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January 3, 2012

Daily Cloud Feed – Jan 3, 2012

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

  • VIRTUAL MAKEOVER FOR GOVT
  • Times of IndiaThe Tamil Nadu government is in the final stage of launching cloudcomputing to make its websites and online services faster and moreefficient. Currently, the government depends on private agencies tomaintain websites. With cloud computing, a state …(more)

  • EU Extends Preferential Tariffs For West Balkans
  • Tax-news.comOnly wine, sugar, certain beef products and certain fisheries productsenter the EU under preferential tariff quotas, as negotiated under theSAAs. The regime was renewed in 2005, and was previously due to expire onDecember 31, 2010. …(more)

  • Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011 | Cloudscaling
  • Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday. This is ayear end posting that I think you will find particularly compelling. Ratherthan.(more)

  • Big Data and Cloud Computing | Cloud Computing Journal
  • “One part of the connection between big data and cloud computing is thescale – big data implies large scale and the problem of managing largescale is similar …(more)

  • Best practices to share users between tenants in a multi-tenancy …
  • Any suggestions on reading on best practices and such an unorthodox multi-tenancy concept? database-design architecture multitenancy …(more)

  • Imaginatik names Goss CTO
  • ShareCast… Pfizer and Kelloggs, said Goss has core business strengths in areassuch as growth strategy formulation and implementation, turnaroundexecution, and assisting businesses in transitioning to online, Cloud andSaaS based delivery models. …(more)

  • Unwired Nation Closes 2011 With Huge Momentum: $6.5 Million Funding,
  • Executive …PR Web (press release)As 2011 winds down, Unwired Nation, the Mobile-Apps-As-A-Service company,recaps its biggest year yet, with momentum across all business fronts:customers, partners, solutions, leadership, staff and funding. Highlightedby a $6.5 million round of …(more)

  • Warp 9 Implements New Strategic Plan to Accelerate Growth
  • NEWS.GNOM.ES (press release)Our Total Commerce Platform (TCP) is a cloud based, state-of-the-arte-commerce platform that provides online sellers with the highest level offunctionality, performance and ease of use in the industry. Offered on afully managed software-as-a-service …(more)

  • AcademicWorks Releases Innovative Scholarship Software for Colleges …
  • PR Web (press release)AcademicWorks released a new scholarship software platform in 2011 thatoffers the flexibility to address each of these needs within highereducation institutions and foundations. The company offers integrationservices with student information systems …(more)

  • Why Amazon.com Is The Cloud-Computing King
  • Motley Fool UKEC2 sees competition from Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT.US) Azure and RackspaceHosting (NYSE: RAX.US), but you also don’t see those names within the first100 spots of the supercomputer list. It’s no wonder Amazon is thecloud-computing king. …(more)

  • OW2 to Showcase Open Source Cloud Broker and Cloud PaaS Collaborative
  • Projects …DigitalJournal.com (press release)OW2 and the Open Source Cloudware Initiative (OSCi) will introduce twomajor cloud computing projects: CompatibleOne, a cloud interoperabilityplatform based on a cloud broker, and CloudForce, a project dedicated todeveloping a cloud application …(more)

  • 2012: Nine business tech predictions
  • ZDNet (blog)Software as a service becomes the default choice for enterprises. Theenterprise is at a tipping point where the default choice of many companieswill be to go to the cloud first via companies like Workday, Salesforce.comand NetSuite. …(more)

  • MDM s/w revenue to grow 21 pc in 2012
  • CIOLAs a result, many new MDM vendors and offerings capturing this market willbe focused on areas such as open source, as well as cloudcomputing/software as a service. The largest domains of the MDM softwaremarket are MDM of customer data and MDM of …(more)

  • Cloud Computing And Social Media Wish List For 2012
  • BCWHis blog is a resource for SMEs who want to use cloud computing and Web 2.0technologies. …less info Is that’s time of year for making seasonal wishlists, new year’s resolutions so I thought I’d chip in with a few of my ownpersonal choices. …(more)

  • No need to reinvent the wheel-Part Two
  • FinextraTechnology innovation enabled the shift thanks to the introduction of theSaaS (software as a service) delivery model. I believe this was one of themost important strategic decisions taken by the company. For two majorreasons: First, it takes quite …(more)

  • PrimeRevenue’s Helping Hands Reach Out to Those in Need
  • DigitalJournal.com (press release)The program enables PrimeRevenue, Inc., the leading SaaS platform forglobal Supply Chain Finance(SCF), to show its Christmas Spirit throughcharitable contributions which address the local community’s needs.Employee donations are matched by …(more)

  • CRM Watchlist 2012 Winners Pt 1A – The Big Guns
  • ZDNet (blog)… this was less a year of new messaging than a year that I saw themaddress things that they needed to – opening up their proprietary platformvia Heroku and its Java and Ruby on Rails commitments; situating theirplatform as a service as just that a …(more)

  • Change GUI language in vCloud Director 1.5
  • technidata it service, hp, p4000, vmware, lefthand, dataprotector,datacore, sansymphony-v, veeam.(more)

  • Impart cloud computing skills among engineers’ – All VoIP News
  • By AllVoIPNews
    Impart cloud computing skills among engineers’. All about VoIP solutionsand small business telephone systems. VoIP providers, new PBX systems andIP phones.(more)

  • Cloud Computing – Platform as a Service – YouTube
  • Brian Gracely provides an overview of Platform as a Service (PaaS) andlooks at the key …(more)

  • Cloud Force In The Data Center
  • The Data Center Journal (blog)One of the more noteworthy impacts was that of OpenStack. Rackspace andNASA launched OpenStack towards the end of 2010. The open source project isassembling a private cloud operating system for data center and one of thebiggest deliverableS from …(more)

  • Up-and-coming tech jobs — and how to land one
  • ComputerworldWith big data, mobile computing, social media, cloud computing and theconsumerization of IT all converging on IT in 2012, some new — andintriguing — job titles are beginning to emerge. Computerworld wentdigging and unearthed a handful of positions …(more)

  • Red Hat to hire 1000 more employees in 2012
  • ITworld.com”We are hiring, and I’m sure companies like Amazon and others who providecloud computing are hiring. But I think that is a drop in the bucketrelative to the productivity we are providing enterprises, and that againleads to, unfortunately, …(more)

  • Platform as a Service predictions: What will 2012 bring?
  • SearchSoftwareQuality.comBy Adam Riglian, News Writer If 2011 was the year that Platform as a
    Service (PaaS) became a buzzword, then 2012 could mean any number of thingsfor the nascent computing trend. There are plenty of expectations aboutfeatures and add-ons, questions to …(more)

  • Global MDM software revenue likely to rise by 21%
  • Economic TimesMany new MDM vendors and offerings capturing this market will be focused onareas such as open source, as well as cloud computing or software as aservice, it said. “In the next four years we expect larger vendors willcontinue to acquire for this …(more)

  • Microsoft will add Linux virtual machines to Windows Azure
  • Ars TechnicaCustomers who want to run Windows or Linux ‘durably’ (ie, without losingstate) in VMs on Microsoft’s Azure platform-as-a-service platform will beable to do so,” Foley wrote yesterday. “The new persistent VM support alsowill allow customers to run …(more)

  • Multi-Tenancy Scaling Guide for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 …
  • With Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft has changed their strategy onmulti-tenancy. Before SP2 multi-tenancy was only supported using theExchange …(more)

  • Save the Date: Come to the January 5th San Francisco OpenStack …
  • By Leigh Shevchik
    Join us on Thursday, January 5th as we host the first San FranciscoOpenStack Meetup of 2012. As we announced last month, New Relic is now partof the OpenStack community and we look forward to meeting other members.(more)

  • Apps Need Collaboration At Core
  • InformationWeek (blog)Now, thin SaaS apps are again resetting user expectations, raising the baron the baseline set of features any new app must have. Yes, auto-updatingis in, manually downloading and installing patches is out. Butadministrative automation is just Phase …(more)

  • Download NetOpenStackCompute 1.0301 for Linux Bindings for the …
  • Net::OpenStack::Compute Bindings for the OpenStack compute API.(more)

  • Big cloud Internap eats little cloud Voxel
  • RegisterBoth Voxel and Internap are contributors to the OpenStack cloud fabricproject that was started by NASA and Rackspace Hosting in July 2010. Duttsaid that Voxel has been watching OpenStack to see how it’s developing, andis contributing code to the …(more)

  • Why Enterprise Software Will Never Be the Same
  • PCWorldWhile its revenue is still small compared to the likes of Oracle and SAP,you had better believe that SaaS (software as a service) vendor Workday’scontinuing ability to land global agreements with companies such asFlextronics and Kimberly-Clark has …(more)

  • Fiberlink Provides Webinar on Managing iPhones and iPads at Work
  • San Francisco Chronicle (press release)Fiberlink, the leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for securemobile device and application management, today announced a free livewebinar titled “Enabling iPhones and iPads in the Enterprise” on Thursday,January 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm …(more)

  • Experts at OS33 Present Top 5 Drivers for IT Decision Makers in 2012
  • Sacramento BeeOS33 is the leading comprehensive IT-as-a-Service Delivery Platform used byManaged Service Providers to deploy, host, and sell integrated cloud-basedIT solutions to their customers. Through a single web-based interface, MSPscan provision cloud-based …(more)

Daily ITIL News Feed – Jan 3, 2012

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

Daily Log News Feed – Jan 3, 2012

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