Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 13, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Kaazing’s New Platform as a ServicePaaS Offers the Fastest Most …
- Cloud computing creating NZ security blind spots
- Dangers associated with cloud computing are mounting
- SaaS Your App: Building for Software as a Service (Part I) | Tier 3
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Red Hat to Release Enterprise-ready OpenStack Package
- A Service Science Perspective on Higher Education
- Quest Software unveils Foglight for Windows Azure applications
- Watch: Curata founder Pawan Deshpande (Startup Insights video)
- Colt Technology Services gobbles ThinkGrid
- Geminare Addresses Rapid Growth With Addition of VP Global Channels and …
- Xata Changes Name to XRS Corporation and Announces New Revolutionary …
- Red Hat debuts preview version of enterprise-ready OpenStack distribution
- Red Hat finally commits to OpenStack for the cloud | ZDNet
- Support for Multi-tenancy? – Google Groups
- Red Hat’s OpenStack preview debuts, supported version due in 2013
- What Can You Do In Cloud Computing? eBay Gives an Example
- Red Hat offers up OpenStack preview, supported version planned for ’13
- Red Hat to release enterprise-ready OpenStack package
- RED HAT, INC. : Red Hat Announces Preview Version of Enterprise-Ready …
- Cloud, Software as a Service Making a Mark in Tech M&A …
- What’s Still Holding Back a Small Business Software Revolution …
Platform as a servicePaaS is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle the other pieces being Infrastructure as a serviceIaaS and Application software as a … (more)
TVNZ Cloud computing could be the achilles’ heel of Kiwi firms if they do not tighten up security processes, according to an IT firm. Richard Cheeseman, the managing director of IT firm Lume, said some companies are leaving themselves wide open to security … (more)
News & Observer The cloud is going to be a big part of your computing life whether you like it or not. One reason you’ll like it is that your files will stay synchronized between your desktop PC and the various gadgets you carry with you, like tablet or phone. One … (more)
It will surprise no one to say that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a hot topic. Really hot. In 2010, Gartner reported that 95% of organizations are planning to … (more)
Software as a Service is forecated to be a $14.5B industry in 2012. (more)
PCWorld Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as a service) deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ahead of its full commercial … (more)
Center For American Progress Marketing and education experts Robert Lusch and Christopher Wu explain how thinking about college education as a service can begin to answer some of these questions. Let’s start with the basics and answer this question: What is a service and how … (more)
CTR Quest Software has introduced on Monday Foglight for Windows Azure Applications, an application performance monitoring (APM) solution available through software-as-a-service (SaaS). Available immediately as a beta, the newest addition to the Foglight … (more)
Bizjournals.com (blog) Curata is a software-as-a-service tool for content curation and content marketing, and has a customer base that includes U.S. Concrete, ThermoFisher Scientific and Kelly Services. Cambridge-based HiveFire was founded in 2007 by Desphande (son of … (more)
Register Colt Technology Services gobbles ThinkGrid. Lured by base of 300 resellers and entry into SME. Colt Technology Services has swallowed cloud minnow ThinkGrid for an undisclosed sum to tap up its network of 300 resellers and software developers and the … (more)
Broadcast Newsroom Mr. Wagner will manage the rapidly expanding North American and International partner community that has adopted Geminare’s Cloud Enablement Platform and Recovery as a Service (RaaS) Suite. In a career that spans over 20 years in the IT sector, Mr. (more)
NASDAQ 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Xata Corporation today announced the company is changing its name to XRS Corporation and introduced a revolutionary all-mobile platform of the same name for trucking compliance, performance and fleet optimization. The … (more)
CTR Red Hat Inc., provider of open source solutions, announced Monday immediate availability of the preview release of Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution based on the open source OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid … (more)
Summary: Red Hat, the Linux giant, has at long last decided to throw its full support behind OpenStack. (more)
Fred Janon, 8/7/12 11:47 AM, Hi, Are there any plans to support multi-tenancy for GAE-Go? thanks Fred. Re: [google-appengine-go] Support for Multi-tenancy? (more)
BetaNews The move puts the open-source software company in direct competition with Citrix and its CloudStack offering, a move aimed to solidify its position in the cloud computing industry. The company’s software joins at least two other enterprise-grade … (more)
Midsize Insider Open source solutions such as OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus are available, but there have been few high-profile implementations. network spheres The eBay Project. Now eBay has announced that it is using OpenStack open source software as the … (more)
ZDNet Red Hat today released a preview version of its much anticipated OpenStack cloud platform distribution based on its Enterprise Linux 6 and announced that a fully supported version will ship next year. The Linux leader, which will take on VMware … (more)
InfoWorld Red Hat plans to release an enterprise-grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS deployments. The company has posted an unsupported preview edition of the package, ahead of its full commercial release expected in early 2013. (more)
4-traders OpenStack is an open source framework for building private and public IaaS clouds that complements Red Hat’s portfolio of open source cloud solutions. The core software projects provide compute, storage and networking management services, with a … (more)
By Justin Kern
2012 technology sector transaction are down as a whole, but IT services, software and Internet markets hold their own: PricewaterhouseCoopers report. … DM Radio. The Nuts and Bolts of a Data Integration Platform … (more)
By Sarah Lacy
That’s where the initial software as a service crowd found early success, particularly NetSuite, which has built a $4 billion company selling financial software to them. But NetSuite has struggled with profitability most of its life. While SMEs have … (more)