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MarketWatch (press release)”This deal stemmed from QSuper’s strategy of providing in depth analyticaldata to its clients, backed up by a scalable SaaS platform capable ofmanaging the process of growth. This agreement strengthens StatPro’salready excellent reputation in the …(more)

Companies …MarketWatch (press release)In the rush to “digitize” their businesses with new technologies and moveinto the increasingly borderless world of cloud computing and social media,global organizations are developing a growing gap between business needsand the ability to tackle new …(more)

Experian QAS AustraliaA few simple steps mean that companies can get cloud computing securityright from the start, according to one expert. Security and privacyconcerns are the main issues putting many companies off embracing thecloud, meaning that they miss out on all …(more)

Hamari Saas Leela - 28th October 2011 Part 3 = Last on uZood Video. HamariSaas Leela Episode 105 - 28th October 2011.(more)

XconomyMendix, a Boston-based developer of software platforms enabling businesscustomers to develop, deploy, and manage applications, has announced itsSeries A round of funding. The $12.8 million financing was led by growthequity firm Prime Ventures, …(more)

Technology ReviewNow that every technology company in America seems to be selling cloudcomputing, Technology Review decided to find out where it all began. ByAntonio Regalado Cloud computing is one of the hottest buzzwords intechnology. It appears 52 million times …(more)

Timekeeping …PR Web (press release)NOVAtime Technology, Inc., a forward-thinking Workforce Management solutiondevelopment company, announced today that Longley Systems, Inc. implementsthe NOVAtime 4000 Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted solution for LaborTemps. …(more)

Campus TechnologyIn the case of cloud computing, there are three basic types of service (asdefined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology): software asa service (SaaS); infrastructure as a service (IaaS); and platform as aservice (PaaS). …(more)

Jags ReportWiTuners Ltd, the online SaaS (Software as a Service) provider for WirelessLAN planning, auditing, and optimization, has announced its long awaitedMarketing & Sales Partnership Program (MSPP). LAN installers and VARs cannow add a software only, …(more)

The LawyerSecurity tops users’ concerns when it comes to cloud computing. NickColeman outlines the methods for making systems secure A survey recentlycarried out for IBM found that 77 per cent of respondents believe thatadopting cloud computing makes …(more)

at …MarketWatch (press release)”There are many different views of what cloud and SaaS solutions are, butthere is only one true flavour, and that is pure, multitenant SaaS. Youneed to have one platform and one version to build out these extendedcapabilities in the right way and to …(more)

By John Biggs
The second version is a subscription-based software as a service and allowscustomers to pay a monthly, quarterly, or yearly fee. You can sign up for aprivate beta here. This slideshow requires JavaScript. Tags: social media,Disrupt, …(more)

We have supplied Tekla software as a service for several years. Ourcustomers have particularly valued the ease of use at project start-up aswell as later on …(more)

Network WorldBy Jim Metzler, Network World The two primary forms of public cloud
computing, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service(SaaS), are both growing dramatically in popularity. Over the last fewyears, the primary focus of the IaaS …(more)

the …XconomyAnd Apple’s tight control over the device, software, and apps was a hugereason, Contestabile says. Curt Woodward is senior editor at XconomySeattle. Reach me at cwoodward@xconomy.com. Get story feeds and more onTwitter @curtwoodward and Facebook …(more)

Thread EclipseLink JPA multitenancy. Welcome Guest … Posts 1. Registered071311. EclipseLink JPA multitenancy. Posted Oct 31 2011 332 AM.multitenancy …(more)

Human Resource Executive OnlineMore and more companies are moving to Software as a Service, which enablesthem to rent or subscribe to online software instead of actually purchasingand installing it on their computers. When combined with renting a hardwareplatform as a service, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Providers will access the eClinicalWorks comprehensive EHR solution using aSoftware as a Service (SaaS) model, hosted by COPCP, so members are able toaccess the solution from each individual physician site. Creating furtherefficiencies, there will …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Callidus Cloud is a comprehensive SaaS suite designed to help businessesdrive more effective selling at each stage of the sales talent lifecycle,from improved sales hiring — the foundation of strong sales performance –to improved campaign …(more)

PC QuestWe share 11 key reasons why you should consider SaaS instead and startbuilding your business SaaS is nothing but a paradigm for how you consumeor use a software product. A very simplistic definition for SaaS is thefollowing: it’s the software you …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Today, ready or not, Cloud Computing is poised to do it yet again and SouthFlorida based Cloud Computing Concepts, LLC (”C3″) has retained TransMediaGroup to let businesses nationwide know that C3 stands ready to guide themas they take their first …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)During his 20+ year career in information security, he has served inmanagement and technical roles, including the development of NaviSite’sindustry-leading cloud computing platform, chief engineer and developer fora market-leading managed security …(more)

MSPmentorRenee Bergeron is VP of managed services and cloud computing at IngramMicro, overseeing such efforts as Ingram Micro Cloud. Monthly guest blogssuch as this one are part of MSPmentor’s annual sponsorship program. Readall of Bergeron’s guest blogs …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)In addition to the resiliency and cost reduction benefits provided by cloudcomputing, the Nefsis implementation also adds feature-functional benefitsto Internet video conferencing participants’ experience. In particular, theNefsis global cloud …(more)

Business Solutions Magazine (blog)Star Knowledge Technology Alliance Team LLC a global software and solutionservices provider recently entered into the Partner Program with RackspaceHosting, the service leader in cloud computing. This relationship isdesigned to add mutual value for …(more)

Computer Business ReviewCloudCompute is a VMware vCloud Datacenter Service that delivers compute,storage and network resources “as a service” to support any application andis especially suited for hosting mission-critical and business-criticalworkloads. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)As a member of OpenStack, Riverbed(R) is working to add OpenStack supportto its WAN optimization solutions to enable successful cloud environments.Collaboration with the OpenStack community with Riverbed WAN optimizationsolutions is an expansion of …(more)

InformationWeekThe Boston chapter held its fall meeting Thursday to discuss “CloudComputing in Financial Services.” The main part of the organization is inNew York, but Boston has a growing number of members. It’s still home to asignificant number of mutual funds, …(more)

Business …MarketWatch (press release)COLUMBIA, Md., Oct 31, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Circonus, theorganization-wide unified monitoring company, today announced generalavailability of the latest release of Circonus Unified Monitoring, a dualSaaS/private SaaS solution designed to provide …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”We attribute our growth to the power of our SaaS model, which enables usto continuously innovate to deliver additional capabilities and newsecurity services for our customers at a fraction of the cost of othersolutions.” The San Francisco Business …(more)

to …MarketWatch (press release)Founded in 2009, VisiQuate delivers dynamic SaaS performance managementsolutions that transform and modernize decision-making throughout theenterprise, bridging the gap between Business Intelligence (BI) and bottomline results. …(more)

Been doing some research on multi-tenancy and have a couple questionsrelated to web applications. 1. If the need arose to isolate a tenant to asingle web app …(more)

GrowthMarketWatch (press release)BOSTON, Oct 31, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Mendix ( www.mendix.com ), a leaderin the PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) market, today announced the closing ofa $13 million Series A round of financing. The round was led by PrimeVentures, with HENQ Invest …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeWhen it comes to software as a service (SaaS), it’s clear that companies ofall sizes are already moving a lot of services into the cloud, includingCRM (Salesforce), email and office applications (Office365, Google Apps,etc). …(more)

NetworkComputing.comIt calls its Open Public Cloud the world’s first commercially availableOpenStack service, while its new Vmware-based public and private cloudservices are starting off with VMware vCloud Powered status. The companyalso reported a segment profit of …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)(For these special VIP Gold passes, Luncheon, conference bag and access tothe Cloud Computing Bootcamp is NOT included.) Toolbox.com helpsprofessionals do their jobs better by enabling them to easily shareknowledge with experienced peers. …(more)

This module provides a Perl interface to VMware’s vCloud REST API. Ingeneral, for most API calls, they are in the structure of the conecptualname followed by …(more)

Let Workday’s human resource management solutions revolutionize yourEnterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system by providing on-demand,…(more)

By Abe Brown
RIM has made good on its promise to start offering cloud computingofferings to businesses with the debut of BlackBerry Business CloudServices for Microsoft Office 365. The new service enables customers toaccess Microsoft Entourage …(more)

“As more and more people become comfortable with the idea, businesses willmove more workloads to Public Clouds,” stated Joe Seibel, CFA, CFO & VP ofStrategic Development at Hexagrid, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo…(more)

MSP News - Cutting edge insight and analysis on managed services, from theleading MSP news and information resource.(more)

Reuters (press release)London/Oslo/Austin, Texas: 31 October 2011 - Lumesse, a global leader inintegrated talent management solutions, is pleased to announce that it hascompleted the acquisition of SaaS-based e-learning experts Edvantage Group(www.edvantagegroup.com). …(more)

marketGigaOmOrganizations large and small are already using cloud computing todramatically increase the flexibility of their IT infrastructure and reducetheir costs. But moving from theory into practice is where things getcomplicated, and this is where …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)By January AppliedMicro is also promising to have a full suite of cloud
computing applications driving various target workloads such as web,Memcached, Hadoop and web server along with tools and debuggers.AppliedMicro is apparently months, …(more)

Channel InsiderIn fact, 85 percent of attendees surveyed at random by Appiro said cloudcomputing will dramatically change the way IT works over the next five to10 years. Thirty percent said they already have more than five applicationsin the cloud, while only 13 …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Google’s cloud computing contract with the City of
Los Angeles, a problem-plagued deployment nearly from the start, is againin trouble, as city officials claim that Google and solution provider CSCcan’t meet the security …(more)

Business InsiderScalable pricing is a powerful tool to grow revenue in a SaaS or softwarebusiness. It allows you to capture more of the revenue that your customersare willing to pay, without putting off smaller customers that are not ableto pay high prices. …(more)

Company’s …MarketWatch (press release)”Freight Management chose our software as a service model because it meetsthe different needs of their broad customer base, while being bothcost-effective and quick to implement for a fast return on investment.” Maysaid his vision is to offer …(more)

Hamari Saas Leela - 26th October 2011 Part 1 on uZood Video. Hamari SaasLeela Episode 104 - 26th October 2011.(more)

This time IT professionals, senior software development executives, andproduct owners gathered to discuss SaaS development and operations attheSaaS …(more)

Online Gaming Using OpenStack at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley. SCEA’sKrisztian Mizser to discuss building an internal cloud …(more)

ReadWriteWebThose who work in IT are likely to know what SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS are. Buta lot of folks who encounter the “aaS” terms have had no introduction.Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been around in one form or another foryears. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)LOS ANGELES, Oct 31, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Interneer, Inc., the leader innext generation SaaS Business Process and Workflow Management softwaredesigned for mid-market companies will sponsor the Midmarket CIO Forumhosted by IT Business Edge in San …(more)

By mattlafata
SaaShr.com), a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) basedWorkforce Management Solutions with a major focus in Human Resources (HR),Payroll, and Time and Labor Management (TLM), announced today the releaseof its …(more)

This is a presentation about Software as a Service (SaaS) … deploying acommunications software platform on your site or deploying a Software as aService …(more)

TMG in multi tenancy hosted environment. Guide needed! Search Forefront TMGand ISA Server Forum; Search All Forefront Forums; Search All Microsoft …(more)

Hindu Business LineDespite its increasing popularity, there are still quite a few grey areaswhen it comes to cloud computing. We love YouTube and with just reason. Arecent video shows people being asked what they thought cloud computingwas. Among many rib-tickling …(more)

ZDNet UK (blog)Finally XaaS or ‘anything as a service’ is the delivery of IT as a Servicethrough hybrid Cloud computing and is a reference to either one or acombination of Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS), Platform as a Service …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)During his keynote presentation, Ben Tora will discuss Software as aService (SaaS) Business Challenges in e-Commerce. Over the past year Plimushas been addressing the needs of e-Commerce driven by the strong emergenceof the social Web and the …(more)

Video: Multi-tenancy: Winning formula for a PaaS. Video for my talk onMulti- tenancy at WSO2Con 2011. You can find the slides in here. …(more)

InfoboomNow, a new cloud computing study shows that attitude is changing, but newchallenges for the cloud are beginning to emerge. According to an October2011 cloud computing study by Chadwick Martin Bailey (CMB), over 80% ofbusinesses - of all sizes - use …(more)

eWEEK Europe UKManaged hosting service provider Internap unveiled its latest cloudoffering, a publicly available cloud-computing service based on theopen-source OpenStack platform. The new Open Public Cloud service offerscustomers high-performance, …(more)

By Sridhar
Second, I was also thinking about the emerging software-as-a-servicemarket. We were customers of Salesforce, and while I liked their productdelivery model, I felt the product itself was massively overpriced. As Ianalyzed Salesforce, I felt …(more)

By Vector One
Recent trends toward software as a service as compared to products meansprofound change for both GIS professionals and the public who will engagegeographic information in the future. What do you think GIS in the Cloudwill be like? …(more)

Fujitsu announced the launch of Ufinity for Public, a Software as a Service(SaaS) offering for public libraries throughout Japan, extending from theprefectural …(more)

E-Commerce TimesThe rise of cloud computing, social networking and mobile connectivity hasput individuals and their needs at the center of the human-computerrelationship for the first time ever. As a result, organizations haveincreasingly come to see their …(more)

We created softwareasaservice functionality for Service Desk to provide afull range of … LANDesk Software Announces Management Automation Platform…(more)

Solon …Plain DealerWe’ve seen a lot of customers go to software as a service, for example,because they recognize that the long-term economics of that strategy favortheir business. What trends are you seeing among your clients right now? Acouple things. …(more)

Hopefully they provide an illustrative example of the use of vCloudDirector. All scripts have their own POD and accept command line parametersin a similar …(more)

The company recently announced that its VenyuCloud public cloud service hasachieved VMware vCloud Powered status. This only further highlights toVenyu …(more)

Benzinga (press release)FFastFill plc, the leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) to theglobal financial marketplace, and KVH Co. Ltd., Japan’s leading informationdelivery platform providing integrated cloud and network solutions, todayannounced that FFastFill …(more)

Benzinga (press release)Having achieved 8 consecutive years of SAS70 Type II compliance, PROUnlimited, the industry’s longest running Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)VMS/MSP provider, announces full compliance with the new SSAE 16 audit. TheStatement on Standards for …(more)

Washington PostOct. 27 (Bloomberg) — Brian White, an analyst at Ticonderoga SecuritiesLLC, talks about Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman’sdecision to scrap a proposal to spin off the company’s personal-computerunit and Whitman’s management …(more)

Correct interpretation of consumer actions is the basis for running asuccessful SaaS business. Here are three tips to improve customerengagement.(more)

Computerworld AustraliaBuyers of Office 365 that have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) canbuy directly from the software giant. However, the rest of the market isobliged to buy through Telstra’s T-Suite portal in bundles at prices atleast 23 per cent higher. …(more)

eWeekThe first OpenStack-based cloud-computing platform is now publiclyavailable, courtesy of hosting service Internap. Managed hosting serviceprovider Internap unveiled its latest cloud offering, a publicly availablecloud-computing service based on the …(more)

eChannelLineAustin TX-based Caringo has announced the availability of CAStor forOpenStack, software that enhances the OpenStack Swift object servers byintegrating CAStor Caringo’s enterprise-ready cloud object storage engine.The integration maintains OpenStack …(more)

VMwarevCloudv207 06 Oct 2011, VMwarevCloudv206 05 Oct 2011,VMwarevCloudv204 03 Oct 2011, VMwarevCloudv202 30 Sep 2011, VMwarevCloud1.614 Jul 2011 …(more)

Tonight’s BrownBrownBag featured Kendrick Coleman discussing both whatvCloud Networking and Understanding how to design for vCloud Networking.(more)

Strategy Analytics: Corporate Mobile Software-as-a-Service Forecast2010-2016. BOSTON –(Business Wire)–. According to the latest StrategyAnalytics (News …(more)

Technology ReviewToday, he is credited as a pioneer of cloud computing and as the man whoproved software “as a service” could be a big business. Benioff exchangede-mails with Technology Review’s IT editor Tom Simonite about where cloudcomputing is headed. …(more)

The OpenStack International Community team is the main contact point foranybody running a local OpenStack User Group. Join this team if you arehosting or …(more)

Business InsiderThe businesses are realizing the potential of simple, efficient and costeffective model of software/platform/infrastructure as a service or simplycalled ‘Cloud’. The enthusiasm is so much that some of the leadingsupporters of cloud such as Phil …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”Our inclusion in the list illustrates the potent value proposition of ourSaaS sales effectiveness solutions. The market is in need of better hiringsolutions, better coaching solutions, better sales enablement tools, andmobile learning, …(more)

By Maria Deutscher
OpenLogic finally launched CloudSwing, a so-called openplatform-as-a-service the company first announced back in August.CloudSwing seeks to differentiate itself from other solutions by beingcompletely vendor-agnostic and providing a lot of customization options:the offering leverages lot open-source software, enabling customers tocompletely customize stacks and add third party code. CloudSwing includesstack support for Java, Ruby, PHP, and JavaScript with platforms …(more)

The ThinkGrid platform includes a range of services such as hosted virtualdesktop, Exchange, VoIP, software as a service and virtual serverinfrastructure. Last October, ThinkGrid also launched a private cloudsolution, which allows partners …(more)

By Administrator
CloudHarmony provides IT managers and industry professionals a wide rangeof cloud comptuing benchmark tests to help provide a comparison of cloudservice provider performance and capabilities.(more)

“There is no doubt that the federal government’s support of cloud computingis driving additional demand,” stated Paul Carmody, SVP, Product Management& Business Development at Internap, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo…(more)

Bring …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Hotel management software company aims to bring better guest room telephonycontrol to hotel operators by partnering with leading VOIP telephonecompany. Two leading companies in the Software-as-a-Service space havepartnered to bring innovative and …(more)

SearchCloudComputing.comWindows shops taking the plunge into cloud computing can have faith in itsmore mature Azure Platform as a Service, but should keep an eye onunexpected costs. Microsoft’s goal is to mirror what it does in Azure inthe on-premises products, …(more)

CNETby James Urquhart October 28, 2011 5:55 AM PDT The most common question Iget from those I brief about OpenStack’s new network service is “How doesQuantum relate to software defined networking?” Especially confusing tomany is the difference between …(more)

Variability in Multi-tenant SaaS Applications Jaap Kabbedijk, MSc. UtrechtUniversity, the Netherlands.(more)

One of the most important and useful new capabilities in the upcomingOpenEdge 11 release (planned for December 2011) is direct support formulti- tenancy in …(more)

Strategy Analytics: Corporate Mobile Software-as-a-Service Forecast2010-2016. … Call Center Software …. Solving the Back End with PlatformSolutions …(more)

Business InsiderEveryone is talking about cloud computing. Forrester projects that thetotal market for cloud computing will be $241 billion by 2020. Cloudcomputing means computing can be used as a service rather than a product.This has become possible because it’s …(more)

CNET (blog)In part 1 of this series, I described what is becoming an increasinglyubiquitous model for cloud computing networks, namely the use of simpleabstractions delivered by network systems of varying sophistication. Inpart 2, I then described OpenStack’s …(more)

InstructorsMarketWatch (press release)ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Oct 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — ITpreneurs,the leading provider of competence development solutions for IT bestpractices, is expanding its instructor pool to meet market demand for CloudComputing Education. …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Facebook Thursday set up a non-profit foundation to run its six-month-oldOpen Compute Project (OPC) aimed at defining the cheapest and mostefficient massively web-scale infrastructure possible using the open sourcemodel. Its first OCP data center in …(more)

The first OpenStack-based cloud-computing platform is now publiclyavailable, courtesy of hosting service Internap.(more)

Search StorageCaringo CAStor for OpenStack has been rolled out, integrating OpenStackSwift object servers with Caringo’s enterprise-ready object storage engine.OpenStack Swift is open source software for building private and publicclouds. …(more)

Cloud ProSuSE has released an early development snapshot of its OpenStack-poweredcloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution. SuSE Cloud is a newappliance configured to run Diablo, the latest version of the open sourcecloud organisation’s operating …(more)

CNETGiven the emergence of cloud network models like OpenStack’s Quantumservice, what role does software defined networking play–including newproducts based on OpenFlow? In part three of a behind-the-scenes look atthe development of Microsoft’s new …(more)

CRNThat, coupled with Internap’s existing cloud offerings based on VMwarevCloud Director, gives cloud providers and VARs two different flavors withwhich to attack the growing cloud market. “They can sell it all,” said PaulCarmody, senior vice president …(more)

SearchSOAThat was the situation at jclouds, an open source community library thatallows developers to migrate their code between more than 30 differentcloud providers including Amazon, vCloud, OpenStack and Windows Azure. Avolunteer-centric organization, …(more)

techrockies.com… software support services for enterprises which is venture backed byPelion Venture Partners, Red Rock Ventures, Appian Ventures, OnCorps,Highway 12 Ventures and Village Ventures, said Thursday that it haslaunched a new, Platform-as-a-Service …(more)

CRNBy Chad Berndtson, CRN As customer adoption of Communications-as-a-Service,
or CaaS, trends slowly upward, solution providers still encounter plenty ofskepticism over the reliability and security of the model. EnterInteractive Intelligence’s new …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)AirWatch pricing is $40 per device as a one-time license fee or $3 perdevice per month for its hosted Software as a Service (SaaS) product.AirWatch offers additional discounts to education and non-profit customersas well as volume-based discounts. …(more)

Network WorldToday, Amazon’s cloud is its most popular infrastructure as a service.Although Amazon offers APIs, its cloud is not open source technology beingdeveloped by a consortium, as is OpenStack. However, OpenStack is not theonly open source, consortium-led …(more)

SC Magazine USThe signature-wrapping and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks hijackedcontrol interfaces used to manage cloud computing resources, which allowedattackers to create, modify. and delete machine images, and changeadministrative passwords and settings. …(more)

Virtual-Strategy MagazineMy co-founder, Christopher MacGown, and I began the company earlier thisyear with the goal of delivering OpenStack software to the enterprise withenhanced features important to most businesses, including security and easeof use. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The CloudCompute infrastructure is built on the Vblock(TM) InfrastructurePlatform from VCE, The Virtual Computing Environment Company. Vblockintegrates the leading virtualization software, networking, security,computing, storage and management …(more)

TMC NetBy David Sims, TMCnet Contributing Editor From that international high-tech
mecca of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, comes Fiberlink’s latestsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)) offering for secure wirelessmanagement, the expansion of MaaS360 to …(more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)EFR-TM is a web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that organizesall trademark documents into electronic files, and provides a platform forautomation, electronic workflow, sharing, and ease of informationmanagement. …(more)

Cloud ProUS storage software vendor Caringo has released an object storage engine inbeta to run on OpenStack Swift object storage servers. The company said itsintegration with OpenStack’s compute and imaging components is designed toSwift maintain accounts, …(more)

Duncan Epping and I did a little investigation on this and we discoveredthat this is not a vCloud Director issue so much as it is a function ofvSphere’s cloning …(more)

playframework Re Multitenancy models thanks for your feedback why do youuse MongoDB now On 25 oct 0309 sungooxxxxxxxxx wrote I have 2 multitenantapps one …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)CoStar Group, Inc. /quotes/zigman/66673/quotes/nls/csgp CSGP +3.09% ,commercial real estate’s leading provider of information and analyticservices, today announced the acquisition of Virtual Premise, Inc., aleading independent provider of SaaS-based …(more)

SaaS providers need to be aware of the three strike rule.(more)

eWeekRightNow, whose software helps massage customer interactions online, is thecompany’s first purchase of a provider of wholly Web-based applications, orsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) CRM. Should Oracle consummate the purchase inlate 2011 or early 2012 …(more)

Sacramento BeeBy SUSE NUREMBERG, Oct. 26, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — SUSE announced today it
has released an early development snapshot of its OpenStack*-powered cloudinfrastructure solution. SUSE Cloud powered by OpenStack, is the industry’sfirst, fully configured, …(more)

The HSUSE, a division of Attachmate, has announced the release of an earlydevelopment snapshot of its OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure solution.According to the company, SUSE Cloud is “the industry’s first, fullyconfigured, OpenStack-powered …(more)

Philadelphia InquirerIn a famous 2008 investor conference (you can watch it on YouTube), Ellisoncalled the cloud-computing idea “gibberish” and “crap” and “idiocy.” But onMonday, Oracle agreed to pay $1.5 billion for RightNow Technologies Inc., aBozeman, Mont., …(more)

Southern …MarketWatch (press release)Connectivity and Cloud Computing Services Provider Next Connex hasCompleted a New Fibre Network to Offer Improved Links. LONDON, UNITEDKINGDOM, Oct 27, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Surrey based connectivityservices provider Next Connex has …(more)

New EraE-governance projects can benefit greatly from Cloud Computing. The Cloudhas a reach wherever governments want to reach. The cost of equipment thatis required for all the services governments offer will be consolidatedinto the Cloud and drastically …(more)

Computer Business ReviewEnterprise Linux offerings provider SUSE has released an early developmentsnapshot of its OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure offering. SUSE Cloudpowered by OpenStack is a fully configured, OpenStack-powered appliancebased on OpenStack’s latest …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Dan Kusnetzky | October 27, 2011, 3:22am PDT Summary: IBM launched
SmartCloud packages and then follows through with easy-to-use pre-packagedBladeCenter cloud computing configurations. IBM recently announced a set ofsoftware products to enable …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)OAGi today announced it has launched a Cloud Computing Initiative to ensurethat the Open Applications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) enablescomplete support for Cloud Computing. The Cloud Computing Initiative is ledby the Architecture …(more)

Cloud ProThe company said that Connected Cloud would support 7 platforms includingIOS (iPhone and iPad), Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, WebOS and Blackberry devices. In a similar fashion to its current on premisesoftware, key features …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)DALLAS, Oct 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — CompuCom Systems, Inc., the leadingIT outsourcing specialist, hosted a three-day forum with 25 executives fromIT organizations across vertical markets. The group met at Villanova todiscuss current issues and …(more)

Computerworld New ZealandBy Bernard Golden | Framingham | Thursday, 27 October, 2011 The argument is
that cloud computing automates tasks that, in the past, have been performedby employees, and that after automation occurs, those people will no longerbe needed. …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)NeoNova’s growth can be attributed to several trending factors such as thegrowing acceptance of cloud computing, the emergence of integratedplatforms with smartphones (Android), and the increased consumption ofbroadband. “The value of using NeoNova …(more)

Overall spending by public cloud service providers on storage hardware,software and professional services will increase at a compound annualgrowth rate of …(more)

Final Version of NIST Cloud Computing Definition Published.(more)

I basically followed the steps in Spence Harbars Guidehttpwwwharbarnetarticlessp2010mt1aspx do create a multitenancy farm withhostheader sitecollections …(more)

Ease …MarketWatch (press release)Christopher Stark, CEO and Founder, Cetrom IT, said, “Cloud computing is aperfect solution for any nonprofit organization struggling to justify largepurchases to its membership and board of directors. It gives theseorganizations access to leading …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)”There is no doubt that the federal government’s support of cloud computingis driving additional demand,” stated Paul Carmody, SVP, Product Management& Business Development at Internap, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud ExpoConference Chair Jeremy …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”One of the main advantages of cloud computing is that our users do nothave to make a high initial investment in infrastructure. Instead, theyonly have to pay for services used during the time period purchased. Ourcustomers can now deploy new …(more)

Midsize …MarketWatch (press release)OLDWICK, NJ, Oct 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Cloud computing shows promisein reducing costs, simplifying information management and providing newtools and abilities to growing companies. The following panel of businessand information management …(more)

GigaOmBy Derrick Harris Oct. 27, 2011, 8:59am PT No Comments Managed-hosting
provider turned cloud provider now has an OpenStack-based cloud ready forpublic consumption, beating even OpenStack founder Rackspace to the punch.It’s a big day for OpenStack, …(more)

Consolidates …MarketWatch (press release)CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Oct 27, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Instem, a leadingprovider of early development software applications, announced today thatRoche has purchased Instem’s Provantis Preclinical solution suite using itsSaaS delivery model. …(more)

ConnectedPlanetBy Alex Leslie Cloud billing vendor Transverse has a new chief revenue
officer with deep SaaS roots and a goal to take lessons from thesoftware/ERP industry and apply them to telecom. When Scott Lumish recentlyjoined cloud billing company Transverse …(more)

CNETCitrix has become a leading desktop virtualization player, is increasinglyfocused on software as a service and has a position for corporate mobilityas workers bring tablets and smartphones into the office. Toss in a steadystream of strategic …(more)

ADT MagazineBy John K. Waters Hivetext Technologies announced this week that its
Java-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Jelastic will be supporting theNginx Web server. Jelastic is actually a cloud hosting platform designedfor hosted service providers. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)AFS Technologies is the leading provider of business enterprise andSoftware as a Service (SaaS) solutions. The company now serves nearly 1500customers across the Americas with a portfolio of solutions for the foodand beverage and supply chain …(more)

Innovation continues to rock the technology world. A new concept, CloudComputing, promises to change the way we access computer services. Cloud…(more)

Year …MarketWatch (press release)”We delivered another quarter of solid results, posting record quarterlyrecurring revenue and 36% growth in non-maintenance recurring revenues alsoknown as New Recurring Revenues, a testament to our full transition to asoftware as a service …(more)

ntvkenyahttp://www.ntv.co.ke Listed communications firm Safaricom has joined theglobal stampede towards cloud computing with the largest indigenous cloudsolution in the region.The firm says it has put in 2 billion shillings andanother 1.5 billion shillings …(more)

Investor’s Business DailyThe rise of cloud computing has been increasing demand for Red Hat’s opensource solutions, which are often less expensive than comparable offeringsfrom Microsoft and other rivals. The company’s sales growth has been on therise over the last 4 …(more)

Wired NewsOne of the knocks against OpenStack is that nobody’s really using it yet,but on Thursday that criticism got a little bit harder to make. In a majorwin for the fledgling open source cloud platform, managed hosting providerInternap has announced the …(more)

Presentation done by Mifan Careem,CTO, Respere at WSO2 Con 2011, Colombohttp://wso2con.com.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Atlassian OnDemand is a newsoftware as a service (SaaS) offer that allows software development andproject teams to use Atlassian’s award-winning products, includingAtlassian JIRA and Confluence, …(more)

PR Newswire (press release)The simplyCT Virtual Contact Center Solution is focused on the principal”Simplicity as a Service” and enables businesses to purchase anout-of-the-box call center solution that unifies communication across allcall center channels. …(more)

ServersSacramento BeeCloud computing is one of the most disruptive new technologies since theInternet. One of the fastest-growing sectors of cloud computing isInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Cloud-based IaaS offers tremendousscalability, flexibility, …(more)

QAS.co.nzThe man who first proposed the notion of cloud computing passed away overthe weekend aged 84. John McCarthy’s death was announced by StanfordUniversity in the US where McCarthy was a member of the computer societyfaculty. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Recurring revenues grew by 24% for the third quarter of 2011 compared with2010’s third quarter, primarily due to revenue growth from ourSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. Recurring revenues for the thirdquarter of 2011 were 81% of total revenues …(more)

iTWire… platform underpinning its T-Suite offering of a range of applicationsas a service, target at SMEs - for a further two years. Telstra announcedplans for T-Suite in June 2008, billing it as a one-stop shop whereestablished software names would …(more)

TransformationCRNBy Steven Burke, CRN That was the assessment of top solution provider
executives and industry analysts attending the BoB (Best of Breed)conference aimed at setting new business models for channel partners in arapidly changing cloud computing services …(more)

As mentioned in my last article on Industry SaaS Offering Series, it isclear that SaaS, Business Process as a Service (BpaaS), Dynamic BPOServices segments …(more)

NetScaler …MarketWatch (press release)CloudConnector for CDN provides unprecedented end-to-end acceleration ofdynamic and interactive web, mobile and SaaS applications across mobile andnon-mobile devices and networks. NetScaler CloudConnector for CDN enablesEnterprises and content …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)BARCELONA, Spain, Oct 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today at CitrixSynergy(TM), the conference where cloud computing, networking andvirtualization meet, Citrix announced the next stage of its strategy forCitrix CloudGateway(TM), the industry’s first …(more)

Cloud computing is not so much a technology as a way of using technology.It is a paradigm shift in the way IT departments provide and operate theservices their business needs. With around 70% of business data stillhoused on IBM …(more)

By Brett
Livestream: The Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit from NYC. Submitted byBrett on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 4:38pm. Tweet. Like what you read? Stay currentwith nonprofit technology. Subscribe to our Blog Feed to keep up with allthe NTENy …(more)

MSP News - Cutting edge insight and analysis on managed services, from theleading MSP news and information resource.(more)

Cloud Based Integration Platform as a Service is from MuleSoft. … We havealready written about Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as aService ( SaaS) …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The addition of RES Workspace Manager to Citrix environments enablesservice providers to deliver a personalized workspace from a centralizedpolicy-based platform within Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Software as aService (SaaS) offerings. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)CloudPortal also adds a rich set of pre-built provider-focused solutionsfor popular cloud offering, including IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service),DaaS (Desktops-as-a-Service), SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and WaaS(Windows-as-a-Service). …(more)

Seeking AlphaNow second, Pervasive Big Data, using Pervasive DataRush, a softwaredevelopment platform unless developers rapidly build payroll applicationthat deliver exceptionally high throughput on Big Data with low CapEx andOpEx costs, we allow developers to …(more)

HostReview.com (press release) (blog)There are many benefits in Cloud Computing, butwhen I talk to businessowners 3 big benefits stand out above all others. 1. Cloud ComputingRemoves The Servers From Your Office With Cloud Computing the centralnetwork resources move out from your …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)… new partnership with Workday, a leader in SaaS-based enterprisesolutions for global human capital, payroll and financial management, toprovide enterprise-class learning and human capital management (HCM)solutions to joint customers in the cloud. …(more)

ITBusiness.caStorage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (NYSE: HIT) unveiled its cloudcomputing roadmap and strategy Tuesday, including a three-tier strategy tohelp partners bring their customers from the infrastructure cloud to theinformation cloud. …(more)

playframework Re Multitenancy models thanks for the link If someone hasalready deployed a SaaS application I am also interested in a feedback On24 oct …(more)

The commercial version of Suse Cloud, which will enable enterprises tobuild private clouds, should become available next year.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SALT LAKE CITY, Oct 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — inContact/quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS +3.33% , the leading provider ofcloud-based call center software and call center workforce optimizationtools, today announced the extension of its …(more)

PCWorldBy Nancy Gohring, IDG News Attachmate’s Suse division has announced plans
to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to buildprivate clouds. Suse Cloud, which won’t be available for nine months to ayear, will be based on the …(more)

PCWorldUsing XML signature wrapping, the researchers were able to delete andcreate new images on the customer’s EC2 (elastic cloud computing) instanceand perform other administrative tasks. In addition, a separate cross-sitescripting (XSS) vulnerability in …(more)

ComputerworldBy Bernard Golden CIO - I was interested in this week’s ZDNet piece, Cloud
computing’s real creative destruction may be the IT workforce. The piecediscusses a presentation at last week’s Gartner Symposium that positedcloud computing will be a net …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Amazon bored through the floor Tuesday when its Q3 earnings came in 73%less than last year at $63 million, or 14 cents a share, actually betterthan the 93% drop the company had predicted but nobody apparently believedback in July. …(more)

to …MarketWatch (press release)”We believe the future is in cloud computing and virtualization is thefirst step to bringing the district to a completely cloud-basedenvironment,” said Keith Bockwoldt, Director of Technology at District 214.”Kids today are growing up in a digital …(more)

playframework Re Multitenancy models. I have 2 multitenant apps one withJava and H2 that works with Hibernate filters like Erik Bakker describes inhis …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Meteorix’s new SaaS-oriented COMPaaS offering (Continuous, Optimization,Measurement and Performance-as-a-Service) gives customers a predictable andproven deployment plan to insure success. Meteorix provides implementation,optimization and …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Brian Sommer | October 26, 2011, 9:40am PDT Summary: Lots of M&A
activity in the SaaS/Cloud space. But not everyone will benefit from theescalating acquisition frenzy. See if you’ll benefit from it. Good to be aCloud Software Shareholder (but not …(more)

Incorporating …TMC NetBy Calvin Azuri Emailvision, provider of software as a service (SaaS (News
- Alert)) for email, mobile and social media marketing, has released thefirst of its kind SaaS campaign management solution designed to incorporatefully-integrated customer …(more)

Models …MarketWatch (press release)REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Avangate, the agileeCommerce solutions provider trusted by Software and SaaS companies to growtheir business worldwide through any channel and any model, inviteseCommerce, Marketing, …(more)

ReadWriteWebThis week, SUSE announced that it had joined OpenStack and today thecompany announced a development preview of SUSE Cloud which is powered byOpenStack. With the green team at SUSE behind OpenStack, along withCanonical, does that make OpenStack the …(more)

CMSWire… tools that transform it well beyond CMS website creation, into a fullfledged Cloud-based web services development platform, with support for thetop web storage destinations including Google Storage, Amazon S3, WindowsAzure Storage and OpenStack. …(more)

Another important way for service providers offering vCloud Poweredservices to be more successful in their offerings is by keeping ahead ofcustomer needs. …(more)

Hello As there talk about implementing vCloud & vApps here, I would like tohear people experiences with backup/restore of vCloud & vApps RegardsMichael.(more)

Business InsiderA 2010 IBM survey shows 91 percent out of 2000 IT professionals surveyed,believe cloud computing will be the primary IT delivery model by 2015.Needless to say, job hunters with great knowledge of cloud computing willhave a distinct advantage in the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)An article from the Wall Street Journal cited a report by ForresterResearch that “The global market for “cloud computing” is going to increasefrom about $41 billion in 2011 to $241 billion in 2020.” — It’s clear thatcloud computing is one of the …(more)

EurekAlert (press release)After years in the works and 15 drafts, the National Institute of Standardsand Technology’s (NIST) working definition of cloud computing, the 16th andfinal definition has been published as The NIST Definition of CloudComputing (NIST Special …(more)

Business Cloud NewsPlatform as a Service. Everyone’s doing it. But, as Brad Vaughan explainsdirectly from Silicon Valley, the platform doesn’t come without itsquestion marks. Can PaaS really step up to deliver on a grand scale? Andcan interested organisations get over …(more)

Optimization …MarketWatch (press release)inContact /quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS +5.96% , the leadingprovider of cloud-based call center software and call center workforceoptimization tools, today announced the extension of its partnership withVerint(R) Systems Inc. …(more)

Sacramento Beesaid Sergey Rizhikov, CEO, Bitrix, Inc. Bitrix Cloud Storage modulesupports Google Storage, Amazon S3, Windows Azure Storage, and OpenStack,as well as CDN (Content Delivery Network), which accelerates uploading oflarge files. The new Geo-distributed …(more)

OpenStack is the open source cloud platform that now has well over 80member companies participating What SUSE is doing is interesting in thattheyre making …(more)

Wall Street JournalBy BEN WORTHEN Oracle Corp. said it is buying customer-service software
maker RightNow Technologies Inc. for $1.43 billion in cash, continuing arecent push into the fast-growing field of cloud computing. The deal marksthe first time Oracle has bought …(more)

KSEECloud computing has certainly made life more convenient. The cloud allowsyou to back up photos and music in a Web vault, collaborate simultaneouslyon a document in Texas with a colleague in Tennessee, or buy somethingonline with one click of the …(more)

GigaOmBy Derrick Harris Oct. 24, 2011, 2:00pm PT No Comments IBM has joined the
big-data-in-the-cloud fray, announcing Monday that its Hadoop-basedInfoSphere BigInsights product will be available as a service on the IBMSmartCloud platform. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Black Diamond’s cloud-based platform, which serves the US advisory market,continued to gain momentum, and Advent’s SaaS (software-as-a-service)offering for the asset management market, Advent OnDemand, added its firstEMEA clients this quarter. …(more)

China DailyBy Shen Jingting (China Daily) HANGZHOU - Alibaba Cloud Computing, a unit
of the Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, said the world’sfirst tablet computer running on its proprietary mobile operating system(OS), the Aliyun OS, …(more)

PR Web (press release)Zywave provides SaaS-enabled business management applications to insurancebrokerages, including customer relationship management, business analyticsand technology-enabled content tools. Used by 90 percent of the Top 100 USinsurance agencies, …(more)

NewsMarketWatch (press release)GreedAndFearIndex is a new Software as a Service platform that tracksfinancial market sentiment by automatically reading and analyzing thousandsof financial news articles daily while identifying the companies andbusiness sectors that are in the news …(more)

Cloud ProThere’s no such thing as the father of cloud computing but one guy who camepretty close was John McCarthy, whose death, on Sunday, has just beenreported. The news was announced by Stanford University where McCarthy, whowas 84, had been a long-term …(more)

Fully …Sacramento BeeBy Emailvision Emailvision, the leading international software as a service
(SaaS) company specializing in email, mobile and social marketing,announced today the launch of a new product that represents the first everSaaS campaign management solution …(more)

Performance …MarketWatch (press release)LANDesk Software will implement the Monaco Sales Performance SaaS solutionto drive its internal sales performance, including TrueComp(R) Manager,Quota Management, Objective Management, Sales Communications, and Reporting& Analytics, as well as the …(more)

Enterprises are shifting from traditional packaged software, hostedinternally, to the using on-demand hosted software applications run bythird-parties such as …(more)

During VMworld Chris Colotti and I presented quite a few group discussionson VMware vCloud During these discussions some people were amazed to findout how …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)AUSTIN, Texas, Oct 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Caringo Inc. today announcedthe availability of CAStor(R) for OpenStack, software that enhances theOpenStack Swift object servers by integrating CAStor — Caringo’senterprise-ready object storage engine …(more)

CNET (blog)by Automotive News October 25, 2011 5:00 AM PDT Access to the “cloud,”through a wireless Internet connection in a car, has automakers thinkingout of the box. Potential features go far beyond present uses of in-carInternet access. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)NetSol’s key objective at the event is to continue to build industryawareness of its recently-announced cloud computing entry, LeasePakSoftware-as-a-Service. The first cloud-delivered leasing and financeaccounting and portfolio management solution …(more)

Marketwire (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire - Oct 25, 2011) - MuleSoft, provider of the#1 integration platform for the cloud, web and enterprise, today announcedthat it has been named a winner of THINKstrategies’ Cloud ComputingBusiness Value (CCBV) Awards …(more)

Marketwire (press release)Leader in Cloud Computing Management Announces Customer Speakers for 5thRightScale Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. SANTA BARBARA, CA–(Marketwire- Oct 25, 2011) - RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management,today announced the customer …(more)

Is …MarketWatch (press release)CentraMed unites next-generation SaaS BI technology with the country’s topconsulting experts and professional services team to deliver anunparalleled healthcare business analytics solution that analyzes hugevolumes of data from multiple care points. …(more)

Sarah Novotny and Matt Ray’s presentation from the Seattle OpenStack Meetupon 10/19/2011. Covered Chef basics and a snapshot of the current state of…(more)

InformationWeekBy Charles Babcock InformationWeek As companies adopt more software as a
service (SaaS), the problem of connecting one application to another getsmore complicated. MuleSoft, the company behind the Mule enterprise servicebus (ESB), is offering an …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)MuleSoft’s iON is a cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS)that enables developers to create simple packaged integration applications(iApps), to solve common cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-premise integrationproblems. …(more)

EvangelismMarketWatch (press release)… products: the WSO2 Carbon enterprise middleware platform and WSO2Stratos cloud middleware platform, as well as the recently launched WSO2StratosLive platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which is hosted by WSO2 andpowered by the WSO2 Stratos software. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Japan delivers public cloud services to its existing hosting customers inJapan via its public cloud, Z Cloud, and will provide Platform-as-a-Servicebased on Node.js to Japanese developers, enterprises, and mobile operators.– NAVLINK. …(more)

Timely …MarketWatch (press release)Live with its first few clients, the Charles River Data Service is offeredas a core component of Charles River’s Software as a Service (SaaS)solution that helps buy-side firms lower the overall cost of managing data,while ensuring that data is …(more)

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) today represents one of the most dynamicgrowth segments of the global tech sector. The markets across Asia Pacificexcluding …(more)

Workday …MarketWatch (press release)As a Workday partner in the commercial industry since late 2010,CedarCrestone is expanding its support of Workday solutions into the highereducation market to be responsive to the increasing interest in Software asa service (SaaS). …(more)

Blue …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Today at Workday Rising 2011, Collaborative Solutions announced anagreement with Blue Shield of California to deliver Workday’s industryleading Software as a Service (SaaS) HCM solution to the organization.Today at Workday Rising 2011, …(more)

Channel’s CRNMarketWatch (press release)eGestalt.com ), a leading provider of cloud-based, SaaS-delivered, securityand information technology governance, risk management and compliancesolutions for SMBs to enterprises, announced today that its SecureGRCsolution was named a runner-up in …(more)

With …MarketWatch (press release)After a thorough vetting of several other CPM providers, Nextag selectedHost Analytics in part due to its intuitive user interface and SaaS-baseddelivery method. More than 60 employees across the company will rely onHost Analytics’ CPM suite for …(more)

Unified Communications and Business Productivity Apps Drive CorporateMobile SaaS Adoption BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– According to the latestStrategy …(more)

2010-2016MarketWatch (press release)BOSTON, Oct 25, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — According to the latest StrategyAnalytics Wireless Enterprise Strategies forecast, “Corporate Mobile SaaSForecast, 2010-2016,” the Global Corporate Mobile SaaS Market will reach$1.2 billion in 2011 and grow to …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Dell Boomi, the world’s largest integration cloud, today announced newcapabilities that utilize the power of its AtomSphere user community tosimplify cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) application integration formedium and large enterprises. …(more)

FCW.comBy Camille Tuutti Software-as-a-service? Infrastructure-as-a-service?
Low-hanging fruit, said the CIO of the Homeland Security department duringa keynote address at the Executive Leadership Conference in Williamsburg,Va. In the speech, CIO Richard …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”Annualised sales of Software as a Service through T-Suite have grown morethan threefold,” Mark Pratley, GM Telstra Cloud Computing, said. “Thesolution from Jamcracker enables Telstra to provide our customers servicesthat are growing in popularity …(more)

SearchVMware.comVMware vCloud Director’s features have evolved in the new version 1.5, butthe product may not gain traction until more customers seriously considercloud adoption. The initial reaction to VMware vCloud Director was somewhatmuted, and some IT pros …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Through the use of Cloud Computing technologies, PreAxia allows HSA brokersto more easily offer and manage HSA accounts. PreAxia technology simplifiesfund-management, claims adjudication, transaction processing and on-linehealth benefit …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)There’s been a small cluster of hysterically big funding rounds latelyexemplified by Dropbox’ $250 million B round last week. On Mondaysix-year-old Workday, which logically enough does a SaaS version ofPeopleSoft’s HR, payroll and financial …(more)

Cloud …CRNBy Steven Burke, CRN The progressive solution providers that expect to
succeed in the cloud computing services era are two times more likely tohave changed their business model in the last five years. That was one ofthe big takeaways in a keynote …(more)

Cloud computing could transform car interiors. Storing data outsidevehicles could reduce clutter inside. The Evos plug-in hybrid conceptvehicle is Ford’s …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)Expect Oracle to acquire more software-as-a-service companies in the nearfuture, writes IDC analyst Michael Fauscette for Seeking Alpha. He offers alist of candidates, including ERP provider NetSuite (a company which countsEllison among its …(more)

Computerworld AustraliaCustomers also include Software as a Service (SaaS) providers and Platformas a Service (PaaS) developers. Infrastructure used by these providersinclude branded storage hardware, even high performance Fibre Channel SAN,leveraging existing data centre …(more)

Importing a wildcard PFX SSL certificate into VMware vCloud Director (1.5).Project updates.(more)

Business DayTHE Department of Basic Education has teamed up with business to launch amobile education programme aimed at increasing teachers’ and students’access to superior teaching resources through cloud computing. Most schoolsin SA struggle to access …(more)

InformationWeek IndiaThere are multiple parameters that can risk businesses consuming cloudcomputing and make them run for their lives. Here is a look at the topthree By Mohammad Wasim, Sapient, October 24, 2011 I still remember veryclearly while attending a Windows 4.0 …(more)

Richmond Times Dispatch”Software as a service” (”SaaS” in geekspeak): Using, over the Web, asoftware program that is owned and hosted by someone else (Google Docs, forexample). Software hosting: Having a cloud provider host at its facilitiessome or all of the software you …(more)

VentureBeatEquinix created the platform in part because its partners were alreadyconnecting to each other. In 2010, interconnections among Equinix customersgrew 27 percent. Plaform Equinix is already home to more than 700software-as-a-service cloud providers, …(more)

With software-as-a-service (SaaS) spend on the rise and firms expandingSaaS usage across broader populations of users, many Forrester clients saythey are …(more)

Multitenancy refers to a situation where a single application on a serversupports multiple client organizations. In BMC Atrium Discovery, thisrefers to the ability …(more)

My vCloud Director experience is limited to labs and sessions at VMworld.In of the sessions, a VMworld employee stated that you need at least twovCenters. …(more)

DirectorSYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)This is a good video from Intel and VMware on how to setup your own PrivateCloud with Intel Xeon hardware and the VMware product stack. Long gone arethe days where provisioning servers for a new project take weeks or months.Now you can automate many …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)inContact /quotes/zigman/112982/quotes/nls/saas SAAS +4.79% helps contactcenters around the globe create profitable customer experiences through itspowerful portfolio of cloud-based contact center software solutions. Thecompany’s services and …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Medallia, theglobal leader in SaaS Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions, todayannounced a joint webinar with industry expert Bruce Temkin of the TemkinGroup on the benefits of …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)He most recently served as vice president of SaaS Email & Web Security atMcAfee. Before that, he served as president and COO of MX Logic, an emailand web security company acquired by McAfee in 2009. Additionally, Khannaacted as the executive vice …(more)

Service …MarketWatch (press release)VNSNY recently modernized an IT infrastructure that serves more than 15000users by deploying several new SaaS (Software as a Service) applications.Symplified enables VNSNY to enforce access security policies, providesingle sign-on (SSO) from any …(more)

2011 …MarketWatch (press release)LAS VEGAS, NV, Oct 24, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — MGMA 2011, Booth#1506 — Inphonite, LLC, the leading provider of SaaS and on-premisemessaging solutions, today announced InphoniteVoice 2012, the latestversion of its Automated Messaging System. …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)About Workday Workday is the leader in enterprise-class,software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses,combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to businessapplications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans …(more)

By Sarah Perez
Location Labs is the leader in mobile location-as-a-service with consumerproducts that enhance the personal safety of millions of users and alocation platform that enables 4300+ developers to build their own richlocation based applications. …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Larry Dignan | October 24, 2011, 4:30am PDT Summary: Few disagree that
cloud computing will be disruptive to industries, enterprise technology andthe way we conduct businesses. The disruption will extend to the workforce.Cloud computing, which …(more)

Proactive Investors USA & CanadaOracle has been working on providing its customers a range of servicesremotely through cloud technology including sales force automation, humanresources and databases as cloud computing expands. RightNow has benefitedfrom a cycle in which more of …(more)

PhysOrg.comAmazon Webservices (AWS) offers its customers cloud computing services andhosts, among others, services like Twitter, Second Life and 4Square. Cloudcomputing could be the major computing paradigm of tomorrow. The idea ofprocessing and storing …(more)

Services”MarketWatch (press release)… the leading provider of agreements-based billing (ABB(TM)) andcompensation solutions, today announced that its CEO, Scott Swartz, willspeak at the Wall Street Technology Association (WSTA) seminar, “CloudComputing in Financial Services. …(more)

Computing …MarketWatch (press release)The emergence of cloud computing may be helping customers to cut theircosts for software and applications. Companies in the Application Softwareindustry like Red Hat Inc. have benefited from the lower cost of theiroperating systems compared with …(more)

Computing …MarketWatch (press release)OAKVILLE, Ontario, Oct 24, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Cloudcor today announcedthat Spirent Communications, has been named as a Platinum partner of the UP2011 Cloud Computing Conference, December 5-9. Spirent has been selected todeliver the keynote …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)CHANTILLY, VA, Oct 24, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — AMERICAN SYSTEMS, aleading provider of federal IT and engineering solutions, today announcedthe award of the Cloud Computing and IT Support Services contract by theDefense Security Cooperation …(more)

TMC NetBy Mae Kowalke In order to streamline their operations and cut costs, many
companies are looking for ways to incorporate cloud computing concepts intotheir information technology (IT) structures. Automation is a big part ofthis. …(more)

for …MarketWatch (press release)Miller will lead a sales team that is witnessing a significant uptick ininterest in Virtustream’s approach to cloud computing deployments andxStream, Virtustream’s enterprise cloud platform. Virtustream provides afull range of cloud services to …(more)

San Francisco ChronicleThe median ratio of six enterprise software and service deals of more than$1 billion was 17 since 2006 in the US, according to the data. Companiesthat offer software as a service, or SaaS, are sought after, Williams sad.”Oracle is paying a premium …(more)

EFYTimesThese features include multitenancy for unpredictable workloadconsolidation, expanded thin technologies for efficient capacityutilization and autonomic …(more)

Destination CRMAdditionally, with [Oracle CEO] Larry Ellison’s recent railing againstmultitenancy at Open World 2011, I’m a bit surprised that he bought one ofthe …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)For some companies, cloud adoption started outside the corporate datacenterinside of the VMware vCloud or Amazon Web Services (AWS). These approachesinitially evolved into distinctly different virtualization technologies….(more)

The acquisition of RightNow Technologies gives Oracle a cloudplatform-as-a-service that will allow the company to compete more directlywith …(more)

MarketWatchBy Owen Fletcher BEIJING -(MarketWatch)- An Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unit
and fund Yunfeng Capital have jointly set up a CNY1 billion ($157 million)fund to invest in cloud-computing companies and developers that makeapplications for a mobile-device …(more)

ZDNet (blog)This guest post comes from Mark Skilton, Global Director of Strategy andGlobal Infrastructure Services, Capgemini, and Co-Chair of the CloudComputing Work Group, The Open Group. By Mark Skilton The issue of successor failure in moving your company …(more)

ReutersHowever, Rick Sherlund said it is not all about SalesForce.com, as Oracleis trying to broaden out its entire software-as-a-service offerings to makesure they are broadly competitive in the market. RightNow might have to payOracle a termination fee …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)The Company offers me the opportunity to apply everything I have learnedtechnically over the years from my experience in data centers, networks,and software applications as a service,” said Gibson. “Iveda Solutions istransforming the cloud video …(more)

ZDNet (blog)With the acquisition of early SaaS pioneer RightNow Technologies, Oraclehas signalled its intention to build out its Public Cloud offering withwhat will likely become a string of acquisitions of second-tier SaaSvendors. I’m in total agreement with …(more)

TMC NetBy Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor Clarizen, a SaaS (News - Alert)
work execution software company, announced the launch of Clarizen InterAct,an e-mail server that allows users to manage work directly from theire-mail client. …(more)

During the VMworld sessions that Chris Colotti and I present the privatevCloud architecture deep dive we cover the top 9 new vCloud featuresincluded in …(more)

“Enterprise-wide adoption of cloud computing will blossom with theincreasing bandwidth,” noted Terry Hines, President, NovaTech Services, inthis exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan. “Thegreatest limiting …(more)

By Chris Ross
Discussions on how having a sound Recovery Management strategy that focuseson Data Protection and High Availability technologies can helporganisations avoid downtime, which often impacts productivity, reputationand profitability.(more)

MSPmentorThe North American SaaS-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) marketremains promising for the next several years, according to a new reportfrom Research & Markets. The study predicts SaaS-based ERP software revenuewill experience a compound …(more)

TMC NetBy Calvin Azuri Intertainment Media Inc., provider of technology and
marketing solutions for improving branding and consumer engagement, hassuccessfully completed the acquisition of Ontario Corporation, SaaS (News -Alert) Technologies Inc. The deal …(more)

TMC NetBy Mini Swamy AccessVia’s Web dSignShop Software as a Service (SaaS (News -
Alert)) scored a hit with Modell’s Sporting Goods, which decided toimplement AccessVia technologies for their in-store signage publishingsystem. Implementation of the system …(more)

By 2015, combined spending for public and private cloud storage will be
$22.6 billion worldwide, the report says.(more)

The AustralianTHE federal government could consider giving Australian cloud computingproviders an exemption under its carbon tax regime. A spokesman forCommunications Minister Stephen Conroy said the government was confidentthat the tax system was yet to pose a …(more)

Moneycontrol.comPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) means that the provider offers a platformthrough which you can develop and sell apps and runs an operating systemfor you to use. SaaS or software-as-a-service is the more popular form ofcloud computing where users can …(more)

By Jason
Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) provider has doubled revenues each yearsince 2007; company continues growth through acquisitions and industrypartnerships . ALISO VIEJO, Calif., October 21, 2011 - Telogis Inc., theplatform for location …(more)

By Mellisa Tolentino
Also, IBM is unleashing the full potential of their SmartCloud, anenterprise-class, secure managed cloud services platform that brings thebest of public and private cloud models together to meet customer needs, asthey now have infiltrated the government. IBM merged social networking …This offers Software as a Service (SaaS) options for email andcollaboration solutions that are designed to meet federal governmentguidelines and requirements. With these services, you can move …(more)

Bradenton HeraldWe provide leading-edge SaaS solutions in large markets with substantialheadroom for growth, and we see great opportunities to expand our businessin the coming years. All of these factors lead us to believe that the timeis right to expand our …(more)

Learn how one of the largest direct media organizations in the UnitedStates is utilizing Bluemile’s vCloud Powered Cloud. Ignite Media runstheir core …(more)

Can’t make the date? If you come to this page before or after the test dayis completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use theinformation on this page …(more)

anywhereSacramento BeeBy Lexmark International, Inc. LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 20, 2011 –
/PRNewswire/ — Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK) announced todaythat its enterprise-class Print Release solution can be hosted in the cloudvia a Software as a Service (SaaS) model …(more)

Sacramento BeeBattaglia brings to ThinkVine more than 25 years of experience leadinggrowth-stage software, software-as-a-service and information servicesbusinesses. His track record of success includes a variety of executivemanagement roles at SPSS, …(more)

ReadWriteWebIntel has put together a video that demonstrates using VMware vSphere,VMware vCloud Director, and VMware vShield Manager on Intel Xeon hardwareto create a reliable, secure and efficient cloud. Save hours reading thedocumentation and learn if …(more)