- How Microsoft’s Azure IaaS offering stacks up against the major players
DABCC.com Ever since Microsoft launched the Windows Azure platform-as-a-service, and even more so after the 2010 announcement of infrastructure-as-a-service offerings, people have been wondering when they would come out with a public cloud offering that more … (more)
- Data protection chief issues cloud computing rules
Irish Times THE DATA Protection Commissioner has issued new guidelines aimed at companies who wish to use cloud computing services. (more)
- CloudStack 3.0.3 – RightScale Forums
CloudStack 3.0.3 CloudStack. … Has anyone connected Cloudstack 3.0.x version with Rightscale Would you like to share your experiences. How does … (more)
- Standard contracts increase with cloud products’ maturity
ZDNet (blog) Richard Wern, senior director of regional cloud computing at Fujitsu Asia, agreed, that as customers become more informed about cloud computing, they have more concerns that they wished to address in their deployment such as scalability and adaptability. (more)
- ‘SMEs have started taking advantage of cloud computing’
SME Times Indian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have started taking advantage of the cloud services but they are facing several challenges when it comes to fully capitalizing on the economic benefits of the cloud, said the industry experts. (more)
- The real digital divide: are you at risk?
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) Take a look at software-as-a-service companies like Salesforce.com to see how you can use the platform to market and sell for you. Consider your business case and determine the right channel to reach your customers – whether that’s online or via direct … (more)
- Software sector revenue to exceed 4 trln yuan in 2015
China Economic Net Many software manufacturers cut into the cloud computing field by providing SaaS (software as a service) and are gradually extending towards the fundamental filed and high-end links of cloud computing. As for the mobile internet, China has surpassed … (more)
- Arrow ECS EMEA Launches ArrowSphere: Unique Cloud Services Platform for …
MarketWatch (press release) ArrowSphere will enable the Arrow ECS European channel network to resell aggregated cloud services, such as infrastructure-, platform-, storage- and software-as-a-service solutions, from industry leaders around the world. ArrowSphere brings new … (more)
- Pilat HR Solutions Enters Into Distribution Agreement With iCIMS
MarketWatch (press release) TalentPin ATS is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, enabling organizations to store and track jobs and applicant profiles in a centralized location. Other key features include job posting, enhanced candidate … iCIMS’ Talent Platform, the … (more)
- CTEX, VCE, and Zuora Establish A Strategic Alliance Agreement
Virtual-Strategy Magazine Targeted for September 2012, CTEX, which is building the region’s most advanced Tier-IV designed data centers, will launch a unique portfolio of ‘infrastructure as a service’ (IAAS), ‘backup as a service’ (BAAS) and ‘software as a service’ (SAAS … (more)
- With explosion of consumer devices, IT finds greater need for network …
Computerworld AppNeta, an application performance management software vendor, recently announced a cloud-based approach for its software-as-a-service offering called PathView Cloud. The tool, which runs on top of AppNeta’s existing FlowView service, is designed to … (more)
- vmware – How to find vsphere cluster configured in using vcloud …
up vote 0 down vote favorite. In my project we are trying to find which vsphere clusters are used by provider vdc in VCD(vcloud director) using vcloud REST APIs. (more)
- VMware Support Insider: Installing vCloud Director 1.5 Best Practices
As promised, here is a new video which provides an overview of the best practices of installing vCloud Director 1.5, insuring that it is installed and configured … (more)
- VMware Communities: Templates in vCloud
Hi All: I am trying to plan out how to have one template shared among luns on my SAN. We just deployed shared storage, and will be implementing enterprise … (more)
- Goldman Sachs Q2 Preview on Rackspace (RAX); Lowering Estimates on FX …
StreetInsider.com (subscription) Analyst, Scott Goldman, said, “We are lowering our 2Q12 revenue estimate to $319mn, from $324mn, largely reflecting a further deceleration in cloud growth as the company manages its migration to OpenStack. We anticipate this transition to slow new … (more)
- Aerolineas Argentinas Implements Sabre Airline Technology to Enhance Its …
MarketWatch (press release) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Jul 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Aerolineas Argentinas reached a new milestone in its ongoing operations and customer service transformation with Sabre’s software-as-a-service revenue management solution to help improve … (more)
- Setting Up an Amazon Webstore
Practical Ecommerce Amazon offers a software as a service ecommerce platform with solutions ranging from a quick shopping cart for individual sellers and small businesses to enterprise level services. What’s more, Amazon promises that its Webstore solution is both good … (more)
- Sonata Software Strengthens its Focus on Cloud Offerings
MarketWatch (press release) Sonata’s Cloud Computing Center of Excellence (CoE) will creatively bring together Sonata’s product & platform engineering expertise, combined with leading Cloud technology platforms Windows Azure, Force.com & Amazon Web Services (AWS) – to help … (more)
- Cloud Computing: Companies Worry about Unexpected Costs and Fees
Formtek Blog (blog) A major benefit of using the cloud is the potential for big cost savings. On-demand services provide exceptional value for use cases that requires periodic use of computing resources. Estimating the costs of cloud computing can be tricky. Just because … (more)
- Cloud Computing an Important Government Agenda: Kapil Sibal
Invest in India The government is willing to collaborate with the industry and academia to develop a secure and progressive ecosystem for cloud services in India. This was stated by Shri Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology … (more)
- PPI Bill to impact cloud computing
ITWeb Cloud storage is often in a foreign country and this has considerable implications for how companies handle and transfer data, says Deloitte’s Terry Kelly. The Protection of Personal Information.. (more)
- The next generation business: Data is the new platform
GigaOM That’s just where the fun starts. Ken Oestreich is a marketing veteran helping develop new categories in the Enterprise IT, Data Center, and cloud computing spaces. He has held product- and corporate marketing roles with Sun, Cassatt, Egenera, and EMC. (more)
- Google’s Cloud Computing Infrastructure Service
Midsize Insider Google has developed a network of data centers around the world to power its search, ad-serving, web mail, and application service functions. At the recent Google I/O conference, Google announced that it will start offering direct access to this … (more)
- Cloud Implementations: Change Management Need, Challenges, Best Practices
CMSWire Cloud Computing is the latest in the series of technological innovations that started four decades ago with mainframes/batch transaction processing during the pre-1970s. It later passed through online processing in the 1970s, rise of PCs in the 1980s, Dot. (more)
- CTEX, VCE, and Zuora Establish A Strategic Alliance Agreement
Seattle Post Intelligencer Zuora’s platform enables CTEX to provide rapid subscription and provisioning services to its customers and maintain a dynamic pricing catalog to create any type of pricing plan, bundle, promotion or offer to drive new customer acquisition. … Targeted … (more)
- Heavyweight Mobile Development Creates mBaaS (Mobile Backend-as-a-Service)
Dr. Dobb’s If indeed mBaaS has already become an industry standard acronym, then we should understand this term to refer to the work of software application developers who are looking beyond lightweight applications to building more complex ones requiring greater … (more)
- Aconex Named to “Constructech 50″ List of Top Construction Technology
Vendors MarketWatch (press release) Aconex has 270000 users working on 12000 international projects and is one of the most experienced Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies in the world. The SaaS delivery model provides a neutral, central and secure platform, helping all parties … (more)
- Engine Yard explains how the PaaS market is evolving (infographic)
VentureBeat The market for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) companies will grow steadily in the next several years because of the potential for operational improvement and cost reduction, according to a just-released survey by Engine Yard. Engine Yard competes heavily … (more)
- Cloudstack Embedded Storage Management – Web Hosting Talk
Cloudstack Embedded Storage Management – 8218520 – Web Hosting Talk. (more)
- SAP’s Platform-as-a-Service: NetWeaver Cloud | BayForce …
Previously known as Project River and NetWeaver Neo, SAP’s platform-as-a- service has received its official name, SAP NetWeaver Cloud, and is now available … (more)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) | Vucci Technology Solutions
With our Platform as a Service, Vucci can provide you with hardware, operating systems, network ability and storage options for your existing IT environment or … (more)