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November 11, 2011

Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 11, 2011

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

  • Cloud computing can cut carbon emissions by half report finds …
  • EurActiv: Large companies in UK and France could cut their emissions 50% by2020, Carbon Disclosure Project report says.(more)

  • Implementation of Private Cloud Gets Easier with the Introduction of
  • Rackspace …TMC NetBy Madhubanti Rudra San Antonio-based Rackspace (News – Alert) Hosting is
    known for its open source cloud operating system called OpenStack. Thecompany recently announced the introduction of Rackspace Cloud: PrivateEdition, an OpenStack-powered cloud …(more)

  • Everything Sharepoint: VMWare vCloud Director – Installation and …
  • This is part 1 in a multi-part blog post, in this first post I’ll describethe process of laying the groundwork for what will eventually be a workingvCloud Director …(more)

  • The Platform-as-a-Service Revolution with IT management
  • The Platform-as-a-Service Revolution with IT management … based on Ruby)by SalesForce for $212 million, or like SAP, Red Hat, and Software AG whohave …(more)

  • ERP and Software as a Service
  • Software as a service is a huge success! … and running much quicker thanyou can with a traditional in-house platform and there is very littletraining required, …(more)

  • How Sridhar Vembu’s Zoho Corporation changed avatars since its inception
  • in …Economic TimesThe company started out by building software for other companies. It thenentered the Software as a Service ( SaaS) space and in one stroke becamethe competitor-to-beat for giants like Microsoft and Salesforce byproviding online applications for …(more)

  • This Week in Cloud, November 10, 2011: NIST releases ‘Bible of cloud …
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)In this InfoWorld article , Savio Rodriques explains why he believesOpenStack will falter in its race with Eucalyptus to be the leading opensource cloud platform, despite the current spate of vendor momentum behindOpenStack. …(more)

  • Add SaaS to the New Alphabet of Accounting
  • As a finance guy involved in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) world for thelast six years, I’ve been truly amazed at the technical elegance of SaaSand the …(more)

  • Fantasy Shopper Takes Home Global Grand Prize at Amazon Web Services
  • Start-Up …MarketWatch (press release)Booshaka simplifies advocacy marketing for brands and businesses by makingsense of large amounts of social data and providing an easy to usesoftware-as-a-service solution. In an era where people are bombarded bymedia, advertisers face significant …(more)

  • Desktop Clouding as Solver for Smart Working and Security
  • Korea IT Times (press release)Herein computer resources mean hardware resources such asCPU,Memory,Hardisk as well as software including operating system andvarious applications, and it could be classified according to types ofresources as SaaS(Software as a Service), …(more)

  • Standing Cloud raises $3M to help new cloud providers stay …
  • By Sean Ludwig
    Standing Cloud is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company that offers anapplication storefront and life-cycle management to cloud serviceproviders. The service makes it possible to deploy, manage and monitor webapplications like …(more)

  • UNIT4, NCCW partner to deliver joint SaaS offering
  • Computer Business ReviewERP and financial management software provider UNIT4 and software,consultancy services provider NCCW have partnered to provide a jointSoftware as a Service (SaaS) offering for social housing organisations.NCCW is the developer of Corporatie Cloud, …(more)

  • Data Integration in the Cloud – or Not
  • TechNewsWorldBy Robert Fox It’s a question faced by countless SMB CIOs and IT managers:
    “Should we implement data integration on-premise or choose a cloud-basedSoftware as a Service solution provider?” It doesn’t have to be all ornothing. …(more)

  • Fujistu to set up enterprise app store for its cloud
  • ZDNet UKBy Jack Clark, ZDNet UK, 11 November, 2011 12:24 Fujitsu is set to open an
    enterprise app store for its platform-as-a-service, in hopes of seeding itscloud with software from independent developers. The Fujitsu BusinessSolutions Store, announced on …(more)

  • Grails – user – Multi Tenancy and Inheritance Problem
  • Multi Tenancy and Inheritance Problem. Hi, I’m having a problem with theplugin Multi Tenant Single DB. Apparently, when I have a domain class with…(more)

  • Kerberos and Multi-Tenancy Sites
  • I have now created several multi-tenancy URLs that share the same webapplication http://sharepoint.local, but use a different URL to accesstheir site collection …(more)

  • UI Engineer at a thriving SaaS Startup at AppDirect ~ Authentic Jobs
  • AppDirect offers companies a free, private business application network tofind, buy and manage the latest and greatest web-based applications. Itallows businesses to use and manage all their web-based applications in onesimple and …(more)

  • Quanta chief supports cloud computing at alma mater
  • Focus Taiwan News Channel11 (CNA) Quanta Computer Chairman Barry Lam may have bashed his alma materjust weeks ago, but on Friday, he formally donated equipment to helpNational Taiwan University (NTU) build a cloud computing R&D platform. Atthe donation ceremony, …(more)

  • HyperOffice Productivity SaaS Enters Amazon GovCloud
  • TalkinCloud (blog)On the Citrix VDI-Google Apps spectrum of SaaS productivity, it’s somewherein the middle. Meanwhile, Amazon GovCloud is the arm of cloud services firmAmazon Web Services with dedicated hardware and FISMA, SAS-70, ISO 27001,FIPS 140-2 and PCI DSS …(more)

  • Avangate SkyCommerce Adds Channel Focus to Online SaaS Sales
  • TalkinCloud (blog)by Charlene O’Hanlon on Picture this: You’re a small, niche software vendoror SaaS provider that has a nifty product but can’t get the sales tractionthe big boys enjoy. You don’t have distribution relationships, and yourcompany isn’t big enough to …(more)

  • Cloud Computing’s Pros and Cons: IEEE CIO Weighs In
  • CIO InsightThe three core cloud computing service models — IaaS, PaaS and SaaS — allprovide varying levels of economies of scale, impose varying degrees ofvendor lock-in, and have their own issues with regard to systemsintegration among the various …(more)

  • Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Powered Private Cloud
  • Cloud IT ProRackspace has ventured into the private cloud business Rackspace Cloud:Private Edition, an OpenStack-powered cloud backed by Rackspace managedservices and operational support. The offering is aimed at enterprise ITdepartments that want the benefits …(more)

  • MDM in Cloud Computing
  • Energy PulseAbstract: Cloud computing has brought in radical change in the way ITinfrastructure (compute, storage and network) can be provisioned on demandfrom a shared pool and charged on pay per use model. This results in myriadbusiness benefits including …(more)

  • Avangate Tools Help Software Vendors Manage Online Distribution
  • CRNAvangate’s SkyCommerce Suite comes at a time when electronic distributionand Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery of applications are upendingtraditional distribution channels for software products. “The top 40application vendors have leveraged …(more)

  • Presentation software for the non-linear thinker
  • ZDNet (blog)So, for those executives, salespeople and marketing types that want to turnthe art of giving presentations on its ears, you might want to check out acool software as a service (SaaS) application, desktop and tablet basedapplication series from a …(more)

  • Federated Cloud Strategies: What CIOs Need to Know
  • ComputerworldCloud computing rapidly gained traction because of its ability to managethe complexity of multiple legacy environments while consolidatinginfrastructure. But as organizations move forward with various cloudinitiatives, many CIOs are now wrestling a …(more)

  • CompTIA Rolls Out Cloud Computing Certification
  • Channel InsiderCompTIA and ITpreneurs have partnered to release a new credential focusedon cloud computing skills and best practices. The Cloud Essentials examwill be available through CompTIA in December. Cloud computingcertifications currently available focus on …(more)

  • Server Monitoring Added to New Relic’s APM Solution
  • TMC NetBy Carolyn J Dawson Free Server Monitoring has been added by New Relic to
    its SaaS (News – Alert) application performance management or APM tool.Visibility into critical resource utilization is therefore provided toorganizations. …(more)

  • Cloud Computing For Small Businesses
  • HostReview.com (press release) (blog)Service cloud or Software as a Service or SaaS or application clouddelivers applications using a cloud infrastructure or platform. Software asa Service or SaaS does not provide cloud features themselves. Platform as aService or PaaS delivers …(more)

  • ActiveState Releases New Management and Monitoring Features for
  • ActiveState …TMC Net… of cloud solutions for dynamic language applications, announced that ithas released new management and monitoring features for the ActiveStateStackato, the infrastructure-agnostic, multilingual privatePlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution. …(more)

  • Dell Announces Cloud Computing Initiative Targeting Kids’ Cancer
  • iHealthBeatOn Thursday, Dell announced plans to partner with the National CancerInstitute and research organizations on a cloud computing project designedto spur the development of more effective and personalized treatments forchildren with cancer, …(more)

  • Twin peaks
  • Financial TimesBy Haig Simonian In the southern Swiss Alps, just 9km separate the church
    spires of Saas Fee and Zermatt, its more illustrious neighbour. On the faceof it, the two villages could be twins. Both are high, pretty andsurrounded by towering peaks. …(more)

Daily Log News Feed – Nov 11, 2011

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @logzilla. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

Daily ITIL News Feed – Nov 11, 2011

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @itilpedia. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.