January 27, 2012

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• Cloud And SaaS Benefits Bolster Business Intelligence Market

TechWeekEurope UKNearly one-third of organisations either already use or plan to use cloudor software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core businessintelligence (BI) functions, according to a report from IT research firmGartner.(more)

• NIST Gives Agencies Cloud Computing Guidance

ExecutiveGovThe National Institute of Standards and Technologies is calling on agenciesto take the lead in addressing security and privacy challenges relating topublic cloud computing. NIST’s Guidelines on Security and Privacy in PublicCloud Computing do not …(more)

• Companies choose SaaS-based BI

ITWebIn what is probably not a shocker, new research from Gartner shows thatmore companies are turning to software as a service (SaaS)-based businessintelligence (BI) over traditional on-premises BI, GigaOM reports. BI, oranalytics software from such …(more)

• Job: Citrix Engineer with VMware and vCloud experience in …

Send Resume to: akacur@altaits.com Job Description: The Citrix Engineercandidate will be supporting the following: Duties include leadingenterprise platform …(more)

• Cloud Computing Set to Create European Jobs

SYS-CON Media (press release)A new report says there’s little stopping Europe catching up to the US incloud computing. The study, carried out by the London School of Economicsand Political Science and commissioned by Microsoft, looked at theprojected economic impact of cloud …(more)

• How will Cloud Computing Affect IT Distribution

Backup Technology (blog)As Cloud Computing becomes more prevalent onsite hardware sales will feelthe impact. However the Cloud has manifested itself in many forms anddistributors will not necessarily suffer on all fronts. Distributors muststay relevant to solution …(more)

• Uhuru Delivers the Uhuru PaaS as a Micro-Cloud

PR Leap (press release)NET software developers can install a pre-configured local Platform as aService (PaaS), designed to make the deployment of Microsoft .NETapplications to the cloud as easy as clicking a button. “It is thrilling tosee Cloud Foundry broaden its appeal …(more)

• 3Seventy Brings Its Award Winning Mobile CRM Technology To

CRM Marketplace (press release)3Seventy expands into the Canadian market with a number of clients in theadvertising, loyalty marketing, and consulting firms to deliver mobilecustomer relationship management software-as-a-service. Austin, TX (PRWEB)- 3Seventy, a leading provider …(more)

• Associating Keywords to Desired Actions Key to Digital Marketers

Leveraging …Sacramento BeeA new white paper by Software-as-a-Service marketing technology provider,Hydra highlights how digital marketing specialists can enhance theirkeyword lists to elicit the desired response from their prospects. In arecent survey of 200 digital …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Amazon Goes After Enterprise Data

SYS-CON Media (press release)Amazon’s cloud, which, let’s face it, is still pretty much developer turf,broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction ofAWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automateenterprise data backup to S3 …(more)

• Cloud Computing: HP Commits to webOS Release Schedule

SYS-CON Media (press release)Seems just the other day – actually it was two weeks ago – that we divinedthat HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get thewebOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped,then open sourced – life’s …(more)

• Case Studies on Live Deployments Draw Big Sponsors to Cloud Fair 2012

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)A program focused on putting real-world case studies and user experienceson the stage has attracted the attention of a growing list of largesponsors for the Cloud Fair 2012 cloud computing conference. Box, AmazonWeb Services, Google, Red Hat, …(more)

• RedLegg Announces Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Training

ClassPR Web (press release)The CCSK course is intended to assist professionals in successfullycompleting the CCSK examination and gaining practical experience insecuring cloud computing. The industry’s first user certification programfor secure cloud computing, …(more)

• Identive Launches New Converged Access ID Group

IT News OnlineThe new Converged Access group aims to build on innovative technologyspecially developed for the Identity as a Service / SaaS offering ofidOnDemand as well as the traditional strength of Identive in networkaccess smart card reader technology.(more)

• Cloud computing fueling global economic growth: London School of Economics

studyForbesThe development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increaseproductivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses,according to a new study by the London School of Economics and PoliticalScience.(more)

• SimplyCast Unveils Tablet-Ready Multi-Channel Marketing Solution

Sacramento Bee27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – SimplyCast.com, a global leader in multi-channelmarketing Platform-as-a-Service solutions, has released Version 7.0 of itsonline marketing application, moving to the forefront of multi-channelmarketing automation.(more)

• CloudPassage launches new security product for public clouds

Computerworld”What we’ve done is create a cloud-ready platform that handlesautomatically all management and policy controls with a combination of alightweight host-based agent and software-as-a-service grid,” Wacker said.Halo NetSec runs a small, 3MB daemon on a …(more)

• VMware VMware vCloud Blog VMware Hosting Outlook

VMware vCloud Blog. Run Manage and Secure Your IT Infrastructure andApplications. Join Our Nextcloudtalk with VMware Knowledge Experts ChrisColotti and …(more)

• Workday Named a “Leader” in Human Resource Management Systems by

Independent …MarketWatch (press release)PLEASANTON, CA, Jan 27, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Workday Inc., theleader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR),payroll and financial management, today announced it is identified as a”leader” among HR management …(more)

• OpSource Adds Oracle Database, App Server to Cloud Options on Monthly Basis

Integration DevelopersOpSource’s ability to offer these key Oracle components as part of its menuof managed infrastructure services may prove a game-changer for manyworking on SaaS, cloud apps and services, OpSource senior vice presidentKeao Caindec told IDN.(more)

• GaleForce control freak paints clouds KVM red

Register… as you can see in the release notes (PDF), there are 15 new resourceadapters, including ones for Red Hat’s KVM hypervisor, VMware’s vCloudDirector, …(more)

• Fujitsu, ServiceMesh Expand Cloud Offerings

eWeekCloud platform vendor ServiceMesh has forged a relationship with Fujitsu,giving ServiceMesh customers access to Fujitsu’s global, on-demand cloudcomputing footprint. ServiceMesh’s customers will now be able to buildhybrid cloud instances, …(more)

• Tech Spending May Not Be As Bad As Feared

Wall Street JournalMoreover, efforts by companies to analyze and profit from all that data,plus the trend of selling business applications as a Web-based service–orsoftware as a service–have turned business software into another importantarea of growth.(more)

• AT&T offers ‘UC as a service’ to enterprise customers

Network WorldAT&T’s new portfolio leverages the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution(HCS) platform. The Cisco HCS platform also supports other existingenterprise and other carrier deployments, including those from OrangeBusiness Services, and Verizon Business.(more)

• Archipelago Learning Announces Fourth Quarter 2011 Conference Call and

WebcastMarketWatch (press release)DALLAS, Jan 27, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Archipelago Learning Inc./quotes/zigman/115276/quotes/nls/arcl ARCL +0.97% , a leadingsubscription-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of educationproducts, plans to report its fourth quarter 2011 …(more)