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- White Says HP Should Move to Cloud Computing, Drop PCs
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)
- 3 Tips for Improving Customer Engagement in SaaS Applications
Correct interpretation of consumer actions is the basis for running asuccessful SaaS business. Here are three tips to improve customerengagement.(more)
- How to choose an SMB Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution
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)
- Internap Launches First OpenStack Public Cloud Service
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)
- Caringo brings enterprise-ready Object Storage to OpenStack
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)
- Phillip Pollard VMwarevCloudv212 searchcpanorg
VMwarevCloudv207 06 Oct 2011, VMwarevCloudv206 05 Oct 2011,VMwarevCloudv204 03 Oct 2011, VMwarevCloudv202 30 Sep 2011, VMwarevCloud1.614 Jul 2011 …(more)
- BrownBag – vCloud Networking
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 Forecast
Strategy Analytics: Corporate Mobile Software-as-a-Service Forecast2010-2016. BOSTON –(Business Wire)–. According to the latest StrategyAnalytics (News …(more)
- The King of Cloud: Q&A with Marc Benioff
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)
- OpenStack International Community in Launchpad
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)
- Is the IT Department on its Way Out in Your Company?
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)
- Callidus Software Named to Software Magazine’s 29th Annual Software 500
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)
- OpenLogic Rolls Out Open PaaS to the Public | SiliconANGLE
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)
- Cloud Platform ThinkGrid Gains Significant Investment from Runa …
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)
- Evaluating Public Cloud Computing Performance | Pacific-Tier …
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)
- Evaluating Cloud Computing: Achieve Performance and Financial …
“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)
- Hotel Management Software Company and Leading VOIP Provider Team up to
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)
- Azure updates may leave Windows shops wanting 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)
- Clouds, open source, and new network models: Part 3
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)
- What is Multi-tenancy?
Variability in Multi-tenant SaaS Applications Jaap Kabbedijk, MSc. UtrechtUniversity, the Netherlands.(more)
- View from the Edge: Cool Stuff: OpenEdge 11 Multi-tenancy
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 – TMCnet
Strategy Analytics: Corporate Mobile Software-as-a-Service Forecast2010-2016. … Call Center Software …. Solving the Back End with PlatformSolutions …(more)
- What Is Cloud Computing?
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)
- cloud computing
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)
- ITpreneurs Providing Training Courses for Certified Cloud Computing
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)
- Cloud Computing: OPC Formalized with a Foundation
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)
- Internap Launches First OpenStack Public Cloud Service – Cloud …
The first OpenStack-based cloud-computing platform is now publiclyavailable, courtesy of hosting service Internap.(more)
- Caringo CAStor integrates object storage with OpenStack Swift
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)
- SuSE enters OpenStack IaaS race
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)
- The Digital Home
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)
- Internap Takes OpenStack Public Cloud To The People
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)
- Open-source project finds right PaaS
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)
- OpenLogic Debuts New Platform-as-a-Service
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)
- Interactive Intelligence To VARs: Test-Drive Our Cloud-Based UC Platform
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)
- AirWatch Continues Industry Leadership by Combining the Most Secure and …
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)
- Internap launches first public OpenStack cloud
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)
- German researchers disclose Amazon cloud vulnerability
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)
- Q&A with Joshua McKenty of Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
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)
- CSC and Educational Testing Service Announce Five-and-a-Half Year, $200+ …
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)
- Fiberlink Highlights SaaS for Wireless Management Offering
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)
- Young & Thompson Implements First To File’s EFR For Trademarks
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)
- Caringo brings object storage to OpenStack
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)
- Gotcha: vCloud Director Clone Wars – Part 1 – Chris Colotti’s Blog
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)