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- Citrix Acquires Cloud.com, Adding to Its OpenStack-focused Cloud Plays
- Citrix has acquired cloud.com
- Josh James, Omniture Co-Founder and Former CEO, Says Game On with Domo, a
- Series A Whopper: Benchmark Invests $33M in New BI Company Domo
- REA Group lists with hybrid Cloud
- Why I’m sold on the cloud
- Series A Whopper: Benchmark Invests $33M in New BI Company Domo
- VMware announces vCloud Director v1.5 : virtual-blog
- County online effort honored; ‘cloud’ computing is next
- Amazon opens Australian office
- SecurStore Leverages OpenStack and Rackspace Cloud Builders for Carbon …
- rPath Develops OpenStack Compute Appliance
- Asite Announces Five Year Agreement with Transport for London and
- Blacknight Solutions Announces Partnership with SaaS Internet Security …
- CONET Services Enhances Interxion’s Financial Hub
- ActiveState Advances New Cloud Platform, Stackato, to Beta With New Features
- Omniture cofounder unveils new business intelligence service …
- TfL and GLA sign collaborative SaaS deal
- The cloud: APM ownership challenges
- VMware launches comprehensive cloud infrastructure suite
- Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service Market To Hit $4 Billion
- Leading Companies Invest in Piston’s OpenStack Projects
- IT Operations in Flux as Cloud Computing Adoption Increases According to …
- VMware: VMware vCloud Blog: Paul Maritz at the GigaOm Structure …
- Looking for green (energy) in cloud computing
- Buying the Cloud | Cloud Computing Journal
- Multi-tenancy – Datamation
- Verizon Adds Two-Factor Authentication to Cloud-Based Identity Management
- Engineers: PROTECT IP Act Would Break DNS
- Former Omniture Co-Founder Launches New Business Intelligence Venture
- iPad-controlled supercomputing as a service coming this fall
- The elephants not in the SaaS room | ZDNet
OStatic (blog)As GigaOM notes, in addition to putting Citrix in closer competition withVMware and other cloud computing players, Cloud.com also has many notablecustomers who favor its cloud stack infrastructure, which is centered onOpenStack, including GoDaddy …(more)
The HCitrix, one of the founding members of the OpenStack project, has announcedthat it has acquired cloud.com, developers of virtualisation infrastructurefor private clouds, notably CloudStack, the hypervisor-agnostic, cloudinfrastructure platform. …(more)
New …BenzingaAt a launch event this evening in Salt Lake City, Omniture co-founder anddecade-long CEO Josh James unveiled for the first time the brand of hisnewly minted software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture, Domo. Domo delivers anew form of business intelligence …(more)
TechCrunchLearn More A new software as a service company Domo is formally launchingtonight at a party in Salt Lake City. I have no idea how opulent orbare-bones this party will be, but theoretically the company would haveplenty to spend on drinks, …(more)
CIO MagazineMelbourne-based REA Group (ASX:REA), operator of property websiterealestate.com.au, has implemented VMware’s hybrid vCloud to aid itsoverseas expansion and Web application development over the next threeyears. REA Group head of IT operations, …(more)
ComputerworldThe Missile Defense Agency CIO explains how cloud computing is helping todrive cost efficiencies, boost service levels and ease management. By JimArmstrong Computerworld – Even before “cloud first” became the IT strategyfor federal departments, …(more)
Washington PostIt is founded by Josh James, the founder and 10-year CEO of Omniture, oneof the very few SaaS companies out of thousands funded in the late1990s/early 2000s that actually managed to build a $1 billion-plus company.(He’s to the left enjoying his …(more)
VMware vCloud Director is the product used to provide cloud consumers withthe ability to have self service provisioning and to deploy workloadswithout the …(more)
New Jersey HeraldCrabb also announced that the county is moving into cloud computing andoffering the service to other municipalities in the county. “This is thenext big opportunity for shared services,” Crabb said. Within the cloudenvironment, various governments …(more)
DelimiterGlobal cloud computing and retail giant Amazon today told customers it hadopened an Australian office with dedicated local staff to service the cloudcomputing market, as speculation continues to swirl that the company willalso establish a new local …(more)
MarketWatch (press release)LONDON, Jul 14, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SecurStore, the trusted andspecialist cloud service provider, and Rackspace, the service leader incloud computing, today announced a relationship that will see SecurStoreutilise the OpenStack(TM) open source …(more)
MSPmentorrPath endorsed the use of OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, a fewmonths ago. Now the automation solution specialist is backing up itsendorsement with a new, free solution to help businesses deploy and upgradeOpenStack easier and quicker …(more)
Greater …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Tony Ryan, CEO of Asite said “We will be providing TfL with a true SaaSPlatform, with a government grade pedigree of security, compliance, andenterprise systems integration. Our Cloud Platform will give TfL theflexibility to deliver Contract …(more)
PR Web (press release)MXSweep is a global provider of SaaS Internet Security & Complianceservices including email security, content control & business continuity,encryption, email & Sharepoint archiving, web and mobile security to SME,corporate and public sector …(more)
MarketWatch (press release)These services range from software as a service and platform as a servicethrough to cloud-based solutions that include amongst others Direct MarketAccess, Market Data Services, order entry software, risk tools and multimember solutions. …(more)
Marketwire (press release)With Stackato as our cloud platform, our developers and administrators canfocus on building applications, not configuring machines or middleware.Stackato will help us get our web applications up and running veryquickly,” Mike Frager, Software …(more)
By Dylan Tweney
Domo will deliver it as an online service, similar to the waySalesforce.com, Omniture, Microsoft’s Office 365, and othersoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions work. It will aim at collecting aslice of the estimated $10 billion annual …(more)
Computingby Dawinderpal Sahota Transport for London (TfL) and the Greater LondonAuthority (GLA) have signed a five-year agreement with constructionindustry software specialist Asite for the use of its collaborativeSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology. …(more)
SearchSoftwareQuality.comThis article focuses on the ownership challenges of APM after organizationsmove to the cloud and offers some thoughts on how to make this transitionas smooth as possible in an IaaS and SaaS environment. In a physical serverenvironment that is …(more)
The HinduMr. Srinivasan said along with the release of vSphere 5, VMware had alsoannounced new virtualisation tools such as VMware vCloud Director 1.5,vShield 5 and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5. He said the company’scloud infrastructure suite would …(more)
CRN”Many SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications have been around for a longtime, but only now since the advent of entire platforms for applications,such as Google Apps and Force.com, are these applications gaining thenecessary visibility among …(more)
TMC NetBy Mini Swamy OpenStack, an open source cloud platform, currently appears
to be gaining traction as many large companies have been investing inOpenStack projects. Hummer Winbald and True Ventures led a $4.5 millionfunding to enable Piston Cloud …(more)
Marketwire (press release)RESTON, VA–(Marketwire – Jul 14, 2011) – A recent survey finds that withincreasing reliance on cloud computing, IT executives are uncertain aboutthe role of IT operations but also plan to invest in the internal staff andtools needed to manage …(more)
VMware vCloud Blog. Run, Manage and Secure Your IT Infrastructure and …With the release of VMware’s vCloud Director, VMware is now shaping thecloud …(more)
By Tony Johnston
Office 365, the cloud-based offering from Microsoft that gives users accessto Office and other applications for a small monthly subscription fee,launched…(more)
Cloud computing is commonly described in terms of service-style access:”Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS), “Platform as a Service” (PaaS), and”Software as a Service” (SaaS) are popular monikers attached to differentstyles of cloud …(more)
News and analysis of IT management topics related to Multi-tenancy.(more)
eWeekUsing Verizon’s cloud-based identity-as-a-service means organizations don’thave to deal with any on-premise hardware or software deployments, Hulversaid. Identity management is becoming more challenging for enterprises, asmore applications move to …(more)
PCWorldBut the blocking that occurs today comes as a service that ISP customershave agreed to, not generally as an attempt to keep Internet users awayfrom sites they want to see, the engineers said. But malware and childpornography sites don’t generate …(more)
Enterprise Apps TodayOmniture co-founder and former CEO Josh James has launched a newsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) venture, Domo. Domo claims to deliver a newform of business intelligence designed to transform the way executivesmanage their business, and based on the …(more)
Network WorldWith supercomputing as a service, users state their task and softwareintelligence determines how much computing power they need and then goesout and assembles it virtually. The technology is so automated that asimple custom application on an iPad …(more)
Why are VMware and Citrix, the two biggest technology beasts of the cloudinfrastructure layer, not making their presence felt in the SaaS vendorcomm.(more)