December 2011

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

• Cloud, Social Computing Expected To Dominate 2012

Investor’s Business DailyAnd social networking, mobile computing, cloud computing and digitaldelivery of entertainment will continue to change the competitivelandscape. A look ahead: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shows off changes tothe social site in 2011. …(more)

• Spanish Data Protection Authority Opens Consultation on Cloud …

Spanish Data Protection Authority Opens Consultation on Cloud Computing |The Web Host Industry Review – Web Hosting News. … Related Topics:europe, cloud computing, spain. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Spanish data…(more)

• A Brief Analysis on the 3 Kings of Cloud Computing, Microsoft …

Google, Microsoft and Amazon are said to be the three kings of cloudcomputing. Moreover, all the three are built with a view to give users’public cloud platform, through which they can run their daily workoperations smoothly and efficiently. …(more)

• A Model-Based Approach to Cloud Computing | Virtualization Journal

3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo Call For Papers andSponsorship Opportunities Now Open! June 23-24, 2008 New York City.(more)

• Strong Swiss franc takes toll on economy

XinhuaA few kilometers higher in the valley is the Alpine ski resort of Saas Fee,one of Switzerland’s most famous winter attractions. For years, Swiss skiresorts had to cope with bad snowing conditions. But now, they have anotherbig enemy: the strong …(more)

• New national defense bill may help cloud computing thrive

CenterBeamWith the passing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, JerryBishop writes on Internet Evolution that he believes cloud computing mayget a big boost. Bishop said one section of the bill, section 2867, callsfor the CIO of the US Department …(more)

• Trends 2012: Integration-as-a-Service

DABCC.comEach offers tools that enable users to integrate data and applicationsusing pre-built software, commoditizing the integration process.Informatica is an old school data integrator, SnapLogic was co-founded byInformatica co-founder Gaurav Dhillon and …(more)

• Expert: Software-as-a-Service Will Continue Growth

Proofpoint’s Security Compliance and the Cloud News service: Daily originalnews articles covering cloud computing, SaaS, IT security, compliance,archiving, …(more)

• [INFO] vCloud Director Clone Wars Update – Chris Colotti’s Blog

In a recent email exchange with Massimo Re Ferre’ it came to light thatthere is in fact a fast copy process that is invoked in vCloud DIrectorPROVIDED all …(more)

• Plain Virtualization: vCloud Director 1.5: Setup Guide

I am very new to vCloud Director and in such have a hard time learning howto install this. I have to rely on reading the installation guide but thiscannot beat …(more)

• Best of 2011: Technology

CFO.com MagazineWhat were the differences between the three main cloud flavors:software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), andinfrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)? And speaking of service, what serviceswere the vendors really providing and at what …(more)

• Business Digest for Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011

Daily News TranscriptMost recently, she was a consultant to software-as-a-service and e-commercecompanies, providing strategy, branding, channel development and productlaunch and marketing expertise. The 2011 Survey of Online Learning recentlyrevealed that the number of …(more)

• One More Post for 2011

Enterprise IrregularsPlatform as a service, the least mature category, is getting some focus andwill play out as a part of the coming platform wars, which I’ll discusslater in the post. All of the major software vendors are making some strongmoves to build and shore up …(more)

• Hamari Saas Leela to end on a dramatic note | Tellychakkar.com

After being under the scanner for quite some time,Neela Telefilms’ HamariSaas Leela will finally bid adieu to its fans on 30 December 2011. The showwhich …(more)

• Forecast for Cloud Company Red Hat: CEO Positive: 24% Increase in Staff

Technorati… and the “revolutionary OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).” Thecompany’s motto is the “delivery of choice: Red Hat offers choice ofplatform, virtualization, cloud provider because it is an open sourceleader, presenting unique solutions. …(more)

• Club Cloud Computing Review

Thanks for visiting this Club Cloud…Taking into account that this productis above average, it could undoubtedly be one to take intoconsideration.However, despite the fact that it’s a fine product it isn’tthe highest ranked product in the …(more)

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

• Cloud computing storage to continue strong moves in 2012

CenterBeamThe growth of cloud computing storage should continue well into 2012,according to a post on Network Computing. Carl Brooks, an analyst for Tier1Research, said there could be many “cloud gateway” products to let peopleslowly make their way into a …(more)

• CEO Of Cloud Firm Red Hat Expects To Boost Staff 24%

Investor’s Business DailyBy PETE BARLAS, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 05:49 PM ET Founded in
1993, the company has become a leading provider of support and relatedservices for the Linux open-source operating system, which companies oftenuse to build cloud computing-based …(more)

• Confidence in cloud, cybersecurity key to growth

Reuters Blogs (blog)By Richard Beales Cloud computing and cybersecurity are both hot,
fast-growing markets. But faith in the cloud took a knock with outages atAmazon and elsewhere in 2011. And the hacking of targets from Sony toHollywood star Scarlett Johansson, …(more)

• Scope 5 Secures Financing for Energy and Sustainability Software Service

MarketWatch (press release)Scope 5 is the first SaaS [software as a service] alternative we’ve seenwith the function, flexibility and pricing that suit our business andgovernment clients.” Scope 5′s web-hosted software service helps a widerange of private and public-sector …(more)

• Software Company Takes Human Resources Into The Cloud

Investor’s Business DailyThe firm began with the traditional model, selling perpetual licenses forits software and packages. But it’s since transitioned to asoftware-as-a-service model, selling subscriptions to users for remoteaccess to the latest versions of its flagship …(more)

• VMware Communities: vCloud Director – move cvloud database…

I tried to find information about mooving vcloud director DB to another MSSQL Server but with no success. Does someone know how this can be done ?Thanks . …(more)

• Editorial Review of 2011 – Cloud Computing | Networking Exchange …

From the Laptop Computer of Editor-in-Chief, Terry Brock.(more)

• 2011 – A Great Year for vCloud – Spiceworks Community

By vendorpageid_359
IT Best Practices, How-tos, Product Reviews, discussions, articles for ITProfessionals in small and medium businesses.(more)

• BSI Payroll Tax Solutions Quickly Updated for Extended Payroll Tax Cut

PR Web (press release)The two-month extension of the payroll tax cut was signed by the Presidenton Friday, December 23, and updates were made available to BSI customersfor implementation immediately after the holidays on Tuesday, December 27,for both BSI TaxFactory …(more)

• The secret to getting rich in 2012: Open APIs

RegisterAs the industry moves from software to Infrastructure as a Service toPlatform as a Service, APIs are the key to the shift, as analyst KrishnanSubramanian details. But not just any APIs. The industry can’t stomach amillion competing APIs any more …(more)

• Department of Defense’s Cloud Computing Strategy: Saving Money &

Increasing …Smart Data CollectiveThe section also calls for reports from the CIO on the division’scost-savings as a result of transitioning to cloud computing to bepresented to Congress in March of each fiscal year, starting in 2012 andreoccurring through 2016. …(more)

• Download CloudBerry Explorer for OpenStack Storage 1.0.0.34 Free …

Download CloudBerry Explorer for OpenStack Storage – An intuitive clientfor OpenStack.(more)

• Naveed Massjouni / Net-OpenStack-Compute-1.0101 – search.cpan …

Net-OpenStack-Compute-1.0100 — 28 Dec 2011, Net-OpenStack-Compute- 1.0001– 22 Dec 2011, Net-OpenStack-Compute-1.0000 — 22 Dec 2011 …(more)

• Is it Better for a SaaS Business to Base Sales Commissions on MRR …

How your SaaS business organizes its sales commissions depends on yourcorporate objectives and the length of your sales cycles.(more)

• SaaS Predictions for 2012 | Smart SaaS

There are a number of SaaS firms who have either filed, like Eloqua, or areseriously considering going public in 2012, like Workday, Dropbox, Box, and…(more)

• Cloud computing tops tech trends for 2012

Buffalo Business FirstCompanies use cloud computing because it can help lower costs and scaleback the products they use. Area tech experts say a trend that morecompanies will explore and take advantage with the cloud is virtualizeddesktops.(more)

• Minnesota Public Radio|American Public Media Chooses VISI for Managed

Hosting …PR Web (press release)VISI will host MPR|APM’s web properties, including Marketplace.org and thePublic Insight Network (PIN), and utilize a new Software as a Service(SaaS) platform. The system is designed for easy addition of colocation,managed services, …(more)

• Top 10 cloud computing stories of 2011 – Information Management

Here are the most viewed cloud-related stories posted to the CloudComputing Exchange and Information Management over the past year.(more)

• SaaS (Software as a Service) – Quora

SaaS (Software as a Service) / Settings. Announce your SaaS solution toQuora users! (short description, screenshots,video and a link) Do yoursolution good, …(more)

• Deploy Business Solutions On Cloud

EFYTimes (press release)Newgen SaaS Offerings enable the organizations to reap the benefits of BPM& ECM suites without having to worry about huge capital investments.Organizations no longer need to be concerned about infrastructureprocurement and sizing tasks. …(more)

• How To Accelerate Cloud Adoption Through Windows 8

CRN (blog)By Greg Pierce, for, CRN December 30, 2011 Windows 8 is an operating system
that is a great fit for tablets — far better than a phone OS that can bejiggered to deliver enterprise functionality, says Pierce, ManagingDirector of Cloud Computing at …(more)

• 2012 and the Cloud: Computing Wonders That Won’t Cease

CloudTweaks NewsBut only vetted psychics can divine the future with truly reliableaccuracy, and cloud computing has yet to invent a custom-made crystal ball.That said, our finger on technology’s pulse has led us to expect more ofone truly good thing for the cloud: …(more)

• LabTech Software, Reflexion Partner on Cloud Computing Email Services

Channel InsiderLabTech integrates with Reflexion’s services to monitor the health andperformance of a range of hosted email services. LabTech Software,developers of a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution for managedservice providers (MSPs), …(more)

• Jade succeeding with push into great unknown

Otago Daily TimesSoftware as a service was taking off, the business intelligence market was”going crazy” and data management was becoming increasingly important. “Weneed to make sure we focus on the important markets and control ourprocesses,” Mr Richardson said. …(more)

• Hamari Saas Leela – 27th December 2011 Part 2 – uZood Video

Hamari Saas Leela – 27th December 2011 Part 2 on uZood Video. Hamari SaasLeela Episode 147 – 27th December 2011.(more)

• Integration Solutions a Must for SaaS Providers in 2012 …

The most important cloud computing model that has seen continuousimpressive growth is SaaS. A press release by Gartner on September 14th,2011 stated …(more)

• Fighting SaaS Fires with Fire

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: More than a few IT organizations have been struggling with
managing the usage of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications insidetheir organizations. It’s not necessarily that they are against the use ofSaaS, it’s just that the organizations …(more)