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July 22, 2011

Daily Cloud Feed – Jul 22, 2011

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

  • enStratus Expands Capabilities For OpenStack – Yahoo! News
  • Read ‘enStratus Expands Capabilities For OpenStack’ on Yahoo! News. Newcapabilities for OpenStack Object Storage and Compute released on one-year…(more)

  • VMware Communities: Delegated Administration /…
  • Delegated Administration / Multi-Tenancy in View 4.6. Hey all,. Whensetting up a pilot environment we came across a couple of hiccups. …(more)

  • Free Tablet With Purchase Of Google Apps
  • San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Philadelphia based Software-as-a-Service Distributor Excel Micro, Inc. hasassisted thousands of companies migrate to the cloud and sees cloudcomputing not as a trend, but as an industry standard. Companies ranging inall sizes and all industries …(more)

  • From a Basement to the Stars: How the OpenStack Cloud Was Born
  • By Dan Rowinski
    OpenStack is a popular open source cloud operating system used by more than90 companies and the U.S. government. In the world of cloud, OpenStack iswhere the cool kids hang out and where some of the most talented developersin the …(more)

  • Cloud on call: Should you go with a telco for Cloud?
  • Computerworld AustraliaNow, telcos such as Telstra, Optus and Macquarie Telecom talk of the Cloudwith gusto and services offerings across Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) movedown into the mid-market. …(more)

  • Amazon’s next billion-dollar business eyed
  • ReutersO) Inc’s cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business andanalysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit isgrowing when the Internet retailer reports results next week. Amazon WebServices started small in 2006 by …(more)

  • Load Balancing and Cloud Computing (SCVMM – TechNet Blogs
  • By J.C. Hornbeck
    System Center Virtual Machine Manager Microsoft SCVMM Virtualization.(more)

  • Nasuni SLA Guarantees 100 Percent Cloud Storage Uptime
  • eWeek”When it comes to storage as a service, customers demand 100 percent uptimeand ironclad security. That is exactly what we give them, and the SLAformalizes our commitment. Our confidence is based on extensive, long-termmonitoring of every Nasuni …(more)

  • Comments – Turn
  • By NoelleRitter
    We are a software and services company with the industry’s only end-to-endplatform for delivering the most effective data-driven digital advertisingin the world. Our self-service interface, optimization algorithms,real-time analytics, … Oversee enterprise level software quality controlprocess, release process, and support engineering for enterpriseSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) for the digital advertising market; buildautomated testing framework for front end, …(more)

  • Microsoft moves forward withRoslyn compiler as a service project …
  • Companies; Hardware; Software; Mobile; Security; Research; Special Coverage…. this site began as a subscriptionbased service calledZiffNet thatoffered …(more)

  • Are you ready to enter the cloud?
  • ITWeb (blog)The cloud computing hype cycle has well and truly left the building, andSouth African businesses now stand before the next phase: making thedecision and moving to the cloud. This is where reality starts rearing itshead; it is now about choosing the …(more)

  • Acer to buy U.S. cloud computing firm iGware
  • Calgary HeraldTaiwan’s Acer Inc. will buy US-based cloud computing firm iGware Inc. for$320 million, the fifth-largest ever Taiwanese buyout of a US company, asit seeks to move beyond its core hardware manufacturing business. Theworld’s No. …(more)

  • Cloud Computing Growth Hampered by Cost, Security Concerns: Survey
  • eWeekTheInfoPro, a division of analyst and data company The 451 Group, releasedthe results of a cloud computing study outlining the key market factorsrelating to cloud services growth. The survey found slightly more than half(53 percent) of interviewees …(more)

  • Cloud computing aiding state of Vermont
  • CenterBeamThe state of Vermont recently announced the implementation of cloudcomputing to improve its business operations, improve revenue and enablestate employees to collaborate more effectively. Vermont’s Department ofInformation and Innovations found it …(more)

  • Manuweb Software Systems, Inc. (CNSX:AIV) Announces Intent to Acquire
  • the …Marketwire (press release)Corporate plans are to transition the business to a Software as a Service(SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PAAS) business model with substantialinvestiture in expanding across vertical market opportunities withinexisting customer groups and beyond …(more)

  • Citrix Forums : CSP / SPLA licencing XenApp …
  • Thread: CSP / SPLA licencing XenApp multi-tenancy architecture … CSP /SPLA licencing XenApp multi-tenancy architecture. Posted: Jul 22, 2011 4:00AM …(more)

  • Inside IBM’s Coremetrics-Unica SaaS Marketing Mashup …
  • Blending of Web analytics and marketing management services is designed toease multi-channel analysis and campaign management.(more)

  • What a year! OpenStack at One – Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting
  • Link to the Rackspace Cloud & Show the Love. Live Chat with us or Call1.877. 934.0409 Today.(more)

  • OpenStack Founder’s Startup, Piston, Eyes Private Cloud Security
  • InformationWeekMcKenty is the behind-the-scenes architect of Nebula and one of thefounders of the OpenStack open source code project that sprang out of it.OpenStack, with contributions from infrastructure-as-a-service supplierRackspace as well as NASA, …(more)

  • Upgrade Your Old PBX System to a Virtual Call Center Without Spending a Dime
  • TMC NetContactual’s Software as a Service solution allows companies to keep theirexisting PBX and ACD system while expanding their capabilities. Thisvirtual call center is a hybrid approach to give all staff moreflexibility. …(more)

  • Politics, (computing) power and money in IT and the cloud
  • SearchCloudComputing.comBOSTON — The unmistakable results from the shift to cloud computing wereevident at a cloud computing conference here this week. Though IT pros haddifferent problems and different solutions, all saw swift-moving, deepchanges to IT as we know it. …(more)

  • Verizon Incoming CEO: ‘Robust Growth’ in Cloud Computing
  • CNBC.comVerizon Communications is seeing “robust growth” in cloud computing becausecustomers are looking to lower their IT costs, Lowell McAdam, the incomingchief executive, told CNBC Friday. To accelerate its footprint in thecloud, Verizon “Those are doing …(more)

  • Q&A: VMware CEO Maritz Outlines Path To Cloud
  • CRNAnd with Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service, VMware is now trying to winthe hearts and minds of application developers. This is a new area forVMware — how are you going about getting developers into your camp? Welook at the world in three layers: …(more)

  • Athenahealth EPS Beats, Ups View
  • Daily MarketsAthenahealth’s Software as a service (SaaS)-based approach allows for alower cost and more flexible delivery mechanism that is expected to helpAthenahealth win deals. We believe that the company’s focused marketingapproach is paying dividends, …(more)

  • Is your IT support making you vulnerable to hackers?
  • ComputerworldThere are many choices of remote support technologies, but they mainly fallinto two categories: software as a service (SaaS) and on-premise. Bydesign, any data that is accessed through a SaaS remote support tool isautomatically passed through a …(more)

  • DhruvSoft Launches the Offering for Microsoft Office 365 Pilot
  • Newswire Today (press release)Our other offerings include content management, technology planning anddeployment, CRM Implementations, SaaS (Software as a Service) applicationsdeployment, open source consulting, application maintenance and datamanagement. …(more)

  • Report on Cloud Computing’s Environmental Benefits is Flawed says …
  • By Klint Finley
    This week the report Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Centuryfrom the Carbon Disclosure Project has been making rounds in cloudcomputing circles. …(more)

  • Acer Looks Towards Cloud Computing With iGware Acquisition …
  • By itproportalstaff@itproportal.com (Staff Writer)
    PC vendor Acer has announced the acquisition of cloud computing companyiGware as it plans to tap the emerging cloud…(more)

Daily Log News Feed – Jul 22, 2011

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Daily ITIL News Feed – Jul 22, 2011

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