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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)

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

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)

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)

By Ron Batra
What Key Decision Makers are Thinking About When it Comes to Moving to theCloud.(more)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

JARING sought the VMware vCloud validation to offer enterprises a simple,… ” The VMware vCloud Powered programme was developed to enable ourservice …(more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

The VMware Knowledge Base provides support solutions, error messages, andtroubleshooting guides.(more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 is a groundbreaking collaboration of unified H.R. SaaSsolutions HR in the Cloud integrates the applicant tracking technology of…(more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 ‘Gateway to the EnterpriseCloud ‘ vcloud.vmware.com Service Provider Portal, Launched at VMworld(R)2011, …(more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Hello, I am new to AWS and I am wondering if RDS supports Oracle 11gmodules for MultiTenancy, DataRules, and DataMining or is it just vanillaOracle 11g? …(more)

UC540/560 multi-tenancy question Hi Guys, I am new to UC500 series andwould like to clarify if the following is achievable in UC540/560 Two smallcompan.(more)

ComputerworldBy Nancy Gohring IDG News Service - UK company Sensible Cloud on Tuesday
began offering software designed to help companies take greater advantageof the benefits of cloud computing. Sensible Cloud’s Sense is Java-basedsoftware that enterprises deploy …(more)

SDTimes.comBy Alex Handy The OpenStack project went public with its “Diablo” release
late last month, even as cloud-computing companies bring their owncommercial distributions of the open-source cloud operating system tomarket. Jonathan Bryce is chairman of the …(more)

PR Web (press release)Leading Infrastructure as a Service enabler, Hexagrid, partners with BostonLimited and Supermicro Computer to build pre-configured, optimized cloudpackages that simplify and accelerate service provider delivery of privatecloud solutions. …(more)

Washington PostSept. 27 (Bloomberg) — Eric Mandl, a senior managing director at EvercorePartners Inc., and Scott Sperling, co-president of Thomas H. Lee PartnersLP, talk about mergers and acquisitions in the technology andtelecommunications industries. …(more)

Information ManagementStart-up Piston Cloud Computing is officially releasing pentOS, a privatecloud operating system built on OpenStack. Founded earlier this year with$4.5 million in funding from Hummer Winblad and True Ventures, the cloudoperating system provider is …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Piston Cloud Computing, a cloud player launched by
a NASA cloud architect integral in the development of the Rackspace-ledOpenStack open source cloud initiative, has emerged from stealth modeintent on giving enterprises a …(more)

Virtualization Review (blog)OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system, has one major commercialbacker: Rackspace. Rackspace, through its Rackspace Cloud Buildersinitiative, wants you to embrace the open side of the cloud. Bruce Hoard,the top editor at Virtualization …(more)

InformationWeekStartup’s USB “cloud key” with OpenStack and PentOS plugs into the switchat the top of a server rack, automates configuration. By Charles BabcockInformationWeek San Francisco startup Piston is putting the cloud on amemory stick. …(more)

By editor@channelweb.com
OpenStack Gets Devilish On Cloud Competitors In Diablo Release. Thisdiscussion has been automatically generated for:http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/231601944/openstack-gets-devilish-on-cloud-competitors-in-diablo-release.htm. …(more)

iTWire (press release)It leverages the latest VMware technology, including vCloud Director foreasy deployment, migration and implementation of multi-tenant privateclouds. A VMware vCloud Powered Partner, CoreVault provides cloud basedsolutions for backup, recovery and …(more)

PR Web (press release)BENNU Legal Services, an innovative nonprofit agency Supporting AmericanDreams, announces plans to create a customized version of the cloudcomputing Salesforce CRM application for use by nonprofits throughout LakeCounty, thanks to a grant from The …(more)

learn …ConnectedPlanet (blog)Watch Metanga’s ‘welcome to a cloud and SaaS moment’ or Zuora’s ‘two minuteTuesdays’ videos and you will learn about CAC and LTV, TCV, ACV, MRR andCMRR. This may well cause weariness, cynicism or amusement, but the fact isthat a subscription …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)In addition, leveraging GWP’s cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS)platform for rapid implementation and lower IT costs were cited as otherkey factors. “We are delighted to be partnering with such an establishedand leading family office,” said …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)According to AMI-Partners’ latest US SMB Cloud Services Study, thesoftware-as-a-service customer relationship management (or, SaaS CRM)market–already representing 570000 US SMB firms–is set to undergodouble-digit year-over-year growth in the next …(more)

Supply Chain DigitalBased on an OpEx, ‘pay as you grow’ payment model, the SaaS model boaststhe ability to scale as a business grows in capacity and complexity. Morecompellingly for the current logistics landscape, it offers downwardscalability to both the …(more)

Development …MarketWatch (press release)Rapid Intake’s award-winning e-learning and mobile learning SaaS (Softwareas a Service) solutions help organizations throughout the world save timeand resources by bringing learning development teams together in one,cloud-based location. …(more)

PR Web (press release)The eight issued patents are foundational for cloud computing, distributedsearch engine file systems, and content addressable storage. Demonstratingthe significance of the Trueneames portfolio, the patents have beenreferenced in 376 applications for …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sep 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — MetaVisTechnologies, Inc. today announced MetaVis Online, the firstenterprise-class software as a service (SaaS) SharePoint migration solutionto help companies, government agencies and …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)… a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software,today announced the public beta release of MicroStrategy Cloud Personal, aSaaS-based business intelligence offering that enables anyone to uploaddata to the MicroStrategy Cloud, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Delivered via software as a service (SaaS), MMS provides visibility intocurrent and historical operations to facilitate proactive alerts, supportand response on system performance and availability. In beta since March,more than 200 customers are …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., & DUBLIN, Sep 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Globoforce(R) ( http://www.globoforce.com ), the world’s leading providerof SaaS-based employee recognition solutions, today announced the resultsof its latest Globoforce Workforce Mood …(more)

DigitalJournal.com (press release)The retail SaaS delivery model from Retail Anywhere includes a hybrid ofon-demand and on-premise software along with professional services,upgrades, maintenance and support; all with minimal upfront costs and lowmonthly fees. …(more)

Piston Cloud Computing came out of stealth mode today, launching anOpenStack-based cloud OS that allows enterprises to build private cloudsthat meet.(more)

Across …MarketWatch (press release)To learn more about the Adometry actionable campaign optimization features,visit Adometry’s Ad Analytics SaaS Solution Suite. For more information onAdometry, visit www.adometry.com or follow us on Twitter: @Adometry.Adometry, Inc. provides scoring, …(more)

Web Host Industry ReviewBy Nicole Henderson, September 27, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –
Enterprise OpenStack company Piston Cloud Computing (www.pistoncloud.com)launched on Tuesday, and debuted its cloud operating system for managingenterprise private cloud …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Building and Betting on OpenStack Piston Cloud CEO and co-founder, JoshuaMcKenty, was technical lead and cloud architect of NASA’s Nebula CloudComputing Platform, which formed the cornerstone of the OpenStack project,and currently holds an appointed …(more)

VMware vCloud Blog. Run, Manage and Secure Your IT Infrastructure andApplications. How to Build Your Cloud: Register for the Ingram MicroWebinar Series | …(more)

Core77.com (blog)Autodesk Buzzsaw software as a service (SaaS). Customers with Subscriptionto Autodesk Vault Collaboration AEC software now have access to cloud-baseddocument, data and design management solutions for architecture,engineering and construction firms …(more)

PR Web (press release)MemeBridge has announced a name it’s forthcoming SaaS (Software as aService) SEO (Search Engine Optimization) service offering — SEOMutt. Thesoftware is designed to act as a faithful companion to a webmaster, toguide him through the process of …(more)

the …TMC NetThanks to the partnership, private cloud adoption will be simplified asBoston Limited integrates Hexagrid’s award-winning Infrastructure as aService software for solution providers to deliver as either ahosted-private or on-premise private cloud. …(more)

NetworkComputing.comOpenStack.org, a group developing an open source stack to deliver cloudcomputing, has released the fourth iteration of its project Diablo, whichadds 70 new features to three main components of the project: OpenStackCompute for cloud computing cycles …(more)

Internet.comVMware is expanding its vCloud program, enabling enterprises to buy andmove their virtualized assets across multiple service providers. The vCloudis VMware’s program for service providers to run VMware virtualized clouds.The vCloud program was …(more)

GigaOm28, 2011, 1:26pm PT No Comments Platform as a Service pioneer Herokucontinues its march into the world of multi-language PaaS today by addingsupport for Python and the Django framework. It’s just the latest change inan evolutionary several months …(more)

View 1 Software as a Service Provider jobs on LinkedIn. Discover insideconnections when you’re looking for a job or new business opportunity.(more)

Elizabeth is an assistant news editor at SYS-CON Events, Inc. where annualhigh-energy conferences are created with industry-leading players.Elizabeth works on the SYS-CON Events team behind Cloud ComputingConference & Expo, …(more)

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Whilst this is a good storyline, it demonstrates the power of splitting anddistributing computing tasks, something that cloud computing is good at,even if it isn’t cost effective. In this instance, brute force won’t solvethe puzzle. Instead a …(more)

UC540/560 multi-tenancy question Hi David, Many thanks for the detailedresponse. Much appreciated! I think it is going to be bit more complicatedthan.(more)

Provider …MarketWatch (press release)For more information about Verizon Global Wholesale’s Computing as aService, go to Verizon Global Wholesale. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE,NASDAQ: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in deliveringbroadband and other wireless and …(more)

Information ManagementVobile, a provider of multimedia content monitoring and protectiontechnology, introduced vCloud9, a new software-as-a-service offeringdesigned to help cloud-based file hosting services identify and manageunauthorized content that has been uploaded …(more)

TechCrunchPiston Cloud Computing, Inc. is today emerging from stealth and introducingits new enterprise-ready cloud operating system for private clouds calledpentOS. The new OS is built on OpenStack, the open source IaaS cloudcomputing project that now has …(more)

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PCWorldBy Nancy Gohring, IDG News The lead architect of NASA’s cloud platform,
which spun off into the open-source OpenStack cloud operating system, islaunching a new company and product aimed at helping enterprises moreeasily build private clouds. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”For more than a decade IP Infusion has provided a software platform usedin mission-critical networks in mobile backhaul, carrier transport and datacenter networks. The latest additions to our ZebOS software will helpcustomers stay ahead of the …(more)

Cloud ProMemset, the Surrey-based cloud company has become an officialInfrastructure and Platform as a Service (IaaS/PaaS) G-Cloud FoundationDelivery Provider. As part of its roadmap for G-Cloud, the company said itis developing its Miniserver VM platform to …(more)

Bio-IT WorldBut if a do-it-all platform is not what a researcher wants, theanalysis-as-a-service segment of the market is expanding. While BGI (see, p31) and Complete Genomics will do sequencing and analysis, Samsung justlaunched beta testing of an …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Migrating ROLF’s IT and applications infrastructure to a utility-based,private cloud-computing environment will give ROLF’s IT staff moreflexibility in managing the company’s technology infrastructure. Operatingin a cloud environment also will allow …(more)

Al-BawabaUnderstanding the evolving threat landscape, demystifying cloud computingand improving data management are just some of the benefits that visitorsto GITEX 2011 will experience when visiting Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC)at the exhibition in October …(more)

Entries Categorized as ‘SaaS’ … Category: APM Monitoring SaaS Tags:Share. IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Management Summit; 28-29 September2011 …(more)

After six months of development, the OpenStack Diablo release is nowavailable.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Our GreenCert(TM) “Software as a Service” (SaaS) toolset will help PICchange the playing field by delivering commissioning, operating, andmaintenance services to our partner plants around the globe with a toolthat has never been implemented in this …(more)

There are quite a few digital contract management systems in the market.While cost is a definite factor in the purchase decision, other issues tooare of …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Deployed as an enterprise or point solution, ShadowSuite is the industry’sfirst truly scalable, multi-currency, multi-asset, multi-entity, real-timeclearing platform available via software-as-a-service or client-hostedsoftware. …(more)

All Things DigitalAnd yet it’s still a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. How’s thatwork? Having already become a player in the basic cloud-based BI business,the company realized that most of the data that makes BI valuable in thefirst doesn’t live in the cloud …(more)

Virtual-Strategy Magazine… storage and bandwidth metering, multi tenancy, integration intoprovisioning, billing and identity management systems as well as offeringadditional …(more)

STERLING, VA–(Marketwire - Sep 27, 2011) - Virtacore Systems, Inc., anindustry leader in hybrid cloud services, today announced that it is one offour …(more)

Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, announced itsparticipation at the IDC Saudi CIO Summit 2011. Riverbed presented its ITperformance solutions to CIOs and business executives from…(more)

By Amie Smith
How Cloud Computing Is Changing Data Center Designs and Costs.(more)

GigaOm27, 2011, 5:00am PT No Comments Software-as-a-Service startup Birst istaking the cloud out of its business intelligence offering with a newdeployment option that lets customers run the product in their own datacenters. The new capability, part of …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”I am thrilled to join CloudBees — the company has shown an incrediblecapacity to innovate, demonstrated by its leadership in the rapidlyemerging Platform as a Service market. Our depth of expertise with Java,and unique develop-and-deploy in the …(more)

TechCrunchIts offerings include cloud software suite SmartDataCenter,JoyentCloud.com, a public cloud service that aims to rival Amazon WebServices, and a Platform-as-a-Service based on Node.js, the open sourceserver-side JavaScript development environment. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)HOUSTON, TX, Sep 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Mezeo Software(TM), aleading provider of cloud storage management solutions, today announced theability to integrate with OpenStack technology through MezeoCloudIntegration for OpenStack. …(more)

EngineeringSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)A Silicon Valley veteran specializing in data integration, analytics andSaaS software development, Sankaran has a 22-year successful track recordof leading global engineering teams for pioneering technology companies,including Informatica, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)According to Brian McDonough, research manager for IDC’s Business AnalyticsSolutions research service, business analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS)will grow three times faster than the total business analytics softwaremarket. …(more)

By timfrosh
A simple question: can I use ExtJS with community license for my SAASapplication without making the whole application open source? Accoridng tothis post, GPL v3 doesn’t requires it …(more)

CRNAs cloud computing becomes more mainstream, ISVs are increasingly lookingfor easier ways to build SaaS applications and adapt existing applications,said Colleen Smith, SaaS vice resident at Progress. That’s the goal withthe new Progress OpenEdge 11. …(more)

In …Techzone360INCONTACT INC (NASDAQ:SAAS) - inContact, Inc. provides cloud computingcontact center services and network connectivity in the United States. Thecompany offers inContact suite of services, which is a call center solutiondelivered on time division …(more)

Virtacore Supports VMware vCloudR ServicesGateway to the Enterprise Cloudvcloudvmwarecom Service Provider Portal Launched at VMworldR 2011 Enables…(more)

Cloud’MarketWatch (press release)By participating in vcloud.vmware.com, Virtacore will also offer customers
the ability to easily and quickly transfer workloads and data into itscloud service using the upcoming VMware vCloud Connector 1.5, soon to beoffered as an integrated web …(more)

Channel InsiderTeaming up with Standing Cloud, Nimbula now supports platform as a servicebased on Nimbula’s platform and Nimbula users will have access to more than100 open source and commercial applications written in PHP, Java, Ruby onRails and Python. …(more)

Unlike current offerings, CloudSigma’s IaaS offering is a flexible, openplatform where the customer is given complete control of their software anddata with total transparency of service usage. Customers also benefit fromaccess to a range of …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Paula Rooney | September 27, 2011, 11:15am PDT Summary: Piston Cloud
Computing came out of stealth mode today, launching an OpenStack-basedcloud OS that allows enterprises to build private clouds that meet securityand compliance requirements. …(more)

ReadWriteWebCodenamed Oneiric Ocelot, the next release of Ubuntu Server will includeOrchestra, Juju cloud provisioning the latest stable release of OpenStack,and a return of Xen. Juju, formerly known as Ensemble, is sort of a packagemanager for the cloud. …(more)

growing …MarketWatch (press release)We expect the managed security services market to grow about 13% in 2011,and see healthy annual growth through at least 2015, when we forecast it toreach $16.8 billion, with the strongest growth coming from the SaaSsegment,” notes Jeff Wilson, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Traditionally known for its leading SaaS BI solution, Birst is redefiningand extending the value of its SaaS architecture by delivering its singlesuite of integrated capabilities via an unprecedented choice of deploymentoptions. …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)The platform provides a single interface that lets users access highperformance computing infrastructure resources available in private clouds.Linux recently completed a key upgrade of its proprietary NimbusOS for useas the Operating System for its …(more)

ReadWriteWeb From Project Nebula - created with considerable help from RackSpace - camethe concept of a radically scalable cloud infrastructure, which we now knowas OpenStack. Free software - as anyone in open source project managementwill tell you - does not …(more)

Cloud ProThe technical lead and cloud architect of NASA’s Nebula cloud platform isbehind the launch today of a new cloud operating system (OS) built on theOpenStack project. The new Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) is the firstproduct brought to market by …(more)

By Joe Panettieri
McAfee Channel Chief Alex Thurber describes DeepSafe security efforts andcloud security partner program initiatives that may emerge at McAfee Focus2011.(more)

Birst figures it’s got the first SaaS-based BI software appliance. Thevirtual appliance in Tuesday’s release of Birst 5 is supposed to deliverenterprise-class BI capabilities to customers on their premises with theagility and economics of a …(more)

Business 2 CommunitySaaS or Software-as-a-Service has been around for at least a decade but hastaken off in a huge way over the last few years. Okay, as savvyentrepreneur, you must have heard of SaaS. But for the uninitiated (orthose who’ve been too engrossed in their …(more)

How does Cloud Foundry help us to support MultiTenancy?. Cloud Foundry Q&A.Cloud Foundry Forums.(more)

A 10Networks, a California-based provider of application deliverycontroller and server load balancing solutions, has established a R&Dcenter focusing on cloud computing in Taipei’s Nankang Software Park withan R&D, according to the …(more)

By admin
Though cloud computing is stated to have the exact same characteristics andfeatures with customer server, mainframe, peer-to-peer, autonomic, grid,utility and service-oriented computing, it nonetheless has its distinctivetraits and skills. …(more)

31 August 2011 Salesforce.com at Cloud Computing Dreamforce 2011 rings NYSEClosing Bell Salesforce.com (NYSE-Listed CRM), the enterprise cloudcompu…(more)

Guy Nirpaz is the CEO and co-founder of Totango, which analyzes useractions on SaaS applications, providing sales teams invaluable informationin …(more)

MemeburnHere are four big obstacles to cloud computing and why you should stick inyour heels until they are properly addressed. Security is the first thingthat leaps to mind when you start thinking about putting data online.You’re no longer responsible for …(more)

Experian QAS Data Quality News (UK)The impact of cloud computing outages on businesses has been explored in anew guide by one expert. Writing for the Chartered Institute for IT,Business Consultant Andrea Simmons set out some recent issues in this area,which affected a number of …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”The ‘as a service’ model is extremely attractive to organizations lookingto save money, and the increased interest in subscription-based pricingmakes this an extremely smart move for AppSense.” A growing number oforganizations are reducing IT cost …(more)

Cloud ProOpenStack Compute (code-name Nova) which now includes a distributedscheduler allowing for virtual machines to be deployed globally, ahigh-availability networking mode to prevent downtime and support for a newauthentication system, OpenStack Identity …(more)

Key …MarketWatch (press release)Callidus award-winning SaaS platform — the Callidus Cloud — is acomprehensive SaaS suite designed to help businesses drive more effectiveselling at each stage of the sales talent lifecycle, from improved saleshiring — the foundation of strong …(more)

InformationWeekBreached partners, mobility, SaaS, consumerization. If you don’t knowexactly who’s doing what on your network, you’re cruising for data loss. ByMichael A. Davis InformationWeek We will plant a tree for each of the first5000 downloads. …(more)

CTRServices include: REST API access, including API interoperability withAmazon S3, multi tenancy, identity management integration, tracking andexposing …(more)

27 …MarketWatch (press release)These CrownPeak clients are pioneers in their respective industries anddeliver engaging, creative and dynamic content through multiple digitalchannels such as websites, intranets, mobile sites and social mediums byusing the CrownPeak SaaS WCM. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)About Qualys Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) IT security risk and compliance management solutions. Qualyssolutions are deployed in a matter of hours anywhere in the world,providing customers an immediate and …(more)

With …MarketWatch (press release)SEATTLE, Sep 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — HyperQuality, the leading providerof contact center workflow and business intelligence management servicesand solutions, today released ClearMetrix 3.0, an advanced version of itsaward-winning SaaS solution. …(more)

SearchCloudComputing.comIn Software as a Service (SaaS), enterprises contribute nothingtechnology-wise to the cloud; the cloud provider controls the applicationand its management entirely. The good news is that the SaaS management isconcerned only with managing the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)26, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Datapipe, a leading provider of managedservices and infrastructure for IT and cloud computing, announced today thepublic availability of the industry’s first PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1 ServiceProvider certified cloud …(more)

ForbesLet’s cut to the chase: businesses are looking for efficiency and economyeverywhere they can get it, and cloud computing almost seems too good to betrue. Who wouldn’t want access to well-tested, well-crafted services,managed by skilled technicians, …(more)

The AustralianTHE proliferation of cloud computing and web-based applications in thecorporate environment has rewritten the ground rules of enterprise networksecurity. Businesses have cut costs and increased efficiency by using cloudcomputing, such as web-based …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)This demand is coming from new clients, existing clients refreshing theirWyse deployments and the growing maturity of cloud computing and desktopvirtualisation technologies. About Wyse Technology Wyse Technology is theglobal leader in Cloud Client …(more)

GlobesCloud computing has changed since Schaider and Tamir founded Qumranet in2005. The balance of power in the enterprise market has become morecomplex, and products must become better at speaking directly to end users.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Cloud Partner Ecosystem Nimbula continues to grow its best-of-breed partnerecosystem to expand support of Nimbula Director from Platform as a Service(PaaS) and DevOps application lifecycle management to persistent storagesolutions. …(more)

Comes …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The lively and practical sessions will include brief demonstrations usingthe award-winning 100% open source WSO2 Carbon enterprise middlewareplatform and WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform, and WSO2 Stratosplatform-as-a-service (PaaS). …(more)

Infosecurity MagazineResearch just released by Kaspersky Lab claims to show that one in three UKemployees travel and work remotely in their role, with laptops andsmartphones forming the mainstay of their remote business interworking.And, as you might expect, …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsWhile I had earlier written about the general trends in cloud computing inthese two countries (See: The Chinese Dragon And Cloud Computing and IsIndia The Next Cloud Computing Superpower? ), more recently there was anarticle on a specific Chinese …(more)

SmartStyle …TMC NetWhen you leverage the benefits of cloud computing in your environment, youessentially gain access to seven different elements in cloud computing,including server virtualization, storage virtualization, networkvirtualization, …(more)

NetDespatch Launches Software as a Service Innovations at Post-Expo 2011,NetDespatch Ltd. … CloudBased IT Delivery Automation Platform targetsMSPs …(more)

GISuser.com (press release)Join Andrew Clay Shafer for a guided tour of the OpenStack projects andecosystems. He’ll start with the history and context of the project, thenwalk through the architecture and some of the tools to deploy and operatethe services. …(more)

ZDNet (blog)Ever since cloud computing became part of our lexicon a few years back, themain showstopper, as seen by many enterprises, has been security. Manyexecutives and managers are nervous about entrusting sensitive orcompetitive corporate data to offsite, …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Joe McKendrick | September 26, 2011, 1:39pm PDT Cloud computing doesn’t
fall into place by accident, it requires an architecture that is designedfor the interchange of loosely coupled services. Dave Linthicum reminds usthat if you want a …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Cloud managed service provider Datapipe Monday
kicked cloud security up a notch with the launch of its PCI DSS 2.0 Level 1Service Provider-compliant cloud computing platform, a move that thecompany said will help quell cloud …(more)

SouthCoastToday.comAlthough cloud computing is probably not something your business is alreadydoing or should be doing tomorrow, it should be on your radar, according toViveiros. “The best steps to take right now (would be) to get educated,”she said. …(more)

GovInfoSecurity.comWithin the cloud, data loss prevention services could be offered assomething that is provided as part of the build, such that all serversbuilt for that client get the data loss prevention software installed withan agreed set of rules deployed. …(more)

Smart Data CollectiveHowever without IT involvement, these LOB groups do not usually have theexpertise to understand the implications of creating data in the cloud andits relationship not only to data in other SaaS / cloud offerings, but toon-premises systems as well. …(more)

aspnet MVC Multitenancy Is there a way to overrideinfluence UserIdentity… SaaS MultiTenancy approaches for JavabasedGWT Spring Hibernate webapplications …(more)

After six months of development the OpenStack Diablo release is nowavailable OpenStack is an open source cloud platform originally started byRackspace and …(more)

I recently purchased and installed vCloud Director. I am trying toconfigure LDAP to sync with my OpenLDAP server and it connects but thefield mappings fail …(more)

Cloud Computing, Cell Phone Security in Plain Hindi (English Subtitle) Turnon English Subtitle by clicking the “CC” button located at the …(more)

New version of open source cloud platform adds 3 new core feature sets andmore.(more)

As a fully managed application platform for running and consolidatingsoftware applications and databases in the cloud, AT&T Platform as aService includes: …(more)

Hindu Business LineThere should be a clear strategic policy for cloud computing, prioritisingdata that can be entrusted to the cloud operator. Computing through thecloud offers new ways of doing business. Choosing a private, public, or ahybrid of private, …(more)

By Sramana Mitra
SM: Thinking about this from an entrepreneurial opportunity point of view,you are saying this opportunity is a combination of software as a serviceand actual hands-off service? JS: Software construction services, yes,because what you are …(more)

How do you keep customers happy so they continue to pay for your service?Heed these 3 tips. … 3 Tips for Retaining Your SoftwareasaServiceCustomers …(more)

AZ Central.comMicrosoft was in Scottsdale on Thursday as part of a cross-country,cloud-computing tour it calls “Hostapaloooza.” It’s a one-dayinformation-technology festival that allows Microsoft and its businesspartners to show off the latest cloud-computing …(more)

Portfolio.com (blog)And Xtium, a Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, company that provides cloudcomputing power for mid-sized businesses, has enlisted $11.5 million fromOpenView Venture Partners in its battle against the two corporate cloudgiants. The money will go to build …(more)

CenterBeamInformationWeek said experts told the Congressional committee that cloudcomputing is critical to keep the country economically competitive acrossthe globe. “The cloud is the foundation of the 21st century digitaleconomy,” said Dan Reed, …(more)

Sydney Morning HeraldPhoto: Karl Hilzinger Australian companies may aspire to globalisation, butparochialism is alive and well when it comes to cloud computing. Concernsabout the location of cloud services continue to taint corporatedecision-making and provide …(more)

Sydney Morning HeraldAmazon’s cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeat of theoutage that affected high profile customers earlier this year, a topcompany executive said. The outage in April knocked out such Reddit andFoursquare and had raised questions …(more)

Chiropractic EconomicsYou should be aware of an affordable and dependable alternative to thetraditional software systems of the past: Software as a Service (SaaS). Youmay be familiar with that little piece of technology known as the Internet.It’s something you and your …(more)

By Mandira Srivastava
The demand for software-as-a-service is huge and it has been a fast growingsector for the past few years. Many businesses today are turning to SaaS asa.(more)

Barron’sIts products address many of the same functions performed by software soldby the likes of Oracle (ORCL) and SAP (SAP), but its customers tend to bemuch smaller than those served by the big two. The industry leader in”software as a service” is …(more)

Server WatchBy Sean Kerner (Send Email) After six months of development, the OpenStack
Diablo release is now available. OpenStack is an open source cloud platformoriginally started by Rackspace and NASA that has grown to more than 80member companies. …(more)

Today at VMworldR 2011 Bluelock a certified VMware vCloudR DatacenterServices provider announced support for VMware vCloud Datacenter GlobalConnect an …(more)

GigaOm24, 2011, 6:00am PT No Comments Two weeks ago, Google announced asignificant price increase for use of its App Engine Platform-as-a-Service.The increase itself was not a huge surprise. Google had been making noisesthat something like this was in the …(more)

TheHostingNews.com (press release)PaaS takes the cloud to its next evolutionary step, moving beyond therestrictions on customization of SaaS (software as a service) into an opendevelopment environment where users can create their own worlds in thecloud.(more)

GigaOm23, 2011, 3:25pm PT No Comments Last week, Facebook and Heroku announced apartnership through which Facebook developers could easily launchapplications on Heroku’s cloud Platform-as a Service via the Facebookdevelopment portal. …(more)

Windows IT ProWindows Azure is Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. PaaSprovides a platform for developing SaaS applications. It was the firstMicrosoft cloud computing product for the simple reason that Microsoft’sown developers needed a platform …(more)

Network WorldOpenStack, the open source cloud operating system which was originally spunup by among others Rackspace and NASA continued its maturation today withthe release of Diablo, the 4th major update to the widely supportedproject. …(more)

Reuters IndiaBy Siddharth Cavale and Nivedita Bhattacharjee BANGALORE (Reuters) -
Amazon’s cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeat of theoutage of its cloud services platform earlier this year and customerinterest has only grown since, …(more)

Web Host Industry Review (blog)By Nicole Henderson, September 22, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Cloud
computing provider Digital Seattle (www.digitalseattle.com) announced onThursday that it has partnered with web hosting provider FiberCloud(www.fibercloud.com) to offer …(more)

One of the ways that this is done is through a principle that is known asmulti- tenancy. This is where, instead of running multiple instances of asingle application …(more)

iT NewsBy Brett Winterford on Sep 23, 2011 1:54 PM (3 minutes ago) Darwin managed
service provider Area 9 has become the third VMware vCloud Powered providerof infrastructure-as-a-service in Australia. The company’s Darwin-baseddata centre, whilst small in …(more)

In addition to improving the three core projects, OpenStack is now adding aWeb- based dashboard, unified authentication and an API for configuringvirtual …(more)

The Java version is now available as software as a service (SaaS) and …lines of business, distribution channels and policy systems regardless ofplatform. …(more)

Subscribing to a Software-as-a-Service platform grants you a free pass toeach and every update that is released for the software. You can restassured that you …(more)

By Kendrick Coleman
All of this information is freely available in a few whitepapers that are apart of VMware vCloud Architecture ToolKit (vCAT) 2.0. These sets ofdocuments are very in-depth and offer a great learning experience foranyone looking into vCloud …(more)

VMware Launches Cloud Service Provider Ecosystem (vCloud) Find a vCloudServices Provider: bit.ly.(more)

SearchSecurityChannel.comBusinesses clearly love the cloud, but there are ways securityprofessionals also can leverage cloud computing characteristics to theiradvantage, Chan said. In the data center, applications are long-lived, codeis pushed to running systems, …(more)

PR.com (press release)Its software is available as on-premise or on-demand (SaaS - Software as aService). Autologica also provides web tools that help dealers leverage theInternet: Dealer Web Manager (dealer website administrator), ClientAccessPoint (personalized …(more)

Sacramento BeeCopley Retention Systems is a “Software as a Service” (SaaS) company thatprovides a comprehensive online software solution to increase studentsuccess. www.copleysystems.com. About Thomas DiBenedetto and JunctionInvestors Ltd. (Boston, MA) President …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)Corent Technology, the leader in SaaS enablement software, provides aproven and disruptive alternative to the costly virtualization strategiesoften used for SaaS deployment. Corent’s Multi-Tenant Server(TM) (MTS)plugs into conventional single-tenant …(more)

V3.co.ukby Daniel Robinson The OpenStack project has released the fourth stablebuild of its open source cloud platform, adding a self-service portal andidentity management layer, while previewing new networking capabilitiesthat promise greater power and …(more)

CRNShe could take a full 50 percent of HP’s R&D budget, and over three yearsinvest in developing technology in these three open-source efforts thatcould have immediate benefits for HP, its employees, its channel partnersand its shareholders: OpenStack: …(more)

Boston GlobeNow, perhaps realizing that recurring revenues are better than one timesales, the company is repositioning itself as a software-as-a-servicecompany that also happens to sell hardware. BigBelly is integrating GSMwireless connectivity into its trash …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)EMC, well, at least its Greenplum unit has put together a thousand-nodemulti-tenant analytics platform to accelerate the development and testingof the disruptive but persnickety open source Apache Hadoop software.That’s 1000-odd hardware nodes or …(more)

Times of IndiaBANGALORE: Amazon’s cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeatof the outage of its cloud services platform earlier this year and customerinterest has only grown since, a top company executive said. The outage inApril, which knocked out …(more)

ProvidersMarketWatch (press release)This ChannelCast will look at the available market for SaaS and cloudcomputing, dig into some of the predictions of where these markets areheading and examine how solution providers can best stake their claim inthis fast-paced, evolving ecosystem. …(more)

InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek OpenStack, one of several open source
options for building a private cloud, launched its fourth release in alittle over a year on Thursday with several features that make it easier tomanage an enterprise cloud. …(more)

ComputerworldUKCloud computing for consumers: The downsidesWe’re all encouraged to getwith the cloud, but is it all its cracked up to be? >> Wikileaks - fearlesswhistleblowers or irresponsible nuisances? Keep up to date with the latestdevelopments. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AP Interview: Samsung to step up Apple patent war 09.23.11 Avangate, theagile eCommerce solutions provider trusted by Software and SaaS companiesto grow their business worldwide through any channel and any model,announced today that TeamLab has …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)KT is deploying the Parallels Automation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)module, enabling KT to rapidly deliver Cloud services to small to mediumbusinesses (SMB) efficiently and cost-effectively. One of the key servicesKT is bringing to market is …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)The Greenplum side of EMC has unveiled what it claims is the industry’sfirst complete Big Data analytics appliance. The thing is a tweak of thecompany’s two-socket Xeon EMC Greenplum Modular Data Computing Appliance(DCA) and combines a …(more)

TMC NetThis acquisition is expected to significantly broaden 8×8’s technologicalexpertise and service offerings in the contact center software space forhosted SaaS (Software as a Service) offerings. It also brings into the 8×8portfolio the only service …(more)

Is …SunHerald.comHence, cloud IaaS along with its configuration flexibility and integratedsecurity has evolved as an ideal model to serve as a platform andintegration fabric for many enterprise applications. The report alsohighlights that data security concerns are …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)PALO ALTO, Calif., Sep 22, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Nebula, developers of anOpenStack-based hardware appliance that will allow all businesses toeasily, securely and inexpensively deploy large private cloud computinginfrastructures, today announced …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)With Cloud Computing, instead of operating Desktops, Applications, Exchangeor Voice through physical in-house servers, they are hosted on centralizedvirtual servers in a data center. This whole process is rapid to setup anduncomplicated to use; …(more)

The Express TribuneBy Omair Zeeshan Cloud computing is a service that allows users to use data
centres to share resources, software and information over a network,typically the internet. KARACHI: Microsoft will launch its Azure and Office365 within the next two years …(more)

Business InsiderMany businesses today are turning to SaaS as a way to save money on theirIT needs. The wide range of services enables businesses to outsource manyof their operations to cut their costs. The key for these service providersis to deliver optimal …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)WASHINGTON, DC, Sep 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — VCE ChairmanMichael Capellas appeared before the US House of Representatives’Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation today to outline cloud computingopportunities and challenges within the US …(more)

DABCC.comOpenStack, the free, open source cloud computing platform, is building alot of momentum in the industry. It seems as though small serviceproviders, …(more)

An introduction to the concept of Cloud Computing, its importance andadvantages in todays business environment.(more)

Barron’s (blog)Some think the new roadmap for developers could help Microsoft show greaterprogress in cloud computing. (See for example the rather positive remarkslast week by Nomura’s Rick Sherlund.) Developers have in general moved pastthe Microsoft stack. …(more)

GigaOm21, 2011, 9:01pm PT No Comments The OpenStack posse is putting some glosson the next release of the open-source cloud operating system. …(more)

Boston Herald… companies working exclusively on cloud computing, cloud infrastructureand OpenStack. That program will run from January to April in San Antonio,Texas.(more)

By Dan Rowinski
Twilio takes care of the billing of the end user of an app for any phonecalls and SMS allowing developers to price their products usingsoftware-as-a-service model. It is an interesting concept for developerslooking to add communication … Twilio Client, the first major launch ofTwilio communications services as a platform, has been widely adopted andused by such enterprise companies as ZenDesk. Companies such as GroupMe,AirBnB and Intuit are using Twilio to provide secure …(more)

Business Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–Avangate, the agile eCommerce solutions provider trustedby Software and SaaS companies to grow their business worldwide through anychannel and any model, announced today that TeamLab has selected Avangateto manage their SaaS online …(more)

In the enterprise world, software as a service (SaaS) is undoubtedly thegold rush of the 21st century. It’s touched nearly every industry andchanged the way countless numbers of organizations do business. There is,however, one stone in the …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Autotask Corporation, the world’s leading provider of hosted IT businessmanagement software, today announced that it is now fully integrated withServoyant software from Servoyant, LLC, a leading SaaS provider of ITManagement software solutions which …(more)

Computer Business ReviewSalesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company, has acquiredAssistly, an instant customer-service help desk built for the cloud, forapproximately $50m in cash. As part of the transaction, Salesforce.com alsoassumed Assistly’s unvested options …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Cloud computing looks set to become the next big thing, but securityconcerns mar its adoption as the United States gets ready to pump US$53billion into fourth-generation networks over the next five years.EC-Council offers cutting-edge solutions such …(more)

CIOZoneAlthough Microsoft has been one of the first players to step on the cloudcomputing scene with Azure, it is generally regarded as being relativelylate to develop efficient cloud technologies for personal use. SinceMicrosoft Office is already shifting …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”Because IceWEB’s VMware integrated, unified data storage systems supportboth file and block data, cloud computing providers like BroadAspect areable to dramatically reduce the amount of hardware and physical storagethey need to support a growing …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN OpenStack, the Rackspace-led open source cloud
initiative, heated things up Thursday with Diablo, its fourth versionrelease in just …(more)

PR Web (press release)In three years, mobile app developers won’t think twice about buildingtheir apps and games on a Platform as a Service (PaaS) in preference tobuilding and hosting the technology themselves. We are proud to be bringingthat technology to market today. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)… launch of its Cloud Acceleration Partner Program (CAPP) - opening AlertLogic’s SaaS delivery model and service provider channel relationships to3rd party security product vendors who integrate with Alert Logic’sSecurity-as-a-Service platform. …(more)

By John Ebbert
Also, since we are in two businesses (media and audience data), with theaudience platform element, we think that’s a brand-new market. We are …So our goal, as we work with client and want to provide full,self-service software-as-a-service. …(more)

SDTimes.comBy SD Times Newswire OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system,
will today release “Diablo,” the fourth version of its community-drivensoftware, …(more)

By Duncan Epping
Book #24, Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director, by John Arrasjid,Duncan Epping, Steve Kaplan Ben Lin, Michael Haines and Raman Veeramraju.This Short Topics book provides use cases, design considerations, andtechnology …(more)

ReadWriteWebThe OpenStack Project is moving a bit closer to its proprietary competitionwith the Diablo release, out today. In addition to improving the three coreprojects, OpenStack is now adding a Web-based dashboard, unifiedauthentication, and an API for …(more)

TMC NetBy Mini Swamy, TMCnet Contributor Pike Research’s (News - Alert) report,
“Cloud Computing Energy Efficiency”, analyzes the energy efficiencybenefits of cloud computing, examines the key factors that trigger it, thetechnical development taking place …(more)

Formtek Blog (blog)By Dick Weisinger, on September 22nd, 2011 SaaS companies are seeing an
average growth rate of 44 percent in 2011, higher even than 2010 which hadan annual growth rate of 40 percent. And 30 percent of SaaS business areseeing growth rates greater than …(more)

HighBeam Research Article: Infoblox Releases Plug-In for VMware vCloudOrchestrator for Private and Public Cloud Deployment. By: . Published on9/16/ 2011.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)VendTek’s SaaS solution allows the Company to leverage its existingoperations, infrastructure and core competencies while at the same timeletting international customers focus on growing their business quickly,without the distraction and effort of …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)According to Technavio’s industry analyst, With several organizationsimplementing SaaS-based ERP, they now have the bandwidth to focus onnon-technical issues, as opposed to previously having to look at technicalissues along with their other core …(more)

AssistlyCIO TodayIt positioned the updated software -as-a-service customer service platformas “customer service for the social era.” Service Cloud 3 was designed tolet organizations more completely engage with customers in socialcommunities such as Twitter or …(more)

ComputerworldBy Joab Jackson IDG News Service - The developers behind OpenStack have
updated their open source cloud software package with a new graphical userinterface and a unified authentication management system, the project’sorganizers announced Thursday. …(more)

Kendrickcoleman.com - VMware fiend, Vblock evangelist, Cloud junkie.(more)

The open source cloud software stack has been updated with a new interfaceand unified authentication.(more)

Silver …Washington PostSilver Tail Systems provides on-premise and SaaS solutions to protectoperators of online properties that hold critical information, such ase-commerce, financial, government and consumer-facing website publishersand owners, from online fraud and …(more)

Social …MarketWatch (press release)IGLOO delivers new releases approximately every 60 days through itsSoftware as a Service (SaaS) architecture, making sure that each customercan immediately take advantage of the latest innovations in enterprisesocial technology. …(more)

TMC NetBy merging Salesforce’s leading cloud computing solutions for the
enterprise with Assistly’s instant customer service help desk applications,Salesforce will be able to extend its Service Cloud reach to millions ofsmall and medium-sized businesses. …(more)

Insurance News Net (press release)At the Cloud Computing for Financial Services and Insurance Industry SummitOct. 25 in New York City , Saugatuck Technology SVP and Head of ResearchBruce Guptill will guide a panel of industry leaders through definitionsand permutations of Cloud, …(more)

Sacramento BeeAssessing the Opportunities and Challenges of Cloud Computing” in themorning. Later in the day, Combs will join other industry experts andcongressional leaders in the first US Congressional briefing on therecommendations of the TechAmerica …(more)

Small Business News from Gaebler.comCloud computing technology can help businesses of all sizes reduce costs,save time and enhance productivity. Cloud-based communications integratesvarious business processes including email, telephone, instant message andvideo conferencing onto a …(more)

Setting up Multi-Tenancy Control Panel for microsoft Sharepoint … AMicrosoft Multi-Tenancy Control Panel has been set up. … RavenDb andMultiTenancy …(more)

Nimble is trying to fill the gaps left by SalesForce.com and create acommunity of plug-in developers and software-as-a-service partners byopening up its …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)Every once in a while, I’ll do a news search for ‘cloud computing.’Yesterday was one of those days and while there are always a few storiesabout ‘the cloud,’ I was somewhat amazed by the number and range of topicsthat appeared. …(more)

SolutionMarketWatch (press release)”Australian businesses have shown that they are at the forefront of cloudcomputing and we have already seen some of them quickly recognising thevalue that Pacnet VPS delivers,” said Deborah Homewood, Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Pacnet Australia & New …(more)

The biggest problem in multitenancy in my opinion is customization This …Browse other questions tagged architecture multitenancy or ask your ownquestion …(more)

Have you heard the term SaaS or Software as a Service? If you have, you maystill be wondering what it is and if you haven’t you should probably learnwhat it is …(more)

Subject ReOpenstack openstack for citrix xenserver 5.6 … Fromopenstackbounces+ewanmellorcitrixcomxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxmailtoopenstackbounces+ewanmellor …(more)

PR Web (press release)Named the mid-market leader for business platform solutions, iCIMS supportsthe talent management needs of HR professionals worldwide. iCIMS, a leadingprovider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent management solutions, is anInc. 500 and Software …(more)

Enterprise Storage ForumThat gives users a platform on which to build or have hosted whateverapplications they desire, said Chris Asing, senior manager of CloudServices at EMC IT. He calls this Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). “EMCITs first self-service IaaS offering …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)The proceeds from this financing will support rapid adoption of 800App’saward-winning on-demand business software and solutions in China. “800APPhas successfully built a Software-as-a-Service business while maintainingits mission to create an …(more)

Mashable… is launching a program in San Antonio that will focus specifically oncompanies working on cloud computing, cloud infrastructure and OpenStack….(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)As such, major security plans to address privacy concerns are beinggreen-lit across various platforms for mobile devices and cloud computing.Technology companies are ramping up their efforts to curb malware and otherundesirable software, …(more)

AutomationMarketWatch (press release)Through this partnership, Kaavo has integrated with infiniCloud,Logicworks’ on-demand cloud computing service, to allow Kaavo customers todeploy and manage applications on the platform. Kaavo’s core offering,IMOD, is cloud management software that …(more)

ITChannelPlanetIBM Corp. said that it will test market a program to broaden its SmarterCommerce initiative for business partners, adding in Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) applications gained from its acquisitions last year of Coremetrics,Sterling Commerce and Unica. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)mFoundry’s success comes from its industry-leading software as a service(SaaS) mobile banking product. While mFoundry sells mobile banking servicesdirectly to many financial institutions, it is their extensive partnernetwork–which includes FIS …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sep 21, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Engine Yard, theleading Platform as a Service (PaaS), today launched Engine Yard PlatformServices, a worldwide partner program encompassing over 40 cloud technologyleaders that are offering …(more)

UK …MarketWatch (press release)OneSource iSell UK is powered by OneSource’s LiveContent Platform, whichcombines information from more than 50 premium content suppliers andthousands of information feeds including top social media sources. Thisallows iSell to go beyond simply …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ITsecurity risk and compliance management solutions — delivered as aservice. Qualys solutions are deployed in a matter of hours anywhere in theworld, providing customers an …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Using custom-built Virtual Private Clouds and innovativeSoftware-as-a-Service licensing of development tools from IBM, CloudOnemakes software development more elastic, global and economical. Inaddition, a broad and growing network of CloudOne …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN OpSource expanded its cloud computing footprint
with the opening of a new cloud hosting facility in Santa Clara, Calif.,that the company said will reduce latency for OpSource’s west coast clientsand partners while boosting …(more)

and …MarketWatch (press release)Leading independent analyst firm Aberdeen Group published a case study onWine Management Systems in its September 2011 report, “SaaS BusinessIntelligence: Driving Agility through Self-Service.” The report confirmsgrowing adoption of SaaS BI and …(more)

Integrate …MarketWatch (press release)21, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — LoyaltyMatch OnDemand SaaS platformunifies web, mobile, social media and purchase activities allowing abetter, more complete experience for potential and loyal customersLoyaltyMatch Inc. has introduced the newest …(more)

CashTechCrunchLearn More Salesforce has just bought social customer service SaaS startupAssistly. The purchase price is $50 million, and the deal is all-cash.Assistly helps companies collect and organize all of their customerconversations into a prioritized …(more)

By Dilip Krishnan
John Zachman, the originator of the Zachman framework, recently wrote anarticle that addresses the questions regarding the impact of cloudcomputing on enterprise architecture; especially given how disruptive andpopular cloud …(more)

By TckTckTck
We have long known that cloud computing is a fantastic way of cuttingcarbon but now a new report by Google, support by the Carbon DisclosureProject and Verdantix, has outlined exactly how energy efficient it is.(more)

By aditya.modi
Sramana Mitra: Hi, Jim. Welcome to the Thought Leaders in Cloud Computingseries. To better understand the scope of the IT infrastructure you arerunning for.(more)