Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 31, 2012
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- Microsoft Offers $60K in Azure Cloud Services to Startups, Launches
- Cloud computing looks to be future of disaster management
- Megaupload Equals Mega Fail for Cloud Computing
- Salary Study Measures Cloud, Virtualization Impact
- MetaFlows Announces Software-Based IDPS, Enables IDPS Hardware for 1/10 the
- HotDocs offers SaaS for laywers
- CloudPassage Fills Gaps in Private-Public Cloud Security
- Linux Today Red Hat Quietly Joins the OpenStack Effort
- Why 2012 Could Be Another Big Year for Cloud Computing
- Multi-Tenancy Lync with Severe Enterprise Voice Restrictions
- Tilera Unleashes New Many-Core ‘Meshed’ CPUs for Cloud Computing
- NIST Issues Finalized Guidelines for Managing Security & Privacy in
- Salesforce.com Launches Desk.com Help-desk Service
- 2012: Cloud and SaaS To Drive Need for Enterprise-wide Identity, Access
- Salesforce Launches Assistly-Powered Social And Mobile Customer Service …
- The Rise of Cloud Computing on Wall Street
- SaaS Market in China Enterprise Industry Examined in New TechSci
- Anybill Names Manny Siddiqui to Serve as CTO
- SaaS Market in China Enterprise Industry Examined in New TechSci
- Fedora 17 gets Eucalyptus, OpenStack and hotspot support
- HP extends asset mapping into Amazon, VMware cloud…
- RIM brings Office 365 to BlackBerry
- Acumium eCommerce Turns Ten, Expanding SaaS and Mobile Offerings
- AdJuggler Surpasses 1 Billion Real-Time Bid Ads And Announces Record Growth
- Digital Reef Announces Enhanced Integration with kCura’s Relativity
- Streamline Health Expands Client Base With Software as a Service
- Atlantic Metro Communications Offers Legal Service Providers
- Quest(R) Partners with Desktone to Deliver Desktops as a Service (DaaS)
- Meeting the Productivity Challenge in a Consumerized IT World
- Cyan Announces Name Change
- VMTurbo Increases Multivendor Support in Operations Manager
- VMTurbo Enhances Platform to Assure Application Performance Across …
- Numara Acquisition Opens Up Midmarket To BMC SaaS
- Nimsoft Delivers Localized Version of Nimsoft Service Desk
- SkillSoft Introduces Professional Advantage - A Flexible, Engaging
- VMTurbo improves platform to assure application performance across …
- eXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and
- Leading Software Development Outsourcer Uses WSO2 ESB and WSO2 BAM to
- Nimsoft Delivers Localized Version of Nimsoft Service Desk
- ScaleXtreme Launches Program for Cloud Service Providers
- HP Extends Asset Mapping Into Amazon, VMware Clouds
- Salesforce Gives Help Desks A Social, Mobile Twist
- Totango Optimizes Customer Engagement With More than one Million Businesses
- Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service | CFOworld
- Moxie Software rides social wave to big growth | VentureBeat
- Product Engineer - Software as a Service (SaaS) jobs - Dice.com
- West Interactive Releases Upgrade to Holly Voice Platform
- Cloud Security, Costs Concern Federal IT Pros
- Planetary-scale computing
- Streamline Health Expands Client Base With Software as a Service
- Microsoft ‘committed’ to Hyper-V OpenStack Support
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)
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)
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)
Virtualization ReviewFollowing Azure in respective order are Amazon S-3 ($94843), CloudComputing ($92830), VMware vCloud ($88854), Virtualization (86669), Xen($85591), …(more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The VAR GuyvCLoud Director Integration: For managing cloud operations and tweakingresources for optimal performance. Mulit-hypervisor Management:Platform-agnostic …(more)
MarketWatchCloud-scale management through VMware vCloud Director integration. vCloudDirector enables the consolidation of virtual infrastructure acrossmultiple …(more)
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)
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)
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)
CTRThe improved capabilities of VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 includecloud-scale management through VMware vCloud Director integration.(more)
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)
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)
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)
MarketWatchWith the integration, any service provider building public or private cloudofferings with VMware vCloud, Citrix CloudStack or OpenStack platforms cannow …(more)
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)
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)
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)
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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)
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)
Browse Product Engineer - Software as a Service (SaaS) jobs at Dice.com.(more)
MarketWatchThe Holly heritage of offering reliable, scalable multitenancy solutions isextended in the Holly Voice Platform 6.0. The new release offers moreefficient …(more)
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)
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)
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)
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)



