- HP Joins OpenStack Cloud Project
eWeekHewlett-Packard is jumping on the OpenStack cloud computing bandwagon, aday after rival Dell unveiled a cloud computing solution based on theopen-source software stack. In a blog post July 27, Emil Sayegh, vicepresident of cloud services for HP, …(more)
- Former NASA CTO Launches Cloud Appliance
PCWorldBy Nancy Gohring, IDG News The former CTO of NASA and co-founder of
OpenStack on Wednesday unveiled a new appliance designed to make it easyfor enterprises to build private clouds. The idea is to eliminate thecustomization required to build most …(more)
- Challenges of cloud computing in healthcare integration
ZDNetHere some of the challenges healthcare organizations must overcome tointegrate disparate healthcare systems using the cloud computing model.Commentary - Despite widespread adoption of cloud-based solutions by mostindustries, the healthcare industry …(more)
- Oracle Launches Java 7 as Innovation Sprouts From the Community, Others
eWeekThere has also been innovation on the Platform as a Service (PAAS) front,with technology such as VMware’s CloudFoundry, Amazon’s Elastic Beanstalkand offerings from CloudBees and others getting into the fray with newruntime environments for Java. …(more)
- BMC Software 1Q Net Up 3.1%, Cuts Bookings View
Wall Street JournalA shift to the cloud–the delivery of software, storage and other computingresources as a service over the Internet–is seen as a big growth driverfor BMC. The company said it expects current-year enterprise servicemanagement license bookings to …(more)
- CA updates cloud management software
iT NewsIts new Automation Suite for Clouds allowed enterprise IT managers torapidly deploy ‘private clouds’ to provide infrastructure as a service fortesting and development environments. Automation Suite for Data Centresallowed IT mangers to move …(more)
- Cisco tops Infonetics Research’s web security SaaS scorecard
CAMPBELL, CA–(Marketwire - Jul 20, 2011) - Market research firm InfoneticsResearch today released excerpts from its new Worldwide Web Security SaaS…(more)
- Adrian Cole announces JClouds 1.0 release
InfoQ.comTo a certain degree, we are leaning on cloud controllers such as OpenStackNova and vCloud until this is together. Another option is our byon (Bringyour own node) provider developed in collaboration with Twitter recently….(more)
- Dell Offers OpenStack Infrastructure-As-A-Service
Albuquerque Express(click image forlarger view and for full slideshow) Dell has announced whatthe company claims is the “first available” cloud solution offering basedon the OpenStack platform. The launch of the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solutionis being presented as a …(more)
- Smartling makes translation affordable with $10M in funding
VentureBeatTranslation software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, Smartling, wants tochange that. The service works like this: For each desired language,clients create separate DNS, or domain name system sites, which assign newIP addresses. …(more)
- HP Pledges Allegiance To OpenStack Cloud
CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN HP Wednesday revealed it has put its support behind
the OpenStack cloud, the open source cloud infrastructure project. HPjoining the Rackspace-led OpenStack cloud, which celebrated its firstanniversary this month, …(more)
- Ex-NASA CTO builds cloud dream team, launches Nebula
ReutersBy Derrick Harris at GigaOm The cloud computing world has been anxious to
hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in thespring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introducedhis new company, Nebula. …(more)
- Microsoft Reshuffles HPC Organization, Azure Cloud Looms Large
HPCwire (blog)This change allows us to go bigger as we drive on-premises growth whiletaking an increased emphasis on helping existing and new customers harnessthe power of cloud computing. Waite: I love working in such a fast movingmarket. …(more)
- OpenStack creators launch cloud appliance start-up
ITworld.comBy Chris Nerney Add a new comment With backing from Sand Hill Road
heavyweights and early Google investors, former NASA CTO Chris Kemp onWednesday unveiled his new company, Nebula, a hardware appliance based onthe OpenStack open source cloud …(more)
- Dell crowbars open its OpenStack solution
The HDell has announced its Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution at OSCON and opensourced Crowbar, its “cloud unboxer”, as part of the announcement. Dell hasbeen an OpenStack community member since it launched, and has been workingwith OpenStack’s …(more)
- BMC Software’s CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking AlphaOur Cloud and Software-as-a-service initiatives gained more traction in themarketplace, and we won a number of additional customers around the world.In fact, during the first quarter, we had 21 Cloud Solutions wins. Theseinclude NBC Universal, …(more)
- Nebula looks to democratize cloud computing with open source …
By Alex Howard
Newly launched Nebula will combine open source software with open sourcehardware developed into an appliance. If Nebula succeeds, its.(more)
- InfoQ: Cloud Computing Realigns Role of Service Oriented Architecture
By JP Morgenthal
From its inception Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been a source ofdissension among enterprise, solution and application architects. Now cloudcomputing is changing the conversation.(more)
- SaaS Revenue To Go Over $12 Billion
CIO Weblog (blog)By admin, July 27, 2011 11:14 pm Revenues from Software as a Service, SaaS,
will grow by 20.7 % and touch $12.1 billion worldwide in 2011 according toGartner Inc. The firm also predicted the rise in SaaS spending till 2015when the worldwide revenue …(more)
- Dell Launches OpenStack Cloud Platform Solution
Server WatchOpenStack started a year ago with code contributions from NASA andRackspace and has since grown to more than 88 member companies, includingDell. The Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution includes a reference architecturebased on Dell PowerEdge C Series …(more)
- Cloud Computing: HP to Support OpenStack
SYS-CON Media (press release)The fact that Dell is going to try to commercialize OpenStack was barelyyesterday’s news when HP up and said it’s going join and support the opensource cloud infrastructure project. The word came from HP VP of cloudservices Emil Savegh, …(more)
- Alibaba Cloud Computing Unveils Mobile Cloud Operating System
Business Wire (press release)Alibaba Cloud Computing was established in September 2009 with the missionof building an advanced data-centric cloud computing service platform. Thecompany is committed to supporting the growth of Alibaba Group and thewhole e-commerce ecosystem by …(more)
- Feds Get Cloud Computing Roadmap
Information ManagementA foundation composed of leading voices from the technology and academicworld has presented the federal government with a cloud computing roadmap,designed to help the government leverage the benefits of the technology.The roadmap, presented by the …(more)
- Xcedex releases X_Factor Cloud and Virtualization Planning and
Management …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Xcedex’s new X_Factor VMC2 Appliance provides a full range of applicationsspecifically designed for planning and real-time management of cloudcomputing. Like all Xcedex products, X_Factor VMC2 Appliance is trulyagentless with no third party software …(more)
- Phixios, INC Announces New Website Monitoring Service From the Cloud
BenzingaAll three Phixios Monitoring services provide Software as a Service (SaaS)from the cloud. Customers can start monitoring their devices within 24hours of a completed request for service. The services are elastic as itcan grow and shrink as required …(more)
- HP heats up cloud wars by backing OpenStack
InfoWorldBy Eric Knorr In a blog post on the HP site yesterday, vice president of
cloud services Emil Sayegh announced HP’s “intent to join and support” theopen source OpenStack cloud infrastructure project. It’s a major milestonein big vendor efforts to …(more)
- Dell Introduces OpenStack Cloud Solution
ITProPortalComputer vendor Dell has announced its cloud-based infrastructure productwhich is based on OpenStack, targeting businesses using both private andpublic clouds. According to tech website ZDNet, Dell, one of the largestcomputer makers and marketers, …(more)
- Customer Self-Service | The Holy Grail of SaaS | Cloud Computing …
One hundred percent customer self-service is the holy grail of SaaS.Everyone looks for it, but it is never found. Even if your product issimple enough to provide complete self-service purchase, you are unlikelyto get away with …(more)
- Totango Launches Public Beta, Raises $3.8 Million To Help SaaS …
By Rip Empson
Totango, a realtime platform that allows software-as-a-service (SaaS)companies to better understand their customers, announced today that it hasclosed a $3.8 million round of Series A funding, led by Pitango VentureCapital and Gemini …(more)
- Totango set to enhance SaaS sales tools | Software Interrupted …
A new company is helping software-as-a-service companies dance their wayinto more sales. Read this blog post by Dave Rosenberg on Software,Interrupted.(more)
- HP to join OpenStack
The HThe momentum behind the OpenStack project has increased withHewlett-Packard’s announcement that it intends to join and support the opensource infrastructure-as-a-service project. HP joins other major enterpriseplayers such as Dell, Cisco, …(more)
- RemObjects Software Makes Relativity Server a Free-to-Use, Standalone
ProductSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)… for production purposes, install it as a service or daemon. Developertools provider RemObjects Software previously only had Relativity Serverand Server Explorer available as part of Data Abstract, a cross-platformmulti-tier database application …(more)
- GBS Enterprises Acquires IDC Global Networks — A Provider of Network and
Data …MarketWatch (press release)The IDC acquisition also enables GROUP Live to extend its offering into theareas of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as well as hosting/out-sourcingcapabilities for its customer base. GBS is now able to provide its IBMLotus Software customers a …(more)
- The iPad Is EA’s Fastest Growing Platform
Business InsiderBut the more subtle point is that we’re moving to a world of games as aservice, rather than a product: increasingly, games make money throughselling virtual goods and upgrades rather than an upfront payment. That’s avery different business model …(more)
- Alibaba to launch “Cloud OS” tablet computers by year-end
ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba Group’s cloud computing unit is in talks withQualcomm to develop chipsets for lower-end smartphones using Alibaba’sself-developed mobile operating system, an executive said on Thursday.Alibaba Cloud Computing is also …(more)
- Demystifying the Government Cloud
sourcingfocus.comIt seems that everyone is talking about cloud computing these days. ITmanagers are enthusiastic about hosting their data and software on theinternet, rather than on managed, dedicated servers, because it makes datamore accessible, and easier and …(more)
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- NEA And Sequoia Put $18M In Brand-Focused Social Media Platform Hearsay
SocialWashington PostBy TechCrunch.com, Hearsay Social, a SaaS dashboard for national businesses
and their local branches to manage Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages,has raised $18 million in new funding med by New Enterprise Associates(NEA) with existing investor …(more)
- PaperThin Launches Cloud-Based Solution to Make Marketers More Effective
Business Wire (press release)Because it’s SaaS and in the cloud, capital expenses for software licensesand hardware are eliminated and ongoing maintenance, upgrade and supportresources and associated costs are significantly reduced. CommonSpot Cloudsites can be implemented …(more)
- Nebula: an OpenStack appliance company
The HThe announcement press release said that the new company would produce anOpenStack hardware appliance for cloud computing that, in addition tosupporting commodity servers such as the reference implementation on DellPowerEdge C servers, would support …(more)
- OpenStack’s Partnerships Give it a Leg Up in the Race to the Cloud
OStatic (blog)27, 2011Comments (0) On the open source cloud computing front, OpenStackhas been rapidly gaining momentum and partners. It was clear from theoutset that OpenStack would pose a significant challenge to many technologyplayers focused on the cloud, …(more)
- Host Analytics Releases Next Generation Decision Hub for Finance
ProfessionalsMarketwire (press release)REDWOOD CITY, CA–(Marketwire - Jul 28, 2011) - Host Analytics, theindustry’s leading provider of SaaS-based corporate performance management(CPM), today announced the next generation of Decision Hub, a centralresource for finance and operations …(more)
- NASA’s Former CTO Brings Cloud Appliance To Enterprise
InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek Chris Kemp, the man behind NASA’s Nebula
cloud computing center, has launched a startup, also called Nebula, thatwill offer an appliance for enterprise cloud computing. The appliance willbe based on OpenStack, …(more)
- Autonomy’s Figures Up 16% Pushed by Cloud Computing, Iron Mountain, Aurasma
CMSWireWhile the lower costs of cloud computing may have depressed Autonomy’sfigures overall over the quarter, the potential here is enormous, and thefact that many of its customers went that route and the company stillshowed impressive quarterly figures …(more)
- Cloud Computing: Solid definitions for an idea that is hard to put your
finger onOne Stop ClickThe latter causes never-ending confusion on the part of end-users, managersand marketers who mistakenly believe that anything related to the Internetis “cloud computing.” Everyone (especially marketing people) has adifferent definition for the cloud …(more)
- Oracle buys call-center software maker InQuira
Chicago TribuneThe acquisition comes as Oracle looks to catch up with Salesforce.com inthe business of providing software as a service that is delivered over theInternet. Salesforce.com sells software for managing call centers that itscustomers access via the Web …(more)
- CCH Completes Acquisition of SpeedTax
TMC NetBy Rahul Arora , TMCnet Contributor CCH (News - Alert), a Wolters Kluwer
business, has acquired SpeedTax, a provider of innovativeSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales and use tax solutions. SpeedTax servessmall-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the …(more)
- Subway Restaurants(R) Selects Velti as Exclusive Mobile Marketing Platform
MarketWatch (press release)To deliver a consistent, world class mobile experience in locations aroundthe globe, Velti is leveraging Velti mGage(TM) — its carrier gradeSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based mobile marketing platform. Theflexibility and robust nature of mGage …(more)
- Wiretap: Star-powered startup Nebula looks to the cloud
San Jose Mercury NewsThe former chief technology officer at NASA has spent the past yearoverseeing the development of OpenStack, an industrywide effort to helpcompanies do business on the cloud more cheaply. Now he figures it’s timeto add some bells and whistles, …(more)
- Analysis: HR software firms log gains in shifting job scene
ReutersMost talent management product vendors now offer their software as aservice, hosted in the cloud. This makes them cheaper, quicker to deployand easier to use unlike the cumbersome, expensive products offered bytraditional vendors like Oracle Corp …(more)
- HP pledges support for OpenStack cloud platform
ZDNet (blog)By Rachel King | July 28, 2011, 11:41am PDT Hewlett-Packard is the latest
Silicon Valley heavyweight to join in on the OpenStack open-source cloudplatform. Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as wellas Editorial Director of …(more)
- OCI Offers ‘Happy Medium’ For Cloud Customers, Vendors
NetworkComputing.com… the “Open Cloud Standards Incubator” from the Distributed ManagementTask Force (DMTF), to the more recent open-source projects, OpenStackCompute for developing a cloud-based server environment and OpenStackObject Storage for cloud-based storage. …(more)
- What’s a Cloud Play?
Seeking AlphaFact is, enterprise computing and cloud computing are different beasts.Cloud computing is a very specific technology which combines distributedcomputing, virtualization, and shared network storage into a single systemthat can deliver its power to …(more)
- 3 More OpenStack Announcements from OSCon: HP Joins OpenStack and More
ReadWriteWebIn addition to the launch of ex-NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s OpenStack-basedstartup Nebula, which we covered yesterday, there have been some otherimportant announcements regarding OpenStack this week. HP is joining theOpenStack community, Dell is rolling …(more)
- HP Supports OpenStack; Nebula Launches
Data Center KnowledgeOpenStack, an open source cloud computing infrastructure project which grewout of a collaboration of Rackspace and NASA, keeps gaining momentum, withtwo more announcements at this week’s OSCON conference. Today, OpenStackhas participation from more …(more)
- Four Reasons Why Cloud Computing is Energy Efficient
There have been a few recent analyses showing that cloud computing hassignificant efficiency and cost advantages. The most recent one with whichI am directly familiar was conducted by Jon Taylor’s team at WSPEnvironment & Energy for …(more)
- Senator pushes cloud as deficit cutting tool
NextgovBy Joseph Marks 07/28/2011 The federal transition to cloud computing is an
overlooked source of savings as the government battles over trillions ofdollars in spending reductions, the leader of a Senate oversightsubcommittee said this week. …(more)
- HP Gives OpenStack Significant Backing in the Cloud Wars
Just yesterday, in our post “OpenStack’s Partnerships Give it a Leg Up inthe Cloud Race,” we noted that OpenStack has so many heavy-hittingpartnerships at …(more)
- HP Joins OpenStack
Server WatchBy Sean Michael Kerner (Send Email) HP announced this week that it was
going to be joining the open source OpenStack cloud infrastructure project.OpenStack is a year-old project originally started by NASA and Rackspacefor delivering a cloud computing …(more)
- Obscure Chinese Company Debuts OS on Obscure Chinese Phone
Wired NewsOf course, I’m being a bit (OK, more than a bit) sarcastic, but there is anew player entering the mobile OS battlefield: Aliyun, from e-commerce andcloud computing group Alibaba. In a press release Thursday, Alibaba CloudComputing announced the …(more)
- Startup Helps SaaS Vendors Boost Sales, Customer Experience
PCWorldBy Chris Kanaracus, IDG News A startup called Totango is hoping to make it
big by solving the business problems of fellow SaaS (software-as-a-service)vendors, not end users. Every software company has to deal with the cost ofacquiring a customer …(more)
- Gluster Joins OpenStack With Scaled-Out Storage
CRNBy Joseph F. Kovar, CRN Gluster, a developer of software for building
scale-out storage solutions, this week unveiled its Gluster Connector forthe OpenStack open-source cloud platform. The news comes one week after thePortland, Ore. …(more)
- Sales Account Executive Software as a Service SaaS at The Mergis …
View and apply for the Sales- Account Executive Software as a Service SaaS… on the SaaS Platform and also to new markets within a specificterritory or …(more)
- ITSM multi tenancy - customer company vs operating company needs
Re: ITSM multi tenancy - customer company vs operating company needs.Andrew C Goodall <agood9 JCPENNEY.COM> 2011-07-28 21:11:28 GMT …(more)
- ITSM multi tenancy - customer company vs operating company needs …
We are a fairly large enterprise and use multi-tenancy to control access tomultiple operating companies’ data. So we do not give any one unrestricted…(more)
- 2011 CIO 100: How Three Companies Are Using IT to Rethink Consumer Services
CIOAre you considering SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) Project PortfolioManagement in 2011? If the answer is yes, be sure to join us on thisinsightful webinar as Business Transformation expert Michelle Jenny sharesbest practices and lessons learned.(more)
- EasyGoingSurvey.com Solidifies its Position as a Leading International …
openPR (press release)Having already achieved the position of leading online survey softwareprovider in Europe and Latin America, the company strives to do the samewithin the international arena. The availability of EasyGoingSurvey.com ina variety of languages, …(more)
- OpenStack Builds Even More Momentum With HP, Gluster, Nebula …
By Matthew Weinberger
HP threw in with OpenStack, a former NASA CTO formed an IaaS provider basedon the platform, and Gluster released its cloud storage OpenStackConnector.(more)
- OpenStack’s Partnerships Give it a Leg Up in the Race to the Cloud …
On the open source cloud computing front, OpenStack has been rapidlygaining momentum and partners. It was clear from the outset that OpenStackwould pose a …(more)
- Europe Turns to the Cloud - NYTimes.com
Netflix uses Amazon.com’s network to gain access to cloud computingfacilities. Amazon had to build a data center in Ireland so E.U.-basedcompanies could …(more)
- Private cloud provider places risky bet on ‘openness’ advantage
InfoWorldNebula borrows its name and initial technology from a project that Kemp ledat NASA, and was later open-sourced by NASA into a project named OpenStackthat Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and others have now endorsed. Nebula plans tosell hardware appliances to …(more)
- New Initiative Aims to Stamp Out Cloud Lock-In
TechNewsWorldMembers of the cloud computing industry this week announced the Open CloudInitiative, a non-profit organization to advocate open standards in cloudcomputing, at the OSCON 2011 open source convention in Portland, Ore. Theorganization maintains a set …(more)
- NEC, ST Engineering set up cloud computing joint venture
ReutersSINGAPORE, July 29 (Reuters) - Japan’s NEC Corp and Singapore TechnologiesEngineering’s electronics arm ST Electronics will set up a cloud computingjoint venture to provide software to firms in Singapore and other SoutheastAsian countries. …(more)
- Nebula provides a “cloud-in-a-box”
Network WorldUnder the recently-completed Vivek Kundra era, the US federal governmentbecame an aggressive proponent of cloud computing. Much of this was purefolly leading to wasteful IT assessments and check-box planning, but thefeds did come up with a few model …(more)
- BBH Solutions Brings Call Center Integration Into their Cloud Computing …
PR Web (press release)Cloud computing gives businesses the ability to utilize the powerful andsecure resources of a service provider to host their technologyapplications and data storage. Applications such as Voice-over-IP telephony(VoIP), video conferencing, email, …(more)
- Feds plan more competition for IT business
Federal TimesSpeaking at a cloud computing conference, Kundra said the administrationwants to “introduce Darwinian pressure” into the market to ensure thatcompanies win government IT contracts because they provide greaterefficiencies, not because they’ve …(more)
- Syntel Contributes to TechAmerica Foundation’s CLOUD2 Commission Report
MarketWatch (press release)As a Commissioner appointed to CLOUD2 earlier this year, the head ofSyntel’s Cloud Computing Center of Excellence, Ashok Balasubramanian,participated in the working groups that formulated the report andrecommendations. According to Balasubramanian …(more)
- John Dennehy from Zartis: The Benefits of Moving to the Cloud …
By Conor Harrington
Assembly Point’s two products, human resources application HR Locker, and arecruitment application also called Zartis, are sold as a Software as aService (SaaS) model, and John sees the global market as being far moreaccessible than it … As a participant in Microsoft’s Bizspark programmefor startups, both the Zartis and HR Locker applications are hosted onMicrosoft’s Azure cloud platform, and John believes that moving to thecloud has allowed him to focus on the …(more)
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It is really the fault of the way providers have relied too heavily on thecost- saving/outsourcing model to extol the virtues of the Cloud and SaaS….(more)
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RTT News(RTTNews) - IT management software company CA Technologies (CA: News ) onFriday reiterated its financial outlook for fiscal year 2012. Separately,the company said it has agreed to acquire privately-held Watchmouse BV, amaker of Software as a Service …(more)
- Understanding the Different Sales Software Options out There
TMC NetThe platform is infrastructure for the development of softwareapplications. The suffix “as a Service” (aaS) means that the platformexists “in the cloud,” accessible to customers via the Internet. PaaS is acategory within the umbrella of cloud …(more)
- CA Technologies Acquires SaaS Monitoring Firm WatchMouse
Web Host Industry ReviewBy Nicole Henderson, July 29, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Management
software and solutions provider CA Technologies (www.ca.com) announced onFriday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-heldSaaS-based monitoring firm …(more)
- Cautious vendors should be bolder to drive cloud investment
Cloud ProHow well do you think that SaaS/cloud apps vendors understand the modernbusiness landscape when assembling a deal? You might be surprised to knowthat the answer I am hearing a lot of the time is: they’re not muchdifferent to traditional vendors. …(more)
- OpenStack: Commercial, open source aren’t exclusive
ITworld.comBy Brian Proffitt Add a new comment OpenStack is, by anyone’s assessment, a
very successful open source project. With 1197 participants (at least 250of them code contributors) from 92 companies and more participationannounced all of the time, …(more)
- HP joins OpenStack project - Data Cabinets and Data Racks
Comms-express.comOpenStack, an open source data cabinet cloud computing collaboration, hasannounced that it will now be supported by HP. Started as a joint projectbetween Rackspace and NASA, OpenStack has gained the participation of morethan 90 organisations and …(more)
- Fruit of CA Cloud Acquisitions Adds Up
InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek CA Technologies, sometimes identified
with the mainframe, repositioned itself recently to help its customers movein pragmatic, discrete steps toward cloud computing. Over the last twoyears, it’s made a series of …(more)
- Regulated cloud computing — our new national nightmare
SearchCloudComputing.comThe Brookings Institute recently hosted a panel on the proposed “CloudComputing Act of 2011.” There are several other very far reaching bills onconsumer data and identity privacy in the senate right now like theCommercial Privacy Bill of Rights, …(more)
- IBM To Open Research Center For Mobile, Cloud Computing
Manufacturing Business TechnologySAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — IBM Corp. is plucking 200 researchers and expertsfrom its highly profitable services division to create a new laboratoryfocused on building new products for data mining, mobile computing, and”cloud” technologies. …(more)
- Home Infrastructure Cloud Computing Information Protection: Creating
Peaceful …CIO InsightThe Far Hills, NJ-based United States Golf Association (USGA) protectsbetween 600 gigabytes and 700 gigabytes of mission-critical data every dayvia cloud computing, using IBM’s business continuity and resilienceservices. This includes more than 4 …(more)
- JAMIA: Cloud-based EHRs could bring ’superior’ security
CMIOCurrently, the three most common cloud computing service models areSoftware-As-A-Service (SAAS), Platform-As-A-Service (PAAS) andInfrastructure-As-A-Service (IAAS). The SAAS model offers software, PAASoffers a development environment and IAAS offers …(more)
- Cloud Computing: SaaS Market to Double by 2015
Formtek Blog (blog)By Dick Weisinger, on July 29th, 2011 In 2010, the worldwide SaaS market
was $10 billion. And at the current annual growth rate of more than 20percent, the SaaS market is on target to more than double by 2015 to $21.3billion, predicts Gartner, …(more)
- The Five Benefits of Managed Cloud Computing by www.thehostingnews.com
By THN News
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- EMS007 Quanta, MIT Cooperate to Develop Cloud Computing Tech
Quanta Computer will team up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) to develop cloud computing technologies for health care applications.The notebook ODM is also in talks with some hospitals in Taiwan aboutproviding cloud …(more)
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TMC NetSome news sources indicate that they believe Oracle’s desire to buy InQuirawas motivated by Salesforce.com (News - Alert) and Microsoft taking leadingroles in the Software as a Service (SaaS) and CRM spaces. Writing forYahoo, Jim Finkle said, …(more)
- BluePrint Data Cloud Based OEM Internet Filtering Available for MSP/SaaS …
Newswire Today (press release)NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Jacksonville, FL, United States, 07/29/2011 -BluePrint Data now providing OEM cloud based Internet Filtering services toManaged Service Providers (MSPs) and Software as a Service (SaaS) providerssignificantly decreases …(more)
- Discover Case Study: How IHG has deployed and benefited from increased
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- How Cloud Computing Will Change IT: 6 New Predictions
Network WorldBy Bernard Golden, CIO IT is in a time of disruptive transition, caused by
the rise of cloud computing. CIOs are in the midst of a maelstrom,and–like Ulysses, the fabled hero from Homer’s Odyssey–are torn betweenthe Scylla of established IT …(more)
- Cutting Government Spending With Cloud Computing
Investment UIn short, the government wants to implement cloud computing networks tosave money on expensive physical data centers. The federal governmentspends about $80 billion on information technology each year. According toVivek Kundra, Chief Information …(more)
- Multicustomer Multitenancy ConsiderationsIBM SmartCloud
Multi-tenancy in cloud service models implies a need for policy-drivenenforcement, segmentation, isolation, governance, service levels andchargeback …(more)
- Speediware Corporation Announces 40% Revenue Growth
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AP National News Calendar 07.29.11 Speediware Corporation, providers ofSpeedEEO, the all-inclusive web-based software as a service for generatingOFCCP compliant Affirmative Action Plans(AAP), announced today 40% yearover year revenue growth. …(more)
- ITSM multi tenancy - customer company vs operating company needs …
Subject, ITSM multi tenancy - customer company vs operating company needs(view thread). Sender, Andrew C Goodall Date, 2011-07-2821:11:28 …(more)
- ITSM multi tenancy - customer company vs operating company needs
ITSM 7.5.01 We are a fairly large enterprise and use multi-tenancy tocontrol access to multiple operating companies’ data. …(more)
- BrainYard News Briefs: Polycom Adds SMB Videoconferencing Options
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- Dell unveils OpenStack cloud solution - News - Linux for Devices
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InformationWeekOnce I resigned, I downloaded OpenStack [cloud provisioning open sourcecode] just like everybody else. Too many contractors write into thecontract that, if they solve the problem, then they own the software thatthey developed, while being paid by …(more)
- OpenStack Gets HP Thrust
ITProPortalComputer maker Hewlett Packard has joined OpenStack open source cloudcomputing project pioneered by Rackspace. The company believes that bycollaborating with the developer community, combined with its own extensiveportfolio will help it deliver …(more)
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Group newsletter XING HR Software as a Service & Workday HCM getting thegroup started. A very happy Friday to everybody. This not so much anewsletter as a …(more)
- This Week in the Cloud: From OpenStack to the New OS in Town …
By Maria Deutscher
Starting with Gluster, the open-source storage solutions provider unveiledGluster Connector, its first major update to OpenStack since it became apartner. Gluster Connectors works by connecting GlusterFS to the OpenStackhypervisor, …(more)
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Gluster Wednesday materialized a Connector for OpenStack that will hitchthe GlusterFS file system to the OpenStack Compute block storage controllerand resolve a built-in limitation in the young open source cloud platform….(more)
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By repackaging our vCloud Service Provider Bundles, you can choose the
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InitiativesMarketWatch (press release)SALT LAKE CITY, Aug 03, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — inContact/quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS +2.41% , the leading provider ofon-demand call center software and call center agent optimization tools,today announced that one of the nation’s …(more)
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- Yahoo cloud chief departs for EIR role at Battery Ventures
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AME InfoEMC took the opportunity to discuss and emphasized on the importance ofcloud computing in businesses' success. Zaher Haidar, Regional Pre-SalesManager at EMC Turkey, Emerging Africa and Middle East. The 4th Annual KSACloud conference, ...(more)
- Facebook faces fact that competition is only a click away
The NationalIT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS*** Local Caption *** LOA02_GOOGLE_0628_11.JPG Facebook is feeling thebreath of Google and MySpace on its neck. Growing competition to the socialnetworking site is also coming ...(more)
- The Quickest Way To Deploy A Well Engineered Apache Hadoop Solution To A ...
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)Feature- and power-optimized to provide lower total cost of ownership inaddition to saving on space and energy, it is an ideal platform for highperformance computing (HPC), Web 2.0, gaming, social networking,Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and public ...(more)
- Cloud computing: The next best thing
Inquirer.netIn the digital age, cloud computing has become the next best thing to theinvention of paper and printing. Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen likens theimportance of cloud computing to paper and printing, which she says aresignificant facets in the history of ...(more)
- Leo TechnoSoft Announces The Launch Of The Advanced Version Of SaaS Tenant
2.0.India PRwire (press release)Leo Technosoft announces the launch of the advanced version of SaaS Tenant2.0 which will help to ISVs to build business applications not in years,but in months. Pune, Maharashtra, August 4, 2011 /India PRwire/ --LeoTechnosoft, a R&D Center for ...(more)
- Nuts and Bolts: 'We do not believe in SaaS'
CIOLHow much of the traditional ERP suite approach would be affected by theadvent of SaaS? Has it entered your consideration list? We do not believein SaaS. The reason is that every organization has a set of rules,standards and processes. ...(more)
- Expanding text messaging market runs hot for Wellington firm
Stuff.co.nzNow we've got a scalable platform-as-a-service model we can go to marketwith. "The margins are better, we're able to knock out work faster and makemore off it and compete on price. "We're working closely with Emma, whichhas over 30000 clients, ...(more)
- Congress And The Cloud Computing Act of 2011
TRCB News... the Fed couldn't get it act together over 16 Million dollars a year(which meant losing about 20 Million USD a day in Taxes), I got really abit worried when I heard about a bi-partisan proposal about Federalregulation over 'Cloud Computing'. ...(more)
- Cloud Computing : What is Cloud Computing,Trends and precautions ...
Cloud Computing is explained in simple words along with the trends of CloudComputing, trends and possibilities of Cloud Computing in future.(more)
- Building a Cloud Factory | Cloud Computing Journal
Even by IT standards, the change being driven by cloud computing sometimesseems surprising. To refer to a virtual environment that has only recentlybeen deployed as "legacy," as some organizations are now doing, underscoresthe fact ...(more)
- Android could allow mobile ad or phishing pop-ups
CNETThe tool installs itself as part of a payload inside a legitimate app andregisters as a service so it comes back up after the phone reboots, Percocosaid. In a demo showing a user opening up the app and seeing the log-inscreen for Facebook, ...(more)
- ISACA issues Cloud computing guide to help enterprise increase value and ...
Computerworld AustraliaFor all the talk of Cloud computing, the governance issue remains, for manyenterprises, the great unknown. Cloud computing inevitably impacts businessprocesses, making governance vital to managing risk and adapting to takeadvantage of new ...(more)
- A Cloud that Can't Leak
MIT Technology ReviewResearchers at Microsoft have taken a step toward making something similarpossible for cloud computing, so that data sent to an Internet server canbe used without ever being revealed. Their prototype can performstatistical analyses on encrypted data ...(more)
- PC makers look to cloud for user loyalty, biz expansion
ZDNet AsiaRecent moves by PC makers to jump on the cloud computing bandwagon are partof a "natural evolution" meant to increase loyalty of customers who nowhave multiple devices and to expand from their core competencies. ArunChandrasekaran, ICT research ...(more)
- vCloud Director Hard coded MAC | 2vcps and a Truck
If you are like me and build and destroy things constantly or just likedoing things in ways you probably are not supposed to here is a quick tip.I was.(more)
- Re: [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)
- CargoWise appoints new head of global development
Lloyd’s List Daily Commercial NewsMr Senior will lead all software development teams and has responsibilityfor the company’s global program, along with all technical projectmanagement. He has experience in developing enterprise software programsand ’software as a service’ systems, …(more)
- Cloudware City Launches Innovative Subscriptions Platform Open Beta,
Invites …PR Newswire (press release)Cloudware Hosting Ltd, the revolutionary new web 2.0 SaaS company thatprovides a fully managed subscriptions billing platform for web content ofany size or type, announces its open beta. Cloudware City has been designedfrom the ground up with the …(more)
- PerformancePAM Talent Management Introduces Software as a Service Option
BenzingaPerformancePAM now offers Software as a Service as a deployment option fortheir talent management software. PerformancePAM, a leading provider oftalent management software, is now providing a new deployment option forits talent management software. …(more)
- Governance body takes on cloud computing
iTWireAlthough ISACA’s survey of its Australian membership found only 42 percenthad adopted cloud computing strategies to date, Ms Stewart-Rattray said thetopic was widely canvassed in businesses of all size in Australia, whichhad led the organisation to …(more)
- More clouds form over Middle East computing
Al-BawabaThe use of cloud computing, which lets businesses share files andinformation at any time as long as they are connected to the Web, israpidly growing in the region. A recent survey of chief informationofficers from around the world has found that …(more)
- Lightning takes down Amazon and Microsoft cloud services
ComputerWeekly.comThe lightning strike took out the main power supply and affected part ofthe phase control system that synchronises the back-up generator plant,causing a disruption to service of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platformfor the second time this year and …(more)
- Is dentistry ready for ‘the cloud’?
DrBicuspid.comBy Dan Tynan August 8, 2011 — Cloud computing may not be taking dentistry
by storm just yet, but it is steadily making its way into the world ofpractice management software and systems. And there are many reasons dentalpractices should consider …(more)
- Dublin lightning strike knocks cloud systems out
THINQ.co.ukAn electrical storm in Dublin has knocked both Microsoft and Amazon’srespective cloud computing platforms offline, highlighting one of theissues at the heart of the cloud computing revolution: reliability.Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud - also known …(more)
- PerformancePAM Talent Management Introduces Software as a Service …
PerformancePAM now offers Software as a Service as a deployment option fortheir talent management software.(more)
- Lightning hits Dublin data centre
Irish TimesA lightning strike has resulted in power outages at data centres belongingto Microsoft and Amazon, leading to disruption for users of Amazon’s EC2cloud computing platform and Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite(BPOS). …(more)
- Barryhund Administrators, Inc. Selects Coraid EtherDrive(R) Storage
Marketwire (press release)Barryhund is a Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companyheadquartered in Sacramento, California that provides constructioncompanies with an online project and bid management web portal. Coraid’sEthernet SAN solutions provide enterprises …(more)
- SugarCRM Sponsors CRM Evolution 2011, Aug 8 - 10, 2011, in New York, NY, US
SYS-CON Media (press release)Over 7000 customers have chosen SugarCRM’s On-Site and Cloud Computingservices over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized forits customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld,Customer Interaction Solutions and …(more)
- Acquisitions of Cloud Computing Startups Speed Up
CloudTweaks NewsWith cloud computing being such a new technology, there is a lot ofinnovation taking place. Consequently, startups have flourished (See:Archive: Startups). While some have warned of a potential meltdownreminiscent of the dotcom bubble, …(more)
- ElasticStack wants to power your organization’s cloud
ZDNet (blog)By Dan Kusnetzky | August 8, 2011, 4:53am PDT Summary: A number of
suppliers, including OpenStack, VMware, Microsoft, Eucalyptus and nowElasticStack, are offering tools allowing companies to build their owncloud computing environments. …(more)
- China Intelligence Information Systems Signs Virtualization Project
Agreement …PR Newswire (press release)Mr. Kunwu Li, President and Chief Executive Officer of China Intelligence,stated, “Our goal as a virtualization and cloud computing technologyprovider is to offer corporations a more cost effective and efficientsolution to manage their business. …(more)
- SOHO business spend to surpass $17B by 2015
FierceEnterpriseCommunicationsThe single office/home office (SOHO) segment is booming as innovations likecloud computing, videoconferencing and other developments in telecom andoffice communications make it easier to support a remote workforce, a newstudy says. …(more)
- What Is iPaaS? Gartner Provides a Reference Model
SYS-CON Media… the management and monitoring of application flows, governance, andessential cloud features such as multitenancy, elasticity andself-provisioning. …(more)
- InContact Inc. Stock Upgraded (SAAS)
TheStreet.comBy TheStreet Wire 08/08/11 - 08:27 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) — inContact
(Nasdaq:SAAS) has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from sell to hold. Thecompany’s strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stockprice performance, …(more)
- The SMB IT Decision Maker’s Guide: How SaaS Can Benefit The IT Help Desk
Insurance & TechnologyOverview: Small and midsize businesses that are using software as a service(SaaS) to automate their IT help desk(s) and IT infrastructure arereporting significant savings. Their reasons for moving to SaaS fromtraditional software include greater …(more)
- Nimbic Announces the Addition of Jim Hogan to Its Board of Directors
Business Wire (press release)Nimbic is the leading provider of SaaS-based, cloud-computing electronicdesign automation (EDA) solutions. Nimbic enables high-speed andhigh-capacity 3D electromagnetic signal integrity, power integrity and EMIanalysis field solutions for the …(more)
- ClickSquared Tackles Tough Cloud Marketing Questions in Compelling
Podcast …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)ClickSquared today announced the availability of a podcast that includesrevealing information about cloud (SaaS) marketing solutions. The podcast,featuring Suresh Vittal, vice president, practice leader for customerintelligence at Forrester Research …(more)
- Cloud KPI Dashboard gets TV Mode
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The real-time dashboard is being delivered as a software-as-a-service(SaaS) solution to enable browser and mobile access to key performanceindicator (KPI) dashboards. TV mode and dark theme, designed specificallyfor large wall mounted LCD monitors. …(more)
- Respected Tech Leader Jay Love Named CEO of Slingshot SEO
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Love co-founded eTapestry, a SaaS technology company, in 1997. The companywas sold in August 2007 to Blackbaund Inc, with Love remaining in charge ofBlackbaud’s eTapestry division until he moved to Baltimore a little morethan a year ago to lead …(more)
- App delivery controllers help IT pros tap cloud reserve capacity
SearchCloudComputing.comHowever, more enterprises using cloud management tools like VMware vCloudDirector could lay the foundation for further cloud bursting, Branham said….(more)
- BigTime Raises $2M For Cloud-Based Time And Billing Management Software
Washington PostThe company delivers time, billing and practice managementsoftware-as-a-service that integrates with Intuit QuickBooks toprofessional services firms in industries like accounting, architecture,marketing services and IT services. …(more)
- Marketing Automation Software Provider Genoo Unveils New Look and New
PricingSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)Genoo, LLC, a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering of integrated onlinemarketing tools for the emerging Marketing Automation needs that allorganizations must embrace to compete. Genoo’s mission is to provideMarketing Automation and Online Marketing …(more)
- Peniel Solutions, LLC (PSL) Wins 8(a) STARS II Contract Award
PR Newswire (press release)Peniel Solutions, LLC (PSL) is a government and business cloud provider ofsoftware as a service (SaaS), emerging technologies, information technologyadvisory and assistance solutions that simplify, facilitate, and enhancecritical operational …(more)
- Intel Sets Up Cloud Computing Research Center | Web Hosting Fan
By HostingGuru
Intel Labs (techresearch.intel.com) made an announcement that it has set upan Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing that integratesthe.(more)
- FAQ: Virtual testing and development environments
SearchServerVirtualization.comVMware vCloud Director is slowly replacing VMware Lab Manager, anotherproduct that organized and automated virtual testing workloads. …(more)
- Cloud Computing Brings Challenges for Health Care Data Storage, Privacy
eWeekTo learn more about the state of cloud computing in the health careindustry, eWEEK talks with Chris Witt, president of IT provider WakeTechnology Services, about how health care companies should approach cloudcomputing. As health care companies …(more)
- Hosted Desktops Provider Desktop Anywhere Launches New Service For UK
Cloud …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)LONDON–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Desktop Anywhere is a UK cloudcomputing company specialising in virtual hosted desktops and cloudcomputing services for companies with anywhere between 5-1000 users. Withclients in various industries such as …(more)
- 5 cool tools for cloud management
ComputerworldWe looked at Symplifed for identity management exclusively targeted toSaaS-based apps, Puppet Labs for virtual machine deployment, HP forbuilding and managing private clouds, Abiquo for IaaS platform managementand TurnKey Linux for low-cost cloud …(more)
- The SMB IT Decision Maker’s Guide: How SaaS Can Benefit The IT Help Desk
InformationWeekOverview: Small and midsize businesses that are using software as a service(SaaS) to automate their IT help desk(s) and IT infrastructure arereporting significant savings. Their reasons for moving to SaaS fromtraditional software include greater …(more)
- Peniel Solutions, LLC (PSL) Wins 8(a) STARS II Contract Award …
By Peniel Solutions LLC
ATLANTA, Aug. 8, 2011 — Peniel Solutions, LLC (PSL), a government andbusiness cloud provider of software as a service (SaaS), emergingtechnologies,(more)
- Fear of Change Impedes Cloud Adoption for Many Companies
PCWorldThat’s the conclusion of a new cloud computing study from TheInfoPro, adivision of The 451 Group, which found that 52 percent of 109 medium tolarge enterprise respondents believed that changes are needed in theseattitudes for their cloud plans to …(more)
- More Than One Cloud for Making Money
Channel Partners (blog)In the cloud-computing era, there’s more than one way to make money incloud services and more than one cloud to sell. There’s no escaping thecloud-computing hype. If you believed all the buzz, cloud computing willeliminate the need for IT, …(more)
- Cloud identity management startup snags $16.5 million in financing
ITworld.comBy Chris Nerney Add a new comment Okta, a San Francisco-based startup
specializing in on-demand identity and access management service forenterprises using cloud computing, has closed a $16.5 million round ofventure financing. …(more)
- Google Feeling Crowded by Enemies Including Microsoft, Facebook, Apple
eWeekThese companies chiefly compete in search and ads, cloud computing, desktopcomputing and online collaboration. Google hopes to be able to compete withChrome OS, but that is a long shot given Windows’ entrenched marketposition. …(more)
- Fuscan’s A Hameed Sheikh Delivers a Shared Host’s Guide to Moving to the
CloudWeb Host Industry ReviewThe session seemed mainly directed to those current shared hostingproviders that are looking to move their business over to cloud computingtechnology, as well as best practices for managing this cloud computinginfrastructure. …(more)
- Virtacore Obtains SSAE 16 Type II Audit Certification
TMC NetVirtacore Systems offers solutions to the developer market with vCloudExpress (public cloud) and the middle market with the Virtacore PrivateCloud, …(more)
- Dell Launches OpenStack Cloud Platform Solution
Internet.comDell set to offer commercial support for OpenStack Cloud solution andannounces new open source Crowbar for installation. OpenStack is getting abig vote of confidence from Dell. Dell is launching new commercial supportand services for the open source …(more)
- Staying Ahead of Cloud Complexity
PCWorldWhere once you had to deal with maybe one or two strategic outsourcers, inthe cloud world you’re more likely contending with a dozen or more cloudservice providers, be they software-as-a-service or infrastructure.Managing cloud infrastructure and …(more)
- ERP Software Considerations Before Moving to SaaS
TMC NetA number of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are consideringleveraging ERP software through a Software as a Service (SaaS (News -Alert)) delivery model, but how can they know if they are ready to makethis move? This recent TechTarget report …(more)
- The SMB IT Decision Maker’s Guide How SaaS Can Benefit The IT Help …
Overview Small and midsize businesses that are using software as aserviceSaaS to automate their IT help desks and IT infrastructure arereporting …(more)
- The Trouble with Legacy Apps
SYS-CON MediaAmazon’s VPC strategy and VM migration tool reflect a growing recognitionof legacy app requirements, as does VMware’s vCloud Director strategy, …(more)
- Limelight 2Q Loss Widens As Revenue Misses Estimates
Wall Street Journal… “during a platform shutdown after a security breach of a third party’snetwork.” The company has been aiming to transform itself from a pure-playcontent delivery networrk to a provider of software-as-a-service offeringsto improve its performance. …(more)
- SPECIAL REPORT: Hybrid transformation of the cloud
ARNnetFor one of the world’s largest producers of zinc as well as a substantialproducer of copper, lead, gold and silver, moving towards a hybrid cloudcomputing environment was a no-brainer. Minerals and Metals Group (MMG)decided to adopt a hybrid cloud …(more)
- Buildium Publishes Report on Evaluating Software-as-a-Service …
Companies enjoy a number of benefits using software-as-a-service (SaaS)solutions, but they should select their SaaS vendors carefully in order toavoid …(more)
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- Kinvey, Backend as a Service, Closes $2M Round - Abby Fichtner
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- Amazon cloud outage downs Netflix, Quora
CNETAmazon Web Services’ cloud-computing infrastructure experienced a briefnetwork outage this evening that knocked off line popular sites such asNetflix, Quora, Reddit, and Foursquare. The network connectivity issuesstruck Amazon’s Elastic Compute …(more)
- Lightning strike zaps EC2 Ireland | ZDNet
A lightning strike last night knocked out servers at Amazon’s only Europeandata center and the provider has warned some of those affected face.(more)
- Key European Cloud Computing Hub - It’s all about Microsoft …
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Dublin has become a key cloud computing gateway to Europe and beyond forU.S. companies due to several factors, including the city’s location,connectivity, climate and ready supply of IT workers. Dublin’s temperatureis ideal for data …(more)
- Cloud Computing Stocks Plummet as Wall Street Falls | TalkinCloud
By Joe Panettieri
Cloud Computing Stocks are suffering major declines (wiping out all gainsfor 2011) & Wall Street continues to fall amid S&P credit ratingdowngrades.(more)
- Cloud computing, latest buzzword? Or glimpse of the future?
Daily Times NigeriaThe odds are good that within the next five years, the popularity of CloudComputing within the enterprise and government would grow significantly.Yet Cloud Computing alone is not the answer. Cloud Computing has steadilybeen growing in popularity in …(more)
- The Advisory Board Company - a Profile of a SnapLogic Customer
ZDNet (blog)By Dan Kusnetzky | August 9, 2011, 3:05am PDT Summary: The Advisory Board
Company uses SnapLogic and cloud computing in its efforts to drive extremeefficiency and competency. Speaking with a supplier’s customers tells me agreat deal about the …(more)
- Parallels Automation for Cloud Applications is Available; Enables
Service …SYS-CON Media (press release)Parallels Automation currently enables service providers to offer hundredsof profitable applications from a portfolio of sought-afterSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) from leading independent software vendors(ISVs). With the addition of Parallels …(more)
- Medidata Solutions Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results
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- Echoworx Partners With Hosted Exchange Provider, Hostway Corporation
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- More Than 1000 Cloud and Hosting Providers Choose R1Soft to Back …
Marketwire… today that managed service provider Applied Innovations Corp. is usingR1Soft’s CDP Enterprise Edition to back up its Microsoft Hyper-V cloudservers. …(more)
- R1Soft Backs Up Applied Innovations’ Growing Virtual Server …
MarketwireAfter experiencing explosive growth in the number of virtual servers neededfor the Hyper-V cloud server hosting service, the existing backup software…(more)
- VMware vCloud on Vblock - Virtualization for Service Providers
More and more of the discussions I have with service providers revolvearound how to tackle the challenges being placed on the operations side ofthe house.(more)
- AppDynamics Introduces the First .NET Application Management Solution
Designed …PR Newswire (press release)Delivered via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and bolstered by afreemium marketing strategy, where users can “try before they buy” via afree download, AppDynamics’ .NET product delivers unmatched visibility,code-level diagnostics, …(more)
- Wavelink Releases New Version of Enterprise Mobility Management Software
Marketwire (press release)Wavelink Avalanche 5.2 provides a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic managementsolution for the wireless enterprise with enhancements to the feature setand even deeper support for multi-tenancy to support hosted solutionsincluding software-as-a-service …(more)
- Dome9 Security Adds Protection for CloudFlare Customers’ Web Servers
PR Newswire (press release)CloudFlare is provisioned as a service through a simple change to awebsite’s domain settings. CloudFlare works on any platform, regardless ofthe underlying infrastructure. It does not require any hardware, software,or changes to existing code. …(more)
- Apple’s iCloud faces consumer confusion over ‘cloud computing’
Apple InsiderBy Neil Hughes As Apple plans to push its iCloud service to consumers this
fall, a new survey has found that most people don’t even know what the term”cloud computing” means. Most US consumers do use some form of cloudcomputing, which refers to a …(more)
- Model Metrics Announces Platinum Sponsorship of Dreamforce 2011
MarketWatch (press release)”It’s an exciting time to be part of the cloud computing industry asenterprises embrace the cloud and transition into social enterprises,” saidAdam Caplan, CEO of Model Metrics. “Our long history of helping customersexperience the benefits of cloud …(more)
- Managed Cloud Computing Provider Logicworks Selects ScienceLogic IT
Management …Marketwire (press release)The platform is used by managed hosting providers, software-as-a-service(SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing providers,telecommunications service providers, value-added resellers, andtraditional systems integrators.(more)
- Four tips to keep cloud computing projects compliant
ComputerworldUKPublic cloud providers use multi-tenancy to optimise server workloads andkeep costs down. But multitenancy means you’re sharing server space withother …(more)
- SutiSoft Announces A New Release of WebSSO, Its Web-Based Single Sign On …
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AP IMPACT: Japan ignored own radiation forecasts 08.09.11 SutiSoft Inc., atrusted provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) and enterprise solutions,today announced the release of WebSSO 2.0, its web-based solution forsecuring access to multiple …(more)
- Cloud computing employed at one-third of small and medium businesses: study
ZDNet (blog)When talking about public cloud and Software as a Service, the most naturalmarket is small to medium-size businesses. (Defined as companies with fewerthan 500 employees). Larger organizations are more likely to have bigger ITdepartments, …(more)
- Managed Cloud Computing Provider Logicworks Selects ScienceLogic IT
Management …Techzone360The platform is used by managed hosting providers, software-as-a-service(SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing providers,telecommunications service providers, value-added resellers, andtraditional systems integrators. …(more)
- Primary links - JasperForge > JasperReports Server Forums
Looking for any information on Single Sign On with Multi-Tenancy - For CASyou have to … Has anyone gotten SSO to work with support formulti-tenancy ? …(more)
- Multitenancy: High-impact Strategies - What You Need to Know …
Multitenancy refers to a principle in software architecture where a singleinstance of the software runs on a server, serving multiple clientorganizations …(more)
- Security in the Cloud: Data Sovereignty, Open Source and Multi-Tenancy
In this roundtable, Focus Experts will discuss multi-tenancy, private vs.public cloud computing, data sovereignty, open source, and more. …(more)
- Q: What are Provider vDCs and Organization vDCs in vCloud Director?
Windows IT ProA: VMware vCloud Director aggregates the resources of one or more vCenterServer resource pools for the purpose of provisioning those resources toone or more customers. vCloud Director’s multi-tenancy features let itlogically segregate cloud …(more)
- Perimeter E-Security Launches SaaS Secure Messaging 6.0 for Unified
MessagingTMC NetNET, , a Perimeter E-Security brand and a provider of secure and compliantinfrastructure for companies of all sizes, has released SaaS (News - Alert)Secure Messaging 6.0, which the company claims is the market’s firstcomplete secure cloud unified …(more)
- SAP Expands Business ByDesign ERP with New Feature Pack
Enterprise Apps TodaySAP Business ByDesign is a complete business management solution deliveredon-demand as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. The platform isdesigned for growing midsize companies that want the benefits oflarge-scale business applications …(more)
- Hostway adds encryption to Microsoft Exchange service
ITWorld CanadaInfrastructure-as-a-service provider Hostway adds encryption thru Echoworxpartnership. The changing hosting provider business The growing interestamong enterprises for encryption services is behind the formation of a newpartnership between …(more)
- Infradapt Launches Next-Generation Cloud Computing Solution for Small to …
PR Newswire (press release)Since then, its offerings have expanded considerably to include cloud-basedphone systems, contact center platforms, Software as a Service (SaaS),e-mail hosting and filtering, as well as other applications. Withoperations in data centers located …(more)
- Archipelago Learning Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results
MarketWatch (press release)9, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Archipelago Learning, Inc./quotes/zigman/115276/quotes/nls/arcl ARCL +16.08% , a leadingsubscription-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of educationproducts, today announced its financial results for the second …(more)
- Skytap Announces Cloud Orchestration
ReadWriteWebBy David Strom / August 9, 2011 5:00 AM / 0 Comments This post is part of
our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualizationand cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read thewhite paper about how Intel …(more)
- VMware Pushes Partners Downstream
DABCC.comThe suite contains a set of VMware products, including vSphere 5, vShield5, vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 and vCloud Director 1.5, which allow endusers to roll out secure private, public and hybrid clouds. Speaking toChannelWeb, John Churchhouse, …(more)
- Platform as a Service The Next Big Telco Opportunity Technorati …
Home Technology Articles Platform as a Service The Next Big Tel … ofcloudbased applications delivered as Software as a Serviceor SaaSDeveloping a PaaS …(more)
- Cloud Computing for Pedestrians Technorati IT
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- SuccessFactors Q2 2011 Earnings - Plateau Moves to SaaS Focus
And with SaaS architected solutions, offerings like Jambok, CubeTree, andPlateau can be integrated very quickly. Look how quickly companies likeGoogle and …(more)
- Workday Advances the Mobile Enterprise With Delivery of Workday for iPad(R)
Marketwire (press release)Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS)solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost ofownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded byPeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and …(more)
- 2016: All in the Cloud?
CIO AustraliaOne of the key possible scenarios raised by moderator Massimo Pezzini,Gartner Fellow and vice president, was that by 2016, over 50 per cent ofall business applications independent software providers (ISVs) would bepure software-as-a-service (SaaS) …(more)
- How to handle security issues related to multitenancy
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- Deacom to Begin Testing Its Newly Developed SaaS Based CRM System
SBWire (press release)Existing customers will be able to use the web-based CRM system and theiPhone application with a SaaS model. The software will also be offered ona stand-alone basis to new customers who are only looking for CRM tools.Jay Deakins commented further, …(more)
- SDL Proud Winner of 2011 International Business Award
MarketWatch (press release)… Award(SM) for its innovative SDL BeGlobal(TM) product in the Best NewProduct - Software as a Service category and has been named as adistinguished honoree in the Company of the Year - Business Services andExecutive of the Year categories. …(more)
- Marketing Agency DPD Selects Atmio for Mobile Landing Pages
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The software (SaaS - Software as a Service) is specifically engineered tobe an in-house, self-serve tool for marketing teams. Atmio supports all thepopular mobile connection methods - Mobile Ads, QR (Quick Response) Codes,NFC (Near Field …(more)
- Consumers Don’t Know What “Cloud Computing” Is, Even Though They …
Consumers who are familiar with cloud computing tend to use it more thanthose who are unfamiliar with the term; however, depending on the type ofactivity, there are some relative differences between savvy and non-savvyusers. …(more)
- High Street Partners Seals $6.3M Series C
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DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Hosting.com, a leading provider ofenterprise-class cloud-based application availability and.(more)
- Red Hat CEO: We Won’t Make Money From PaaS for Years
Internet.comPlatform as a service is important for the future, but it’s not going to bea money maker for Red Hat in the short term. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst isa man on a mission. His mission is to grow Red Hat to a billion dollars inrevenue and beyond. …(more)
- ABOVE THE CLOUDS: ; State agencies look to cloud computing as IT
solution …TMC NetIn recent months, state officials have discussed cloud-computing serviceswith representatives of IBM, Verizon, Hewlett Packard, ASG SoftwareSolutions, Google, Microsoft and other companies. The Office of Technologyalso is conducting an online cloud …(more)
- SaaS ERP is Making the Grade at Brown University
CIOInstead of upgrading a 25-year-old mainframe ERP hodge-podge, IT leaders atBrown University decided to move to SaaS ERP for cost savings, ITsimplification and better applications. Meanwhile, the City of Sanibel,Fla., is following its own SaaS ERP …(more)
- SaaS, Cloud & Social Media: Exploding Data and Applications
ebizQ (blog)By Hollis Tibbetts on August 22, 2011 6:11 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes SaaS , Cloud
and Social Media are exploding. Not literally, of course, but in the sensethat growth of SaaS deployments and in the volumes of Cloud and SocialMedia data is simply …(more)
- DSSI and Document Logistix Partner to Deliver Document Management in the
Cloud …PR Newswire (press release)Kim Kuykendall, President of Document Logistix states that, “DocumentLogistix’ entry into SaaS market will provide organizations the opportunityto outpace competitors while reducing operating expense by convertingcostly paper based processes to …(more)
- SaaS ERP is Making the Grade at Brown University
ComputerworldBy Todd R. Weiss CIO - When powerful ERP applications are needed by growing
businesses today, SaaS ERP is being looked at more and more as a viableoption to traditional complex, expensive and labor-intensive packaged ERPsuites. And while SaaS ERP is …(more)
- Cloud computing set to boost Gulf Air services
Gulf Daily NewsMANAMA: Gulf Air is launching ‘cloud computing’ to boost its businessperformance and customer services. The national carrier will be the firstcompany in the kingdom to introduce this cutting-edge cloud computingtechnology, taking the country’s …(more)
- Microsoft Formalizes Cross-Platform Collaboration With CS2C in China
PR Newswire (press release)Ltd. (CS2C), signed an agreement to jointly develop, market and sellsolutions for the booming cloud-computing market in China. The primary goalof this agreement is to provide public and private cloud solutions to adiverse array of industries through …(more)
- NEC Joins the OpenStack Community | AsiaToday Asia News Portal …
Asia news portal and multimedia, multilingual news distribution service.(more)
- openstack-ci/deb-kombu - GitHub
Imported Debian patch 1.0.4-2~openstack. James E. Blair (author). August22, 2011. James E. Blair (committer). August 22, 2011. commit314d6cfe5bd5193295a4 …(more)
- Azure Platform for Industrial-Strength SaaS! | Grow your business …
Azure Platform for Industrial-Strength SaaS! Corelytics is now certifiedand operational on Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud. We are taking thiscloud.(more)
- SaaS Deals Get Top Valuations, Del Mar DataTrac Sold, Qualcomm …
By Bruce V. Bigelow
The climate for software deal-making improved during the second quarter,especially for cloud-based companies offering Software-as-a-Service. We’vegot the.(more)
- Cloud computing saves dollars, server sprawl - FederalTimes.com
Your online source for federal news, government operations, agencymanagement, federal pay & benefits.(more)
- Hostingcom Attains VMware vCloud Powered Validation | Business Wire
VMware names Hosting.com as one of their vCloud Powered companies.Hosting.com’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s cloud computingtechnology.(more)
- Microsoft to Co-develop Cloud Products With Chinese OS Firm
PCWorldBy Michael Kan, IDG News Microsoft said on Tuesday it will work with a
Chinese operating system developer to create cloud computing products forthe country’s market, a move that could help the US company sell to China’sgovernment agencies. …(more)
- Microsoft forms cloud-computing partnership in China - TNW Microsoft
By Aayush Arya
Microsoft takes its cloud-computing products to China through a partnershipwith the Chinese company China Standard Software.(more)
- Microsoft: cloud computing government demands “API democracy” - CWDN
By Adrian Bridgwater
So cloud computing is really starting to show some weather patterns isn’tit? A number of businesses are now taking steps to open up their APIs andput their data into the cloud, either as freely available source code or ata cost. …(more)
- VMware’s open source doppelganger gets cloudy
RegisterThe new ConVirt lets administrators manage their Xen and KVM hypervisors aswell as Amazon EC2 accounts and private services they’ve built withEucalyptus and OpenStack. But it also gives end users access to theresources served up by EC2, Eucalyptus, …(more)
- More fuel for the brewing ‘private cloud’ rebellion
InfoWorld (blog)The service launched by CSC in Australia is based upon the vCloud offeringfrom VMware, Cisco Systems, and EMC (VMware’s parent) — there’s nothingnew there. Pretty much every large services organization has a similargrouping of technology that it …(more)
- HP Extends Converged Storage Leadership with New Storage …
ZawyaThese features include multitenancy for workload consolidation, expandedthin technologies for efficient capacity utilization and autonomic loadrebalancing …(more)
- NexJ Strengthens Management Team with Appointment of Tom Predovic as SVP …
MarketWatch (press release)Tom was most recently Group Vice President, CRM Software as a Service atOracle where, as a senior member of the Oracle CRM Applications businessunit, he was responsible for the strategic, technical, and operationalengineering efforts behind product …(more)
- ADTRAN Delivers Triple-Play Services for Matanuska Telephone Association
MarketWatch (press release)”As a service provider in a very competitive market, the ability to add newand advanced services easily can be the difference between growing ourbusiness or handing it over to the competition,” said Eric Anderson, vicepresident of engineering and …(more)
- VASCO Data Security International Announced It Launched Its DIGIPASS as
a …Financial News Network OnlineVASCO Data Security International (NASDAQ:VDSI) announced that it launchedits DIGIPASS as a Service platform on salesforce.com’s (NYSE:CRM)AppExchange. DIGIPASS as a Service is now available for test drive anddeployment on the AppExchange. …(more)
- Weetabix is moving its procurement functions to a digital platform.
PurconWeetabix has announced plans for a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)procurement system in a bid to drive efficiency savings. It will replace apaper-based system that has been in place for over 30 years at the company.The new SaaS system, …(more)
- Callidus Software to Showcase Monaco Summer 2011 SaaS Suite at the
Spotlight …MarketWatch (press release)”Callidus’ new Monaco Summer 2011 release delivers actionable salesperformance: a single integrated SaaS solution that lets business usersrapidly simulate, analyze, and execute on their sales compensationstrategies. Because the solution delivers an …(more)
- Weetabix updates procurement systems
Procurement Leaders NewsWeetabix, the UK based cereal manufacturer, has announced that it isadopting a software-as-a-service (SaaS) procurement system to replace itsold 30-year old paper based system. The company had previously been usingpaper-based purchase orders and …(more)
- SaaS accounting companies need to up their game
Cloud ProOne of the real surprises the last five years comes from watching the riseof SaaS/cloud accounting vendors. When I first tripped over this categorynearly six years ago there were only a very small number of players of anysubstance and pretty much …(more)
- OneCommand Reaches New Milestone: Over 50 Million Automotive Consumers
Now …PR Newswire (press release)CINCINNATI, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — OneCommand, the nation’s leaderin preference-based, automated, multi-channel marketing, today announcedsignificant year-to-date success, setting a new record around the number ofautomotive consumers …(more)
- SMTP, Inc. Email Delivery Service Helps qaSignature Generate Sales
MarketWatch (press release)CAMBRIDGE, MA, Aug 23, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — SMTP, Inc./quotes/zigman/4696633 SMTP -11.11% today announced it has been selected byqaSignature, a leader in SaaS-based quality solutions for softwaredevelopers, to provide email delivery …(more)
- NEC Joins the OpenStack Community
VAdvert Press Center (press release)NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced today its participation inOpenStack(TM), a global community developing the open source cloudoperating system that is backed by more than 100 participatingorganizations that promote the adoption and …(more)
- Cloud computing co Wanova raises $10m
GlobesWanova is considered a hot cloud computing company and the investors didnot bring in a new investor to prevent dilution of their stakes. Cloudcomputing start-up Wanova Inc. has raised $10 million in its secondfinancing
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