January 2012

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• Microsoft Offers $60K in Azure Cloud Services to Startups, Launches

BizSpark PluseWeekMicrosoft announces BizSpark Plus, an extension of its BizSpark program,and teams with startup accelerator TechStars to offer $60000 in cloudcomputing services to startups. Microsoft announced both its new BizSparkPlus, an extension to its BizSpark …(more)

• Cloud computing looks to be future of disaster management

NDSU The SpectrumTogether they developed a cloud computing disaster management system thatwould help communities more easily share information in the wake of acalamity. “Natural and manmade disasters require effective and efficientmanagement of massive amounts of …(more)

• Megaupload Equals Mega Fail for Cloud Computing

PC MagazineBy John C. Dvorak The shut down of Megaupload by the US government is not
being perceived for what it is: a mega failure for cloud computing. Theoperation, which had 50 million users, was a lot more than a pirateoperation.(more)

• Salary Study Measures Cloud, Virtualization Impact

Virtualization ReviewFollowing Azure in respective order are Amazon S-3 ($94843), CloudComputing ($92830), VMware vCloud ($88854), Virtualization (86669), Xen($85591), …(more)

• MetaFlows Announces Software-Based IDPS, Enables IDPS Hardware for 1/10 the

PriceEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)SAN DIEGO–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–MetaFlows, Inc., a startup focusedon leveraging emerging cloud and virtualization technologies for the nextgeneration of network security solutions, has developed a Software as aService (SaaS) product that …(more)

• HotDocs offers SaaS for laywers

Cloud ProHotDocs today unveiled its new Software as a Service (SaaS) application,aimed at lawyers in both the UK and US. HotDocs Document Services claims toautomate time consuming activities carried out by law firms in order to cuttime and costs.(more)

• CloudPassage Fills Gaps in Private-Public Cloud Security

eWeekSecurity as a Service (SaaS) vendor combines hosted security with cloudaccess to build secure environments for public and hybrid cloud users. Whenit comes to the cloud, security has always been the No. 1 concern forusers. After all, as data travels …(more)

• Linux Today Red Hat Quietly Joins the OpenStack Effort

Word is that Red Hat refused to sign on to OpenStack when it was announcedbecause it didnt like the governance model Red Hat also has its own cloud…(more)

• Why 2012 Could Be Another Big Year for Cloud Computing

DailyFinanceBy Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool Posted 6:07PM 01/30/12 Investing Now that
2011 has passed and 2012 is upon us, it’s time to evaluate the stocks youown and are interested in. Should you buy? Sell? Hold? Ignore? Today, we’llput these questions to …(more)

• Multi-Tenancy Lync with Severe Enterprise Voice Restrictions

I see the new Multi-Tenancy Lync “Feature Pack” has been released – howeverI can’t see how anyone could actually use this for enterprise voice with socalled …(more)

• Tilera Unleashes New Many-Core ‘Meshed’ CPUs for Cloud Computing

PC MagazineThe company is touting those performance and performance-per-watt levels asideal for systems running networking and cloud computing applications. “TheTILE-Gx36 has demonstrated an industry-best CoreMark score of over 165000while consuming a fraction …(more)

• NIST Issues Finalized Guidelines for Managing Security & Privacy in

Public …Information Law Group[Full disclosure: I'm a member of several NIST working groups, includingone currently working on the NIST draft of Challenging SecurityRequirements for US Government Cloud Computing Adoption.] Carrying on withits cloud mission, NIST last week …(more)

• Salesforce.com Launches Desk.com Help-desk Service

PCWorldBy Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS
(software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that canreach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter.Desk.com, which is based on …(more)

• 2012: Cloud and SaaS To Drive Need for Enterprise-wide Identity, Access

ManagementIntegration DevelopersThe explosive success of cloud computing, and especially SaaS, will driveIT in 2012 to search for better ways to ensure security, privacy andenterprise-wide identity and access management. IDN speaks with DarrenPlatt, CTO of Symplified about what …(more)

• Salesforce Launches Assistly-Powered Social And Mobile Customer Service …

TechCrunchLast September, Salesforce bought social customer service SaaS startupAssistly for $50 million-plus to help expand its service cloud offerings tosmall businesses. Today, Salesforce is debuting a brand newAssistly-inspired social and mobile customer …(more)

• The Rise of Cloud Computing on Wall Street

Wall Street & TechnologyBut clients that already have their own established infrastructures mighttake a first step toward cloud computing with an order management system orEze Castle’s disaster recovery services, Guilbert adds. “As they movetoward a technology refresh, …(more)

• SaaS Market in China Enterprise Industry Examined in New TechSci

Research …PR Web (press release)China is a very large potential SaaS market for basic business applicationssuch as accounting, HR and manufacturing related applications. New marketresearch report “China Enterprise SaaS Market Survey Analysis, 2012″developed by TechSci Research has …(more)

• Anybill Names Manny Siddiqui to Serve as CTO

MarketWatch (press release)WASHINGTON, DC, Jan 31, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Anybill, Inc., aleading accounting automation software provider, announced today that MannySiddiqui, a technical leadership veteran, has been named chief technologyofficer (CTO).(more)

• SaaS Market in China Enterprise Industry Examined in New TechSci

Research …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)New market research report “China Enterprise SaaS Market Survey Analysis,2012″ developed by TechSci Research has been recently published by MarketPublishers Ltd. Software as a service (SaaS) or cloud computing has provedto be a significant software …(more)

• Fedora 17 gets Eucalyptus, OpenStack and hotspot support

The HAlthough it is still under development, some Red Hat developers have alsoundertaken to integrate all of the components of the Essex release ofOpenStack. A number of new features of interest to everyday users were alsoaccepted, including support for …(more)

• HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware cloud…

Good Gear Guide… includes connectors for tracking resources on both Amazon Web Servicesand those based on VMware’s vCloud standard, such as Terremark’s service.(more)

• RIM brings Office 365 to BlackBerry

Cloud ProThe mobile mogul announces cloud management for its smartphones and theintegration of Microsoft’s headline SaaS product. Research in Motion (RIM)chose this week to make a big leap into the cloud, announcing integrationof Office 365 and cloud …(more)

• Acumium eCommerce Turns Ten, Expanding SaaS and Mobile Offerings

PR Web (press release)One of the most notable changes is the addition of the GravityMarketeCommerce platform (serving mid-market e-tailers) to its portfolio ofsoftware as a service (SaaS) products. As a result, Acumium will have aSaaS offering for its base Acumium WCMS, …(more)

• AdJuggler Surpasses 1 Billion Real-Time Bid Ads And Announces Record Growth

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AdJuggler Inc., an industry leader in high performance, SaaS-based digitalad management systems, announced today that, since the launch of itsExchange Media Program (EMP) in April, it has successfully bid anddelivered more than 1 billion real-time …(more)

• Digital Reef Announces Enhanced Integration with kCura’s Relativity

MarketWatch (press release)NEW YORK, Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Digital Reef, leading Software asa Service (SaaS) eDiscovery provider, offering the fastest and smartestpath to legal review, today announced that it has enhanced its integrationwith kCura’s Relativity to …(more)

• Streamline Health Expands Client Base With Software as a Service

Agreement …MarketWatch (press release)CINCINNATI, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Streamline HealthSolutions, Inc. (nasdaqcm:STRM), a leading provider of enterprise contentmanagement and business analytics solutions for healthcare organizations,today announced that Riverside …(more)

• Atlantic Metro Communications Offers Legal Service Providers

Comprehensive …MarketWatch (press release)… a full-service Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider announcesits technology solution for legal service providers. This comprehensiveoffering enables service providers to deploy a more robust and dynamicinfrastructure and storage platform.(more)

• Quest(R) Partners with Desktone to Deliver Desktops as a Service (DaaS)

Built …MarketWatch (press release)By leveraging Desktone’s multi-tenant DaaS platform and NetApp’s storage
systems and management expertise, Quest is able to deliver cost-effective,full-featured virtual desktops to any device on-demand. Quest providesbusiness technology consulting …(more)

• Meeting the Productivity Challenge in a Consumerized IT World

TechNewsWorldThe number of ways that an application or entire desktop can be deliveredto employees has expanded tremendously, from centrally hosted software suchas terminal servers or Citrix-based sessions to new approaches such asSoftware as a Service, …(more)

• Cyan Announces Name Change

MarketWatch (press release)”This name change reflects Cyan’s ongoing focus on delivering a family ofinnovative packet-optical transport solutions with a broadening range ofsoftware and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems, and comprehensiveprofessional services,” says Frank …(more)

• VMTurbo Increases Multivendor Support in Operations Manager

The VAR GuyvCLoud Director Integration: For managing cloud operations and tweakingresources for optimal performance. Mulit-hypervisor Management:Platform-agnostic …(more)

• VMTurbo Enhances Platform to Assure Application Performance Across …

MarketWatchCloud-scale management through VMware vCloud Director integration. vCloudDirector enables the consolidation of virtual infrastructure acrossmultiple …(more)

• Numara Acquisition Opens Up Midmarket To BMC SaaS

NetworkComputing.comThe acquisition, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatoryapprovals, will further accelerate the growth of BMC’sSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) business as well as provide customers of bothcompanies access to IT management capabilities, …(more)

• Nimsoft Delivers Localized Version of Nimsoft Service Desk

MarketWatch (press release)31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Nimsoft today announced the release ofthe first localized version of Nimsoft Service Desk Software as a Service(SaaS) solution, a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager that enablesenterprises to manage and resolve …(more)

• SkillSoft Introduces Professional Advantage – A Flexible, Engaging

Competency …MarketWatch (press release)NASHUA, NH, Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SkillSoft, a leading SaaSprovider of e-learning and performance support solutions for globalenterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses,today announced SkillSoft Professional …(more)

• VMTurbo improves platform to assure application performance across …

CTRThe improved capabilities of VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 includecloud-scale management through VMware vCloud Director integration.(more)

• eXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and

User …MarketWatch (press release)31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — eXo, the user experienceplatform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today announced generalavailability of eXo Platform 3.5. This new release of eXo Platform isdesigned for organizations that want a cloud-enabled …(more)

• Leading Software Development Outsourcer Uses WSO2 ESB and WSO2 BAM to

Deliver …MarketWatch (press release)PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — WSO2 announced todaythat Godel Technologies (GodelTech) has implemented an API platform for thetransportation services agency of a major euro zone city using two productsfrom the WSO2 Carbon …(more)

• Nimsoft Delivers Localized Version of Nimsoft Service Desk

Sacramento Bee31, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Nimsoft today announced the release of thefirst localized version of Nimsoft Service Desk Software as a Service(SaaS) solution, a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager that enablesenterprises to manage and resolve IT …(more)

• ScaleXtreme Launches Program for Cloud Service Providers

MarketWatchWith the integration, any service provider building public or private cloudofferings with VMware vCloud, Citrix CloudStack or OpenStack platforms cannow …(more)

• HP Extends Asset Mapping Into Amazon, VMware Clouds

PCWorldHP Software’s Content Pack 10 for DDMA, released Tuesday, includesconnectors for tracking resources on both Amazon Web Services and thosebased on VMware’s vCloud standard, such as Terremark’s service. DDMA probesa network and returns a description …(more)

• Salesforce Gives Help Desks A Social, Mobile Twist

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Salesforce.com continued its social enterprise
mission Tuesday with the launch of a customer service play, dubbedDesk.com, that the SaaS giant said injects social and mobile capabilitiesinto the help desk.(more)

• Totango Optimizes Customer Engagement With More than one Million Businesses

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)To date, Totango has analyzed and optimized the customer engagement withmore than one million prospects and customers leading to increases in salesperformance and higher rates of customer success for its SaaS(software-as-a-service) customers.(more)

• Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service | CFOworld

By admin
Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service)help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users throughsocial networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which is based onSalesforce.com’s … The Desk.com service is positioned withinSalesforce.com’s Service Cloud application lineup, which it has grownthrough other acquisitions, particularly the 2008 purchase of call-centerplatform vendor Instranet. Assistly is used by some large …(more)

• Moxie Software rides social wave to big growth | VentureBeat

By Matthew Weinberger
Moxie Software, purveyor of social networking solutions for the enterprise,says that 2011 was a strong year for the company — so strong, in fact,that it added 75 new customers and boosted recurring revenues by 40percent. … Moreover, Kelly says that 79 percent of existing Moxiecustomers deepened their usage in 2011, which contributed to quadrupledsales of the Moxie Employee Spaces collaboration platform from last year.Going forward, Kelly says that Moxie is in a good place …(more)

• Product Engineer – Software as a Service (SaaS) jobs – Dice.com

Browse Product Engineer – Software as a Service (SaaS) jobs at Dice.com.(more)

• West Interactive Releases Upgrade to Holly Voice Platform

MarketWatchThe Holly heritage of offering reliable, scalable multitenancy solutions isextended in the Holly Voice Platform 6.0. The new release offers moreefficient …(more)

• Cloud Security, Costs Concern Federal IT Pros

InformationWeekAs White House continues to push cloud computing, federal IT managers stillworry about security and costs, Ponemon survey finds. By J. Nicholas HooverInformationWeek Federal IT managers are working to adopt cloud computingtechnologies and comply …(more)

• Planetary-scale computing

ZDNet (blog)By Phil Wainewright | January 31, 2012, 11:56am PST One of the fundamental
principles when implementing cloud computing is the concept of repeatablescale. There was a great illustration of that principle in operation inlast week’s Wired report on …(more)

• Streamline Health Expands Client Base With Software as a Service

Agreement …Sacramento BeeBy Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. CINCINNATI, Jan. 31, 2012 –
/PRNewswire/ — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NasdaqCM: STRM), aleading provider of enterprise content management and business analyticssolutions for healthcare organizations, …(more)

• Microsoft ‘committed’ to Hyper-V OpenStack Support

PCWorldBy Nancy Gohring, IDG News Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V
in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code — which oneOpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained — from the stack.”Microsoft is committed to working …(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.

• Canonical and Citrix highlight the pitfalls of proprietary cloud …

Corporate IT… beware of cloud solutions that are actually just virtualisation dressedup as cloud, they’re not the same thing-vCloud is not fundamentally wherecloud …(more)

• Best practices in Shared Service Cloud design

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)As highlighted in the GC Community Cloud presentation from the CanadianFederal Govt, the organization has the typical enterprise applicationsestate of SAP, Oracle, Microsoft et al, as well as having a goal of acommon Messaging platform too.(more)

• Rucha Gujarati: Non-fiction shows are easy money and less hard work

Bollywood LifeRucha Gujarati, who took a year-long-sabbatical post her wedding, recentlymade a comeback with a grey character in Sony Television’s Saas BinaSasural. But she asserts that the real Rucha doesn’t have a mean bone inher entire body and firmly believes …(more)

• Wyse Reaffirms Cisco Collaboration With Superior Portfolio of

Comprehensive …MarketWatch (press release)All of the Cisco VXI validated Wyse solutions are demonstrated working withthe VXI architecture and either VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop, as wellas enabling mobile cloud computing on Wyse mobile clients and tabletsincluding the Cisco Cius …(more)

• UK.gov ‘pay as you go’ IT services cloud to float in March

RegisterO’Neill has first hand experience of cloud computing: the GDS rolled outcloud desktop services to 125 of its users in October. Over the last fourmonths, the cloud software has worked out 80 per cent cheaper than atraditional on-premise desktop set …(more)

• Heywood to launch Cloud computing solutions

International Finance Centre (press release)The research firm Gartner defines Cloud Computing as ‘a style of computingwhere scalable and elastic IT capabilities are provided as a service tomultiple customers using Internet technologies’. ‘Datacentre outsourcing,and in particular Cloud …(more)

• VMware Communities: Welcome to the VMware vCloud Usage…

vCloud Usage Meter version 2.3 includes some very exciting new features aslisted on the community main page. We request you to exercise these newfeatures …(more)

• [How To] Manage Application DR With vCloud Express – Chris …

In doing past articles on how to transform your blog into a vCloud Expressbased setup on Bitnami, I discovered a few things that I wanted to shareabout …(more)

• CA Technologies’ strategy: Can it tackle organic growth?

ZDNet (blog)It’s also worth noting that Nimsoft is a SaaS company. Nimsoft could beviewed as CA’s lifeboat in simplistic terms. In any case, Nimsoft is thefuture of CA and new customers start with SaaS. Existing customers willexpand via SaaS while keeping CA’s …(more)

• Free Social Analytics Platform Lauched by React.com

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)React.com lauched a free version of it’s SAAS platform for socialanalytics. The platform offers a combination of services, plugins andanalytical tools that deliver a insights over the visitors and users of anywebsite.(more)

• GetHired Nabs $1.75 Million To Launch Its Video-Centric Recruiting

Platform …TechCrunchSo many companies are turning to alternative, technological means to findthe right candidates for job openings, some using algorithms, rankingsystems, SaaS solutions like Taleo’s, and more. In fact, one in six are nowfinding jobs on social networks.(more)

• HP Cloud Services Goes Into Beta

ReadWriteWebHP began its OpenStack-based Cloud Services this month, and there is a lotof promise but not much in the way of actual implementation yet. HP intendsits cloud to cover both public and hybrid uses. Initially, the beta is freeof charge although you …(more)

• MetaFlows Announces Software-Based IDPS, Enables IDPS Hardware for 1/10 the

PriceMarketWatch (press release)SAN DIEGO, Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — MetaFlows, Inc., a startupfocused on leveraging emerging cloud and virtualization technologies forthe next generation of network security solutions, has developed a Softwareas a Service (SaaS) product that …(more)

• Taleo Report Links Aging National Workforce, Lack of Corporate Training

and …MarketWatch (press release)DUBLIN, CA, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Taleo Corporation/quotes/zigman/98181/quotes/nls/tleo TLEO -1.29% , the global leader ofSaaS-based Talent Management solutions, today released a report summarizingthe 2011 business climate and …(more)

• Digital Reef Accelerates Early Case Assessment with “Predictive

Priority(TM)”MarketWatch (press release)NEW YORK, Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Digital Reef, leading Software asa Service (SaaS) Early Case Assessment (ECA) and eDiscovery provider,announced today that it has added attorney accelerated functionality calledPredictive Priority(TM) to …(more)

• Microsoft’s Hyper-V Support Broken in OpenStack, Likely to Be Dropped

from …ReadWriteWebMicrosoft announced it had partnered with Cloud.com to support Hyper-V withOpenStack in October 2010. This was not long after the land-rush ofcompanies clamoring to announce their support for OpenStack in the wake ofits unveiling at OSCON 2010.(more)

• Nova Essex dead wood cutting Mailing list archive openstack team …

openstack team mailing list archive …Toopenstackxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxopenstackxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; From ThierryCarrezthierryxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Date Fri 27 Jan …(more)

• VMware Hosting Outlook

DABCC.comvSphere 5 offers outstanding performance and vCloud Director (which hasbeen updated to v1.5) continues to lead the way as the most powerful toolto manage …(more)

• MSPWorld Tackles Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, SLAs

MSPmentora healthy portion of the event content will focus on cloud computing andcloud services. That’s hardly surprising, considering nearly 60 percent oftop MSPs now offer cloud and SaaS services to their customers, according toour fifth-annual MSPmentor …(more)

• Virtualization, Cloud Having Little Impact On Databases

NetworkComputing.comCloud computing has taken center stage over the last two years as the hotenterprise technology, but in the database realm, the public cloud andoff-site hosted database services still represent too many unknown factorsto truly have mass adoption.(more)

• Leading Cloud Thinkers to Government: Cloud Is Imperative for Better …

MarketWatch (press release)TechAmerica Foundation’s State & Local Government Cloud Commission OffersBest Practices for Adopting Cloud Computing by States and Localities –Will Announce Findings at Silicon Valley; Event on February 16, 2012 –Featuring California Lt. Governor …(more)

• WSO2 to Present Session on Open Source Cloud Middleware at the …

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More enterprises are looking to platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)whether in atrue public cloud or as an on-premise private cloudto build a strongframework that lets developers go beyond just hosting an image in a cloud.This session will explore how the WSO2 Stratos cloud … It also willexamine how developers can quickly build out highly scalable applicationsand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, free from any lock-in.Additionally, the session will dig into the challenges of …(more)

• Red Hat Quietly Joins the OpenStack Effort

ReadWriteWebWord is that Red Hat refused to sign on to OpenStack when it was announced,because it didn’t like the governance model. Red Hat also has its own cloudmanagement software projects. But the company that once dismissed OpenStackseems to be coming …(more)

• Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms set to Unleash Significant Benefits

Sacramento BeeAided by Cloud computing and Software as a Service provision, innovativecompanies are gaining competitive advantage and operating more efficientlyby extending their core IT services to mobile workers armed with laptops,tablets and smartphone devices …(more)

• More Business Intelligence Moving to the Cloud: Survey

ForbesMore than one out four of the 1364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact,already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offeringsto augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions. In addition,17% indicate that they are …(more)

• Datalliance Expands Global VMI Customer Base in 2011

MarketWatch (press release)Delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), Datalliance VMI now supportsover 14000 customer locations worldwide, over 14 million individual SKUs,and nearly $10 billion of inventory — and growing every month. Datallianceadded 12 new supplier …(more)

• MedHOK Earns Full 2012 NCQA HEDIS(R) Software Certification for

360Measures(R)MarketWatch (press release)Its Software-as-a-Service, cloud-based approach offers unparalleledopportunities to analyze, monitor and remediate care gaps throughout theyear, thereby reducing year-end fire drills associated with HEDIS(R)performance.(more)

• China SaaS Market to Grow at 49% CAGR till 2016: TechSci Research Survey

SBWire (press release)With the huge number of SMB’s, China is anticipated to be a very largepotential SaaS market for basic business applications such as HR, security,accounting and manufacturing related applications. SaaS will emerge as animportant part of China’s next …(more)

• Indiana University PhD Students Get $100K to Study Cloud Computing,

BioinformaticsHPCwire… Two doctoral candidates at Indiana University Bloomington’s School ofInformatics and Computing will share equally in a $100000 gift frominternational software company Persistent Systems to support research incloud computing and bioinformatics.(more)

• Companies Achieve Private Cloud Breakthrough with CA Private Cloud

Accelerator …The Complete Managed Services ResourceBy Kerry Doyle Cloud computing can make a variety of computing services
available to companies of all sizes on an ‘as-need’ basis. It allows cloudproviders to offer a range of physical resources, such as processors, datastorage, applications, …(more)

• Microsoft entices startups with Azure cloud promotional offer

ZDNet (blog)By Heather Clancy | January 30, 2012, 1:07pm PST Summary: Certain
TechStars, Global Accelerator Network companies could receive $60000 worthof cloud computing and storage capacity at no cost for up to two years.Startup business incubator TechStars …(more)

• VMware vCloud Director 101

This FAQ covers VMware vCloud Director installation, licensing requirementsand other issues with the cloud management tool.(more)

• Utilities Service Alliance Expands Solutions-as-a-Service from DevonWay

MarketWatch (press release)Our hosted Solutions-as-a-Service model helps bring DevonWay ContinuousImprovement capabilities to a broad audience efficiently and affordablywithout additional hardware, software or data center personnel at eachparticipating station.(more)

• Print Catalog SoftwareasaService Free web applications and web app …

Print Catalog SoftwareasaService. Visit Site. Installed. Smart Install …feedsthe same as you provide to Google Product Search Magento eCommerceplatform …(more)

• While Amazon courts enterprises, Microsoft eyes startups

GigaOmThe deal will provide a year of hosting on Microsoft’s Azure platform as aservice for existing and former TechStars participants, and the second yearat half off, for up to $60000. It also extends to the more than 300startups that are part of …(more)