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Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 30, 2011

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

  • Piston Computing Secures OpenStack
  • Server WatchBy Sean Kerner (Send Email) There seems to be no shortage of interest in
    companies both old and new, in delivering OpenStack based cloud platforms.OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that was originally started byNASA and Rackspace. …(more)

  • New Media Knowledge – Why SaaS (Software as a Service) is a …
  • Why SaaS (Software as a Service) is a burgeoning trend for onlineretailers. Filed under: All Articles > Industry News. Tags: By: NMK Createdon: September …(more)

  • Platform as a Service
  • Software as a Service … The submodules of User module, and applications,in Platform as a Service are shown in the screenshots below. To know moreabout …(more)

  • This Week in Cloud, September 29, 2011: New OpenStack release, Google
  • PaaS …SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)Cloud News OpenStack launched a new release with several features to makeit easier to implement a private cloud for enterprise use. The new release,called Diablo, includes a dashboard for monitoring cloud health. For moredetail, read this …(more)

  • Top Three Considerations by Role in Cloud Computing | Networking …
  • By Ron Batra
    What Key Decision Makers are Thinking About When it Comes to Moving to theCloud.(more)

  • Cloud Computing Buildout Benefits Chip and Networking Stocks …
  • By Dave Friedman
    Cloud Computing Buildout Benefits Chip and Networking Stocks.(more)

  • GEONG says software as a service revenues now account for a quarter of
  • total salesProactive Investors UKChina-focused IT group GEONG International (LON:GNG) revealed today thatsoftware as a service now represents a quarter of its revenues, up from 14per cent a year ago. SaaS is generally more profitable, recurring businesswhich is reflected in the …(more)

  • Companies urged to ‘take control’ of cloud computing
  • HostwayBusinesses have been advised to make sure they monitor their cloudcomputing services effectively once the initial set-up has been completed.Product manager at Opsview James Peel said the benefits of the cloud can be”brilliant” for companies, …(more)

  • Philips Electronics Selects Callidus’ Monaco SaaS Suite to Drive Sales …
  • MarketWatch (press release)Philips Electronics will implement the Monaco Sales Performance SaaSsolution, including TrueComp(R) Manager, Quota Management, ObjectiveManagement, Sales Communications, and Reporting & Analytics modules todrive efficiencies and maximize the …(more)

  • Oracle OpenWorld: Hardware, Fusion, big data talk, SaaS on tap
  • ZDNet (blog)… SAP using Fusion but some of the newer competitors like Workday usingFusion where people have compared our user interface to their userinterface, our SaaS offering to their SaaS offering, our cloudinfrastructure to their cloud infrastructure. …(more)

  • Ovum says public cloud services market is about to explode
  • Computing”The global public cloud services market will explode over the next fiveyears as uptake soars worldwide,” said Ovum cloud computing analyst LaurentLachal. “However, although the market size will see strong growth, theevolution of cloud computing …(more)

  • ‘Think cloud computing will save you money? Forget it’
  • Silicon.comBy Nick Heath on 30 September 2011 10:05 Cloud computing is often sold as a
    way for companies to cut their tech bill by only paying for the IT theyuse. Veteran IT chief Ian Cohen has other ideas – telling silicon.com thatany company looking at moving …(more)

  • MIS-Asia – Malaysia’s JARING OneCloud achieves VMware vCloud …
  • JARING sought the VMware vCloud validation to offer enterprises a simple,… ” The VMware vCloud Powered programme was developed to enable ourservice …(more)

  • Software License Management as a Service | Enterprise CIO Forum
  • Did you know that software license management as service exists? It’s easyfor some to dismiss license management as a service as too good to be true.But, I’m …(more)

  • Birst 5 Releases First-of-its-kind SaaS-based BI Appliance
  • TMC NetBy Calvin Azuri Birst, Inc. is one of the leading providers of
    software-as-a-service (SaaS (News – Alert)) and cloud business intelligence(BI). They recently announced the release of Birst 5 that brings to theindustry, for the first time, …(more)

  • Pantheon Challenges Website Software Market With Launch of New Cloud
  • Service …MarketWatch (press release)Pantheon brings enterprise-class content management (CMS), reliability andscale to company websites, replacing a complex and costly software approachto web infrastructure with a new SaaS model. Pantheon’s new approach makesmarketing and IT …(more)

  • KBM Group Offers Its IMPACT(R) Integrated Database Solution as a
  • Customer …MarketWatch (press release)”With the general trend to services – away from hardware and software – KBMGroup anticipated the need for data-based customer engagement as aservice,” says Dennis Kooker, president and COO of KBM Group. “Marketersneed a rapidly deployed, …(more)

  • T2 Systems Attracts $28M Investment From Pamlico Capital
  • PR Newswire (press release)… of T2 Systems announced today that Pamlico has made a $28 millionequity investment in T2 Systems, Inc. T2, founded in 1994, is a rapidlygrowing provider of unified SaaS (Software as a Service) parking managementsolutions in the US and Canada. …(more)

  • AMD aggressive about cloud computing business in Greater China, say
  • executivesDigitimesAMD, seeing the cloud computing market starting to take off, has beenaggressive about gaining share in the server market and has alreadycooperated with the government of Beijing, China and Taiwan’s cloudcomputing industry association to develop and …(more)

  • Cloud Computing: The Cloud is Steaming with Hype
  • Formtek Blog (blog)By Dick Weisinger, on September 30th, 2011 How many companies are actually
    using Cloud Computing? It depends who you ask. CA Associates did a surveythat said that 93 percent of companies are using at least one cloud-basedapplication now, …(more)

  • Cloud Computing: RIM Denies It’s Killed the PlayBook
  • SYS-CON Media (press release)Collin Stewart chip analyst John Vinh, who doesn’t follow RIM, thinks thecompany “has stopped production of its PlayBook and is actively consideringexiting the tablet market.” He claims Quanta has stopped making the thingsand last week laid off a …(more)

  • SkyDox upgrades cloud-based collaboration platform
  • Cloud ProThe upgraded software-as-a-service (SaaS), designed for use in crossfunctional and distributed teams, features a new user interface (UI), newmultimedia capabilities and enhanced integration with existing enterprisecontent management (ECM) systems. …(more)

  • Piston Cloud Creates Secure OpenStack Distribution
  • TMC NetIn order to develop a cloud computing ecosystem where applications cansafely and easily be moved, Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterpriseOpenStack company, has introduced Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS), an easy,secure and open cloud operating …(more)

  • NASA Vets Lead Rival Cloud Startups
  • InformationWeekThe duo’s companies both build on the free, open source OpenStackinfrastructure-as-a-service project sponsored by NASA and Rackspace withparticipation from dozens of companies, including Citrix, Dell, Intel, andCisco, among others. …(more)

  • Is “the Cloud” Overrated?
  • WebProNewsWith so much hype around how great cloud computing is, it’s hard to imagineit any way other than good. The news is full of stories about what thecloud can do, the increased adoption rate of the cloud, and how more andmore businesses are developing …(more)

  • Cloud Computing May Make Seagate Bonds A Star Performer
  • Seeking AlphaWe have developed a process to screen, review, select, purchase and monitorhigh yielding corporate bonds. Each week we screen thousands of separatecorporate bond listings to find what we believe are currently the bestcorporate bonds for investors …(more)

  • Cloud caveat: Responsibility cannot be outsourced
  • GCN.comBy William Jackson Cloud computing is becoming a fact of life as agencies
    are pressed to make IT infrastructures more flexible and efficient.Agencies can off-load much of the work and expense of acquiring andmanaging hardware, software and services …(more)

  • Cloud Computing: Oracle and Autonomy Cross Swords
  • SYS-CON Media (press release)Last week Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said during a conference call withanalysts that Autonomy was shopped to Oracle before HP bought it and thathe was appalled at the price asked. He also said he didn’t need Autonomybecause unstructured data can …(more)

  • Cloud Computing Energy Efficiency
  • REVEThe market for cloud computing services has continued to expand despite ageneral decline in economic activity in most of the world. In fact, PikeResearch expects the growth in cloud computing revenue to continueworldwide between now and 2015 at a …(more)

  • SL Corporation and CloudTran to Provide Joint Solution to Keep an Eye on
  • How …MarketWatch (press release)Such monitoring will help mutual customers to make better decisions aboutdata placement and workloads, and can dramatically reduce the cost ofoperating in Cloud Computing environments. Until now, it has been difficultfor many corporations to take …(more)

  • Uh oh: The cloud is the new ‘bring your own’ tech for users
  • InfoWorld (blog)Cloud sprawl happens when employees deploy cloud computing-basedapplications without the involvement of their IT department. In the US, wecall these “rogue clouds,” but it looks like this situation is becoming aninternational issue — and reflects …(more)

  • Research and Markets: US Cloud Computing Market for Medical Imaging …
  • SunHerald.comUS Cloud Computing Market for Medical Imaging – Exponential Growth in theVolume of Medical Imaging Data to Drive Market provides US market value(USD million) and information for the three market categories – Cloud basedstorage and disaster recovery, …(more)

  • BAE Awarded Cloud Computing Contract
  • Signal MagazineBAE Systems National Security Solutions, BAE Systems Advanced InformationTechnologies Incorporated, Burlington, Massachusetts, is being awarded an$8825492 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification for the Mission-OrientedResilient Cloud (MRC) …(more)

  • Capgemini, SAP Team on Managed Mobility Platform
  • Channel InsiderCapGemini and SAP are teaming up to offer a new line of software as aservice and platform as a service mobility solutions based on the SybaseMobility platform. SAP announced that it is teaming with long-time partnerand consulting powerhouse …(more)

  • Oracle OpenWorld: What Enterprise IT Wants
  • InformationWeekAttendees will hear that Oracle has all bases covered: infrastructure as aservice, software as a service, platform as a service, private clouds,public clouds, hybrid clouds. “It’s about customer choice,” says Hurd.After all, he says, a cloud has all …(more)

  • Private Clouds To Get OpenStack Distribution Through Piston Computing
  • Virtualization ReviewBy Jeffrey Schwartz In an announcement made online by Piston Computing this
    week, the company will start offering an operating system based on the opensource OpenStack platform for private clouds. Piston is led by CEO andco-founder Joshua McKenty, …(more)

  • Cloud Computing Needs Better Quality Assurance
  • Channel InsiderI’m talking about the combination of availability, performance and securitythat ultimately will inspire end users to embrace or forgo cloud computing,presumed cost savings notwithstanding. That quality is itself dependent onthe quality of local …(more)

  • Cloud Computing: Samsung Offers Apple a Mystery Deal in Oz
  • SYS-CON Media (press release)Samsung has offered Apple some kind of deal so it can put its Galaxy Tab10.1 on the Australian market next week, or so a federal court in Sydneywas told Friday, according to reports by both the Wall Street Journal andBloomberg. …(more)

  • Microsoft: Kelihos Ring Sold ‘Botnet-As-A-Service’
  • InformationWeek”The Kelihos Botnet operators sell botnet capacity as a service, includingthe capability of sending spam email to perpetuate fraud, to collectfinancial and personal data, and to distribute harmful and malicioussoftware,” Microsoft alleged in court …(more)

  • Pilgrim Software Names Thierry Durand as CEO
  • MarketWatch (press release)During this time, Durand led the growth of sales to top pharmaceuticalcustomers through new product offerings in Open Technology and Software asa Service (SaaS). Previously, Durand was a Director of European andInternational Sales and Business …(more)

  • Here’s what happens when Heroku goes down
  • GigaOm30, 2011, 3:00pm PT No Comments Delivering a Platform as a Service isn’teasy and figuring out how to handle things when they go wrong marks a hugeleap in maturity for a company. When you’re small, panicking and thenhaving one or two of the few …(more)

Daily Log News Feed – Sep 30, 2011

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Daily ITIL News Feed – Sep 30, 2011

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Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 29, 2011

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

  • Cloud Silver Lining and Announce Partnership to Bring Converged
  • Infrastructure …Sacramento BeeCloud Silver Lining is an IT Consultancy focused on helping clients infinancial services and Fortune 500 organizations assess IT problems todetermine the business benefits of Cloud computing. Through its assessment,business process optimization and …(more)

  • US SMB Cloud CRM Market Set to Triple by 2015: AMI-Partners
  • TMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan The software-as-a-service customer relationship
    management (SaaS (News – Alert) CRM) market in the US will recorddouble-digit year-over-year growth in the next five years, according toAMI-Partners. The US SMB cloud services study …(more)

  • Enterprises usher in mobile cloud computing
  • SearchCloudComputing.comEven though cloud computing may facilitate end-user access to mobile apps,IT managers and developers must address a few nagging issues with mobilecloud computing. In the past two years, mobile cloud computing has gainedinterest among a limited …(more)

  • Mobile Apps Maker with SaaS pricing: SoftwareCEO
  • Hello- We have started a new service ‘Mobile Apps Planet’ where anybody cancreate iPhone, Android & Blackberry apps and upload to respective appstores …(more)

  • Build a Data Center Cloud Utopia With Cloupia
  • Server Watch… to snatch revenue from VMware by attracting vSphere customers that wantto extend their server virtualization infrastructure into full-blownprivate or hybrid cloud implementations away from VMware’s cloud stack –vCenter, vCloud and so on. …(more)

  • Propertybase Closes Second Round of Financing to Accelerate Growth
  • MarketWatch (press release)Propertybase offers a 30-day free trial of its Real Estate CRM Software, sofeel free to take a test drive – no credit card required. Propertybase isthe leading real estate CRM solution built entirely on the Force.com”software as a service” platform. …(more)

  • Autonomy Unveils New Release of WorkSite
  • MarketWatch (press release)This release delivers next-generation private cloud computing platform andnew capabilities in mobile support and security, to empower users withon-demand secured access to matter content from anywhere at any time on anymobile devices. …(more)

  • VMware KB: Upgrading from vCloud Director 1.0.x to 1.5 fails during …
  • The VMware Knowledge Base provides support solutions, error messages, andtroubleshooting guides.(more)

  • Qualys Showcases Significant Expansions to Its QualysGuard Security-as-a …
  • MarketWatch (press release)At the QSC 2011, Qualys engineers will also showcase significant expansionsfor the QualysGuard security-as-a-service platform as part of the 2012roadmap. Scheduled to be available in beta by Q4 2011, these include: –Amazon EC2 Virtual Scanner. …(more)

  • StillSecure, SoftLayer Offer Cloud Security Monitoring Service
  • eWeekThe first in a series of solutions to be delivered by StillSecure, CloudSMS is available free of charge for cloud users and provides Infrastructureas a Service (IaaS) customers with a host-based firewall managementsolution. …(more)

  • Leading Weight Loss Company Selects inContact to Power Growth Initiatives
  • MarketWatch (press release)SALT LAKE CITY, Sep 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — inContact/quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS -4.38% , the leading provider ofcloud-based call center software and call center agent optimization tools,announced today that a leading weight loss …(more)

  • Host Analytics and Proformative Join Forces on Finance in the Cloud
  • MarketWatch (press release)REDWOOD CITY, CA, Sep 29, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Host Analytics,the leading provider of SaaS corporate performance management (CPM)solutions and Proformative, the fastest-growing professional social networkfor corporate finance executives, …(more)

  • Piston Announces Enterprise Cloud OS
  • NetworkComputing.comPiston Cloud Computing, Inc. is throwing its hat into the OpenStack-basedopen-source cloud arena with the release of pentOS (Piston EnterpriseOSTM), ‘an easy, secure and open cloud operating system for managingenterprise private cloud environments. …(more)

  • Autotask Chairman Godgart Ends Tenure to Pursue New Venture
  • San Francisco Chronicle (press release)A pioneer in the development of cloud-based applications andsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS), Autotask software is currently used by morethan 40000 IT service providers in 54 countries to run their businessesmore efficiently and more profitably. …(more)

  • Kenexa and SkillSoft Announce Alliance to Integrate Next Generation
  • Talent …MarketWatch (press release)The powerful performance management software gives companies theinformation they need to make strategic decisions based on a holistic viewof their workforce. Kenexa’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model iscomplemented by its drive to deliver extreme …(more)

  • Oracle needs some cloud computing mojo
  • GigaOm29, 2011, 9:20am PT No Comments Oracle’s cloud computing stance has, um,evolved, to say the least, over the past few years. As the company prepsfor its annual Oracle OpenWorld mega-show in San Francisco next week, aquestion lingers: Is Oracle …(more)

  • EMC’s Joe Tucci to Keynote Oracle OpenWorld 2011
  • Sacramento BeeThe EMC executives will outline for the more than 45000 conferenceattendees how the journey to cloud computing (private clouds, public cloudsand, ultimately, hybrid clouds) is transforming IT infrastructure,applications and end-user device layers, …(more)

  • Getting Started With Public Clouds
  • ReadWriteWebTerremark’s vCloud Express is VMware based and requires no minimumcommitment. Live chat service is available from the landing page to helpyou get started or to figure out what you need for the project at hand.Chat follows you from page to page …(more)

  • JRuby: Now Available on Engine Yard Cloud
  • eWeekWith JRuby support, the Engine Yard Platform-as-a-Service (PAAS) bringstogether the combination of Java performance and Ruby agility. JRuby, aJava implementation of the Ruby programming language, is a popular opensource package that enables Ruby …(more)

  • HR in the CLOUD Offers Unified SaaS Solutions to the HR Industry
  • HR in the Cloud is a groundbreaking collaboration of unified H.R. SaaSsolutions HR in the Cloud integrates the applicant tracking technology of…(more)

  • FAQ: Oracle OpenWorld’s Burning Questions
  • PCWorldThere are other gaps for Oracle to fill in the Fusion Applications story,namely just how the reported SaaS (software-as-a-service) option will workand be priced. So far, pricing has only been released for the on-premisesversions. …(more)

  • Cloud computing ‘could revolutionise the working day’
  • Experian QAS Data Quality News (UK)The continual growth of cloud computing is likely – in time – to cause avariety of changes to the normal working day for a number of companies andindividuals alike. That is according to the Editor of Cloud Pro MaxwellCooter, who believes cloud …(more)

  • UBM TechWeb Launches 2012 Cloud Connect Events in Chicago & Bangalore …
  • NEWS.GNOM.ESCloud Connect, the premier technology event for defining the cloudcomputing industry, will expand to two new locations in order to furthercloud adoption and drive the growth and innovation in the cloud computingmarket. Kicking off the event series …(more)

  • Cloud-Mobile Mega Trends Point To Need For Rapid, Radical Applications …
  • istockAnalyst.com (press release)In many ways, the mobile device explosion and the cloud computing ramp-upreinforce and support each other. Cloud services make mobile devices –like smartphone and tablets — more productive, while making users betterconnected to enterprise …(more)

  • Sensible Cloud Intros Cloud Control
  • Cloud IT Pro… control services for Amazon EC2 (with the company promising futuresupport for Microsoft Azure, Openstack and RackSpace) with a 30-day freetrial. controlmycloud.com is currently in beta and will become generallyavailable by the end of October. …(more)

  • Virtacore Supports VMware vCloud(R) Services … – PR-Inside.com
  • Virtacore Supports VMware vCloud(R) Services ‘Gateway to the EnterpriseCloud ‘ vcloud.vmware.com Service Provider Portal, Launched at VMworld(R)2011, …(more)

  • Cloud Standards Customer Council to Hold Webinar to Introduce
  • the “Practical …PR Newswire (press release)Melvin Greer, Senior Fellow and Chief Strategist, Cloud Computing, LockheedMartin; chair, CSCC steering committee, and chair of the CSCC PracticalGuide to Cloud Computing Working Group will lead the webinar describing therationale behind the …(more)

  • Rackspace CEO Sees ‘Cloud’ Revolution For Decade
  • Investor’s Business DailyBy VANCE CARIAGA, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 04:33 PM ET The rise of
    cloud computing also has elevated Rackspace Hosting (RAX), which billsitself as “the largest pure-play cloud company.” The San Antonio-basedcompany runs computer and data …(more)

  • AirWatch Further Strengthens Enterprise Mobile Security with SAML
  • MarketWatch (press release)AirWatch offers the industry’s most scalable and flexible deploymentoptions with Software as a Service (SaaS), appliance or on premisesolutions. AirWatch supports some of the world’s largest mobile deploymentsfor Fortune 100 companies, …(more)

  • Piston Computing Offers Cloud Computing in a Convenient USB Device
  • ITProPortalPiston Computing, founded by the team the created OpenStack cloud computingplatform, placed the platform in a USB device that also contains it’s Linuxbased PentOS platform. The company claims that by using the devicebusinesses can set-up cloud …(more)

  • Grid Dynamics CEO Talks Transition, OpenStack Maturation …
  • By Kristen Nicole
    One area of exploration is the open source community, with initiatives likeOpenStack working their way into enterprise sectors. Grid Dynamics is anOpenStack partner, though Livschitz admits it’s still a young project witha great community …(more)

Daily ITIL News Feed – Sep 29, 2011

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

Daily Log News Feed – Sep 29, 2011

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