December 2011

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• Why Amazon.com Is the Cloud-Computing King

Motley FoolIt’s no wonder Amazon is the cloud-computing king. The mobile revolutionand cloud computing are fundamentally linked, and the mobile revolution isset to become The Next Trillion-Dollar Revolution. There are lots ofcompanies that are set to cash in …(more)

• Bank Shuts Down Local Online Advertising Company WebVisible For Not Paying

DebtsTechCrunchCrunchbase WEBVISIBLE Company: WebVisible Website: webvisible.com LaunchDate: December 29, 2011 Funding: $37M Based in Southern California,WebVisible is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company and leading name inlocal online advertising, …(more)

• North Korea acclaims new supreme leader

Herald SunEDITORS NOTE: This image is distributed as a service to clients, exactly asreceived from KCNA AFP PHOTO/KCNA Mourners along the funeral route.Picture: AP Jong-Un, clad in a black overcoat, headed the platform. Theofficial news agency also described …(more)

• SaaS inappropriate for major software applications Forrester

Siliconindia.comBy SiliconIndia, Wednesday, 28 December 2011, 21:53 Hrs SaaS
(Software-as-a-Service) will have problems getting traction from thelower-level software enterprise. It faces obstacles in major spheres ofsoftware like operating system, database, …(more)

• New Brighton Sr. Software Engineer – Shavlik SaaS/web …

New Brighton Sr. Software Engineer – Shavlik SaaS/web Engineering Job – MN,55112.(more)

• Our Outlook for Tech & Communication Services Stocks

Morningstar.comAlthough the deal is strategically interesting for the companies involved,the announcement came on the heels of Oracle’s announced intention toacquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) customer service specialist RightNowTechnologies and was quickly …(more)

• Roundup: Intel Atom, IO, Bharti Airtel,

Data Center KnowledgeIO announced that it now provides IT consulting firm Solugenix with datacenter as a service at IO Phoenix, via its modular technology platform IOAnywhere. IO Anywhere adds capacity through data center as a service, whichis delivered in a range of …(more)

• Add This IPO to Your 2012 Watch List

Wall Street DailyBased in Burlington, Massachusetts, Demandware is a leading provider ofsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) e-commerce solutions. It allows customers tooutsource all their e-commerce needs including designing, implementing andmanaging their e-commerce sites …(more)

• IT pros will take a harder look at cloud computing in 2012

SearchCloudComputing.comDespite slow adoption by enterprise IT in the years since cloud computingemerged, 2012 may turn out to be the year when cloud technologies finallybegin to gain parity with more traditional data center staples such asvirtualization and tape libraries …(more)

• LabTech Software and Reflexion Partner to Ensure Cloud Computing Email …

MarketWatch (press release)TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — LabTech Software, theonly powerful, robust-featured remote monitoring and management (RMM)solution developed by a Managed Service Provider (MSP) for Managed ServiceProviders, today announced its …(more)

• IDS Installs Assistly SaaS Platform

Mortgageorbby MortgageOrb.com on Thursday 29 December 2011 IDS, a Salt Lake City-basedmortgage document preparation vendor, has installed a SaaS-based socialcustomer service platform from Assistly, a recent acquisition bySalesforce.com, into its back-office …(more)

• DataServ Managing Partner Jeffrey Haller Attended Wine Industry Conference

DigitalJournal.com (press release)DataServ’s SaaS document and process automation solutions were showcased atthe 2011 Wine Industry Conference, an event put on by the CalCPAOrganization. This conference provides a forum for industry professionalsand CPAs to gather and share …(more)

• What Clouds Destroy They First Make Cheaper

Seeking AlphaSoftware as a Service (SaaS) is not cloud. A SaaS company likeSalesforce.com (CRM) may be hosted in a cloud environment, but theenvironment and the resulting service are not the same thing. Cloud is anew way of organizing computing resources that …(more)

• The Outlook for Enterprise-Software Stocks

Barron’sFurther complicating this task is the impact that recent M&A activity willhave on certain stocks, particularly those in the Software as a Service(SaaS) market. Relying primarily on the experiences of the “GreatRecession” of 2008/2009 as a guide, …(more)

• CA Technologies surveys cloud-computing challenges

NewsdayClick here CA Technologies surveys cloud-computing challenges 17 m ago ByJoseph Mallia Challenges in the transition toward cloud computing — andaway from dedicated servers and PC-installed software — is the focus of aninformal poll on the website …(more)

• More Cloud, Web Companies Join SOPA Opposition

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) gained more vocal
opponents from the cloud computing and Web community this week as DreamHostand Domain.com publicly denounced the bill. DreamHost’s and Domain.com’smoral opposition to the …(more)

• Video Installing VMWare vCloud Connector | Cloud Zone

In this video, David Davis (cool name, esp. on a qwerty keyboard) walksthrough installation and setup of the VMWare vCloud Connector, fromdownload…(more)

• VMware Communities: vCloud Director host issue?

So I’m trying to get our vCloud Director working and I’ve hit a snag that Ican’t find anything on the internet about. Basically, when I go to launch avApp I get the …(more)

• 2011 – A Great Year for vCloud | Virtacore Systems [blog]

Since one of our key partners is VMware, I thought a review of the the corecomponents of our clouds (VMware vCloud) might be interesting as well as…(more)

• EE Times’ top ten cloud stories in 2011

Power Management Design LineThe most popular cloud computing stories of 2011 were about big vendorsjumping into or kicking the tires on this emerging space and engineerscoming to grips with the technologies involved. Data center design newsalso grabbed some eyeballs while …(more)

• Top picks 2012: Ford

MSN MoneyWith the average age of vehicles on US roads hitting almost 11 years,pent-up demand resulted in an impressive 10.6% rise in seasonally adjustedannual sales (SAAS) to 13.6 million units as of last month. That’s up froma SAAS total of 12.28 million in …(more)

• 10-K: BRIDGELINE DIGITAL, INC.

Middle East North Africa Financial NetworkThe iAPPS product suite is delivered through a Cloud-based SaaS (“Softwareas a Service”) business model, whose flexible architecture providescustomers with state of the art deployment providing maintenance, dailytechnical operation and support; …(more)

• The Power of Cloud Computing

SYS-CON Media (press release)”I think cloud computing is a global phenomenon. There are two sets ofusers that benefit from the cloud – users from the developed countries andusers from the developing countries, the ‘Next Eleven’,” explains WinstonDamarillo, CEO at Morphlabs, …(more)

Current results from Data Survey #1: Data Scientists. Thanks to everyone for helping the world understand Big Data better!

Please take the following 2-minute survey to help us understand your hadoop environment better.

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

• SS&C Acquires Identity Verification and Credit Retrieval Assets of

Teledata …MarketWatch (press release)… financial services software and software-enabled services, todayannounced it has completed the acquisition of the background search andcredit retrieval software-as-a-service suite and associated customers fromTeledata Communications, Inc. (TCI). …(more)

• Rucha Gujarati to enter ”Saas Bina Sasural” | 10964

New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) TV actress Rucha Gujarati, known for shows like”Bhabhi” and ”Kkusum”, will enter as a new character in popular show”Saas Bina Sasural”.(more)

• Cutting through some of the fog surrounding cloud

San Antonio ExpressThe global cloud computing industry grew to an estimated $40 billion in2011 and doesn’t show any signs of slowing. More companies are throwingtheir hats into the ring and competition is getting fierce in an industrythat is expected to grow to about …(more)

• SaaS Sales Commissions: Better to Base on MRR or Bookings?

Business InsiderTypically, the SaaS businesses that should focus on driving MRR growth areones where the offering is sold as relatively small transactions (and shortsales cycles). In this case, licensing tends to be at a recurring monthlybasis, where sales does not …(more)

• Amazon Creates Cloud-Based Supercomputer

TechnoratiSome tech genius at Amazon’s cloud computing complex figured out that theonline shop and application hosting service could tie together its 300000online virtual computing cores, to perform, in concert, a whopping 240trillion calculations/second, …(more)

• Let the Cloudwashing Continue… | Cloud Computing Journal

“Cloud computing is expected to mature and become a mainstream technologyfor businesses in Asia-Pacific by 2015,” according to a new forecast fromFrost & Sullivan. Meanwhile, Joe McKendrick writes in Forbes that “‘cloud’will begin to …(more)

• multitenancy – Linux – Softpedia

django-multitenant Helps manage multitenancy for Django projects.(more)

• WOLTERS KLUWER : Pharmacy OneSource Announces Free Webinar on Launching …

4-traders (press release)is healthcare’s #1 Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider. Our more than 100innovative team members provide best-in-class, SaaS solutions to currentand future challenges within health-systems worldwide. Our SaaS solutionscontribute to swift and safe …(more)

• Town Of Virden Relies On Brivo To Secure Regional Multi-Purpose

Retail Solutions Online (press release)Brivo Systems LLC, leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications forsecurity management, recently announced that the Town of Virden, located inthe province of Manitoba, has installed Brivo ACS OnSite Aparato to provideaccess control management …(more)

• Cloud computing roars into 2012

InfoWorld (blog)Also called “retail clouds,” offerings such as iCloud, Box.net, Dropbox,Office 365, and Google Apps will dominate much of the spending in 2012 asthe at-home market finds that cloud computing is both convenient and cheap….(more)

• Maximizing Cloud Uptime

IT Business NetBernard Golden — author of Virtualization for Dummies and CEO ofHyperStratus, a cloud computing consultancy — recently spoke withIntelligence in Software about the top pitfalls and best practices thatCIOs and IT managers need to consider when it …(more)

• Debian Details of package pythonopenstackcommon in sid

Common code for Openstack Projects. … Common code for Openstack Projects.This packagage contains common code needed for Openstack Projects …(more)

• Five Open Source Technologies for 2012

PCWorldThe OpenStack project arrived relatively late to the cloud computing party,but it comes with one particularly indispensable feature: scalability.”We’re not talking about [using OpenStack to run a] cloud of 100 servers oreven 1000 servers, …(more)

• 5 Big Cloud Trends For 2012

InformationWeekIt is becoming apparent that companies will not adopt a single clouddeployment model, but rather will use a combination of various public cloudservices (including Software as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service, andPlatform as a Service), …(more)

• Rackspace Cloud Adds OpenLogic CloudSwing PaaS to Lineup

TalkinCloud (blog)by Matthew Weinberger on OpenLogic CloudSwing, one of many recent entrantsinto the open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market, has announced itsentry into the Rackspace Cloud Tools program. Rackspace Hosting’s customersand partners can now …(more)

• Taulia Achieves Safe Harbor Certification

PR Web (press release)Taulia received this recognition for its SaaS Dynamic Discounting andSupplier Portal offering, which provides significant financial benefits toboth large organizations and their suppliers. Safe Harbor certificationallows US companies the ability to …(more)

• Saas Bahu Aur Saazish 27th December 2011

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• Benefits of SaaS-based Payroll System for Small Businesses

With SaaS-based payroll system, the small-business owners have betteraccess to payroll information, improved efficiency and reduced expenses.SaaS means …(more)

• Cloud Could Rain On Microsoft’s Profit Parade

ForbesMost enterprise software giants have started offering cloud-based,on-demand versions of their software, aiming to capture market share in therapidly growing cloud computing market. Microsoft itself has launchedOffice 365, a cloud version of the …(more)

• Identive Agrees to Acquire Outstanding Shares of idOnDemand

MarketWatch (press release)”As we expand our R&D investment in SaaS and gear up to launch ourcloud-based secure NFC platform, we view full ownership of idOnDemand to bestrategically important and we are pleased to have been able to reach thisagreement,” stated Ayman S. Ashour …(more)

• Taleo’s Recruiting Solution Processed 15% of Last Year’s US Hires

TechCrunchOther than Salesforce, no cloud SaaS provider handles more transactionsthan Taleo. The stats the company revealed to me about its 2011 arestaggering. The Taleo talent and recruitment solution helped enterpriseshire 3.1 million people, roughly 15% of …(more)

• CloudSwing Platform Comes to Rackspace Cloud

ITProPortalThe OpenLogic CloudSwing platform-as-a-service offers cost tracking andtechnology stacks customisation to enterprises. The platform offerspre-configured stacks that make deploying PaaS solutions much easier. “Weare excited to expand OpenLogic …(more)

• Mobile Security Touch, Data, Cloud, Security Are Key Enterprise Words for

2012CIO TodayHilwa also predicts that platform-as-a-service, or PaaS, backends will beseen as “mainstream for consumer and mobile apps” in 2012, while enterpriseapp vendors will increasingly engage around PaaS “as they accommodate theneeds of small- to mid-size …(more)