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• IBM Launches New Billion Dollar Effort for SMB Tech Adoption

Small Business ComputingThe types of technologies that SMBs require most break down to four keyareas according to IBM’s research: business analytics, security, customerrelationship management (CRM) and cloud computing. “These are the top fourareas that show up on all our …(more)

• Platform-as-a-service to gain popularity in coming months

CenterBeamAlthough he said it has and continues to be more of an afterthought,platform-as-a-service cloud computing, or PaaS, may provide to be a “futurebattleground” for the cloud, according to Bernard Golden, CEO of consultingfirm HyperStratus. …(more)

• Cloud computing: What you need to know about PaaS

Australian TechworldLook to a SaaS provider for a single purpose application (HR, financials,printing, etc.) Want to write your own application? Look to an IaaSprovider that lets you create your own custom application. Want tounderstand the concept of leveraging …(more)

• Cloud-computing: The golden age of Indian entrepreneurs

Economic Times From increasing safety in railways, addressing inefficiencies in foodsupply chain, to managing the operations of hotels, Indian entrepreneursare coming up with unique models that use cloud computing. In cloudcomputing, the information is stored and …(more)

• Research and Markets: Australia - Cloud Computing - 2011

SunHerald.comNow a decade later they are back, but this time under the name of cloudcomputing. This term describes the shift towards providing data processing,communications and software services to a customer’s location from avariety of different places. …(more)

• Cloud Cruiser Helps Customers Spot Savings in Cloud Computing

Web Host Industry ReviewCloud Cruiser recently launched its cost management solution for OpenStack(www.openstack.com). Casey says that Cloud Cruiser is currently the onlycost management company that’s a part of OpenStack. He is confident that,after working with the …(more)

• Callidus Software Acquires Award-Winning Rapid Intake

MarketWatch (press release)The acquisition combined with the Litmos Learning Management solution meansthat our customers now have a one stop shop for SaaS eLearning andmLearning tools,” said Leslie Stretch, President and CEO, CallidusSoftware. “The acquisition adds more than …(more)

• Platform as a Service

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the layer of technology that operates …part of their enterprise software functionally in the cloud, using PaaSdirectly or indirectly . …(more)

• Public Cloud Computing: End-User Requirements | Cloud …

For a successful implementation of cloud computing infrastructure, let’sunderstand what is important to end-user customers of Public Cloudcomputing. …(more)

• THQ Talks Cloud Computing - News - www.GameInformer.com

CEO Brian Farrell sees many possibilities in cloud computing.(more)

• Mobile Traffic to News Sites Increases 300% in Areas Affected by Hurricane

IreneSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)In this light, we endeavor to ensure that our mobile publishing platformwill always meet this need.” Gumiyo Mobile is the provider of the MobileReady Platform, a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) that enablesdigital and traditional publishers …(more)

• Cloud Computing and the need to buy differently in the public sector

BusinessCloud9As governments move to the new Cloud Computing paradigm, is this theperfect opportunity finally to break free of the ‘cartel’ of traditionalICT providers to the public sector? Is there a new guard with a newapproach waiting in the wings for the …(more)

• Patriot PAY SaaS Payroll Software Offers Tennessee Employers a New Choice

DigitalJournal.com (press release)Patriot PAY SaaS software is an answer for employers looking to move moreof their business operations to the cloud. Tennessee small business ownerscan log into Patriot PAY and run payroll wherever they have Internetaccess, whether they’re working in …(more)

• New Perspective: Advent Unveils SaaS Offering for UK Wealth Managers

www.waterstechnology.comSoftware-as-as-Service or Saas, a software delivery model that providesremote access to software and its functions, has grown in popularity withinthe financial services industry since the acronym first started appearingapproximately a decade ago. …(more)

• Park City Group, Inc. Schedules Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011

Earnings …MarketWatch (press release)Park City Group /quotes/zigman/709762/quotes/nls/pcyg PCYG 0.00% is aSoftware-as-a-Service (”SaaS”) provider that brings unique visibility tothe consumer goods supply chain. With over $100 million invested indevelopment and 16 years of …(more)

• Microsoft services hit by outage

BBC NewsMoving applications from installed software on individual computers, toweb-based “software as a service” has been a major trend in computing inrecent years. Such systems are seen as easier to manage, simpler toscale-up and down, and potentially …(more)

• Group Live Announces Support For VMware

Daily MarketsGroup Business Software (GBS) a subsidiary of GBS Enterprises Incorporated(OTCBB: GBSX), announced their award winning Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)product, GROUP Live, now supports VMware. GROUP Live and VMware ideallycomplement each other. …(more)

• Dreamforce Takeaway: It’s All About Cloud Channel Strategies

E-Commerce Times… partner programs aimed at making it easier and more attractive forindependent software vendors (ISVs) and other third parties to build theirSoftware as a Service (SaaS) and cloud solutions on the company’s Force.comPlatform as a Service (PaaS). …(more)

• BroadSoft Inks All-Cash Deal to Acquire iLinc

TMC NetBroadSoft expects to strengthen its BroadCloud services, includinghigh-definition (HD) video conferencing, consumer fixed-line SMS andnetwork assessment and monitoring capabilities, with the acquisition ofiLinc, whose Software-as-a-Service (SaaS …(more)

• HP to Use OpenStack for Cloud Services Project

CMSWireBy Geoff Spick (@Goffee71) Sep 9, 2011 HP has announced that its new Cloud
Services project will be based on OpenStack’s open source cloud computingarchitecture. HP this week announced a private beta program for HP CloudServices. …(more)

• Shuttleworth: Amazon Web Services the cloud way to go

ITworld.comThat’s the situation between OpenStack and Canonical, after Canonicalfounder Mark Shuttleworth posted a public entreaty for OpenStack to keepthe cloud computing project’s APIs based on the de facto standards ofAmazon Web Services (AWS), …(more)

• HP and Dell Jump On the IaaS Cloud Bandwagon

InfoQ.comBoth HP and Dell are entering the IaaS cloud services business, buildingtheir infrastructure on their own servers and OpenStack (HP)/vCloud (Dell).Dell promises to come with two more clouds based on Windows Azure andOpenStack. …(more)

• Cloud Computing: SaaS ERP Revs Up Auto Parts Supplier

ComputerworldBy Sandra Gittlen CIO - When auto parts supplier Inteva Products LLC spun
out from its parent company Delphi in 2008, CIO Dennis Hodges was leftstanding in a heap of legacy ERP equipment. Inteva’s global manufacturingfacilities, engineering sites and …(more)

• Exploring Opportunities in the Cloud: ITEXPO West Interview

TMC NetTo gain additional insight from market leaders, TMC CEO Rich Tehranirecently spoke with George A. Grabowich, managing director of ProductManagement, Cloud Computing Solutions for Broadview Networks (News - Alert)Inc. Grabowich noted that his market …(more)

• IBM Commits $1 Billion To SMB Financing

CRNBy Rick Whiting, CRN IBM has developed a line of cloud computing, security
and business analytics packages and it’s committing $1 billion in financingover the next 18 months to help SMBs purchase them. The new systemofferings and financing will be …(more)

• Linux Today HP’s OpenStack Cloud Goes Into Private Beta

OpenStack itself still faces some challenges including cloud portabilityissues While there are multiple vendors that provide OpenStack based cloudservices …(more)

• Multi-Tenancy

Regarding Multi-Tenancy SCSM might be a challange. … /archive/2009/12/22/does-service-manager-support-multitenancy-managed-service-providers.aspx…(more)

• Rackspace Running OpenStack Compute Today for Select …

By Stephen Spector
In addition to running OpenStack Object Storage (code named Swift) for overa year to power their cloud, Rackspace is now running OpenStack Compute(code named Nova) for select customers. Head over to the Rackspace Cloudblog to …(more)

• The SaaS Factor

SecurityInfoWatchSoftware as a Service (SaaS) has been around for years but not untilrecently did it take hold in areas beyond banking or Customer RelationshipManagement (CRM) tools to encompass physical security. Customers are nowtrusting SaaS systems as much, …(more)

• Intel Invests $24 Million in Software Companies

eWeekDynamicOps also dovetails with Intel’s CloudBuilder initiative to offer acloud software ecosystem that’s optimized for the Intel architecture.Denver-based IP Commerce offers a platform-as-a-service (PAAS) solution forsuch retail tasks as managing …(more)

• The Virtualization Path Less Traveled

PCWorldNemmers did not detail the price differences between the two softwarepackages, other than to note “for us, [the difference] was significant,” hesaid. Salsa Labs runs a SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform that can beused by advocacy groups to …(more)

• Office 365, Google Docs go down again, could give pause to the cloud-wary

Ars TechnicaGoogle Docs suffered an outage this week, and Amazon’s Elastic ComputeCloud infrastructure-as-a-service platform was plagued by outages and lostcustomer data in April and August. The latest Microsoft outage was causedby what the company vaguely …(more)