to touchRs 2434 crore by 2014 after growing at a CAGR of 53% between 2010-2014according to market intelligence and advisory firm CyberMedia Research .sIndia. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Cloud Commerce, a company that supplies the best in cloud computingproducts and services, is focusing its efforts on helping small andmid-sized companies level the playing field. The company, which serves theIT and application needs of a variety of …(more)

RTE.ieComputer company Dell is to create 150 additional jobs between Dublin andLimerick in its cloud computing area. Welcoming the announcement atGoverment Buildings, Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the jobs represent ‘animportant step in making Ireland a …(more)

Hospitality NetIn this new generation of cloud computing, purchases of hardware are muchless of an issue than in the past. But payments for web Hosting, softwarehosting, storage, PBX hosting, and security suites as well as redundancyfacilities never end. …(more)

InfoWorldBy Paul Krill | InfoWorld Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud computing, in
which full-fledged application development and deployment capabilities areprovided rather than just raw iron and compute cycles such as in Amazon WebServices, is set to gather …(more)

Reuters (press release)This is a flexible Software as a Service offering, giving both new andestablished trading venues quick access to proven trading and surveillancetechnology on a subscription basis. Its core is Cinnober’s TRADExpressTrading System, a multi-asset …(more)

ComputerworldUKThe new R&D centre will focus on developing OpenStack-based technology,storage-as-a-service and software-as-a-service solutions. …(more)

vCloud. VoiceCloud’s vCloud is the leading provider of Cloud Based VoiceServices Applications. Established in 2007, vCloud is the worlds largestVoicemail …(more)

TheServerSide.comThis release supports 30 cloud providers as well as cloud service softwaresuch as OpenStack, Eucalyptus, and vCloud. As we move forward we will use…(more)

CRNHP is in the process of building a full cloud stack that includesinfrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and Open CloudMarketplace, and HP will be launching a public cloud offering “soon”,Apotheker told a Discover 2011 keynote crowd of …(more)

Forbes (blog)The problem is that consumerization of IT, Software as a Service, and cloudcomputing have all enabled end-users to choose technology directly, asituation that IT does not like, is not familiar with, and in many wayscannot handle. …(more)

PCWorldThe research in the center is aimed at helping customers easily move tocloud computing. The center is part of Dell’s plans to invest US$1 billionover the next three years to bolster its cloud, services and data storageofferings. …(more)

GigaOmHybrid cloud computing appears to be the end-game for many companies’ cloudstrategies right now, and RightScale’s new MyCloud service might representan ideal way of thinking about the model. RightScale’s new offeringprovides the proverbial single …(more)

CIO InsightBy CIOinsight Citrix Systems announced Project Olympus, a new cloud
infrastructure product based on the open-source cloud operating systemOpenStack. Citrix System has added Project Olympus, a new cloud product, toits open cloud computing portfolio to …(more)

Selling …Marketwire (press release)”MarketLive’s unique Platform-as-a-Service architecture allows retailers toadopt MarketLive enhancements and features while maintaining control ortheir specific eCommerce site. We are confident that retailers willexperience meaningful business …(more)

Channel InsiderHewlett-Packard is offering $2 billion in financing for companies lookingto take advantage of cloud computing. Hewlett-Packard is lending a hand tocompanies looking to take advantage of the benefits of cloud computing byoffering up to $2 billion to …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeData center providers CoreSite (COR) and Interxion (INXN) have announced atrans-Atlantic alliance to help their customers expand the footprint oftheir cloud computing infrastructure in carrier-neutral facilities. Thepartnership offers the …(more)

Computing”PR Newswire (press release)NEEDHAM, Mass., June 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Cloud StandardsCustomer Council (CSCC) members have begun a project to create a “PracticalGuide to Cloud Computing.” The project is still accepting participation andis slated to be published in …(more)

TidBITSiCloud appears to be a mixture of Software-as-a-Service,Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service all rolled up into awhole that will support both Mac OS X and iOS. To wit: The Web interface wenow use as MobileMe is clearly …(more)

socalTech.comSanta Barbara-based RightScale, the cloud computing firm backed by TenayaCapital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and PresidioVentures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScalemyCloud. …(more)

ComputerworldBy David Taber CIO - Error handling is such a pedestrian issue, you take it
for granted. Same thing with transaction and trace logs - these are just soobvious. In a simple virtualization cloud (eg, a MySQL server) you can takelow-level error logging …(more)

GCN.comAnd although people will roar at the news about the new Lion OS, I thinkthe biggest thing was the fact that the company is getting into cloudcomputing. Of course, the company has to put its stamp on things, henceit’s called the iCloud. …(more)

Gartner estimates that over the course of the next five years, enterpriseswill be spending $112 B cumulatively on SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS(Platform as a Service) and IaaS. United States, Western Europe and Japanwill be …(more)

By JA Hodnicki
Despite all of the attention that it has garnered, existing analyses focusalmost exclusively on the issues that surround data privacy withoutexploring cloud computing’s architectural and policy implications. Thisarticle offers an …(more)

By thomsonreuters
Apple had some big announcements yesterday. Among them was the introductionof iCloud. iCloud is a new computing service which not only offers onlinestor.(more)

The first full week of June 2012 should go down as that specific point intime when Cloud Computing achieved escape velocity. No longer a prisoner ofgeekly earthdom, it is now in full orbit, in full view of all who proclaimto be human …(more)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Its called “Cloud Computing.” Apple just joinedAmazon and Google in this new phenomenon. But, with so much informationbeing stored in one central place has security experts worried. …(more)

Advanced TradingWe have done models over the years for our clients called Software as aService (Saas). The challenge is that client data is often co-mingled andmany investment managers are not comfortable commingling their data withdata from other firms. …(more)

Technology SpectatorThe chief technology officer of global retailer and technology giant Amazonhas scheduled in a trip to Australia in mid-July to spruik the company’scloud computing offerings, as interest in the burgeoning field of onlinecloud platforms continues to …(more)

RegisterThe CEO of the online art community site, which has been under attack forlisting Hipster Hitler’s range of Third-Reich-baiting t-shirts andmerchandise for sale, also happens to be chairman of software-as-a-serviceprovider Aconex. …(more)

As cloud deployments increase, so too does overall understanding of howbest to approach this new computing model and work with service providers.(more)

Knoxville News SentinelAmong its newest converts to cloud computing - where software, data andother computer operations are housed on off-site servers - is CellularSales, the Knoxville-based company that boasts of being the nation’slargest Verizon retailer with 400 stores …(more)

Network WorldTidewell uses Salesforce’s SaaS-based CRM, integrated with its internalelectronic medical record (EMR) system. The `aha’ moment for Tidewell wasthe realization that it didn’t need a high-priced, hospice-oriented package- a longstanding misconception …(more)

10 SaaS companies to watch ( Internet ) These days, companies are applyingthe software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to just about everything, …(more)

BenzingaMendix, the leading application platform-as-a-service provider, announcedtoday the addition of Arno Rood, as country manager of the Benelux region.Rood will continue the expansion of Mendix BV, solidifying its currentmarket position as a market …(more)

IT-Director.comSo called integration platform as a service (iPaaS) has popped up on theedge of the enterprise. But true cloud integration as a neutral, fullservice, and entirely cloud-based offering has been mostly only a vision.Yet, if businesses need to change …(more)

Backup TechnologyHacks such as that which took place against Gmail and the Sony Playstationgaming network are threatening to dampen the take off of Cloud Computing.Such set backs will slow the growth of the ever-expanding Cloud marketwhich is expected to exceed $55 …(more)

IT Jungleby Timothy Prickett Morgan It is perhaps fitting to discuss the future ofcloud computing on the IBM i platform on the same day that IT and consumerelectronics darling Apple is expected to launch iCloud, its fourthiteration of online services for its …(more)

Computerworld1 threat to a good night’s sleep has been the proliferation of software asa service at my company. At issue: One of the company’s business units hasstarted to give its employees access to storage via the Internet. Actionplan: Put the kibosh on that …(more)

ComputerworldBy Mitch Betts Computerworld - Software purchases made by non-IT business
departments used to be called “rogue IT” or “shadow IT.” But when it comesto today’s software-as-a-service model, those buying decisions are now outin the open. …(more)

Network WorldBy Beth Schultz, Network World These days, companies are applying the
software-as-a-service (SaaS) model to just about everything, from corebusiness functions, including IT, to industry-specific processes. Thislist, compiled with the help of SaaS …(more)

ZDNet AsiaOpenStack, on the other hand, is a project dedicated to developing an opensource cloud environment, according to Rackspace, which initiated theproject. …(more)

and …Business Wire (press release)Ultimate has been providing a SaaS-based system of record for HR since2002, and UltiPro Spring 2011 builds on Ultimate’s track record ofintegrating data across the enterprise by connecting to hundreds ofthird-party systems and service providers. …(more)

ZDNet (blog)Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 are infrastructure as a service (IaaS)providers, salesforce.com is a platform as a service (PaaS) provider. Theydon’t compete with Azure or EC2 nor do they want to. I heard this from Marcon the stage and from, …(more)

BenzingaSecurity: Today’s servers are designed for multitenancy use and can supportdifferent customers based on a variety of security settings, includingadvanced …(more)

eChannelLineWe have also thought about how we architect multitenancy for endpoint andbeing world class in doing that. “From a product execution perspective, …(more)

Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aquantia, the leading developer of 10Gigabit Ethernetconnectivity solutions for cloud computing and large scale data centerdeployments, announced today that it has closed its latest round offinancing. …(more)

Marketwire (press release)The launch of Telx’s Cloud Connection Centers furthers the Company’sleadership in interconnection, and establishes Telx as a formidable enablerof cloud computing. “Telx has enjoyed a long and successful engagement withSoftLayer, as the company …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Although slightly over 10 percent of the respondents currently have cloudcomputing projects in production, close to half are either implementing orpiloting new cloud applications. Despite cloud computing’s growingpopularity in most countries, …(more)

Advanced …SYS-CON Media (press release)BOSTON, MA — (Marketwire) — 06/06/11 — CloudBees, the Java PaaSinnovation leader, today announced a for-pay offering for its RUN@cloudJava Platform as a Service (PaaS). Developers can now decide, perapplication, whether they’d like to utilize a …(more)

WebWire (press release)Sony is taking its visual security business to the next level through SaaS(Software as a Service*1), a further development from its currentmanufacture and sale of hardware such as IP network cameras and recorders.The company will provide new ‘Cloud …(more)

ZDNet Asia… VMware dominance to remain despite contest - Zd Net Asia.com:OpenStack, on the other hand …… http://bit.ly/k0gR9B #openstack #cloud#OpenSource …(more)

Channel InsiderMuch the same can be said for Software as a Service (SaaS). And althoughmany SaaS solutions are offered via direct channels, there has been someopportunity for solution providers to benefit from SaaS, thanks to channelfriendly software vendors. …(more)

Help …PR Newswire (press release)The on-demand software platform leverages patented algorithms, processesand PDF scanning capabilities to deliver powerful business intelligence inseconds. For more information, visit http://www.validas.com.(more)

GigaOmLos Angeles-based Magento offers an open-source commerce software suitethat allows merchants to build flexible online stores that can becustomized easily. Tens of thousands of merchants use Magento and its newersoftware-as-a-service solution (SaaS) …(more)

Web …Business Wire (press release)NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Core Security Technologies,a leading provider ofsecurity testing and measurement solutions, today added cloud securitytesting software-as-a-service (SaaS) to its security test and measurementsolution portfolio. …(more)

TheStreet.comBy Frank Byrt 06/06/11 - 12:32 PM EDT BOSTON (TheStreet) — Apple(AAPL) is
expected to do some apple-polishing today as it announces its own versionof cloud-computing-based applications aimed at the consumer market. Thatnews shines the light on an …(more)

InformationWeekThat’s trusted cloud computing,” he said. Security concerns give manycompanies pause as they consider migrating portions of their IT operationsto cloud-based services. But you can stay safe in the cloud, as this TechCenter report explains. …(more)

ComputerworldBy Bernard Golden CIO - Left unsaid–typically, anyway–in most discussions
about cloud computing is the implicit threat that it will be the cause ofjob losses. The clamorous suspicion that many IT groups display towardpublic cloud services seems to …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Mondialpol Service SpA, the national operator in Italy of cash transportand counting services for Intesa Sanpaolo, will monitor activities in realtime through “Cloud Ready” devices from Eurotech with data management oncloud computing. …(more)

tuaw.comby Kelly Hodgkins Jun 6th 2011 at 2:50PM Apple detailed its cloud serviceand released some new features that rival Google Docs and Microsoft 365.Say hello to Apple’s new Documents in the Cloud feature that lets you syncdocuments in the cloud and …(more)

SearchServerVirtualization.comOne British university has gone with a virtualization automation andorchestration tool from Embotics Corp. over VMware vCloud Director, citingEmbotics’ affordability and manageability. Aston University, located inBirmingham, England, is a midsized …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewThe announcement comes on the heels of the company’s recent VMware vCloudPowered certification for its cloud service offerings. In this role, Ferriswill be responsible for PeakColo’s internal accounting, auditing andcontracts departments. …(more)

RegisterThe answer might be OpenStack, the open-source cloud compute and storageproject … While eBay is not an OpenStack member, Sample attended theOpenStack …(more)

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Businesses …IEWY NewsAMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the results of a global research study onadoption, attitudes and approaches to cloud computing, surveying ITdecision makers in public and private sector organizations across theUnited States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. …(more)

InvestmentNewsSystem failures in recent weeks involving such companies as Amazon.com Inc.and Sony Corp. have cast doubts on the security and reliability of cloudcomputing, and should put financial advisers on high alert. First, AmazonWeb Services, which offers …(more)

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PCWorldBy David Linthicum, Infoworld When you think of cloud computing, you
probably think of lower costs. However, a recent Forrester Research reportconcluded that companies now spend as much on new projects as on ongoingoperations. …(more)

InfoWorldIn the first report, Security of Cloud Computing Users: A Study of US andEurope IT Practitioners (May 2010), consumers of cloud computing weresurveyed to determine their perceptions on the situation of security withina cloud environment. …(more)

Washington PostBy Marjorie Censer, The furor over cloud, or Web-based, computing became
all the more evident last week when Cloudforce, a conference hosted bymajor cloud computing player Salesforce.com, swung into the District. In asold-out event that felt like …(more)

Wall Street JournalThe product will likely allow gadget owners to mirror their music librariesat Apple’s data centers and access them via the Internet, a paradigm knownas cloud computing. The service, which Chief Executive Steve Jobs isexpected to unveil with the …(more)

vCloud vs. OpenStack: Battle lines for enterprise cloud. by Kyle Hilgendorf| May 31, … Their vCloud initiative over the past 2 years [...] …(more)

TMC NetBy Erin Harrison Cloud computing has come a long way, but still has a long
way to go, according to a recent study released by IT consulting firmAvanade. Out of the more than 550 senior-level executives and ITdecision-makers surveyed, …(more)

MSPmentor (blog)Ingram does offer Nimsoft as both on-premise AND on-demand (SaaS). TheNimsoft on-demand solution has equal functionality, scalability, etc. toour Nimsoft on-premise solution. Ken: thanks for the correction on item 5.Safe travels and good to see you …(more)

saysOutsourcery”Existing on-premise CRM deployments (often highly customised) are reachingthe end of their useful life, the increased capabilities of SaaS (Softwareas a Service) CRM has made it more attractive to a broader market, andprice competition has made …(more)

The recent high-profile hacking of Google’s Gmail service and Sony’sPlaystation gaming network is threatening to slow the take-off of the nextbig thing in …(more)

Orlando SentinelIn an interview at the D9 digital conference last week in Rancho PalosVerdes, Calif., Disney CEO Bob Iger said his company will not be part ofApple’s cloud-computing launch. Apple’s initiative is rumored to be astreaming music service that would …(more)

Equity Bulls”SaaS in India is on a growth curve and Gartner estimates that there areover 500 user organizations that have adopted SaaS based ERP in India. ERPand CRM SaaS applications constitute approximately 60% of the Indian SaaSmarket share. …(more)

… Highly scalable platform through HP Performance Center on SaaS and the… HP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) enables Global Investment Bank to startweb …(more)

Florida TodayAll of these are examples of what is called “cloud computing,” where datais stored “in the cloud” — that is, on a remote server somewhere –instead of on your hard drive. The data is accessed using the Internet.Like many things in technology today, …(more)

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Cloud computing can go a long way to reducing carbon footprints andbusinesses are catching on. But the biggest advantage to companies is thecost savings.(more)

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Sunday Times.lkAt CeBIT Australia 2011, Asia Pacific’s largest business technology event,hSenid Biz, the leading HR solutions provider is to showcase the latest HRSaaS application, Peoples HR 2.0. People’s HR 2.0, a complete web based HRsoftware solution covering …(more)

The NationalCompanies across the region have confirmed that the adoption of cloudcomputing services has become a matter of when rather than if. iStockphotoMiddle Eastern organisations increasingly prefer to obtain computerservices via the internet, …(more)

Hollywood ReporterFor all the talk of cloud computing, the real cloud that hangs over E3, theannual confab that runs June 7 to 9 in Los Angeles, is the computer hackthat forced the shutdown of Sony’s PlayStation Network in April. As 45000attendees ogle new toys, …(more)

BusinessWeekLast year it made the source code freely available as part of a projectcalled OpenStack. It’s a big risk: Dell (DELL) and Citrix Systems (CTXS)have said they will be selling systems based on OpenStack that couldcompete with Rackspace’s offerings. …(more)

TMC NetBy Nathesh , TMCnet Contributor Advanced Productivity Software, a provider
of scalable, reliable time tracking and cost recovery software, announcedthat its newly unveiled RollCall SaaS (News - Alert) is a Web-based,on-demand solution with an …(more)

PCWorldBy Brian Proffitt, PCWorld We all know the big 500 pound gorilla of the
software-as-a -service world: Gmail. Google’s cloud-based application hasbeen capturing the attention (and the messages) of hundreds of millions ofusers since its 2004 beta …(more)

InformationWeekBy Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek With all of the publicity
surrounding the federal government’s push into the cloud, the public sectorstill trails the private sector in its adoption of cloud computingglobally, according to a new study. …(more)

SearchCloudComputing.comand you have explain it all over again, you will hate the words “cloudcomputing” even more. Meanwhile, other big IT providers are feeling theirway into true cloud infrastructure services. Fujitsu has opened the doorson its US cloud service, …(more)

AnandTechDesigning the software and taking care of cooling, networking, security,availability, patching and performance is a lot of work. Add all these timeinvestments to the CAPEX investments in your server and it is clear thatdoing everything yourself is a …(more)

InformationWeekAnd none of them has sufficient plug-ins for the growing number ofsoftware-as-a-service collaboration options, such as Salesforce.com’sChatter. The cloud vendors are no better, preferring to push their ownvisions as the only way to go. …(more)

i’ve tried resetting the file in the file list to the correct name but if Ifetch the media again from vcloud the response is like so. …(more)

Montclair Advisors had done a SaaS business profile of Patersons in April2010 and we wanted to get an update from their new CEO, Andrew Pearson. …(more)

Researchers rate Microsoft and Salesforce.com as leaders within the ValueMatrix , while Sage and SAP are ones to watch.(more)

ReutersComputer companies will need to collaborate to work on addressing securityissues to boost confidence in cloud computing, where data and software isstored on servers and accessed via the Internet, especially in thecorporate space where the potential …(more)

Times of IndiaThe survey also revealed that 43 per cent business enterprises in Indiahave still not adopted cloud computing for any IT services as part of theirplan for 2011. The survey, IT Risk/Reward Barometer, done by InformationSystems Audit & Control …(more)

BusinessCloud9Governments around the globe need to take action to ensure that CloudComputing’s potential is realised. That’s the conclusion of the latestphase of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) research study Exploring theFuture of Cloud Computing, …(more)

InformationWeekPart of the appeal of the software-as-a-service model is the (relative)simplicity of pay-as-you-go subscriptions and vendor-managed capitalinfrastructure. Customers do have alternatives if enterprise softwarevendors are intent on selling them a bill …(more)

Schedules …Business Wire (press release)SSI Investments II Limited is an indirect parent of SkillSoft Limited, aleading SaaS provider of on-demand e-learning and performance supportsolutions for global enterprises, government, education and small tomedium-sized businesses. …(more)

So to sum it up if you are using multi tenancy and consuming services fromenterprise … Technorati Tags: SharePoint2010,Multitenancy,ServiceApplications …(more)

SearchSOASo developers can not only develop their applications using a JBossplatform (or PHP or any other supported runtime), but they can actually putthem into the cloud without paying. Before they made platform software in afree way but now they’re running …(more)

Cloud computing remains a hot topic in the ICT industry, and BuddeCommfully agrees with the view that it has a great future. However it willstill be a fairly long time before it becomes as commonplace as itsadvocates predict. …(more)

Business Solutions MagazineBy Gennifer Biggs, security, storage, and managed services editor So much
of the chatter around cloud computing comes in the form of solutions aroundhosted email and backup/disaster recovery. But what about other technologybeing fueled by cloud’s …(more)

Accounting TodayBy Michael Cohn, Accounting Today Deloitte is expanding its cloud computing
services to provide client companies with a broader set of capabilities,including business model development, solution delivery and talentmanagement. …(more)

PRLog.Org (press release)Successful cloud computing efforts start with a solid adoption strategythat incorporates clearly defined goals, economic justifications,governance planning, definitive metrics and a means to monitor and maintainthe environment long term. …(more)

ShareCastThe purchase is seen to boost the group’s cloud computing capability (cloudcomputing allows users to store and retrieve their data from remotelocations). Sector peer Iomart, the cloud computing and managed servicescompany, is also wanted after …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)This time its all about the introduction of iCloud, Apple’s new andimproved cloud computing initiative. An earlier initiative, MobileMe, wasnot successful and reportedly led to a tirade from Apple CEO Steve Jobs.Before we get to the specifics, …(more)

Wall Street JournalThe company, which provides software that helps companies set up cloudcomputing, is often listed as a takeover target, but Robert Beauchamp saidhe doesn’t “worry too much about that.” “We’re doing extremely well as acompany,” he said in an interview …(more)

eWeekThe social collaboration changes in the Salesforce.com Summer ‘11 rev ofthe software-as-a-service CRM platform consist of a light sprinkling offilter improvements to the Chatter enterprise social media module. Theminor changes in the Chatter module …(more)

Practice …TMC NetFor those unaware, Cloud Computing Practice is like a source for companieswho are interested in purchasing their IT infrastructure via cloud basedservices such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service (PaaS),Software as a Service (SaaS …(more)

To showcase what Holland and the Dutch Cloud Computing Industry have tooffer, the Dutch government invited eight selected companies withinternational experience and ambition to present their software andservices at the Holland …(more)

ReadWriteWeb… AM / 0 Comments Having grown up during the transition from mainframesto PCs and worked in IT when we were first installing PCs, I find itamusing to see how people return now and then to the topic of collaborationin the Internet and SaaS era. …(more)

PlatformeWeekCitrix will be rolling out a new OpenStack product that would let customersbuild private or public clouds. Citrix System added Project Olympus, a newcloud product to its open cloud computing portfolio to complement itsCitrix NetScaler Cloud Gateway …(more)

Save time and money with HP Software-as-a-Service. … delivered via aproven SaaS platform, and tailored to each client by assigned TechnicalAccount …(more)

Server WatchSolutions built on OpenStack or Project Olympus — Citrix’s implementationof OpenStack — may well be more cost-effective than comparable VMwaresolutions. Another is that many companies that dipped their toes into theserver virtualization water by …(more)

Increase …Hospitality 1st (press release)Vacation Storebuilder (VSB) is an advanced e-commerce Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) platform that enables vacation rental and shared ownership companiesto quickly deploy and easily manage e-commerce websites for vacationrental, vacation clubs, …(more)

BusinessWeekNYSE Euronext, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, saidWednesday that it is launching a cloud computing platform for the financialservices industry. The Capital Markets Community Platform, which severalcustomers are testing, …(more)

KWCHBoth Amazon and Google have similar cloud computing options for yourdigital media, as well as other kinds of cloud computing options. Forexample, you can save your documents, spread sheets, photos, even calendarson Google’s servers instead of on …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)ServiceMesh, a provider of enterprise software and services that enableAgile IT operating models for Global 2000 clients, will be presenting twosessions at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo East 2011 on June 8-9 in NewYork. Dave Roberts, vice president …(more)

Forbes (blog)By FORRESTER RESEARCH By James Staten Ever since 2009 when NIST published
its first definition of cloud computing there has been a promise ofcommunity clouds, and now we finally have a second one in the financialservices market, thanks to NYSE …(more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)The webinar will provide practical guidance for e-discovery professionalson how to address the privacy, confidentiality and collection issues thatarise as a result of increased adoption of cloud computing and use ofsocial media. …(more)

SearchCloudComputing.comIt runs on vCloud Director and integrates a great deal of NYSETechnologies’ trading services; users can tap into virtual machines and ITservices and pay for it on demand. Jarrod Yuster, CEO of Pico QuantitativeTrading, said the new service …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)With a Software as a Service design, HR InTouch allows Tops Marketsemployees to log-in and view these messages from any location with Internetaccess. Once in the portal, which is uniquely branded for Tops Markets,associates will also view a welcome …(more)

SearchManufacturingERP.coms decision to deploy SaaS-based ERP at a new Indian subsidiary is that ithelped with global IT governance, according to Koji Motoyoshi, an analystwith the Stamford, Conn.-based research firm Gartner Inc. and author of acase study on the deployment. …(more)

Newsday (subscription)By AP (Marketwire) — 06/01/11 — Key Highlights: — Generic Network
Systems (GNS) signs a multi-year contract to expand hosting platform usingQTS facilities. — A financial services application hosting provider, GNSwas attracted to QTS’ …(more)

GCN.comBy Rutrell Yasin The public sector might not be adopting cloud computing as
quickly as the private sector, but that doesn’t mean agencies aren’tspending time evaluating the cloud’s pros and cons, according to two recentsurveys of IT decision-makers. …(more)

InformationWeekBy Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek The Department of Labor (DOL) is
the latest government office to explore the use of cloud computing toconsolidate in-house email systems. The department has put out a requestfor information (RFI) on …(more)

Government Health ITWhen David McClure, a General Services Administration official, testifiedin front of a Senate subcommittee hearing that cloud computing will savethe GSA nearly $2 billion every year, it became clear that the cloud hassettled into the White House. …(more)

Software …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Newton Software, the leading provider of modern, corporate applicanttracking software, has joined technology leaders like Microsoft, IBM andNetflix in Amazon’s Cloud Computing environment. Newton added over 100 newcustomers in 2010 and grew revenue …(more)

Marketwire (press release)”Barry’s extensive experience with managed eCommerce platforms is a perfectfit as he works to extend the functionality of MarketLive’sPlatform-as-a-Service offering.” While serving as the VP of SoftwareDevelopment at ATG (recently acquired by …(more)

TMC NetAnalysts are also predicting that the adoption of cloud-based services suchas Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service and managed serviceswill double. So why are such high numbers being thrown around? Because theproliferation of mobile …(more)

With the cloud computing market expected to grow rapidly, development ofrelated technologies, infrastructure and software applications is lookingpromising. Growing adoption of cloud computing is also expected to bringopportunities to …(more)

By Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Cloud computing is an internet-based model for groups to become moreefficient through sharing. It does not bog down your server and no softwareinstallation is required. Businesses may create a private cloud within. …(more)

Increase …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AP Source: Goldman Sachs subpoenaed 06.02.11 Vacation Storebuilder (VSB),an advanced Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) eCommerce platform for thevacation rental and shared ownership industry, and TimeShareWare (TSW), thedeveloper of software solutions …(more)

InformationWeekKickApps offers a software-as-a-service social publishing product that canbe used to build communities, encourage users to upload and curate content,and share that content in the form of widgets that can be embedded inwebsites or Facebook pages. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)BALTIMORE, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Velaro Inc., the multi-awardwinning live chat software-as-a service provider, will be attending theInternet Retailer Convention & Exhibition at the San Diego ConventionCenter from June 14th to June 17th. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Beginning with a collaborative project with North Carolina State Universityin 2002, IBM has worked with institutions around the world to enable theaward-winning Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) open source software platformthat was built by and for …(more)

Learn how HP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provides affordable IT solutions,to deliver the performance, security, scalability, and robustness that you…(more)

By Clyde Smith
Crowd Factory, a software as a service company focused on social marketingtools , recently introduced a new function for their Social Offer servicethat enables quick creation of landing pages for group deals and socialcampaigns on the …(more)

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Destination CRMBy Brittany Farb Competition in the CRM marketplace is expected to continue
as SaaS CRM vendors compete to lock in customers for long-term commitments,according to a recent report from Nucleus Research. price competition hasmade SaaS CRM a …(more)

Network WorldA second component of IBM’s cloud computing services is called DecisionManagement for Education, a software-as-a-service option that can bringtogether an institution’s information in order to make real-time decisionsbased on analytical technologies …(more)

eWeekEnterprises are increasingly adopting cloud computing in at least part oftheir IT environments, and are now also beginning to see positive resultsfrom the shift, according to a study by x86 chip-maker Advanced MicroDevices. …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN The string of recent cloud outages shouldn’t stop
solution providers from moving toward cloud computing, several executivessaid this week at Ingram Micro’s Cloud Services Summit in Phoenix. Instead,cloud outages suffered by …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: When it comes to cloud computing, storage is usually the first
thing that most IT organizations think about. While the idea that anexternal service provider could be used to store massive amounts of datacan be appealing, the management of …(more)

Motley FoolAmazon appears to be facing quite the dilemma in its cloud-computingsegment. Last month, Sony (NYSE: SNE ) shut down its PlayStation networkupon the discovery of a network breach that endangered credit card data. Atthe time, some media reports …(more)

New …Online PR News (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)

Pro Bono AustraliaCloud computing can improve the efficiency, effectiveness and flexibilityof Not for Profit organisations, giving them more time and resources tofocus on their core mission, however first they need to learn to let go ofthe things that don’t matter, …(more)

(England)]TMC Net(Gloucestershire Echo (England) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) CLOUD computingisn’t new, despite the hype, but cloud services such as SaaS, PaaS and IaaShave hit the big time with many of the major IT outsourcing companieswanting a slice of the pie. …(more)

The way that cloud service providers host their applications will have alot to do with the type of value proposition they’re trying to offer theirclients, …(more)

Edmonton JournalSo-called “cloud computing” lets people keep their songs and other contenton remote servers rather than a hard drive. Cloud options will help theiPhone compete with phones powered by Google’s Android software, said MikeAbramsky, an analyst with RBC …(more)

Citywire.co.ukby Atholl Simpson on Jun 01, 2011 at 07:01 Touted as the next bigrevolution in the tech sector, cloud computing’s ability to allow firms tomake substantial savings on their data storage expenditure has provedpopular among many companies, …(more)

By Herman Mehling
New integration platform as a service (iPaaS) offerings aim to relieve thepain of SaaS and cloud integration, which has been so onerous that manyorganizations have pulled the plug on SaaS projects.(more)

By Gunnar Peterson
I have a new post over on Intel’s Security Gateway blog on using SecurityGateways for Achieving unified control, visibility, and compliance for SaaSapplications. The post looks at mapping the technical information securitypolicy to …(more)

By Conor Harrington
Cork Institute of Technology has launched two new degree courses in cloudcomputing, the first such degrees of their kind in Ireland. The courseswere launched today in Dublin by the Minister for Employment and Skills,Mr. Ruairi Quinn, …(more)

By Margaret Lewis
Just as London is upgrading its infrastructure, many organizations arelooking to Cloud Computing as an approach that allows IT to match newtechnology with older infrastructure. The findings of AMD’s global cloudcomputing study …(more)

By Phil Haney
The initiative could quickly turn into one of the largest scientific cloudcomputing networks in the world, tapping the computing power and storageoffered up by desktop computers worldwide. …(more)

EIN News (press release)The rise of Cloud Computing, with services delivered “in the cloud”, offersbusinesses incredible power and flexibility. It promises the efficient useof human and financial capital resources, reducing infrastructure andoperation costs. …(more)

and …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The firm has partnered with Replicon, the market leader inSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) based time and expense software, to improveits company-wide processes for tracking employee time, productivity,attendance, and business expenses. …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)Available as Software as a Service (SaaS), Online Expenses is a quick andeasy solution to setup and use without the need to install new software. Itgives organizations the flexibility to easily revise their expensespolicies and reinforce them as …(more)

NetworkComputing.comA survey by semiconductor maker AMD shows that the adoption of cloudcomputing is “maturing rapidly” as businesses and other enterprises aredeveloping more in-house cloud expertise, putting more valuable businessdata in the cloud and quantifying the …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Now, US federal government customers looking to leverage the power of cloudcomputing can rely on salesforce.com’s services to address even more oftheir IT needs. The Obama Administration’s Cloud First policy is drivinggovernment adoption of cloud …(more)

Insurance News Net (press release)HONG KONG –(BUSINESS WIRE)– According to a new survey by globalinformation technology association ISACA, cloud computing adoption is onthe rise in Hong Kong and China . Results showed that 20 percent ofenterprises plan to use it for …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeWhen you think of key drivers in the growth of cloud computing, you may notthink of accounting. But at some companies, the accounting team is emergingas a key player in documenting the benefits of the cloud financial model,using data to build a …(more)

Business Wire (press release)Attendees are invited to visit Crossbeam’s booth (#335 at the InternationalCloud Expo and #248 at the Cloud Computing World Forum) to receive ademonstration of how the X-Series can enable enterprises and serviceproviders to securely deploy and …(more)

Marketwire (press release)The Cloud Security Alliance is a leading not-for-profit organizationdedicated to promoting best security practices in cloud computing andsecuring other forms of computing through the use of cloud computing. As aCSA corporate member, …(more)

Network WorldCustomers will log in through vCloud Director and provision an operatingsystem - either Red Hat Linux or Windows - and then install their ownsoftware on …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Panaya’s software-as-a-service helps companies reduce the cost of runningSAP ERP and Oracle EBS by 80% by automating upgrades, testing, andmaintenance. Panaya’s cloud-based supercomputer is the backbone of Panaya’sSaaS solution, simulating upgrades …(more)

Visual Studio MagazineWill emerging developer tools and hybrid Platform as a Service featuresramp up project and data deployments to Windows Azure? By Roger JenningsScott Guthrie, the former corporate vice president of the .NET DeveloperPlatform, who’s worked on ASP. …(more)

for …PR Newswire (press release)”The OpenStack community is working to provide the open, standard platformfor enterprise cloud computing, and cloud cost management is a requirementfor many enterprise users. We are pleased to have Cloud Cruiser as anactive member of the OpenStack …(more)

SearchSoftwareQuality.comWith the continued interest and investment in cloud computing, there hasbeen both commercial success and alarming failures. For the purposes of thediscussion, we will use the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) definition for cloud …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Version 2 adds full integration with Cloud Computing environments. Unlikeother solutions, the Spore appliance doesn’t require an agent to bepreinstalled on server images, doesn’t require predefined configurations,and creates detailed service …(more)

Are you creating a security system for a SaaS application? Visual Guard ishere to help! This article will list the important questions to ask duringyour …(more)

GigaOmThe cloud, called the Capital Markets Community Platform, was built by theNYSE’Technologies business division using a variety of VMware vSphere andvCloud …(more)

Analysis of companies that will profit from cloud computing, as well aswhat it means to the tech sector’s future, with Larry Haverty, GabelliGlobal …(more)

DatacenterDynamicsVMware technology deployed in the platform’s architecture includes vSphere,vCloud Director and vShield. The platform uses EMC’s VNX series of unified…(more)

Sacramento Bee… and support to help their new and existing customers successfully adopta greater end-user focus, while garnering the economic benefits of sourcingmodels like Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Softwareas a Service. …(more)

ComputerworldThe platform, which resides in a new 100000-square-foot data center, wasbuilt using VMware’s vSphere cloud infrastructure management software,vCloud …(more)

Citybizlist (press release)ATLANTA — Advanced Productivity Software (APS), a leading provider of timetracking and cost recovery software for legal professionals, todayannounces the launch of RollCall SaaS, a web-based, on-demand solution withan intuitive interface that …(more)

By Andrew Chen
It’s a convenient belief that after you decide to build your software as aservice (SaaS), Google AdWords and other networks will enable you tooutsource all of your marketing efforts and focus less about useracquisition. …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeThe NYSE is an infrastructure-as-a-service offering, allowing users todeploy virtual machines using vCloud Director provisioning software fromVMware. …(more)

Windows IT ProMy colleague Jeff James wrote about the feeling of doom and gloom hangingover IT pros regarding cloud computing, in contrast to the blue skiesforecast for developers. I’ve thought about this a bit, and I’ve talked todifferent people about the …(more)

Sacramento BeeNow, government customers are able to leverage salesforce.com’s proven andtrusted cloud computing services for more of their operations, all withoutany hardware or software. “Salesforce.com sees a tremendous opportunity forthe government to harness …(more)

Forbes (blog)That is the justifiable premise of VirtualWorks, launched with $8 millionin funding by Edward Iacobucci, originally from IBM and founder of CitrixSystems, a desktop virtualization and cloud computing company. VirtualWorkssounds like it is somewhat …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)NEW YORK, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Deloitte is expanding its cloudcomputing services to offer companies an enhanced and broader set ofcapabilities, including business model development, solution delivery andtalent management. …(more)

By RichB
As data and information grows rapidly online, cloud computing represents anefficient way to manage that digital explosion. But, how do you measure thegrowth of the cloud? And, what is the current state of cloud adoptionglobally. …(more)

iT NewsThe company will decommission its vCloud Express beta service on July 1 andwill only offer a commercial vCloud service to large enterprise andgovernment clients. The company sent a closure notice to smaller vCloudExpress customers today, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Available as Software as a Service (SaaS), Online Expenses is a quick andeasy solution to setup and use without the need to install new software. Itgives organizations the flexibility to easily revise their expensespolicies and reinforce them as …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)StatPro is the first company to offer a genuine SaaS solution thatintegrates data and software as a service for portfolio analysis. StatProRevolution is an open platform with a toolkit for integration with thirdparty solutions. …(more)

eWeekBreya said many of the solutions that make up the IT Performance Suite areavailable as a service, based on HP’s decade-long experience in helping ITprofessionals rapidly adapt to change, deploy in-house resources moreeffectively and assure business …(more)

Cloud IT ProAccording to Jim Leach, VP of market development for Harris, the company’sso-called Cyber Integration Center is the base for Harris’s TrustedEnterprise Cloud service, an infrastructure-as-a-service offering that willallow enterprise clients to …(more)