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GigaOm9, 2011, 1:00pm PT No Comments Intel Capital announced $24 million in newinvestments yesterday, and cloud computing and big data companies were thebig beneficiaries. These aren’t the first such investments Intel has madein the space, …(more)

ReutersBankers and analysts had identified Internap as a potential target forbigger rivals amid a scramble to tap into strong demand for ‘cloudcomputing’ that allows remote access to computing power and data over theInternet. “I am not shopping the company …(more)

BloombergBy Leah Nylen - Fri Sep 09 23:01:19 GMT 2011 A federal judge will order the
US Interior Department to hire an independent expert who will examine thesecurity of Google Inc.’s cloud computing e-mail products. In order issuedtoday, Judge Susan Braden …(more)

HP this week announced the launch of a private beta for its OpenStack basedcloud services.(more)

International Business Times AUAs Apple is still in version one of iCloud and other cloud expertsMicrosoft, Amazon and Google still encountering bugs and a number ofissues, cloud computing certainly is still in its infancy.(more)

eWeekGoogle and Microsoft both watched their cloud computing systems choke thispast week, with Google Docs going dark for an hour and Microsoft Hotmail,Office 365 and SkyDrive knocked offline for three hours. It was not abanner week for cloud computing. …(more)

Economic Times”In the era of mobile Internet, we can provide customised services withvery low cost,” said Wang Jian, chief architect of Alibaba Group andpresident of Alibaba Cloud Computing. “You will be able to provide servicesat any time to all the people. …(more)

The cloud helps businesses be more energy efficient, Google’s daily dealsexpand to 5 more cities, and Skitch drawings come to Evernote’s Androidapp.(more)

It was not a banner week for cloud computing. Cloud computing rivals Google( NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) suffered brief outages that …(more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

TheStreet.comBy TheStreet Wire 09/07/11 - 07:01 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) — inContact
(Nasdaq:SAAS) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from hold to sell.The company’s weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as itsdeteriorating net income, …(more)

ComputerworldBy Shane O’Neill CIO - Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Cisco, take notice:
Despite the near-constant hype about cloud computing services, mostmid-market companies are still viewing cloud as a complement, not areplacement. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)NEW YORK, Sep 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Mobile computing is the greatestsecurity challenge to organizations today, surpassing concerns about cloudcomputing, according to security expert Timothy Brown, who will speak atNYIT’s Cyber Security …(more)

ReutersAWS started offering computing power and storage remotely more than fiveyears ago, making it a pioneer in the hot cloud-computing sector. While thebusiness accounts for only about 2 percent of Amazon’s revenue, it isgrowing rapidly. …(more)

Cloud Computing can create difficulty in day to use for novice users.Hereare some suggestions that will be useful when one starts to use the Cloudservices.(more)

CRNHP’s Cloud Compute and Cloud Object Storage are built on HP ConvergedInfrastructure and software and include integration with OpenStack, theopen source cloud infrastructure project that HP joined in July. Sayeghsaid HP developers are already …(more)

Server Watch… virtualization market, with a product range that provides everythingfrom simple server consolidation for small businesses all the way to datacenter automation and fully fledged cloud computing environments forenterprises and service providers. …(more)

By allowing you to store your data elsewhere, cloud computing can
completely change how you access and interact with your information.Discover the benefits.(more)

Labels: cloud computing, freemium, SaaS … on strategic topics such ascloud computing, SaaS, Web 2.0, BI, in-memory computing, location-basedapplications, …(more)

Web Host Industry Review (blog)According to the blog post, both are based on HP’s hardware and softwareand integrate OpenStack through its web-based UI and RESTful APIs. HPjoined OpenStack in July and is a sponsor of the OpenStack Design Summitand Conference. …(more)

By Stuart Lee
Two new interesting UCISA reports: Cloud Computing and Cost of Downtime.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Like QAD Enterprise Applications, the Unicorn HRO solution is available onpremise, or on demand in a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model.”We’re very excited to partner with QAD,” noted Tim Diassi, executive vicepresident and general manager …(more)

Litigation …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Offered as Software-as-a-Service (or ‘Cloud-based’), the Desktop is a lawdepartment management application that will provide a centralizedcommunication facility and work product repository for CANAM’s in-houselegal team and preferred outside counsel …(more)

Geekiest …MarketWatch (press release)Envysion is the pioneer in the rapidly exploding Software as a Servicecategory called “Managed Video as a Service” or “MVaaS.” Recently, Envysionwas named as one of Red Herring’s Top 100 companies. “As Envysion continueson a growth trajectory, …(more)

Leading …MarketWatch (press release)”This SaaS deal will provide Callidus’ award-winning Monaco solutions to amajor global technology provider. Monaco continues to gain momentum aroundthe world with its unbeatable combination of ease of use and flexibility,all delivered as part of …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”As the only SaaS-based, multi-platform APM technology in the market, NewRelic is uniquely positioned to continue on its remarkable growthtrajectory. I look forward to helping Lew and his team continue growing thecompany and building value for our …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Equity Administration Solutions, Inc. (EASi), thebroker-independent SaaS company with the leading stock plan managementsolution, reported record second quarter growth, delivering on the promiseof its software as a service …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”The acquisition of Paladyne will significantly expand Broadridge’sposition as a service provider to buy-side clients,” stated Richard J.Daly, Chief Executive Officer, Broadridge. “Buy-side firms purchase nearly40% of capital markets technology and …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Steelwedge’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) planning platform enables globalmanufacturing companies to recognize and respond profitably to fluctuationsin supply and demand. The solution drives collaboration and consensus amongthe sales, marketing, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Velocity partners can embed a branded version of the DreamTeam projectsuite, allowing their customers to take advantage of free and paid SaaSproducts directly from their website. The leading Project suite for cloudcomputing, DreamTeam includes a …(more)

InformationWeekSo much for the cloud computing. I’ve been working in Google Docs sinceJanuary 2010 and the service is almost always available. But thefrustration of a cloud service failure is disproportionately higher than itis with local software crashes. …(more)

CIOZoneCloud computing is without a doubt the IT trend that has brought the mostbenefits to small businesses. We live in a global business environment andup to now small businesses had difficulties in competing with the bigplayers, as they could not afford …(more)

SSD …MarketWatch (press release)Added Gen 3 protocol enhancements improve overall efficiency and reducepower consumption, a critical factor for energy-conscious enterprise andcloud computing data centers. The device has been sampling to IDT’s leadcustomers for several months. …(more)

Multitenancy via Discriminator … …(more)

I develop a simple multi-tenant app using sample HRDB database(HSQLDB) viaWavemaker 6.4.1Beta.The app work nicely when run in localhost,however after…(more)

OperatorsMarketWatch (press release)An OTT Video Services Platform provider, Endavo enables quality delivery ofenhanced video services for telecommunications companies and planet-widesyndication for content producers and broadcasters. Endavo’s Platform as aService (PaaS) solution …(more)

Data …MarketWatch (press release)Operating as a service in the cloud enables athenahealth to workhand-in-hand with providers–from offering them real-time on-demandpay-for-performance data, to free performance coaching, to fullregistration and attestation support to get them across …(more)

TMC NetBy Deepika Mala, TMCnet Contributor LightEdge (News - Alert) Solutions, a
customer-centric player in cloud computing and resilient collocationservices, recently introduced the initial phase of a vCloud administrativeportal for its virtual server …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)AUSTIN, Texas, Sep 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Virtual Bridges todayannounced it has joined OpenStack, an open source cloud infrastructureproject. Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, OpenStack is a globalsoftware community of developers …(more)

Performance …MarketWatch (press release)AUSTIN, Texas, Sep 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — CopperEgg, Corp., thereal-time analytics company, today announced the launch of RevealCloudPro(TM), a SaaS-based performance monitoring solution that helps companiesaccelerate the delivery of …(more)

Java prepped for increased role in Platform as a Service cloud world …modular and be tuned for use in SaaSsoftwareasaservice cloud computing Inaddition …(more)

eWeekThe infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) offerings, announced Sept. 7, are HPCloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, and offer a combination of HPhardware and software technologies as well as the OpenStack open-sourcecloud software stack. …(more)

ReporteWeekA new study by Veriphyr, a software-as-a-service data analytics applicationprovider, found that 71 percent of health care organizations have sufferedat least one data breach within the past year. Veriphyr offersdata-analytics software that allows …(more)

Smart …MarketWatch (press release)The Company’s cloud-based Service Delivery Platform deliversM2M-as-a-Service to solution providers, wireless network operators, systemintegrators, original equipment manufacturers and enterprise ITorganizations. SensorLogic products help companies …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The BoSS Awards is an ongoing program of THINKstrategies’ new CloudComputing Showplace which recognizes SaaS companies that are producingtangible business benefits for specific user organizations. These benefitscan include increased sales, …(more)

BloombergBy Juliann Francis - Thu Sep 08 18:27:26 GMT 2011 The US government should
write cloud-computing contracts so that agencies can easily move from oneprovider to another, increasing competition and keeping costs low, theformer federal chief information …(more)

ZDNet UK (blog)The cloud uses the open-source OpenStack cloud framework to underpin itscompute and storage services, via OpenStack’s Nova and Swift systems,respectively. Developers will be able to control the service via aweb-based user interface along with an …(more)

By Dean Takahashi
Intel invested in enterprise cloud automation software provider DynamicOps;building management software provider enLighted; real-time analyticsprovider Guavus; platform-as-a-service commerce company IP Commerce; andsocial games …(more)

Server WatchBy Sean Kerner (Send Email) HP this week announced the launch of a private
beta for its OpenStack based cloud services. HP first revealed that it wasworking on an OpenStack implementation in July. “Our two initial offeringsare based on HP’s …(more)

Fierce Markets recently published an article explaining how cloudcomputing-based EMR systems may have advantages over traditional, in-housestorage practices and technology. According to the source, healthcareproviders have …(more)

Existing …MarketWatch (press release)Our Platform-as-a-Service has modularized Commerce requirements into asoftware stack that creates new opportunities for these applicationdevelopers, service providers, and retailers.” IP Commerce provides aPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which …(more)

CIOThe company’s Intel Capital division has invested in cloud automationvendor DynamicOps, building management software provider enLighted,real-time analytics provider Guavus, platform-as-a-service vendor IPCommerce, and social games analytics provider …(more)

Cloud Computing becoming more and more in our everyday life and as businesssolution. Here are some examples on how Cloud Computing can be your …(more)

By ravimandalia@itproportal.com (Ravi Mandalia)
Industry wide cloud computing adoption is not going to make IT staff jobsredundant, an IT expert has…(more)

By Antigone Peyton
Last week, 45000 Salesforce users, developers, administrators, and C-levelvisionaries met at the Moscone Conference Center in San Francisco to swap.(more)

Philippine StarFor extra edge, I’d recommend for them to learn how to develop on cloudplatforms such as Google App Engine, Cloud Foundry or OpenStack. …(more)

By admin
IT channel firms seeing strong growth from cloud computing.(more)

4-traders (press release)(Oslo, 7 September 2011) Use of cloud computing in Norway has more thandoubled over the last year. More than 35% of public sector bodies andprivate sector companies now use ‘Software as a service’ (SaaS), ascompared to just 14% this time last year. …(more)

Reuters (press release)Software as a service (SaaS) is the most used aspect of cloud computing,while platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS)are only used to a lesser extent. 14% of respondents said that they wereusing PaaS, while 13% were using …(more)

Read why governance is so importance in maximizing the benefits of softwareas a service (SaaS).(more)

CyberCoders is hiring! View and apply for the Programmer Analyst - .NET,SQL - Software as a Service Job at CyberCoders in Imperial Beach ,CA.(more)

Computerworld AustraliaASG Group has opened the doors to its new Perth data centre which willunderpin the listed IT services company’s SaaS and cloud services offeringin coming months. According to managing director, Geoff Lewis, severalcustomers in the government and …(more)

Vision is sound but VMware and the security industry need a littlegive-and-take.(more)

ComputerWeekly.comThe Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) has launched a competition to find thebest cloud computing practices and will award a cash prize of $10000 forthe winning entry. The ODCA was formed by 70 business members, includingBMW, Shell, UBS and Deutsche …(more)

Provider …PR Web (press release)the only multi-vendor provider of hosted call center software, announcesits interest in adding new call center software solutions to expand itsproduct portfolio. Interested call center software developers can plan tomeet with TelStar Hosted at …(more)

Network WorldWhile much of the networking industry last week was focused on VMworld inLas Vegas, Marc Benioff was at his own company’s cloud computing event inSan Francisco, where the Salesforce.com chief executive answered questionsfrom attendees of Dreamforce …(more)

Computer Business ReviewIBM will build a cloud computing platform for China’s information servicesprovider Yi Lian Zhong Information Technology (YLZ) to improve the life ofcitizens in China via an online portal for a variety of social services….(more)

MultiTenancy and Content Databases. If any tenant must span to more than 1database they must be the ONLY tenant in all those databasesso dedicated…(more)

PurconRhianna Collier from the Software and Information Industry Association(SIIA) believes cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) are both”viable” options for smaller businesses. “Customers now expect theflexibility and scalability that you get …(more)

I have a working openstack cloud which we want to test it further beforerolling out for production environment. I have couple of queries which Icouldn’t find the …(more)

Cloud computing cost management solution provider Cloud Cruiser announcedthe availability of a new cost management solution for OpenStack thatincludes …(more)

ZDNet… private cloud infrastructure deployments, such as Eucalyptus andOpenStack, into ConVirt to gain a centralized view of a virtualizeddatacenter. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)IQNavigator’s designation as SSAE 16 compliant reaffirms the company’sleadership position in offering secure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)solutions that adhere with the most stringent compliance standards whilealso meeting the Sarbanes-Oxley …(more)

on …MarketWatch (press release)”Leveraging Force.com has allowed us to grow at a tremendous rate,” saysJohn Hanna, CEO of FunnelSource, Inc. “Now that our customers havecommitted to a Platform-as-a-Service, they are constantly looking at waysto improve their Sales strategies, …(more)

TMC NetBy Shamila Janakiraman Active Endpoints, a process automation company,
announced the release of Cloud Extend for Salesforce at the just concludedDreamforce ‘11 the annual cloud computing event. Cloud Extend forSalesforce gives sales and marketing …(more)

IDM.net.auAustralia’s IntelligenceBank has announced it will launch its ‘SharePointalternative’ software as a service platform in the US. The knowledgemanagement platform was developed in Melbourne in 2009, and is used by arange of major Australian and global …(more)

Solution …MarketWatch (press release)This new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology provides real-timeinsights around patient and member interactions, enabling healthcareexecutives to make better decisions faster and get a clear picture of howmember engagement strategies impact …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Requirements for the new software platform included empowering journalists,editors and production teams to publish news in multiple formatssimultaneously; decoupling content from the formats used to convey it;consolidating pagination, wire service …(more)

G …MarketWatch (press release) From start-up to $400M in annual revenues, Mr. Chan has led and created thebest-in-class sales, marketing, and service organizations during thedevelopment of wireless data infrastructure, mobile content,Software-as-a-Service for commercial fleets, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sep 07, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Birst, Inc., theleading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI)and analytics, today announced the immediate availability of Birst for SAPBusiness Warehouse (BW). …(more)

SDTimes.comCisco, Dell, NASA and Rackspace came together to give birth to OpenStack.VMware acquired SpringSource and shortly thereafter announced CloudFoundry, …(more)

ITworld.comBy Brian Proffitt Add a new comment Doubts about actual vendor
participation in the OpenStack cloud project may get pushed back a bittoday with the …(more)

PR Web (press release)Gregory W. Freiberg, former chief financial officer of Savvis, joins theBoard of Directors at Hexagrid Computing, a Saint Louis based technologystartup and leading developer of Infrastructure as a Service cloudcomputing enablement solutions. …(more)

GigaOmThe news certainly helps validate the OpenStack project, but it’s too earlyto tell whether HP can make it as a public cloud provider. …(more)

Review seeker (press release)Enterprise-Ready vCloud(TM) Powered Services Reduces IT Complexity,Significantly Lowers Costs, and Enables More Flexible, Agile IT ServiceDelivery By marketwire SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 09/06/11 –FusionStorm — “IT Delivered” — a …(more)

Telecompaper (subscription)Host Europe has become the first hosting provider in German-speakingmarkets to be awarded ‘VMware vCloud Powered’ status from virtualisationsoftware provider VMware. The VMware vCloud Powered programme provides thevSphere and vCloud Director tools …(more)

Every company seeking growth capital should take a read.(more)

Make …MarketWatch (press release)NASHUA, NH, Sep 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SkillSoft, a leading SaaSprovider of e-learning and performance support solutions for globalenterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses,today announced a new courseware series …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)A software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering, UPExchange automates themanagement and reporting of unclaimed property to meet regulatoryrequirements. UPExchange is endorsed exclusively by NAUPA* (the NationalAssociation of Unclaimed Property …(more)

Cloud ProThomson Reuters has made its move into cloud computing with the adoption oftwo software as a service (SaaS) products for its internal operations. Theworld famous news agency has signed up for both Human Resources (HR) andpayroll data services from …(more)

Enterprise Communications Europe (blog)Dell, computer manufacturers, has recently announced their new CloudBusiness Applications, a suite of integrated software-as-a-service (SaaS)apps, supported by end-to-end Dell services and with cross-applicationcloud analytics. …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)GoGrid is the #1 pure-play Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providerspecializing in Public Cloud and Private Cloud Infrastructure solutions.Currently powering thousands of customers globally, GoGrid makes complexinfrastructure easy by enabling …(more)

Network WorldStart-up Co3 Systems is offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) applicationto tackle that unhappy task, tracking how a corporate data-loss incident ishandled. Data-loss incidents vary from losing laptops with valuableinformation to inadvertent …(more)

Help …MarketWatch (press release)These new sites, SearchCloudSecurity.com(TM) andSearchCloudStorage.com(TM), build on the Company’s existing portfolio ofcloud and virtualization media by targeting the specific areas of cloudcomputing that are experiencing the most rapid growth and …(more)

Windows IT ProMuch of the talk focused on the hybrid cloud model, a blend of on-premisesprivate cloud and off-premises public cloud that will be the end state forthe vast majority of cloud computing installations. As a major vendor ofproducts that support cloud …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)For a successful implementation of cloud computing infrastructure, let’sunderstand what is important to end-user customers of Public Cloudcomputing. Instant-on Business-centric Service: Customers want virtualservices made available to them as and …(more)

I have a J2EE application that is written in Java, Spring and Hibernate. Iwould like to expand the architecture to be suitable as a SaaS application.The.(more)

By David LeDuc
Also last week, SIIA submitted comments to the European Commission’s (EC)cloud computing consultation, a public inquiry to develop a European cloudcomputing strategy that the Commission will present in 2012. While this isa laudable …(more)

By Dean Takahashi
Last month, Comcast stirred up a debate about bandwidth caps, excessiveinternet use, and cloud computing after it cut off Seattle resident AndreVrignaud (pictured right) for using too much internet bandwidth when heuploaded his music …(more)

By rajdeep_ramsay
The Web gets more crowded and complicated every day. As more businesses andindividuals access the Internet and all that it has to offer, the need forcompanies.(more)

PCWorldBy Joab Jackson, IDG News Carving out a space in the growing market for
cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has launched a beta IaaS(Infrastructure-as-a-Service) offering, called HP Cloud Services, thecompany announced Wednesday. …(more)

TMC NetFlorida-based Savtira provides digital distribution services with aSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) e-commerce platform. This is aturnkey system for the distribution, marketing, merchandising, and sellingof both digital media and physical …(more)

SoftwareMarketWatch (press release)7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Aligni(TM), the first part, component,and inventory management software that offers enterprise-levelfunctionality in a low-cost, SaaS model, today announced the addition offull purchasing capability. …(more)

CRNThat’s now where you got my attention, because putting virtual machines onservers is great and I understand they call it private clouds, but ourvision of cloud computing is not that.” VMware did not respond to CRN’srequest to comment. …(more)

MiamiHerald.comA: Cloud computing is using a Web browser and the Internet to accessapplications (like word processing, a spreadsheet, email), store your data(files, emails, pictures) or use computer resources (Web hosting, blogging,creating a YouTube channel) on …(more)

InformationWeekBy Thomas Claburn InformationWeek In its ongoing quest to convince
businesses and individuals to abandon the archaic practice of operatingtheir own servers and shift their IT operations to the cloud, Google hasfrequently asserted that cloud computing …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Lew Moorman, president of Rackspace’s Cloud Business and chief strategyofficer, Jason Luce, vice president of finance and Pat Walravens, analystfrom JMP Securities, will discuss cloud computing and additional Rackspaceofferings. …(more)

ReadWriteWebBy David Strom / September 7, 2011 12:35 PM / 0 Comments This post is part
of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to coveringvirtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel andVMware. Read the white paper about how …(more)

GigaOmIncreasingly, the cloud is becoming the tentpole of mobile software, aswe’ll see discussed in detail at Mobilize 2011. If you take a picture onone device, it should be available on all others immediately andautomatically, according to Adobe. …(more)

InfoWorldNotably, the company isn’t the first to preach the green advantages ofcloud computing, but Google certainly stands to gain from successfullymaking the case as it looks to make Gmail converts out of shops runningMicrosoft Office and other rivals. …(more)

Campus TechnologyBy Jennifer Skelly While many institutions are just beginning to weigh the
possibilities of cloud computing, Clemson University has forged ahead withan ambitious cloud initiative intended to serve institutions and companiesacross South Carolina. …(more)

BBC NewsWe’ve actually collaborated on this software with a number of commercialand other entities in the form of a software project called OpenStack. Thisis an open source cloud infrastructure software project. That’s beensomething that’s really helped us …(more)

QAS.co.nzWhen companies embrace new technologies such as cloud computing it does notnecessarily mean that staff numbers will have to reduce, according to oneexpert. Simon May, client and cloud evangelist at Microsoft, said thatwhile the move to the cloud …(more)

Experian QAS AustraliaThe increasing popularity of cloud computing will lead to more data centresbeing built in the coming years, it has been claimed. According to Equinix,a carrier-neutral data centre company, which has just commissioned itsthird data centre in Sydney, …(more)

VMware’s vCloud Take Virtualized Cloud Global Although only five serviceproviders signed up for the vCloud Connector beta program in 2010 itdoesn’t mean …(more)

CIOLSAN FRANCISCO, USA: Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.comextended its Social Enterprise Platform, that includes Force.com, Herokuand Database.com, to enable more users to its cloud. Salesforce.com madethis announcement at the DreamForce …(more)

Wall Street & TechnologyOverview: The explosive growth of cloud computing has fueled the need tointegrate Software as a Service (SaaS) applications with each other andwith applications that continue to reside on premise. Learn how to maximizethe value of your cloud-based …(more)

the CloudInsurance & TechnologyTraditional integration approaches are evolving into more functionallycomplete offerings called integration platform as a service (iPaaS)solutions. Learn more about this technology and what impact Gartnerbelieves it will have on the industry.(more)

iT NewsBy James Hutchinson on Sep 6, 2011 12:42 PM (25 minutes ago) Perth’s Curtin
University has nearly completed a six-month trial of Microsoft’s WindowsAzure platform-as-a-service to speed up DNA genome sequencing of extinctanimal species. …(more)

The Taiwan Economic News6, 2011 (CENS)–Global cloud computing market is forecast to grow fromUS$12.3 billion to US$42 billion by 2014 at compound annual growth rate(CAGR) of 27.7%, compared to 5% CAGR of traditional information technology(IT) service market, according to …(more)

Siliconrepublic.comIn recognition of the inevitable journey the technology world is makingtowards the cloud, Ireland’s leading technology news site,Siliconrepublic.com, has dedicated an entirely new news section to thesubject of cloud computing. …(more)

ZDNet (blog)… NetSuite PaaS (platform as a service), NS-BOS. This week, theyannounced a new version of the product that is integrated with theForce.com PaaS of Salesforce.com. This puts RootStock in two of the biggestPaaS platforms for commercial software. …(more)

Siliconrepublic.comMore than half (54pc) of Irish businesses are confused about the term cloudcomputing, according to a new O2 survey, conducted in July by independentresearch company iReach. Cloud computing allows users to access software,infrastructure and storage …(more)

IT-Director.comOn the main stage at VMworld 2011 recently, VMware Co-President CarlEschenbach demonstrated that impact through testimonials on how cloudcomputing and virtualization infrastructure are advancing the businessgoals of three major corporations, Revlon, …(more)

Siliconrepublic.comVogels has led Amazon’s approach to cloud computing with Amazon WebServices. Before he joined Amazon in 2004, he was a researcher in CornellUniversity’s computer science department, specialising in large-scaledistributed systems. …(more)

With a pure-play SaaS offering, the provider gathers IT data remotely. Thatrequires the customer to open its firewall so that network devices andcomputers can …(more)

Businesses tend to prefer appliances or software for new solutiondeployments. There are many reasons why from ease of deployment, tocomplete ownership …(more)

Siliconrepublic.comIrish education management systems provider CampusIT is now serving theneeds of more than 400000 higher education students around Europe on itscloud computing model. CampusIT’s cloud-based student interaction softwareprovides higher-education …(more)

the …PR Web (press release)This new service allows smaller companies who fall below the minimum seatrequirements access to ServiceNow, the IT service management platform thatcombines ITIL v3 process support and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) andPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) …(more)

PR Web (press release)iCIMS, a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service talent managementsolutions, announced today the kickoff of the company’s annual CustomerAdvisory Council (CAC). The conference is taking place September 6ththrough 8th at the M Resorts in Las Vegas. …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Larry Dignan | September 6, 2011, 2:30am PDT Summary: Workday’s co-CEO
talks about the company’s bet on mobile, the company’s roadmap, an IPO andlarge SaaS deployments. Workday co-CEO Aneel Bhusri has seen a little bitof everything. …(more)

Quasar …MarketWatch (press release)6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — vCompute announced today it hassuccessfully negotiated a new partnership with Quasar data center toprovide cloud computing and high performance computing services. “Thisfacility is a key component for cloud efforts …(more)

Computingby Martin Courtney Dell plans to launch a public cloud computing servicelater this year as it seeks to expand its software and services revenue tocombat shrinking profit margins from its PC business. However, while thecompany strives to emulate …(more)

InfoWorldMost organizations that use cloud computing understand the need to useinterfaces to access both information and services from the cloud, whetherdirect links from application to application via APIs or through some sortof integration engine. …(more)

Has anyone ever gone through this?? I paid Best Buy to install MicrosoftOffice on my new laptop HP Paviliion. When I asked for the CD’s, they saidI didnt need …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)… Enviance, Inc. He has built a reputation for his ability tosuccessfully design and execute large enterprise software implementationsusing Software as a Service (SaaS) and non-SaaS-based compliance managementin the utility, refining, chemical, …(more)

Business Cloud NewsSoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud computing providers could be missingout on vital tax breaks designed to encourage research and development(R&D) in the UK, according to leading accountancy firm, Grant Thornton. Therelief option, placed under …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)ResponseLogix delivers software as a service (SaaS) technology to autodealers that engages the customer early in the car buying process and thenpropels the customer toward purchase. SmartQuote(R) delivers a relevantquote response within 10 minutes …(more)

to …MarketWatch (press release)MIAMI, Sep 06, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, Venturian Hosting officiallyannounced its strategic partnership with Triad Systems, the premierprovider of innovative IT solutions and services in Brazil, to extend itsCloud Computing offerings to Brazil …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)After carefully evaluating the players in the cloud computing space,Morphlabs is making an impact by enabling enterprise customers, for thefirst time, to consume dynamic cloud infrastructure via a blueprint that isfully-optimized and designed to be …(more)

to …MarketWatch (press release)MIAMI, Sep 06, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, Venturian Hosting officiallyannounced its strategic partnership with Triad Systems, the premierprovider of innovative IT solutions and services in Brazil, to extend itsCloud Computing offerings to Brazil …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)After carefully evaluating the players in the cloud computing space,Morphlabs is making an impact by enabling enterprise customers, for thefirst time, to consume dynamic cloud infrastructure via a blueprint that isfully-optimized and designed to be …(more)

Strategies …MarketWatch (press release)Advances in cloud computing, consumerization of IT, security threats andmobile computing has driven today’s network environment to become moredynamic, multi-sourced and virtualized. However, as these shifts in ITinfrastructure take place, …(more)

to …MarketWatch (press release)MIAMI, Sep 06, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today, Venturian Hosting officiallyannounced its strategic partnership with Triad Systems, the premierprovider of innovative IT solutions and services in Brazil, to extend itsCloud Computing offerings to Brazil …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)After carefully evaluating the players in the cloud computing space,Morphlabs is making an impact by enabling enterprise customers, for thefirst time, to consume dynamic cloud infrastructure via a blueprint that isfully-optimized and designed to be …(more)

Strategies …MarketWatch (press release)Advances in cloud computing, consumerization of IT, security threats andmobile computing has driven today’s network environment to become moredynamic, multi-sourced and virtualized. However, as these shifts in ITinfrastructure take place, …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)(Source: Datamonitor)Dell has announced the introduction of Dell CloudBusiness Applications, a family of integrated SaaS applications withcross-application cloud analytics supported by end-to-end Dell services,for small and medium businesses, …(more)

InformationWeek… world of cloud and on-premise applications that are distributed inmanaged and co-located data centers and hosted sites for Infrastructure,Platform, and Software as a Service (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - whichdramatically increase the complexity. …(more)

Sacramento Bee6, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) has advice forCIOs seeking to get the most out of their investment in cloud computing:before plunging in, consider how the proposed cloud solution can best beintegrated with the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — IBM /quotes/zigman/230066/quotes/nls/ibmIBM -1.97% has been selected by Yi Lian Zhong Information Technology (YLZ),a leading provider of information services in China, to build a cloudcomputing platform that will …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The Cloud Computing and Virtualization Conference is a national forum forshowcasing how government agencies use case studies in developing cloudinfrastructure and software services, emerging strategies and bestpractices to help government agencies …(more)

TMC NetIn anticipation of the upcoming ITEXPO (News - Alert) West event in Austinand the collocated event MSPWorld, TMCnet’s Rich Tehrani recently spokewith John Freimuth, Vice President of Managed Hosting and Cloud Computingat Internap (News - Alert). …(more)

Manufacturing Business TechnologyHe recently discussed SaaS ERP with Manufacturing Business Technology inthis brief interview. MBT: What are some of the biggest misperceptions yousee when it comes to SaaS ERP?’ Bodla: Probably the biggest misperceptionabout SaaS ERP has to do with …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)He has also worked as a consultant focusing on SaaS (Software as a Service)applications and integration, which will have direct benefits for DCT’sproducts and innovative R&D. SaaS and cloud technology partnerships arebecoming an important …(more)

Study …MarketWatch (press release)DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Sep 06, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Cloud computing isgenerating significant revenue streams for information technology (IT)channel companies, who plan to boost their cloud investments in the nextyear, according to research from …(more)

Voice and DataPatrick Eijkenboom*, Principal Consultant at NetIQ, discusses bestpractices for security when adopting cloud computing. In an age thatrequires IT to do more with less, address physical data centre and energyconstraints, and manage SLAs with …(more)

Business …MarketWatch (press release)To meet the needs of customers in the near future, BIGLOBE has started todevelop a cloud hosting platform for Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings.”Rather than simply offering infrastructure, we want to provide a typicallywell-furnished BIGLOBE …(more)

VatorNewsAppFirst, an SaaS-based provider of an application problem resolutionsystem, announced Tuesday that it has raised a $4 million Series A fundinground led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from originalbackers FirstMark Capital and First …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)6, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Unisys Corporation/quotes/zigman/572054/quotes/nls/uis UIS -6.56% has advice for CIOs seekingto get the most out of their investment in cloud computing: before plungingin, consider how the proposed cloud solution …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)JANESVILLE, Wis., Sep 06, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — ddCloud, Data Dimensions’suite of cloud computing and Tier III data center services announces theappointment of Robert Cairns to the business development team. As aseasoned consultant with over a …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)vCom is dedicated to helping its customers achieve success through newservices that build on its vManager software platform and created theCustomer Advisory Council to facilitate an atmosphere for dialogue and ideaexchange that will manifest itself …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)As a vCloud(TM) Powered service provider FusionStorm reinforces its promiseto offer rapid deployment, broad geographic coverage and the capacity tomeet the needs of any size customer. FusionStorm has also announced its ITXpress DRaaS for VMware …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)VXLAN support is built on top of Arista’s VM Tracer which supports nativevSphere and vCloud integration providing VLAN auto-provisioning andenabling fully automated cloud deployments. “Close collaboration with ourcustomers and engineering team, …(more)

Citi …MarketWatch (press release)The presentation and panel will discuss how cloud computing and desktopvirtualization are the next wave of information technology enhancingeconomic growth. The conference runs from Tuesday, September 6th untilThursday, September 8th. …(more)

ComputerworldWhile the company recently considered upgrading its existing HR system toaccommodate change and growth, it eventually opted instead to use Workday’ssoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings for human capital management andpayroll. …(more)

efforts …ZDNet (blog)We will continue to develop along the lines of social and mobile, but wealso have the capability to pull in other SaaS applications. Just as we’veimproved the usability and the sophistication of what you can do withSalesforce, we plan to do that for …(more)

VatorNewsOther partners include Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, Citrix, Intel,Novell, and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles withoperations in the …(more)

InformationWeekSalesforce.com is now more than an applications company, adevelopment-platform company, or a cloud-computing infrastructure andservices provider. CEO Marc Benioff doesn’t seem to worry too much aboutfitting neatly into just one category. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Major IT companies acquiring analytics software and application providershas been the order of the day. We have seen the words ‘Big Data Analytics’being used in many solutions for the enterprise. ‘Big Data’ is the generalterm used to represent …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Mr. Beck has a 30-year career of success in enterprise-level software salesand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales at IBM, JD Edwards, Adobe andPostini. He now turns his expertise to the social marketing sector, wherehe will lead Involver’s push to …(more)

GigaOmDone right, big data in the cloud is like a marriage of managed servicesand Software as a Service, only using very powerful software. Thankfully,big data and the cloud have already found other. Although it’s still veryearly in the evolution of this …(more)

InformationWeekMany additions — such as better management software (the vCenter suite),more sophisticated virtual networking (the hypervisor vSwitch), andmultitenant “virtual data center” encapsulation technology (vCloudDirector) — are smart outgrowths of …(more)

FierceMobileITFierceMobileIT provides tools, tips and case studies on how to deploy thelatest wireless technologies in the enterprise. Join 37000+ CIOs and seniorIT managers who rely on FierceMobileIT for their weekly update. Sign uptoday. …(more)

Enterprise IrregularsSalesforce.com started as a sales force automation (SFA) vendor and hassince expanded across into customer support, crowdsourced data, database inthe cloud, cloud development platforms, social collaboration platform andplatform as a service. …(more)

ChinaTechNews.comChinese telecom operator China Telecom has announced its eSurfing cloudcomputing strategy, brand, and solution, and it plans to launch eSurfingcloud devices and cloud storage products in 2012. China Telecom establisheda cloud computing project team …(more)

QAS.co.nzGovernment agencies worldwide should not be put off adopting cloudcomputing because of ‘unfounded’ security and privacy issues, according tothe US first chief information officer. Vivek Kundra said that such excusesare a “ridiculous” reason to not …(more)

Here is an update to my vCloud Director 1.0 & Oracle Express Databaseinstallation script to include support for the new vCloud Director 1.5.There were a few …(more)

CIO MagazineDuring the Saleforce.com Dreamforce event in San Francisco, CEO MarcBenioff sat down with some of the leaders in the industry to talk aboutCloud computing and governance in the digital age. The panel was made upthe former US federal government chief …(more)

Malta Independent Onlineby Annaliza Borg The government has signed a strategic partnershipagreement with Microsoft Corporation to set up a Microsoft InnovationCentre (MIC) in Malta focused on cloud computing. Microsoft and itspartners are making a seed investment of over …(more)

CIO IndiaAnd it’s not surprising, given that security remains a top-of-mind concernfor many enterprises considering embracing cloud computing. In its 2011State of Security survey released this week, Symantec Corp. reported thatvirtualization has joined …(more)

Reuters (press release)Database platform delivered as a service optimizes hardware resources andenables significant savings on software licenses. “Cloud service model isbringing a new level of efficiency and flexibility in all core areas of IT.We see that PaaS has started …(more)

Business Solutions MagazineThis technology offers merchants a turn-key, single-payment platform in asoftware-as-a-service (”SaaS”) environment that is fully PCI-compliant,thereby eliminating the hardware and software costs associated withtraditional solutions. …(more)

ashdowngroup.comThe rise of cloud computing need not mean that in-house IT staff becomeredundant, it has been claimed. According to Microsoft cloud evangelistSimon May, the skills needed by tech workers will change, but they will notbecome redundant. …(more)

InformationWeek (blog)That ongoing frustration is creating a golden opportunity for SaaS-based ITmanagement services. Upstart providers and established vendors alike areattacking cost and deployment issues head-on by offering system managementand monitoring as services. …(more)

By Ralph
insideHPC: HPC news for supercomputing professionals.(more)

InfoQ.comIn May, Google announced that it would alter the price of its cloudcomputing service App Engine, the company’s Platform as a Service offering,later in the year, presumably in an effort to turn the product into anotherprofit centre for the company. …(more)

istockAnalyst.com (press release)Students are likely to benefit from enhanced productivity as XenDesktoptransforms any Windows, web or software-as-a-service application into aservice that can be accessed by any user, anytime and anywhere, withunparalleled simplicity and scalability …(more)

supplier …CisionWire (press release)Basware delivers invoice automation solution to a worldwide leadingsupplier of pipe systems as SaaS Basware Corporation Stock ExchangeRelease, September 5, 2011 at 15:15 Basware will deliver Invoice Automationas a Service, together with Basware …(more)

The Taiwan Economic NewsFar EasTone touted it will spend around NT$6 billion (US$206 million) toboost the operation, its another lavish cloud investment after the companyclaimed it has snatched around 40% of Taiwan’s market for cloud computingservice. …(more)

supplier …Reuters (press release)Basware will deliver Invoice Automation as a Service, together with BaswareConnectivity services including Scan & Capture, Supplier Portal ande-invoicing to a worldwide leading supplier of pipe systems. The value ofthe deal over the contract period …(more)

Subject ReOpenstack libvirt vs Xen driver handling of … Is there any docon how complete the openstack EC2 api is with a fixed version of amazon’sactual …(more)

The AustralianMacrellis has managed secure, high-availability environments housingcritical applications using software-as-a-service infrastructure. He waspreviously a program manager at BAE Systems and held project, operationaland service management roles with …(more)

Hi all as I can see in the hypervisor’s support matrix pagehttpwikiopenstackorgHypervisorSupportMatrix there are a few differencesbetween the …(more)

Comms-express.comCompanies considering setting up a cloud computing system for employees toaccess through their ethernet cables may be relieved to learn that thetechnology will not make their IT staff redundant. According to Simon May,client and cloud computing …(more)

BCSImplementing cloud computing strategies does not mean in-house IT teamsbecome surplus to requirements, an expert has suggested. According to SimonMay, a client and cloud evangelist at Microsoft, the skills needed bytechnology workers will change as …(more)

The NationBy The Nation Thailand could achieve its ambitions of building a larger
innovation-based economy that will see sustainable job growth, higherwages, and greater standards of living through enhancements to cloudcomputing and digital economy policy …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Cloud technologies have attracted considerable attention in recent years,resulting in positive interest and demand for hosted solutions and softwareas a service (SaaS). Traditional premises-based communications systemsstill present a threat to …(more)

By cloudtweaks
Microsoft and Apple Highlight Cloud’s Flexibility NEW YORK, NY–(Sep 5,2011) - Companies are increasingly looking to cloud computing environmentsin order.(more)

Economic TimesThat pedigree serves him well in his day job as director of security forGoogle’s business applications, where he’s responsible for convincingcorporate risk managers of the safety of cloud computing. Working incomputer security requires “a …(more)

I know that multi-tenancy comes out-of-the-box now with the on-premiseversion of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. However, does that also apply toMicrosoft …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Diligent now serves 653 public and private companies, comprising over 1000boards and 16500 individual users on the Diligent Boardbooks platform;including 104 Fortune 1000 companies. About Diligent Board Member Services,Inc (nzx:DIL) Diligent Board …(more)

Earlier this summer, Apple eliminated its entry-level plastic-clad MacBookto make the just-updated MacBook Air line, once a pricey niche laptop, itsmainstream …(more)

By admin
Payroll service providers have come out of the woodwork and give businessowners a slew of providers and software to choose from. Using a … smallbusiness software- small business payroll … In fact, your CPA may offerpayroll as a service. …(more)

This version of the reference Architecture toolkit covers vCenterOrchestrator best practices that have been proven in real-world enterpriseand service …(more)

Philippine StarOrganizations wanting to move into the cloud computing space and technologyneed to employ similar rigor. Although cloud service technology is easilyavailable and is a potential business game-changer, it is best forenterprises to not plunge straight …(more)

Saas Bina Sasural 5th September 2011 All Episode DVD HQ Atwww.watchonlinehindimoviesfree.com on uZood Video.http://www.watchonlinehindimoviesfree.com Saas …(more)

VMware announced a loosely coupled group of vCloud providers that will usevCloud Connector to loosely couple their clouds, so that VMs can move from…(more)

Read ‘Globus Online to Provide Software-as-a-Service for NSF’s XSEDEProject’ on Yahoo! News. File transfer capabilities will be available in…(more)

FinextraCloud computing is the answer. I foresee the debate in the POST TRADE forumto be more tilting towards cloud than ever before. I was tempted to respondto the debate questions published in the agenda. This blog are my thoughts:What are the pros and …(more)

I have more than once tried to raise my voice against the overwhelming hypeof cloud computing especially when sold to startups. I just found anon-tech article …(more)

Renaissance CapitalGuidewire Software, provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform tohelp insurance firms simplify major day-to-day operations, filed on Fridaywith the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering.Guidewire’s platform seeks to …(more)

By Sixto Ortiz Jr
In this IEEE article, author Sixto Ortiz Jr. discusses the issues andchallenges we are facing in cloud computing standardization. He alsocompares the cloud-computing standards proposed by organizations likeDistributed Management Task …(more)

By Allison Midori Reilly
Finally, after weeks and weeks of surveys, we have the first set of resultsanalyzed and ready to be revealed. These weekly surveys are meant to gaugethe.(more)

By The Associated Press
Company will spend $5 million, create 20 new jobs.(more)

By David LeDuc
On Wednesday, SIIA submitted comments to the European Commission’s (EC)cloud computing consultation, a public inquiry launched in May to develop aEuropean cloud computing strategy that the Commission will present in 2012,which …(more)

RegisterIt’s VMware, with its vSphere virtualization stack and vCloud extensions.But at the premium prices that VMware is charging for its infrastructurecloud software, the company might want to review the history of the Unixserver market and not make the …(more)

Manage public and private clouds from a single pane of glass. Move VMs,vApps and templates across vSphere and vCloud Director-based private andpublic …(more)

This one’s for the Lab Manager Customers! The ones who have been waitingfor SQL support and linked clones! vCloud Director 1.5 has been releasedand can …(more)

… DataServ Software as a Service for Purchase-to-Pay Automation’ onYahoo! … thus facilitating a standardized platform for consolidatingtheir AP process. …(more)

TophostsOne that has been getting compliments from the industry is OpenStack. Atfirst glance you might think that OpenStack has an unfair advantage when itcomes to being viewed as the open source Cloud platform of choice. Afterall, it is an initiative …(more)

I know that multitenancy comes outofthebox now with the onpremise versionof Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 However does that also apply to MicrosoftDynamics …(more)

Moneycontrol.comBy Melanie Lee BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s Baidu Inc is on the lookout for
acquisitions in mobile Internet and cloud computing, part of a broaderdrive to bolster its presence in the increasingly competitive mobile webmarket. …(more)

To date VMware customers and vCloud Powered Service Providers around theglobe have used vCAT to guide their vCloud deployments and offer technical…(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)During this meeting of the eDiscovery Breakfast Club industry experts willdiscuss how hosted eDiscovery, or software as a service (SaaS), can improveresponsiveness, lower capital expense, or reduce risk through bettercollaboration. …(more)

Vancouver SunGoogle World also touches on the dark side of Google’s move into cloudcomputing, where our digital data no longer exists on our home computers,but in server farms. The advantage is that we can access it from anywhere.The danger is that it becomes …(more)

This is a funny Subtitled interview of former IT [income tax] commissionerVishwa Bandhu Gupta . He tells how rain affects Cloud computing …(more)

Good morning. Could you please let me know if multi-tenancy is supported byspring-amqp. If it is, could you please point me to some examples.(more)

By Jonathan Eisen
Nice new tool/resource available out there for metagenomic and genomicanalysis called CloVR: CloVR: A virtual machine for automated and portablesequence analysis from the desktop using cloud computing. It is availableat http://clovr.org …(more)

By David S Foreman
The report also included the software as a service (SaaS) model comparisonsof Oracle’s On-Demand and SAP’s ByDesign. While discussing the companies’current products is helpful, no one wants to build a company on a vendorwith a …(more)

Rackspace Hosting recently announced that they have made availableprofessional training for OpenStack delivered by Rackspace Cloud Builders.Rackspace …(more)

Cloud ProMarc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, listed the merits of the technology andadmitted to using VMware in his own corporate data centres, but, during aQ&A session at Dreamforce 2011, he said it wasn’t cloud computing. Firstoff, the CEO claimed those who …(more)

UnboundID is a leading provider of real-time identity management softwarefor cloud, mobile and social applications. UnboundID is a privately-heldcompany …(more)

AcquisitionsMarketWatch (press release)AFS Technologies is the leading provider of business enterprise andSoftware as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The company now serves over 1200customers across the Americas with a portfolio of solutions for the foodand beverage, financial reporting and …(more)

Computerworld New ZealandBy Computerworld Staff | Auckland | Friday, 2 September, 2011 | 1 Comment
New Zealand is to get its own Cloud Computing Code of Practice, followingdiscussions between several providers of cloud-based software. The earlydevelopment of the Code will be …(more)

FierceEnterpriseCommunicationsIs Dell (Nasdaq: Dell) the next big name to enter the cloud computing fray?The company’s Force 10 Networks data center acquisition earlier this yearhinted strongly at its interest. Now, the long-time PC retailer isfollowing through on the product …(more)

San Francisco ChronicleIn fact, he says, Salesforce set the standard for othersoftware-as-a-service companies that came after it. The criticism came fromanalyst Mark Moerdler of Bernstein, who found fault with the way Salesforcetreats commissions for its salespeople. …(more)

DABCC.comThe goal is for vCloud Datacenter partners to develop global relationshipswith one another to provide customers true global coverage for vCloudhosting while only having to maintain a relationship with a vCloudDatacenter partner in their region. …(more)

GuptaTimes of IndiaNEW DELHI: In a video gone viral on the internet, Vishwa Bandhu Gupta, aformer additional commissioner of income-tax, makes it clear that he thinkscloud computing is about real clouds and how data can be lost if the cloudbursts into rain. …(more)

CRN - UKBy Jim Shaw One of cloud’s best-kept secrets has been a lack of portability
for the applications delivered using the software-as-a-service (SaaS)model. Many resellers have helped customer companies sign up for SaaSapplications, backing up the move …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Using eServGlobal’s Software as a Service (SaaS) facilities, the servicewas operational in just 3 weeks. eServGlobal’s SaaS Subscriber StimulationService allows operators to micro-segment customers based on pre-determinedparameters in order to …(more)

SAAS DirectoryDell has announced that it has partnered with Salesforce.com, Microsoft,Intuit and others to develop a range of hosted software applications forsmall and medium businesses. Dell first announced plans for anInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering …(more)

TMC NetRightScale addresses these concerns by offering a fully automated cloudmanagement platform that helps organizations easily deploy and managebusiness critical applications across multiple clouds with complete controland portability. …(more)

RegisterAccording to one developer, OpenStack is Orchestra’s “foremost (but notonly) workload”. Orchestra features separate servers for provisioning,management, monitoring and logging of applications, servers and workloads.Orchestra, meanwhile, is tightly …(more)

TalkinCloudBut at this week’s VMworld 2011, Dell announced its first-ever public cloudoffering: Dell Cloud based on VMware vCloud Datacenter Services, availablefor US customers in Q4 2011. With this deal, Dell becomes one of the firstcompanies to sign on with …(more)

Channel InsiderCase in point is Cloud Passage, a hosted service that falls under themoniker of security as a service. Cloud Passage works by enforcing securitypolicy on connected hardware and keeping software patched, as well asexamining traffic, all of which is …(more)

By kate
Reporters, for example, use Evoca’s technology to record phone andSkype-based interviews, with the entire conversation instantly digitized toMP3 format and stored to their accounts using a secure cloud platform.Audio recordings can … The startup also licenses Evoca Enterprise, acloud-based Software-as-a-Service [SaaS], to enable other companies and webservices to incorporate Evoca’s voice recording, management and publishingfeatures within their own brand. This flexible …(more)

FinextraWill SaaS become the preferred outsourced solution? With new market changesand new regulations a ‘never ending story’, should firms revisit theopportunities of a 21st Century outsourced business model? The debate,closed to the media and conducted …(more)

ConferenceMarketWatch (press release)With more than 100000 customers, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloudcomputing company that is leading the shift to the social enterprise.Social enterprises leverage social, mobile and open cloud technologies toput customers at the heart of their …(more)

BusinessCloud9On 9th August, Amazon’s EC2 Cloud Computing service experienced anothercrash, which took down major websites like Foursquare, Netflix andInstagram, as well as millions of users. Unlike the outage that took placein April, the service was quickly …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Application sales, which is comprised of license revenue plus Secured TotalContract Value (STCV) for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) sales secured, was$28.7 million during the first six months of 2011, compared to $21.7million in the six months ended …(more)

CNET (blog)Like other platform as a service (PaaS) software, Cloud Foundry allowsdevelopers to deploy scalable applications without having to directlymanage the virtual machines, operating systems, or middleware in which thecode runs. Just deploy your code, …(more)

Year …MarketWatch (press release)The company continued to build off of its recently announced ranking in thePROFIT HOT 50, setting records for total and recurring revenue andsolidifying its position as one of the industry’s fastest growing Softwareas a Service (SaaS) vendors. …(more)

eWeekUIS is a software as a service (SaaS) utility that allows health careprofessionals to access documents using medical identity credentials. “Whatthe managed service does at the highest level is ID proofing, proofing thatyou are who you say you are,” …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)On Thursday, September 1 at 1:15 PM, Mr. Marvania was featured in the “6 by60: Six SMB Customers Spill Their Secrets” session, in which he discussedAgio’s use of enterprise cloud computing technology Salesforce.com and howit has accommodated the …(more)

InformationWeekBy J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek Amazon Web Services is a market
leader in cloud computing, but it’s been a latecomer to the federal cloudmarket. The company is now pushing hard into the government market,releasing a government-focused cloud …(more)

Mobile …TMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor Salesforce.com (News - Alert), a
global enterprise cloud computing company, announced the extension of itsSocial Enterprise Platform to attract more companies and enterprisedevelopers to the cloud. …(more)

Globus Online is a set of hostedsoftware as a service SaaS componentsdesigned to simplify the use of cyberinfrastructure by providing integratedaccess to …(more)

SharePoint 2010 enables delivery of hosting environments based on multi-tenancy functionality of SharePoint. However, multi-tenancy has its ownlimitation and …(more)

Business InsiderGetting to the results of our survey about cloud services, it looks like amixed bag among which services are being used, and how many of our readershave begun to adopt cloud computing in some fashion. These show us thatcloud services, no matter the …(more)

Virtualization ReviewDell Cloud takes VMware’s vCloud Datacenter Services to its customers whowant a piece of the cloud. By Michael Domingo Dell is getting into thehybrid cloud business. At VMworld on Tuesday, the company announced thatit’s working with VMware and using …(more)

InformationWeekCitrix senior product marketing manager Jackie Murphy said the increasedacceptance of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model popularized bySalesforce is driving the need for support of those SaaSapplications–which works best if the remote support …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)Humanitarian, environmental, and conservation groups can implement thisSoftware as a Service (SaaS) mapping and data analysis solution to betterunderstand the populations they serve, track the effectiveness of theirservices, and specifically target …(more)

It looks to me as though support for multi tenancy has been added tohibernate for nearly six months now and updated at least once since …(more)

eWeekAt the conference, VMware also launched vFabric Data Director, a newDatabase as a Service (DAAS) solution for the enterprise. “Virtualizedinfrastructures are really the new hardware,” Maritz said at the pressconference at the Terra Gallery in San …(more)

eWeekAt the conference, VMware also launched vFabric Data Director, a newDatabase as a Service (DAAS) solution for the enterprise. “Virtualizedinfrastructures are really the new hardware,” Maritz said at the pressconference at the Terra Gallery in San …(more)

By Juan Carlos Perez
Motorola Xoom vs Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1v. Tags: Software as a service,cloud computing, internet, collaboration, e-mail, applications, software,Google. Latest Blog Posts … By discovering the challenges covered in thispaper, you can help ensure that your SharePoint environment will behealthier and more stable, and over time provide a better collaborativeplatform and toolset to the user community. And the resulting well managedSharePoint environment will be easier to modify …(more)

By Wayne Countryman
Binko has been active as a speaker and delegate for SIIA conferences andwas a founding member of SIIA’s Government Liaison Committee. HisSoftware-as-a-Service and cloud computing (SaaS|Cloud) company offersgovernance, risk and …(more)

By insideARM.com
Layered Technologies, Inc., a leading global provider of compliant hosting,managed dedicated hosting and on-demand virtualization/cloud computingservices, today announced its expanded partnership with Ontario Systems tosupport the …(more)

IT Business NetIt’s actually been available to enterprises for years, but the advent ofcloud computing for the masses might make this app and desktopvirtualization more compelling and accessible to the SMB. This type ofvirtualization extends the promise of cloud …(more)

building …Reuters (press release) From this strong basis, long-term contracts are agreed for managed servicesin the area of IT outsourcing, delivery of IT services, for example IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service) or SaaS (Software as a Service), andfunctional IT sourcing. …(more)

SQL Server Magazine (blog)vFabric Data Director is a platform that’s intended to allow enterprisedatabases to function as a cloud service. In his VMworld 2011 keynote PaulMartiz, CEO of VMware, referred to this as Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).vFabric Data Director is …(more)

SaaS experts share their insights and tips for success. … If you’retapped into the enterprise software community, you know that SaaS is thehot new topic of …(more)

i am developing a SAAS and wanted some advice. as i will have a mainwebsite and an application would it be feasilble to add to the samesolution in Visual …(more)

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Top 10 SaaS Software Providers In Every Category For September 2011.(more)

PR.com (press release)The CloudBees platform is a ‘Platform as a Service’ that allows businessesto build, test and deploy Java web applications in the cloud. A pioneer inits field, it is the first ‘Platform as a Service’ to do this. Softwareteams benefit from the …(more)

adopt …The AustralianSECURITY and privacy concerns are “unfounded and ridiculous” excuses usedby federal agencies to avoid adopting cloud computing, says the USgovernment’s first chief information officer. Vivek Kundra said thereasoning didn’t gel because Washington was …(more)

ComputerworldUKBy Zach Nelson | Computerworld UK | Published 09:30, 01 September 11 Over
the next ten years we will see the last great architectural shift in thesoftware industry take place as everything shifts to cloud computing.Fifteen years ago, there was this …(more)

CNET (blog)”We believe that platform-as-a-service is going to be the dominant modelbecause the infrastructure requires too much work,” Nielsen said. The ideais to give developers tools they can use to build Web-based applicationswithout having to deal with the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”Callidus’ new Sales Selector SaaS solution, built on our industry standardmulti-tenant platform, lets sales managers accelerate the hiring processwhile increasing their hiring success rate and coaching skills. Thesolution delivers a unique …(more)

IT News AfricaCloud computing is forcing a major change in the global InformationTechnology industry. A lot of African enterprises are starting to show aconsiderable interest in cloud computing. ITNewsAfrica speaks to RaymondDeftereos, Gijima Chief Client Officer …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)CampusIT ( www.campusit.net ), the education management systems provider,today announced that it is now serving the needs of more than 400000 highereducation students around Europe on its cloud computing model. CampusIT’scloud based student …(more)

SearchCIO-Midmarket.comLAS VEGAS — VMware Inc. CEO Paul Maritz has been around the IT world for along time — he started back in what he calls the “mainframe era,” butcloud computing technologies and virtualization were the focus of hiskeynote Monday at the 2011 VMworld …(more)

Management TodayBy Dave Waller Wednesday, 31 August 2011 Companies are increasingly moving
their applications to the private cloud. But co-habiting the public cloudremains unappealing… Business seems to be switching on to the benefits ofvirtual computing: 37% of …(more)

TMC NetCoreMatrix Systems is the top cloud computing consulting company. Theorganization is also a premier implementation partner of Salesforce.com(News - Alert). A BIRT-based application integrated with Salesforce.comwill be developed by CoreMatrix and …(more)

Video …MarketWatch (press release)Oculu is a full featured online video platform that allows customers toupload and manage their online video campaigns with ease. The Oculu systemis unique because it allows users to upload an array of video files toMirror Image’s global network and …(more)

Sacramento BeeTogether, Cloud9 for Heroku’s leading cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)provides web application developers with a one-stop cloud development anddeployment platform for Node.js applications from within the Cloud9 IDE.Cloud9 IDE runs in any web …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Launched in November 2010, Verizon Universal Identity Services-Healthcare,a cloud-based service offered via a software-as-a-service delivery model,provides health care organizations with a cost-effective and streamlinedmeans of issuing strongly …(more)

and …MarketWatch (press release)Workday: One of the leading providers of enterprise-class,software-as-a-service solutions for financial and human capital managementwill deliver an application that securely moves key Workday data toForce.com, bringing workforce content into the …(more)

By Matthew Lynley
The term “Cloud” typically refers to the process of running a computerapplication on a powerful remote server that you can access through a webbrowser or client. It’s really not a very sexy topic. Well, don’t tellSalesforce.com that.(more)

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Using new SOC 2 reports to help access cloud computing security risk.(more)

Enhance …MarketWatch (press release)SALT LAKE CITY, Sep 01, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — inContact/quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS -0.99% , the leading provider ofon-demand call center software and call center agent optimization tools,today announced that a multi-billion dollar …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)There is a perfect storm driving the Cloud as companies of all sizes useSaaS applications to reduce operating costs and increase the effectivenessof their sales, service, operations and finance systems. DSG has been atthe forefront of this move to …(more)

Community …TMC NetBy Madhubanti Rudra A leading developer of network infrastructure
automation and control solutions, Infoblox (News - Alert) revealed that itis going to deliver a fully integrated plug-in for the VMware vCloudOrchestrator community. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Kenandy announced today Kenandy manufacturing application built for thecloud on Force.com, salesforce.com’s enterprise cloud computing platformfor building employee facing social apps. By combining the coremanufacturing management functions of …(more)

TMC NetThe announcement was made at the VMworld 2011, the global conference forvirtualization and cloud computing held in Las Vegas, August 29th throughSeptember 1 st . In connection with the availability of these thin clients,Wyse also launched two new …(more)

Disaster …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Our decision to put our new policy administration system into the cloud asSaaS proved to be a good one from many perspectives, and right now theadded value of built-in disaster recovery really stands out,” says NBIC’sCIO, Mike Anselmo. …(more)

InformationWeekTo those who still think of Salesforce.com as a provider ofsoftware-as-a-service-based CRM, Benioff and his lieutenants presented acompany that wants to be on a much bigger stage. To promote the use of itsbroad and growing portfolio of technologies, …(more)

Cloud ProCloud is a better option for mid-market users than SaaS, said Sage UK as itannounced the UK launch of SalesLogix Cloud, a pay-per-user CRM servicehosted on Amazon’s EC2 platform. Sage product manager Duncan Woods saidthat a key difference was that …(more)

NewsFactor NetworkVMware’s vCloud updates are aimed at small businesses, and Dell isexpanding its Salesforce ties in the cloud with VMware. Amid a slew ofannouncements at VMworld, VMware is moving into the post-PC era with newproducts, including VMware View 5. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)As part of the VMware vCloud(R) initiative, the VSPP is a framework thatenables service and hosting providers to consume VMware virtualizationsolutions in a way that aligns with their business models. “Venyu has beenproviding VMware virtualized …(more)

In the world of Software as a Service, integration is critical. It getssmall SaaS providers in front of new potential customers alreadypredisposed to …(more)

In the world of Software as a Service, integration is critical. It getssmall SaaS providers in front of new potential customers alreadypredisposed to …(more)

ReadWriteWebIt launched in April of 2008, and was one of the firstPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) plays. It launched in closed beta to about10000 developers getting early access to free (but limited) resources.Since then it introduced pricing that seems to have …(more)

TMC NetThe CloudPassage Halo solution is a security SaaS solution designed todeliver host-based network security, vulnerability management, serveraccess administration, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention.CloudPassage Halo provides security at …(more)

PC MagazineA presentation by CEO Sandy Kurtzig and investor Ray Lane of KleinerPerkins (former president of Oracle and chairman of HP) showed a newmanufacturing platform application built on top of Force.com. This competeswith some kinds of ERP software, …(more)

TMC NetThe plan uses Cisco Systems, Inc.’s Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution asits platform. Under the UCaaS Plan, customers are able to unify systemconstruction and management, which are generally required in each countryindividually. …(more)

InformationWeekIn May, Google announced that it would alter the price of App Engine, thecompany’s platform as a service offering, later in the year. But thepublished pricing model didn’t make many waves because few bothered to dothe math. TechWebTV catches up with …(more)