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• OpenStack gets Cloud Foundry boost

Cloud Pro OpenStack company Piston Cloud Computing has launched a new open source project to port VMware Cloud Foundry to run on OpenStack. The company is cooperating with VMware to enable Piston Cloud Computing to develop the Cloud Provider Interface that … (more)

• SaaS, Multi-Tenancy and Cloud Computing

This is a slide deck I have created for a session I did during a Microsoft Executive Meeting in Dublin. It is an excerpt of my SaaS/Multi Tenancy workshop that. (more)

• Consultant Engineers, RDG Engineering, Selects IRIS PROJECTminder

Project … PR Web (press release) Provided as a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PROJECTminder is used by both businesses running simple in-house projects, to multi-disciplined organisations that include thousands of resources. RDG Engineering has selected online project management … (more)

• Identity as a Service platform for cloud service providers

Symplified announced Symplified Structure which enables telcos, cloud service providers, cloud application brokers, and cloud application hosting companies to … (more)

• Symplified Introduces Identity as a Service Platform for Cloud …

Symplified Structure enables telcos and cloud service providers to seamlessly integrate identity and access management across their suite of cloud ser. (more)

• Interop 2012 Preview: 12 Cool Products

InformationWeek Kurt Marko 05/05/2012 Cloud computing, big data, and mobile lead the big themes at the Interop 2012 enterprise IT event. Get a sneak peek at some of the innovative products we expect to see. Beginning on May 6, thousands of IT professionals will … (more)

• Indian Angel Network to evaluate start-up ideas in mid-May

Hindu Business Line IAN, which has funded nearly 35 differentiated scalable ideas from a variety of sectors, is currently focused on enhancing its presence in cloud-based projects in the Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) segments, according to … (more)

• How to Monetize the OpenStack Wave

SYS-CON Media (press release) By Boris Renski After OpenStack was announced at OSCON in the summer of
2010, the degree of momentum behind this new open source platform has been nothing short of spectacular. Startups and enterprises alike have placed their strategic bets to monetize … (more)

• VMware VMware vCloud Blog Overview of Disaster Recovery in vCloud …

This article assumes the reader has knowledge of vCloud Director and vSphere It will not go in to depth on some topics we would like to refer to the Site … (more)

• Opal Events 2nd Annual Business of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing has moved from headline grabber to key IT strategy. Enterprises, large and small, have turned to cloud computing providers for savings, … (more)

• Cloud and Clear: Please Join Me at Cloud Expo in June | Cloud …

Although the IT buzz in 2012 has been dominated by mobile and big data, Cloud computing is still a hot topic, especially since it is an enabler for both. In the public Cloud space, Google just launched Drive in the same week that Microsoft … (more)

• Meetings technology firm Certain upgraded its softwareasaservice …

Meetings technology firm Certain upgraded its softwareasaservice platform to better track and assess attendee interaction through mobile applications and … (more)

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• Using the Entity Resolver in the vCloud API – VMware Blogs

I recently received a question about whether it was possible to look up a vCloud Director Object with just knowing the object’s unique identifier (URN format) using the vCloud API? The use case for this was to store the vCloud Director’s unique … (more)

• NIST to Host Cloud Computing Forum June 5-7 | FedScoop

By David Stegon
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is hosting a Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop V on June 5-7 at the Department of Commerce’s Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.. Two sessions will focus on reviewing … (more)

• Inktank launches to change the face of open-source storage …

By Derrick Harris
Ceph, which was created in 2004 by Inktank Co-Founder and CEO Sage Weil while a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is already making a name for itself in the cloud computing world. Hosting provider DreamHost was … (more)

• Cloud Expo East Five Weeks Out | Cloud Computing Journal

Join us there as delegates from all over the world come to listen to and engage with speakers and sponsors from the leading Cloud Computing, Big Data and Virtualization companies such as Dell, SHI, Intel, Compuware, Citrix, Rackspace, … (more)

• Rackspace Q1 Profit Seen Riding Cloud To 80% Growth

Investor’s Business Daily One key to Rackspace’s success in the cloud market, analysts say, is its OpenStack software initiative, which freely licenses open-source programming code for software that runs servers in data centers. Amazon supports an OpenStack rival called … (more)

• Citrix Defends CloudStack’s Value Vs. OpenStack

InformationWeek CloudStack will be another choice for building private clouds, says Citrix exec Peder Ulander. Can these two similar open source projects survive? In an April 18 column, I questioned whether we really needed advocates of one open source cloud project, … (more)

• NIST Hosts Cloud Computing Workshop V

Cryptome.org SUMMARY: NIST announces the Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop V to be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 5, 6 and 7, 2012. The format is a two-day forum followed by a one-day hands-on workshop. This workshop will provide information on the US … (more)

• A Cloud-Computing Gem in the Making

DailyFinance The company is not only focusing on the exploding market for tablet computers in the corporate sector, but is also further heading out into the cloud-computing space, which is another high-growth industry. Dell recently acquired desktop virtualization … (more)

• Cloud Computing: You Can Kiss That Old 19-Inch Rack Good-Bye

SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara A growing throng of Open Compute Project (OCP) disciples
converged on Rackspace headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, this week to overturn the established sixty-year-old EIA 310-D rack standard inherited from railroad signaling relays … (more)

• OpSource CEO Treb Ryan to Present at All About the Cloud Conference 2012

MarketWatch (press release) The conference, presented by the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) and OpSource, is the most comprehensive ISV conference on cloud computing. Through keynote sessions, panels and product demonstrations, All About the Cloud will … (more)

• Cloud Computing: Informatica Upgrades Its iPaaS

SYS-CON Media (press release) The researcher says it can provide a “foundation for hybrid cloud computing, engaging old and new applications and data, on-premises and in the cloud.” The Developer Edition is currently available through an early access program. (more)

• Security Considerations for Cloud Computing (Part 4) – Resource …

In this article, we will continue with the theme and pick up on the third essential characteristic of cloud computing: pooled resources. (more)

• mef – ASP.NET MVC 3 application with multi-tenancy in separate …

ASP.NET MVC 3 application with multi-tenancy in separate app domains? … Has anyone have idea how to implement multitenancy in asp mvc 3 application with … (more)

• Having an issue with Argus Multitenancy Implementation… User …

Having an issue with Argus Multitenancy Implementation… User name on GlobalHomePage is not appearing after user logs in… Have done all as per Oracle … (more)

• BroadCloud Selects Piston Cloud to Power Hosted Private Clouds Built on …

MarketWatch (press release) Piston Enterprise OS is the first cloud operating system built on OpenStack, and the first OpenStack distribution specifically focused on security and the easy operation of enterprise private clouds. Piston Cloud’s innovative Null-Tier Architecture(TM) … (more)

• Ceph Open Source Storage Founder Launches Services Startup

InformationWeek (blog) Ceph is included in the Linux kernel and integrated into the OpenStack project. Because, like other open source projects, Ceph can be difficult to install, configure, and maintain, Inktank became the official sponsor of Ceph and will provide not only … (more)

• Intel, McAfee Promote Dynamic Plan for Securing the Cloud

PC Magazine By Damon Poeter Intel and McAfee on Friday announced a broad new secure
cloud computing initiative aimed at businesses that may be delaying cloud adoption because they’re concerned about protecting sensitive data and meeting compliance obligations. (more)

• Cloud Computing in Higher Education

SYS-CON Media (press release) By Bob Burke The irony about cloud computing in the higher education
environment is that most schools have already been using it to some extent but may not even realize it. Gmail is one example. Yahoo Mail is another. The fact is web-based applications … (more)

• Software Engineering for Software as a Service with Professors …

The course “Software Engineering for Software as a Service” by Professors Armando Fox and … (more)

• 2 6 1 6 Software as a Service – YouTube

2 6 1 6 Software as a Service. OpenCourseOnline. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe … (more)

• VMware shops eye rocky road to private cloud

TechTarget Of course, VMware would like to see shops standardize, beginning with its vSphere hypervisor and continuing with its vCloud Director product, which provides Infrastructure as a Service cloud deployment and management through vSphere. (more)

• VMware: VMware vCloud Blog: vCloud Director Ultimate Resource …

Besides the vCloud blog, there are a ton of other vCD resources on the web. vCloud … HyperVizor.com – Publishing the vCloud Director Portal on the Internet … (more)

• Managing VMware vCloud Director

Learn about vCloud Director Task and Events, and how to monitor Blocking Tasks, view … (more)

• Drobo and VMware vCloud, psychedelic is a great way | blog.drobo …

John was was recently on a Drobo Webcast talking storage tiering in a vCloud architecture. John is one of many VMware experts that use Drobo storage in his … (more)

• TheCloud And ScaleXtreme Announce VMware VCloud(R)-based …

ScaleXtreme, the leading provider of server automation products for the distributed data center, tod,TheCloud And ScaleXtreme Announce VMware … (more)

• Gazing Into The Cloud, From Storage to Servers

NPR And in some ways, cloud computing is a return to that model. Of course, it’s very different now because we can – the capacity of the data communications network, which is where we transfer all the data back and forth, is much, much greater and … (more)

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• Orchard Project – orchard – View Issue #18639: Multitenancy: URL …

description. We tried to configure a tenant in both the admin interface and it’s Settings.txt to be reachable via “mydomain.com/tenant”, but the request is handled … (more)

• Cloud Hosting Company 4t Networks Announces Its VMware Upgrade to vCloud …

DigitalJournal.com (press release) Cloud VPS hosting company 4t Networks announces the upgrade to their VMware infrastructure to vCloud Director 1.5. ATLANTA, GA, May 03, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — Cloud hosting service 4t Networks has upgraded its VMware to vCloud Director 1.5, … (more)

• eUKhost Announces 15% Discount on its Cloud Hosting & Dedicated Servers

PR Web (press release) All existing as well as new customers of eUKhost are eligible to take advantage of this attractive 15% discount offer on purchase of VMware/Hyper-V Cloud Servers or any Dedicated Server. UK Web Hosting (http://www.eukhost.com) provider eUKhost is … (more)

• VMware Communities: Large OVF imports into vCloud Director…

I’m getting wildly different results while importing large OVF file into vCloud Director 1.0.1 via the ovftool than when performing the upload of the same OVF via … (more)

• Infinitely Virtual Announces VMWare vCloud … – Cloud News Daily

Infinitely Virtual, a provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today announced it has added VMWare’s vCloud Director to its hosting … (more)

• Infinitely Virtual Announces VMWare vCloud … – Yahoo! Finance

From Yahoo! Finance: Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today announced it has added VMWare’s … (more)

• Infinitely Virtual Adds vCloud Director to Platform: ChannelPro-SMB

With the addition of vCloud Director, IT managers have more self-service options when … (more)

• EMC Community Network – ECN: Active/Active vCloud Director

Looking for information on an Active/Active setup for vCloud Director. I am aware of Duncan/Chris C’s whitepaper on an active/standby model, but anything in the … (more)

• theCloud, ScaleXtreme Launch vCloud Partnership

Channelnomics The relationship arrives via ScaleXreme’s Cloud Service Provider program, which has built a bridge between theCloud’s vCloud hosting environment and ScaleXtreme’s automation technology. More simply put, customers currently using theCloud’s hosting … (more)

• TeleCommunication Systems Selects Locaid as Location-as-a-Service Partner

MarketWatch (press release) SAN FRANCISCO and ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Locaid, the world’s largest Location-as-a-Service company, and TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ:TSYS) , a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile … (more)

• Emailvision’s newest release of Campaign Commander(TM) Delivers Ground …

MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Emailvision, the international leader in Software as a Service (SaaS) for online relationship marketing, today announced the availability of the newest version of Campaign Commander Enterprise Edition. (more)

• Veteran Technology Executives Join Parchment As Growth Accelerates

PR Web (press release) With experience scaling fast-growing, early-stage ventures, Colletti and Dinski bring a combined 35-year track record in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and consumer Internet companies to the Parchment management team. Parchment works with institutions … (more)

• VMware Cloud Foundry on OpenStack puts kibosh on vendor lock-in

TechTarget Piston Cloud Computing said this week it is working with VMware on an open source project that enables the OpenStack cloud OS to support Cloud Foundry’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. The goal is for VMware’s Cloud Foundry PaaS applications to … (more)

• Piston Cloud CEO to Present at 2012 Interop Las Vegas

MarketWatch (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, CA, May 03, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced its Co-founder and CEO, Joshua McKenty, will be participating in a panel session at Interop Las Vegas titled, … (more)

• New Startup Inktank Delivers the Future of Storage with Ceph

MarketWatch (press release) Ceph has been in the Linux kernel for over two years and is integrated into the OpenStack project. “Since Ceph’s creation eight years ago, more and more companies have been expressing interest in its ability to transform storage and free companies from … (more)

• Appcara Showcases A Radically New Approach to Cloud Application

Lifecycle … MarketWatch (press release) Application Portability — eliminates vendor lock-in, since AppStack enables application portability across both public clouds such as AWS and private clouds based on Citrix(R) CloudStack(TM) and others. — Single pane-of-glass control to manage the … (more)

• theCloud and ScaleXtreme Announce VMware vCloud(R)-based Cloud Service …

MarketWatch (press release) The CSP Program enables theCloud customers to rapidly deploy and manage cloud servers on their VMware vCloud(R) Powered Service, as well as provision new servers, manage existing servers, configure, monitor and run server automation jobs directly … (more)

• Riverbed and VMware Collaborate on Networks

Data Center Knowledge Testing was performed using VMware vCloud Connector to transfer virtual machine images with and without the Steelhead appliance, in a variety of real-world WAN network conditions. The test result showed that the Steelhead appliance, with WAN-like … (more)

• Announcing CloudForge – CollabNet’s NEW development Platform …

It’s Monday, April 30 here in San Francisco, and we have officially just launched CloudForge in Public Beta- our new development Platform as a Service (dPaaS) … (more)

• SaaS Valuation 2012: What Price is Right? | Software-as-a-Service …

How to value SaaS companies? What Price is Right? A review of key valuation and operational benchmarks within the software industry. Introduces a simple … (more)

• Introducing Informatica Cloud’s Integration Platform as a Service …

In 2006, Informatica announced a strategic roadmap for cloud data integration, which outlined three phases: Cloud Connectivity; Cloud Integration Services … (more)

• Platform As A Service | Official WebHostingBuzz Company Blog

While we may refer to them as cloud service providers, they are still web hosting companies that now offer software as a service (SaaS) or a platform as a service … (more)

• software as a service – semanticweb.com

Market Strategies International recently released the first edition of what it says will be an annual Social Media Brand Index, a measure for brands both of … (more)

• Subscribe to ReadWriteWeb

ReadWriteWeb But what if you could use them to build a private cloud just like those OpenStack folks in the enterprise? In Windows 8, Microsoft is bringing the power of private clouds to consumers with the inclusion of Storage Spaces. In this 10-part series, … (more)

• My Openstack Tasks | Adam Young’s Web Log

To date, my involvement with Openstack has focused primarily on Keystone. Using that as a starting point, I want to continue it in two directions: deeper work on … (more)

• Asana: speedy, stable and very well connected

ZDNet (blog) I’ve always considered Facebook’s remarkable stability as a platform (it always seems to be up and functioning well) as one of the major elements in their success and a benchmark for other software as a service offerings. (more)

• D+H Acquires Avista Solutions, a Leading Loan Origination System Provider

to … MarketWatch (press release) TORONTO, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Davis + Henderson Corporation(“D+H”) (TOR:CA:DH) today announced that it has acquired Avista Solutions, Inc. (“Avista”) of Charleston, South Carolina, a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) … (more)

• Symplified Rolls Out Identity-as-a-Service Platform for Cloud Service

Providers The Complete Managed Services Resource By Erin Harrison Cloud identity company Symplified has rolled out its
Symplified Structure platform, which aims to help telcos, cloud service providers, cloud application brokers and cloud application hosting companies integrate identity and access … (more)

• GlobalWise Provides Shareholder Update and Reports International Expansion

to … MarketWatch (press release) The Company’s ECM service is delivered to customers via five unique delivery models that cover the full spectrum of business needs: Cloud/SaaS (Software as a Service); Hardware Vendor Integrated Service; Software Vendor Integrated Service; … (more)

• IaaS Meets PaaS: Piston Brings Cloud Foundry Platform to OpenStack

Server Watch By Vangie Beal (Send Email) Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., has announced a
new community open source project to allow the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to run on OpenStack. Piston said its new project will be submitted to the OpenStack … (more)

• Cloud Computing: Nirvanix Raises Over $25M Series C Round

SYS-CON Media (press release) “The advantages of cloud computing are becoming more clear all the time, and it is inevitable that storage will also move to this architecture. Data, particularly unstructured data, is exploding in volume and ways to leverage it. (more)

• State companies helping Army with cloud computing

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The US Army has turned to cloud computing, and to Wisconsin companies, to improve its intelligence gathering in Afghanistan. Under a $19.5 million contract, the Army is buying computer services from a Lockheed Martin Corp. team that includes Silicon … (more)

• TeleCommunication Systems Selects Locaid as Location-as-a-Service Partner

Sacramento Bee Locaid is the world’s largest Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) company. We operate a location privacy platform that allows mobile developers to locate over 350 million devices for enterprise authentication, fraud management, consumer location services and … (more)

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• Infinitely Virtual Adds VMware s vCloud Director To Its Hosting …

Infinitely Virtual adds VMware s vCloud Director to its hosting platform and gives organizations more self-service options when they need to quickly reconfigure … (more)

• VMTurbo expands cloud support with Operations Manager 3.1

V3.co.uk The company said that the the 3.1 update for the platform would bring support for CloudStack as well as the addition of an application delivery controller. Based on the company’s Economic Scheduling Engine (ESE) platform, Operations Manager uses an … (more)

• Piston to Integrate Cloud Foundry & OpenStack | Cloud Computing …

Piston Cloud Computing, the start-up peddling an OpenStack distribution for enterprise private clouds, is co-operating with VMware of all people to develop a Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) that integrates OpenStack cloud infrastructure with … (more)

• Accounting Software as a Service | LinkedIn

Software as a Service has come to a point to offer a large variety of applications. In its beginning it was all about simple functions, since vendors weren’t too sure … (more)

• How to use Juniper as firewall in CloudStack 2.2.14???

5 days ago … hi all I use juniper in my cloudstack 2.2.14 When I create the vm , I got the log like below: … (more)

• Red Hat makes OpenShift cloud platform open source | Cloud …

By feedback@zdnet.co.uk (Editors)
Red Hat has made its OpenShift platform-as-a-service open source. Image credit: Red Hat. The software maker posted the OpenShift Origin code on Monday for free download under the Apache Licence v2. OpenShift, which automates many … (more)

• Innovative Group Management Service AllPlayers.com Joins Forces …

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Founded in 2009, AllPlayers.com was started by parents, coaches and community leaders, who sought to fix a technology void by establishing a free and open-source platform that enabled any group to efficiently organize, advertise, manage registration, communicate and schedule activities online. AllPlayers.com released this free software-as-a-service group management system in 2010, and today has organizations and users in across the globe. AllPlayers.com is a COPPA … (more)

• How green are cloud computing companies?

Tehelka Does using cloud computing technology lead to reduced carbon emissions? Apparently not, says a Greenpeace report’ Many IT companies that are rapidly building their cloud are actually compromising with the type of energy that is being used, … (more)

• VMware Advances VMware View(TM) and End-User Computing Solutions for the

Post … MarketWatch (press release) … delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into the virtualization and cloud computing markets, and new product … (more)

• IBM Unveils Software With Capabilities On Social Media, Cloud Computing

AllAfrica.com The solution, according to IBM was designed to help organizations quickly begin incorporating the collaborative and intelligent capabilities of social media, mobile computing and cloud computing into their enterprise applications. (more)

• CallidusCloud Launches CLOUD Pass(TM) Learning Platform

MarketWatch (press release) PLEASANTON, CA, May 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ:CALD) , the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it launched its new CLOUD (Continuous Learning On User Demand) Pass(TM) Learning … (more)

• Kenandy, Inc. Announces Cloud ERP for Product Companies

MarketWatch (press release) CHICAGO, IL, May 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Kenandy, Inc. today announced release 2.0 of Kenandy(TM) Social ERP, the first cloud ERP built entirely on Force.com, salesforce.com’s social enterprise cloud computing platform specifically for … (more)

• Arista Networks Showcases Software Defined Cloud Networking With SDN …

MarketWatch (press release) The partner integration demonstrations at Interop 2012 and Interopnet in Las Vegas are: VMware auto provisioning with VMware SDN controller, OpenStack Nova integration with Nebula, and Big Switch Network’s OpenFlow controller. (more)

• Symplified Introduces Identity as a Service Platform for Cloud Service

Providers MarketWatch (press release) Symplified Structure is an instantiation of Symplified’s core platform that unifies identity management, access control, auditing, and user provisioning across existing public/private cloud services and SaaS marketplaces. This fully embedded offering … (more)

• Collaboration vendor Jive aims for app adoption without pestering IT

Network World The applications are delivered either on-premise or through a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering and include a variety of use cases, but center around the idea of a social intranet. “The last few years have been characterized by early adopters … (more)

• Red Hat releases OpenShift source code

Network World By Sophie Curtis, TechWorld Open source software distributor Red Hat has
released the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, allowing developers to run the platform on multiple cloud fabrics, including OpenStack. (more)

• Convirture Updates Virtualization and Cloud Management Software

GlobeNewsWire (press release) Support for CloudStack will be available in an update to the software that is planned for the third quarter of this year. ConVirt Enterprise Cloud also is also now certified to run on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The company also released ConVirt 2.1 Open Source, … (more)

• NextPrinciples a Winner at SugarCon 2012 App Throwdown

MarketWatch (press release) This key event has been traditionally used to showcase advanced technologies — here, NextPrinciples demonstrated the power of its platform by integrating its award winning Insight-to-Action Software as a Service (SaaS) offering with the fastest … (more)

• Jive First Launches Next Generation Platform In Cloud

InformationWeek Jive Software is launching the next generation of its enterprise social networking platform to cloud customers first, and for the first time offering a 30-day free trial for customers who sign up online. The new Jive for Teams cloud service will be the … (more)

• Gale Technologies Announces GaleForce Turnkey Cloud is a Validated

Management … Houston Chronicle Cisco and NetApp have tested and passed the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Software as a FlexPod validated management solution. Gale Technologies, a leading provider of innovative software solutions that power Infrastructure as a Service for the lab, … (more)

• Organize your Accounting with LedgerDocs Online Document Management Software

San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) May 02, 2012 Online accounting and bookkeeping services provider LedgersOnline Inc. announced their new online document management software as a service offering, LedgerDocs. LedgerDocs is a cloud based system for the storage, … (more)

• Cloud Computing: MMI Gets Toothless Injunction Against Microsoft

SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara In what FOSS Patents calls the “most anticipated German
patent ruling ever,” the Mannheim Regional Court Wednesday gave Motorola Mobility the permanent injunction it was looking for against Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Windows Media … (more)

• New book on cloud computing helps organisations develop a cloud programme

Einnews Portugal /EINPresswire.com/ ‘Cloud Computing’ are the words on everyone’s lips – it’s the latest technology, the way forward and has many benefits – but how safe is it? Is it reliable? How secure will your information be? Just what are the risks associated with … (more)

• Arista teams with VMware, Big Switch, Nebula for SDNs

Network World Arista will also show integration with the Nebula controller through the OpenStack Nova APIs. OpenStack is an open-source framework for a cloud computing operating system. Arista plans to also demonstrate integration with Big Switch’s controller … (more)

• An emerging cloud trend: Solution-as-a-service? | TechRepublic

On top of IaaS lies PaaS’s, that is, Platform-as-a-Service, which conceptually are operating systems on the cloud. They abstract the hardware from the … (more)

• Plenty of Room for both OpenStack and CloudStack

Virtualization Review There is plenty of room for both OpenStack and CloudStack to survive and thrive. It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that competition is what drives innovation and quality. Competition makes markets. In the arms race for cloud, there’s room for both … (more)

• Pinning the Cloud: Pinterest, Cloud Computing and the Environment …

Pinterest is quickly growing and using cloud servers to host all of those new pins, but what is the real footprint of this and what could make it better? (more)

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• Smart Computing, Cloud Computing, And Mobility Will Boost US IT …

The common theme in both presentations is that new technologies like Smart Computing, cloud computing, and mobility will drive companies to increase their … (more)

• Two Cloud Myths Busted: Lock-In and Locked Up

PCWorld By David Linthicum, Infoworld The world of cloud computing grows like a
weed in summer, and many assumptions are being made that just aren’t correct. I’ve previously exposed four cloud myths you shouldn’t believe. Now it’s time for me to climb up on my … (more)

• Bright Computing Brings Data Aware Scheduling to Cloud Bursting into Amazon

EC2 PR Web (press release) Bright Cluster Manager ensures that the data required for cloud computing is accessible just prior to the start of the job, initiates the job, and then transfers the results back as soon as the job is completed. This work is completed as a single step … (more)

• Study: Cloud Computing Cuts $5.5 Billion Annually From Federal Budget

CRN The IT managers surveyed also reported spending 11 percent of their current, fiscal year 2013 budgets, or $8.7 billion, on cloud computing. The chief impediment to implementing cloud services was security, listed by 85 percent of federal IT managers. (more)

• Intuit Grabs for Bigger Chunk Of Small-Business SaaS Market With …

By Antone Gonsalves
In announcing plans to buy Demandforce, a marketing Software-as-a-Service provider, Intuit is signaling its intention to grab a bigger share of the high-end of the small business market. With its market-leading Quickbooks product, Intuit is … (more)

• Why Freedom PaaS Choice Is Important | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com

By webadmin@itbusinessedge.com
In the name of customer service, most platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings have included any number of tools for managing the application development process. … Extending the Benefits of Server Virtualization Without Shared Storage. Read this white paper to learn how the vSphere storage appliance (VSA) software allows organizations with limited IT resources to unlock the benefits of server virtualization. (more)

• VMware, Piston Cloud team up to develop open source PaaS offering

ComputerworldUK Read more Piston Cloud announced today the Cloud Provider Interface, an open source project that will allow for integration of OpenStack with Cloud Foundry. Piston Cloud leverages the open source OpenStack code to create an IaaS cloud deployment model … (more)

• Sponsor post: Get ready to rule the cloud!

GigaOM HP Cloud Services, CloudStack by Citrix Systems, enStratus, Joyent Cloud, MomentumSI, Splunk and VMware are among leading technology providers sponsoring the conference, providing you a rich ecosystem of innovative companies driving the next generation … (more)

• Does Cloud Computing Matter?

Forbes Joe Weinman is a Senior VP at Telx and the author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing Cloud computing is top of mind for computer geeks, information technology (IT) providers, web and mobile start-ups, and most CIOs (chief … (more)

• To win with cloud computing, change IT first

InfoWorld Indeed, many initial uses of cloud computing resources in such organizations will end up in failure. The dirty little secret is that most of the change to IT needs to occur before the first implementation to make cloud computing holistically successful … (more)

• QBE Wins $4 Million Task Order to Support US Army Cloud Computing

MarketWatch (press release) “This prime task order will lay the foundation for expanding those services and provide a proving ground for cloud computing within the Department of Defense. For QBE, it is a critical milestone of our continued growth as a leading provider of … (more)

• The CFO’s role in the cloud question

ITworld.com Cloud computing will affect everything in your organization — right down to the bottom line. For the CFO whose job centers on managing risk, what happens to your organization’s data in the cloud is directly relevant to your role in the organization. (more)

• Understanding the risks of multi tenancy

ComputerworldUK SAP for example avoid had to redesign its ByDesign software-as-a-service offering for multi tenancy, because it could not make it pay commercially otherwise … (more)

• Piston Cloud Computing to incorporate Cloud Foundry and OpenStack

CTR Piston Cloud Computing Inc., an enterprise OpenStack vendor, announced Monday a new community open source project to allow the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service to run on OpenStack. With cooperation from VMware, Piston Cloud is developing the Cloud … (more)

• Amazon’s 7 Cloud Promises: Hype Vs. Reality

InformationWeek Doug Henschen 05/01/2012 Amazon says cloud computing is an indispensable enabler of seven important computing transformations. We hype-test the promises with a few reality checks. Seven crucial technology transformations have strong foundations in … (more)

• JDA Outlines the Top Four Things Chief Executives Should Expect from the

Cloud MarketWatch (press release) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., May 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — In the information technology world, no topic is receiving more attention than cloud computing. Unlike in the past where cloud computing was perceived as a cost-effective, flexible option for small to … (more)

• Cloud Computing: First Decision in Java Trial Goes to the Jury

SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara Two weeks after the trial started, the first part of the
three-part Oracle case against Google went to the jury mid-day Monday. Among other things the poor jury – one of whom reportedly didn’t want to continue but the judge persuaded … (more)

• MediaValet Thrives on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

MarketWatch (press release) VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Global content services and photography provider VRX Studios turned to Microsoft’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud platform, Windows Azure, to replace its costly, unscalable, … (more)

• Hosted Application and Cloud Services Company, Virtuon, Provides SaaS

Platform … MarketWatch (press release) The Sigercon software typically requires a customer database server configuration. With the Virtuon vApp Software-as-a-Service platform, SigerTax is now immediately deployed to customers without local server hardware installation and setup. (more)

• DataFlux Marketplace Provides Cloud-based Services to Improve Customer

Data … MarketWatch (press release) ATLANTA, May 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DataFlux, a leading provider of data management solutions, today announced the launch of DataFlux Marketplace — a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that validates and enriches mailing and email addresses. (more)

• Spigit Launches New Crowdsourcing Platform ICON, a People-Powered Social

Solution MarketWatch (press release) PLEASANTON, CA, May 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Spigit, the global leader in social innovation software and services, today announced the availability of ICON, a new crowdsourcing platform that gives employees a quick way to tap their … (more)

• Corso Launches New SaaS Platform for Strategic Planning and Enterprise …

PR Web (press release) Corso is now offering customers instant access to a working strategic planning environment via its new Strategic Planning Platform as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Corso, a developer of strategic planning solutions for enterprise … (more)

• CDC Software Launches Ross 7.0, Its Next Generation Suite of ERP

Applications MarketWatch (press release) ATLANTA, May 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — CDC Software, an enterprise software provider of on-premise and cloud technologies, today announced the general availability of Ross ERP 7.0, the major release of its next generation of ERP applications offering … (more)

• Mix non-cloudstack instances?

Hi there, Is it possible/safe to mix cloudstack and non-cloudstack instances on the same VMware cluster? I tried and while it worked, I’m worried Cloudstack may … (more)

• CloudStack Networking Considerations | CloudStack Consultancy …

With the Acton release of CloudStack, the choices for networking were significantly enhanced. Cloudstack 3.x now has more options than ever before which … (more)

• Corent Named As A Finalist in Cloud Computing Category For TechAmerica

High … MarketWatch (press release) Corent Technology, Inc., a disrupting innovator in Cloud Computing, announced that its key product Corent Multi-tenant Server(TM) has been named a finalist for the most innovative cloud computing product/technology in the TechAmerica Orange County … (more)

• North Bridge Ventures and Leading Cloud Organizations Launch 2012 Future

of … MarketWatch (press release) What: 2012 Future of Cloud Computing Survey Who: Presented by North Bridge Venture Partners in Collaboration with 38 industry leading organizations. Where: Take Survey Here www.northbridge.com/software North Bridge Venture Partners and the 38 leading … (more)

• 3 Predictions for Cloud Computing

Internet Evolution Taking the stage during a panel on cloud computing, Hebner, along with IBM VP of software standards Angel Diaz, offered up theories on developments to come in the cloud computing space in the near future. 1. Distinction between “private” and “public” … (more)

• Category:OpenStack – FedoraProject

Category:OpenStack. From FedoraProject. Jump to: navigation, search. This is the category for any pages related OpenStack. (more)

• Corso Launches New SaaS Platform for Strategic Planning and Enterprise …

San Antonio Express Corso, a developer of strategic planning solutions for enterprise architecture and strategic planning, today announced the launch of its Strategic Planning Platform as a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that leverages the cloud to provide … (more)

• XO Communications Launches Concentric Cloud Solutions

MarketWatch (press release) Concentric Cloud Solutions offers new cloud computing, content acceleration, and cloud voice solutions for businesses. These solutions are designed to help customers quickly and cost-effectively deploy and manage infrastructure and services they need, … (more)

• GNAX 50% Off Promotion on Cloud Computing Ending

Albany Times Union The GNAX Cloud is an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant cloud computing solution, powered by VMware vCloud Director. It allows customers to manage an entire virtual infrastructure through a simple web interface, maximizing resource utilization while … (more)

• University of Melbourne fires up kit for OpenStack cloud

iT News By Liam Tung on May 2, 2012 7:13 AM (43 minutes ago) The University of
Melbourne has acquired its first major round of servers to support the launch of the first node of the OpenStack-based NeCTAR Research Cloud. NeCTAR is a nationwide $47 million … (more)

• EarthLink Offering Cloud, Security Services Bundles Through Channel

CRN EarthLink offers additional VMware virtualization capacity and makes its services interoperable with VMware virtual machine instances, doing so through the hosted vCloud offering EarthLink already provides with VMware. The Cloud Entry Bundle is for … (more)

• BitNami Adds Support for Latest Version of Ubuntu

PR Web (press release) In addition to making the BitNami packages freely available to end users, BitNami provides subscriptions of custom-built application images for public and private cloud platforms based on vCloud, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, OpenStack and other cloud … (more)

• Cloud Computing ‘May Be a Lot of Hot Air’

Billing World That prompted the company to wonder if the cloud computing craze is nothing but “a lot of hot air.” The law seems to be getting in the way for some companies. A number said government or industry regulations (such as HIPAA or Sarbanes-Oxley) prevent … (more)

• Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service Comes to Canada …

I am pleased to announce that the Dell vCloud Datacenter Service is now available to Dell customers in the Canadian market This is a small step in the 2012 … (more)

• Cloud Computing: Piston to Integrate Cloud Foundry & OpenStack

SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara Piston Cloud Computing, the start-up peddling an
OpenStack distribution for enterprise private clouds, is co-operating with VMware of all people to develop a Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) that integrates OpenStack cloud … (more)

• Piston Cloud Integrates Cloud Foundry PaaS with OpenStack

TalkinCloud (blog) by Brian Taylor on Piston Cloud Computing, an enterprise-level OpenStack specialist, announced a community open source initiative to integrate VMware’s (NYSE: VMW) Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service product with OpenStack. Piston Cloud is designing a … (more)

• Informatica announces industry’s most complete cloud integration

platform-as-a … PRWire The new release delivers the industry’s most comprehensive cloud integration platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, including a Cloud Connector Toolkit, Cloud Integration Templates and new enterprise features. The latest release of Informatica Cloud … (more)

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• platform-as-a-service | The lost outpost

As my new role continues, a podcast I recorded with Michael Surkan over at Uhuru Software has just gone online. Uhuru provide hosting based on the Cloud … (more)

• On Premise vs. Monitoring as a Service – Considerations and …

We all pretty much know that we can buy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Development/Run time Platforms as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service ( Saas), … (more)

• Infinitely Virtual Announces VMWare vCloud Director Capability …

SYS-CON Media, NJ, The world’s leading i-technology media company on breaking technology news. (more)

• Infinitely Virtual Announces VMWare vCloud Director Capability, Giving IT

Pros … MarketWatch (press release) SANTA MONICA, Calif., Apr 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services for businesses, today announced it has added VMWare’s vCloud Director to its hosting platform, giving IT managers … (more)

• multi-tenancy backup scenario – ravendb | Google Groups

I understand per previous posts that backups occur on a per database level, I have seen how to backup a tenant db using curl and i assume something similar is … (more)

• Health Data Modeling and Simulation Software as a Service Federal …

Health Data Modeling and Simulation Software as a Service … contract to acquire a Softwareas a ServiceSaaS platform system that supports data modeling and … (more)

• SCC launches Secure Multi-Tenancy Cloud on G-Cloud

Cloud Pro IT provider SCC is launching its new Secure Multi-Tenancy Cloud (SMTC) for CloudStore on the UK government’s G-Cloud programme. The UK-hosted cloud platform … (more)

• Infinitely Virtual Announces VMWare vCloud Director Capability …

Adding VMWare’s vCloud Director continues Infinitely Virtual’s mission to deliver the … Customers deploying vCloud Director benefit from an exceptionally … (more)

• Oracle Engineered Systems Power CISDI to Establish Cloud Computing Platform

MarketWatch (press release) CISDI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD (“CISDI INFO”) has selected Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exadata Database Machine for its cloud computing platform. The move is designed to help improve CISDI INFO’s capabilities to offer complete … (more)

• OnX Enterprise Solutions Announces New US$20 Million Data Center and

Cloud … MarketWatch (press release) According to an April 2011 Forrester Research, Inc. forecast data report, “Sizing The Cloud” by Stefan Ried, Ph.D. and Holger Kisker, Ph.D., the global cloud computing market will grow from $40.7 billion in 2011 to more than $241 billion in 2020. (more)

• Radware Collaborates With IBM to Help Customers Achieve Superior Value

From … MarketWatch (press release) MAHWAH, New Jersey, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) , a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced it is collaborating with IBM to … (more)

• GraphOn Further Extends Cloud Computing Position with New Web Server Patent

MarketWatch (press release) SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Apr 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — GraphOn Corporation , a leading worldwide developer of cloud application delivery and Web-enabling solutions, announced today that it has been issued a new patent by the US Patent and Trademark Office … (more)

• Master MySQL in the Amazon cloud

InfoWorld By Sean Hull | InfoWorld For many MySQL database admins, Amazon Web
Services represents the brave new world of cloud computing — one fraught with disappearing servers, disk I/O variability, and other shared resource challenges, not to mention … (more)

• Overlooked Small Cap Cloud Computing Stocks: IceWEB (IWEB), Datalink …

SmallCap Network A closer look at small cap cloud computing stocks IceWEB (IWEB), Datalink Corporation (DTLK) and Silicon Graphics International (SGI). By John Udovich There are plenty of direct and indirect ways to bet on cloud computing trends with IceWEB (OTC: IWEB) … (more)

• Virtacore Speaking With CIOs at UBM Midsize Enterprise Summit East 2012

MarketWatch (press release) By building their clouds on industry leading VMware vCloud technology,
Virtacore enables their customers to use their clouds to enhance current infrastructure, and not replace it entirely, giving CIOs the flexibility they require to create hybrid … (more)

• VirtualSharp Software Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Business Continuity …

MarketWatch Multitenancy: end customers can take advantage of the economies of scale provided by the cloud by sharing Disaster Recovery testing resources, … (more)

• How to recover from bad configuration from Orchard’s Multi Tenancy

I just installed the Multi Tenancy Module on my Orchard I may have misconfiguration a new tenant and now I get a nasty error disabling orchard … (more)

• Is Apache overextending itself as rivals devour its core web server share?

ZDNet (blog) By Paula Rooney | April 30, 2012, 8:19am PDT Summary: Has the Apache
Software Foundation overextended itself by taking open source projects like OpenOffice and Cloudstack off the hands of proprietary giants while its famed HTTP web server continues … (more)

• Piston Cloud Computing to Integrate Cloud Foundry and OpenStack

MarketWatch (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced a new community open source project to allow the Cloud Foundry(TM) platform-as-a-service to run on OpenStack. (more)

• Big Deals Point To More Competition in Cloud Computing

Wall Street Journal (ORCL) and Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM) in cloud computing, but last week a venture-backed company from San Francisco stepped from the shadows to snap up one of the richest contracts in business for software to manage sales, marketing and customer … (more)

• ‘Cloud’ computing technology should make sharing medical images easier

and … EurekAlert (press release) “Cloud” computing involves using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. “This is the next revolution in digital imaging,” said David Mendelson, MD, FACR, … (more)

• Red Hat opens up OpenShift platform cloud

Register When Red Hat puffed up the OpenShift platform cloud last May, it was only available as a service and it only ran atop Amazon’s EC2 compute cloud. But now, with the release of the source code behind OpenShift, which is now called OpenShift Origin, … (more)

• Avangate Included in Independent Research Firm Report on SMB eCommerce

Solutions MarketWatch (press release) REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Apr 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Avangate, the agile eCommerce service provider trusted by thousands of Software and SaaS companies to grow their businesses worldwide through any channel and any model, today announced that it has … (more)

• Cloud Carib Ltd. Attains Enterprise VMware Partner Status in The Bahamas,

a … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Nassau, Bahamas (PRWEB) April 30, 2012 Following a period that has seen the company go from strength to strength in the Cloud Computing Sector in The Bahamas, Cloud Carib announced today that it has completed all requirements for the upgrade to … (more)

• Quark Summary: What CFOs Need to Know About SaaS and Cloud Integration

Forbes Organizations have escalated their adoption of cloud computing and SaaS applications in the past 3 years. As part of the broader trend in consumerization of IT (CoIT), business leaders have slowly tipped the balance of power in determining technology … (more)

• VMware: VMware vCloud Blog: 5 Key Features of vCloud Integration …

5 Key Features of vCloud Integration Manager. By: David Davis. The adoption of VMware vCloud services by service providers (and customers) is growing. (more)

• Infinitely Virtual Announces VMWare vCloud Director Capability …

3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo Call For Papers and Sponsorship Opportunities Now Open! June 23-24, 2008 New York City. (more)

• Cloud Software Firm Piston to Run Cloud Foundry PaaS on OpenStack

Web Host Industry Review Piston Cloud Computing has launched a new community open source project to allow VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service to run on OpenStack. Enterprise OpenStack company Piston Cloud Computing announced on Monday it has launched a new community … (more)

• Meetings technology firm Certain upgraded its software-as-a-service …

Business Travel News has been the voice of authority for corporate travel buyers throughout North America for over 25 years. BTN publishes 20 issues anually, … (more)

• CollabNet Launches CloudForge, Industry’s First Enterprise-Grade …

CollabNet Launches CloudForge, Industry’s First Enterprise-Grade development- Platform-as-a-Service (dPaaS). From PR Newswire; Published 42 minutes ago … (more)

• Announcing OpenShift Origin – The Open Source Platform as a Service

It’s been almost a year to the date since Red Hat launched the OpenShift Platform -as-a-Service (PaaS) at Red Hat Summit. Since launch OpenShift has … (more)

• Thanks to Piston, OpenStack gets an unlikely ally in VMware …

By Barb Darrow
Piston Computing plans to integrate VMware’s Cloud Foundry platform as a service with Piston’s own OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure as a service offering in what the two companies are billing as an integration of “the world’s most … (more)

• VMware Teams with Piston to Create BOSH for OpenStack …

By Maria Deutscher
Earlier this month VMware debuted BOSH, an open-source tool (or tool-chain, in the words of the developer) for deploying Cloud Foundry. It also announced plans to make the solution platform agnostic so that the user base won’t be limited to … (more)