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

• Rackspace offers iPad front end for cloud

Techworld.comThe Apple geek toy has been adapted for use by systems administratorsthanks to a tie-up between OpenStack, Rackspace’s and NASA’s open cloudcollaboration, …(more)

• VMware presents its Project Horizon application delivery strategy

SearchCloudComputing.com”We want to be able to authenticate users with a single sign-on for alltheir SaaS [Software as a Service] apps coupled with the desktop apps. …(more)

• A Clear View From Kansas: Transparencies of Scale

By @JoeTierney
One of the central tenants, no pun intended, of Cloud Computing ismulti-tenancy. There is much debate within the technology community aboutthe definition as well as the importance of a multi-tenant architecture….(more)

• Dell loses battle for cloud computing firm 3PAR

THINQ.co.uk3PAR, founded in 1999, has been a pioneer in creating the high-end storageinfrastructure used for cloud computing systems. The company became thesubject …(more)

• Cloud Computing: I Can Get Along with it All

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)It’s been a few months since I’ve written about Cloud Computing, and Iguess I can take some inspiration from old Blaze there. It’s tough to stayrelevant …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Verizon Builds Hybrid Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)The widgetry won’t be quite as secure as Verizon’s existing Computing as aService (CaaS) – but pretty close – and promises the all-importantapplication …(more)

• Vordel Cloud Service Broker Provides Management for VMware vCloud Director

TMCnetWith Vordel Cloud Service Broker, the company is providing organizationswith full visibility and control of its VMware vCloud Director-based cloud…(more)

• Cloud Computing: Citrix Buys VMLogix

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)In the name of cloud interoperability Citrix is also planning to integrateits OpenCloud platform with the newfangled open source OpenStackorchestration …(more)

• Feature: Smartphones evolve into laptop thrashers courtesy cloud-computing

International Business TimesThe capacity of a smartphone has increased through cloud-computing. Thecloud allows the creation of virtual smartphone images in the mobile cloudand to …(more)

• Ingram Micro Names New Head for Managed Services, Cloud Computing Division

ITChannelPlanetDistributor taps former Fujitsu IT services executive to run its servicesdivision, Seismic portfolio and cloud computing business. …(more)

• SaaS Sales Commission Calculator for Long Term Contracts | Chaotic …

You should consider adding a premium to the SaaS sales commission for longterm contracts and low churn cohorts.(more)

• VMworld: Colt offers vCloud hybrid datacentres for UK and Europe …

IT managed services provider Colt will be the first company to offerVMware’s hybrid service to UK and European businesses.(more)

• F5 Integrates With VMware vCloud Director To Provide Cloudbursting …

Today at VMworld 2010, F5 Networks, Inc., a global leader in ApplicationDelivery Networking (ADN), announced the demonstration of a new solutionthat …(more)

• VMware VCloud Director Gets Zenoss Monitoring App – CIO.com

Zenoss releases a cloud monitoring application for VMware vClouddeployments.(more)

• BlueTie Welcomes T&J to its New Partner Program

TMCnetBy Mini Swamy BlueTie, a well-known provider of Software-as-a-Service
collaboration services for businesses has welcomed T&J Home Products to itsinnovative …(more)

• Cloud Computing: VMworld Report

NetworkWorld.comActual Clouds,” it’s easy to understand that this year’s US VMworld waswall-to-wall cloud computing. Nevertheless, it was striking howcloud-centric the …(more)

• Media content at the forefront of cloud computing

CenterBeam… and Netflix turning to cloud-based technology to store their media,content may be becoming the primary driver behind the cloud computingmovement. …(more)

• Cloud Outages: Don’t Fear the Temporary Darkness

MSPmentorAt first glance, today wasn’t such a great day for cloud computing.Microsoft suffered its second major cloud outage in recent weeks, raisingmore questions …(more)

• Salesforce CRM Gets Real-Time Contact Updates, Leads

InternetNews.comThanks to its acquisition of Jigsaw, the SaaS player integrates real-timeupdates on CRM contacts to its solution. By Paul Shread: More stories bythis …(more)

• INC. 5000 Names ClinixMIS for Third Time

Trading Markets (press release)ClinixMIS offers Software as a Service (SaaS) for medical PracticeManagement (ClinixPM) and Electronic Health Records (ClinixMD), providingan integrated …(more)

• Computing in a cloud

The HinduCloud computing technology is driving a fundamental change in today’scomputing industry, enabling IT managers to treat infrastructure as acommon substrate …(more)

• IT as a Service – Innovations from CloudShare

TMCnetIs it possible to enjoy IT as a service? It is if you turn to CloudShare(News – Alert). To learn more about this innovative company, TMC’s RichTehrani …(more)

• INC. 5000 Names ClinixMIS for Third Time

PR Newswire (press release)ClinixMIS offers Software as a Service (SaaS) for medical PracticeManagement (ClinixPM) and Electronic Health Records (ClinixMD), providingan integrated …(more)

• CommonOptionsProcessing – Wiki – wiki.openstack.org

I propose consolidating all of the CLI and configuration file optionsprocessing into a single common module: openstack.common.config …(more)

• IBM Takes the Cloud to the US Open

eWeekTo help drive home its point that IBM is serious about cloud computing, BigBlue hosted an event at the US Open to show its cloud prowess in action….(more)

• Multi-tenancy: why you should care – ZDNet (blog) – SaaS Directory

By Phil Wainewright | September 1, 2010, 2:27pm PDT SaaS buyers shouldn’t
settle for the limited horizons of single-tenancy. Multi-tenancy is theideal . …(more)

• Asp.net – sharepoint 2010 multi-tenancy access denied tenant …

Hi, I am currently implementing a Sharepoint 2010 Multi-Tenancy solution.Multi- tenancy is the partitioning of service applications in 2010.(more)

• New Cloud Security Certification Launched

InformationWeekThe Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an industry group seeking to promotesecurity standards for cloud computing, is offering an online certificationprogram …(more)

• Cloud Computing: Questions to Ask

GovInfoSecurity.comAs a result, some are considering using remotely hosted EHRs, or specificclinical modules, that use the cloud computing model. …(more)

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

• The Lowdown On Net Neutrality And Cloud Computing – World Top News

By admins
Cloud Computing – updated news and articles. Find the latest CloudComputing information for business professionals. Storage of personal dataand information.(more)

• Cloud Computing Calms Open Source Warfare

By Sonia Arrison
Cloud computing, technology delivered over the Internet, has become a hotarea in the last few years. The technology marketplace moves at breakneckspeeds, but it is still shocking when innovation almost completely wipesout squabbles …(more)

• Cloud-Computing Bidding War: Why HP and Dell Want 3Par at Sky-High …

By Kevin Kelleher
The bidding war for 3Par, which specializes in utility storage, now valuesthe company at three times what it was worth before the offers startedcoming. What is it about 3Par that’s so promising? It’s all about thecloud.(more)

• Will cloud computing be beneficial to your business …

By renu
Cloud computing is a term that has been becoming quite popular over thelast few years. You may be wondering what it is and if it can benefit yourbusiness. Unfortunately, this question does not have a simple answer. …(more)

• White Papers: ‘Microsoft Access and Cloud Computing with SQL Azure …

By DG
Luke Chung published a few white papers linked below about Access and SQLAzure.Microsoft Azure and Cloud Computing…What it Means to Me andInformation WorkersMicrosoft Access and Cloud Computing with SQL AzureDatabases (Linking to …(more)

• IBM LotusLive: Software-as-a-Service Lotus?

IBM LotusLive: Software-as-a-Service Lotus? IBM LotusLive is IBM’s onlineversion of its communications and collaboration software solutions (i.e.,Notes, …(more)

• Helping Small Businesses Use The Cloud

ForbesComcast ( CMCSA – news – people ) offers e-mail via Hosted MicrosoftExchange, Verizon ( VZ – news – people ) has its “Computing as a Service”and software …(more)

• VMware launches new virtualised technology, as Imprivata and F5 confirm

supportSC Magazine UKIncluded in this are several key launches: VMware vCloud Director is a newmodel for delivering and consuming infrastructure services that extends the…(more)

• VMworld 2010 Day 3 Roundup

Data Center KnowledgeSingTel joins vCloud program. VMware announced that SingTel and itsAustralian subsidiary, Optus, are the first telecommunications operators inAsia Pacific …(more)

• GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar Raise Citrix Online to #2 in Global Web …

MarketWatch (press release)According to Frost & Sullivan, the market for global web conferencing SaaSis forecasted to reach $4.12 billion by 2014 with a 5-year compound annualgrowth …(more)

• JMS Reiterates a ‘Buy’ Rating on Kenexa (KNXA); To Earn More in

Acquiring …StreetInsider.com (subscription)JMS analyst says, “Kenexa announced yesterday its plans to acquireSalary.com, a SaaS provider of compensation management software. …(more)

• StreetInsidercom Continuent Offers a Database Solution For SaaS …

During the past year Continuent has won over 20 new SaaS customersincluding Thomson Reuters Five9 Topspin and Church Community Builder and ithas several …(more)

• Research and Markets: Global Cloud Computing Service Market Outlook 2014

Business Wire (press release)Cloud computing has emerged as the latest buzzword for the IT industry. Notonly is it revolutionizing the IT industry, but it is also giving a new …(more)

• SingTel, Optus join VMware vCloud Datacenter Service

Telecompaper (subscription)Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus havejoined the virtualisation software specialist VMware vCloud DatacenterService …(more)

• Zenoss Fills VMware vCloud Director Gap

CTO Edge (blog)By previewing support for VMware vCloud Director, Zenoss is adding a
management layer on top of the VMware orchestration engine to make this newVMware …(more)

• New Relic Joins VMware vCloud TM Express Partner Ecosystem to Offer Web …

Marketwire (press release)Additionally, as a member of this ecosystem, New Relic provides its leadingSaaS application management solution to VMware vCloud customers andpartners, …(more)

• UbiStor and Sonasoft Team Up To Provide New Email Archiving Solutions

For …MarketWatch (press release)… benefits of SonaVault Email Archiving in a hosted Software as a Serviceor a Hardware as a Service solution from UbiStor Inc., of Schaumburg,Illinois. …(more)

• Pioneer Group Selects UltiPro(R) Workplace to Enhance HCM Visibility and

ControlMarketWatch (press release)The Colorado-based company needed a fresh start with a unified solution,delivered via the cloud as a convenient Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)solution. …(more)

• Jamcracker Teams with Eucalyptus Systems to Provide Self-Service …

NewsBlaze… SaaS (Software as a Service) solutions. To allow enterprises to unifycommand and control of disparate cloud services, the Jamcracker Platformgives IT …(more)

• VMware Steps Up Competition For The Virtual Desktop

InformationWeek… to saying that the PC-based desktop was being dismantled by the forcesof cloud computing and would eventually be replaced by a virtual desktopthat …(more)

• VMworld: Storage is Critical to Cloud Computing

DatamationAs this year’s VMworld illustrates, interest in virtualization continues togrow at a breathless rate. Drew Robb reports from San Francisco. …(more)

• BlueLock Introduces VMware vCloud Datacenter Service with …

New plug-in enables customers to view and manage cloud environments in asingle interface, enhancing the agility, portability and security providedby …(more)

• Cloud Computing: 3PAR Knocked Down to HP for $33 a Share

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)Dell pulled out of the race to acquire 3PAR Thursday morning after HP uppedits $30-a-share bid of last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR’s valuationpast …(more)

• Terremark’s Enterprise Cloud Selected as Gold Winner of Best of VMworld

2010 …MarketWatch (press release)Finalists in the Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies category wereSkytap Inc. for Skytap Cloud and Microsoft for Windows Azure Platform. …(more)

• FishNet Security Survey Reveals That Cloud Computing Will Replace Social …

Marketwire (press release)”This survey validates that the cloud computing shift is becoming realityand that IT security departments are very concerned about the challenges it…(more)

• Microsoft slings mud in VMware living room

RegisterIt offers a platform, vCloud Director, that underpins public services fromvarious partners, and it sells the same platform to businesses interestedinto …(more)

• HyTrust takes auditing, monitoring to the clouds

RegistervCloud Director, announced this week at the VMworld virtualization andcloud extravaganza in San Francisco, is the heart of VMware’s attempt toscale up its …(more)

• NTT America Deploys VMware vCloud(TM) Director for Offering Cloud Services

MarketWatch (press release)VMware vCloud(TM) Director is software that extends the resource poolingcapabilities of VMware vSphere(TM) to enable enterprises and serviceproviders to …(more)

• Users wrestle with virtualizing Tier 1 applications

SearchServerVirtualization.comBy Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer SAN FRANCISCO — While VMware touted
its new vCloud Director this week, enterprise IT pros said they have a more…(more)

• A fast start for an open-source cloud

SDTimes.comBy Alex Handy In July, Citrix, NASA, Rackspace and a host of other
companies announced that they were forming the OpenStack project. Thistwo-pronged effort …(more)

• Microsoft Leads SaaS Discussion With Price: Good or Bad? | The VAR Guy

By The VAR Guy
Microsoft’s All In cloud computing strategy continues to attract partners,but a BPOS pricing calculator furthers a war with Google Apps. Shouldpartners worry?(more)

• 5 reasons why SaaS Business Intelligence tools are perfect for …

By admin
You are here: Home / Technology / 5 reasons why SaaS Business Intelligencetools are perfect for SMBs. 5 reasons why SaaS Business Intelligence toolsare perfect for SMBs. September 2, 2010 by admin. Filed under Technology…(more)

• Dell cedes data-storage maker 3Par to HP

The Associated PressHP and Dell, two of the world’s largest personal computer makers, werelooking at 3Par as a way to build up their data center and “cloudcomputing” …(more)

• Cloud Computing: A Perfect Fit for Midsized Companies – CIO.com

Midsized companies will find cloud computing suits their focus, operationalrequirements, and investment capablities, says CIO.com’s Bernard Golden.(more)

• Time Warner Cable, Disney Reach a Deal

Wall Street JournalTime Warner Cable also won the rights to sell some ABC shows on itsvideo-on-demand platform on similar terms to Apple Inc.’s recent deal tosell ABC shows …(more)

• Centrify Automates Cloud Security for Enterprise Private and Public Clouds

Dark ReadingThe capability to dynamically establish these controls leveraging vCloudand Amazon EC2 API support will be available in the fourth quarter of 2010….(more)

• Facebook Adds Remote Logout Security Feature

eWeekThis type of feature is commonly found in operating systems and identityand access management systems, but is relatively unusual inconsumer-oriented SAAS …(more)

• Intuit Online Payroll: A SaaS Payroll Offering

CPA Technology AdvisorAs the SaaS world of web-based applications grows and matures, productslike Intuit Online Payroll will continue to thrive. Forward-thinkingaccounting …(more)