July 2011

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

• Blog – virtual server guy – the one stop place for virtual server …

If your vCloud Director machine is on the same vCenter as the ComputeClusters are (not a best practice but it does work), you can not have thesame vCloud …(more)

• JARING to offer enterprise cloud with vCloud Director in Malaysia …

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based JARING is scheduled to unveil what itdescribes as a full-blown cloud in two weeks, targeting enterprisecustomers (by JARING’s …(more)

• Mendix Expands Platform-as-a-Service Offering, with Version 3.0 of …

Mendix Expands Platform-as-a-Service Offering, with Version 3.0 of its …Software makes it easier for developers to work with other stakeholders toensure …(more)

• Introducing Piston Cloud Computing | True Ventures

We are thrilled to announce our recent investment in Piston Cloud Computingalong side Hummer Winblad, Divergent Ventures and other prominent angels….(more)

• Personal cloud solutions–own your data

ZDNet (blog)I could have gone with OpenStack, but it was more effort than I wanted toput into something that should be little more than plug and play forsomeone that just wants to share files with family and friends. I wouldalso have to continue maintaining it, …(more)

• Powerful Information Management Software Now Available in the Cloud

BenzingaThey created the hosted version, called DaaS (DocuClass as a Service)combining the powerful features and userfriendly applications of theclient/server system with the convenience of a cloud-based system in asecure environment without the need for …(more)

• [eclipselink-users] Multi-tenancy using shared tables

I want to convert my current Java EE 6 app to support multi-tenancy. Atfirst, I was gonna do it “manually” by adding a tenant-id into every entityand …(more)

• What is ‘cloud computing’ and how will it change the lives of ordinary

consumers?Asbury Park PressSteve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., unveils the iCloudstorage system at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in June in SanFrancisco. Apple is using iCloud to try to retain its dominance in thesmartphone and tablet markets amid …(more)

• INTERVIEW: Acer looks to future success in cloud computing

Taipei TimesOn Thursday, Acer Inc chairman JT Wang unveiled the company’s plan toacquire US-based cloud-computing firm iGware Inc for US$320 million. Heshared his views with a group of reporters, including Lisa Wang of the’Taipei Times,’ about the company’s …(more)

• Cloud computing to create one lakh jobs in India Study Yahoo News

Read ‘Cloud computing to create one lakh jobs in India: Study’ on Yahoo!News. Bangalore, July 19 (IANS) As the next technology wave, cloudcomputing by …(more)

• How to be small but look big in business

USA TodayYou might have heard of SaaS, many small business people have. But it alsoremains a bit of a hazy subject for many, and that’s too bad because, likethe small business above, SaaS is an affordable, powerful way to run andexpand a small business. …(more)

Current results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!

Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.

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

• Cloud market to hit $83 billion by 2016: will it still be measurable by

then?ZDNet (blog)The popularity of SaaS services is also driving increased interest inInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)services as businesses become more comfortable with the cloud. Awareness ofdata protection legislation, …(more)

• Sharepoint 2010 multi tenancy mode with Exchange organizations

Dear all,. We have Exchange 2010 SP1 /hosting switch in our environment. Ihave installed Sharepoint 2010 hosted mode. How do we integrateorganizations …(more)

• Cloud Computing and the Linux Job Market

Given that Linux was the OS of choice for the top 10 supercomputers in June2011 , Linux professionals are sitting pretty in the cloud.(more)

• The SaaS Customer Lifecycle: Seven Pitfalls | Cloud Computing Journal

Current SaaS providers know that improvements in the customer lifecycle canhave a substantial impact on their profitability. Selling to the rightpeople …(more)

• ‘Our education problem can be solved with cloud computing’

Times of IndiaThis year the big thing we think is cloud computing. So we have a wholestrategy on cloud and we are now very focused on it.” But every quarter, HPIndia identifies emerging developments. Financial inclusion became bigtowards the end of last year. …(more)

• IBM’s Unsexy Secret To Profits: Middleware

InformationWeekBy Doug Henschen InformationWeek IBM took pains to highlight hot-button
topics like cloud computing and big-data computing in its second-quarterearnings report this week. But behind the scenes, the backbone of IBM’ssoftware profit engine is …(more)

• vCloud Hosting Web Hosting Talk

vCloud Hosting Cloud Hosting Offers. … Introducing VMware vCloud Hostingfrom StratoGen Europe’s leading VMware Hosting Service Provider …(more)

• Wyle Executive Joins Commission on Federal Cloud Computing

Bradenton Herald/PRNewswire/ — A Wyle information technology executive is closely involvedwith an industry effort in defining the course of cloud computing for theFederal government. This effort will include the establishment ofrecommendations to policy makers on …(more)

• Software as a ServiceSaaS Capabilities

NCR Corporation and Radiant Systems, Inc. announced a definitive agreementfor NCR to acquire Radiant Systems, a leading provider of multichannel …(more)