Daily Cloud Feed – Nov 29, 2011
This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- PowerCLI for vCloud Director Survey – Chris Colotti’s Blog
- Can OpenStack Transform Telcos Into Cloud Services Providers?
- 2012: Cloud computing hits adolescence for better or worse …
- Cloud Computing: HP’s Putting a Back Door in the Itanium Alamo …
- OptionEase Earns Its TRUSTe Certification for Exemplary Privacy Protection
- Writing a Confluence Plugin for a SaaS Product | Atlassian Blogs
- The Rise of Cloud Accounting
- Software as a Service (SaaS), Part 2 of 2: Changing Relationships …
- OKI expands its EXaaS cloud computing service in Japan
- Virtualization is the Anchor for Storage
- Entrepreneurs need open cloud, not protectionism
- Interoute offers security as a service in response to raised cyber threat.
- NetApp, Iron Mountain team up on medical archive service
- Mart For Cloud Computing To Reach US$5.8 Billion By 2015
- Lenovo to Offer New Phone, Tablets to Boost China Cloud Service
- Leading UK Charity, NSPCC, Embraces Cloud Computing With Rosslyn Analytics
- Cloud growth to accelerate, transform APAC industries
- Cisco, Google and VMware invest in Puppet Labs
- Puppet Labs Raises $8.5M in Series C Funding
- New Cisco Global Cloud Index Projects Cloud Computing Traffic to Grow
- Data center as furnace? Microsoft researchers explore idea
- MuleSoft/THINKstrategies Study Finds Integration Is a Major Obstacle to
- Join Voxel’s Judd Maltin at the Boston OpenStack Meetup Tomorrow …
- Cisco: Global cloud traffic will increase 12-fold by 2015
- 8×8 Makes Cloud Computing Accessible to All Businesses With New Windows
- Equation Technologies Adds Intacct to Expand Cloud Computing Across Canada
- Cloud Computing: Massive Facebook IPO Apparently on the Runway
- Everest Group’s Scott Bils to Chair Cloud Connect Track Focused on …
- Learning Tree International Introduces a New Course: Cloud First:
- Cloud.com gets comfy, merges with OpenStack
- How Autodesk Uses Cloud Computing to Revolutionize Sustainable Design
- Web Host Virtual Internet Achieves VMware vCloud Powered Status
- Is Cloud Computing for You? Five Points to Consider
- Four trends that shaped cloud computing in 2011
- Leader in Electronic Payment Solutions Selects Callidus Software Monaco
- Cloud Computing’s Unintended Consequences
- Creative disruption: Cloud enables CIOs & service providers to focus on …
The questions not only ask how you would like the vCloud cmdletsdistributed but also if you would prefer common objects like VMs and Usersto be new …(more)
TalkinCloudby Joe Panettieri on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, continuesto gain momentum with some cloud services providers (CSPs). …(more)
By Barb Darrow
Here’s hoping 2012 will be the year we separate the wheat from the chaff incloud computing. At the very least, more businesses will know about thepotential benefits and pitfalls of cloud computing so they candifferentiate the real from the …(more)
3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo Call For Papers andSponsorship Opportunities Now Open! June 23-24, 2008 New York City.(more)
and …MarketWatch (press release)”With the rapid adoption of distributed computing, maintaining data privacyis a huge concern, especially in relation to emerging cloud and SaaScomputing models,” said Chris Babel, CEO of TRUSTe. “The third-partyverification that comes with TRUSTed …(more)
By Matt
This is a guest post by Brian Pugh of LucidChart, an online diagrammingsolution that makes diagramming fast and easy. In this post, Brian talksabout the process of writing a Confluence plugin for LucidChart.(more)
Accounting TodayTypically these are Software as a Service, or SaaS, subscription-based Webapplications, which provide a solid subset of the standalone productfunctionality. Assuming there is a reliable and always-on Internetconnection, and that the accounts are …(more)
I also asserted the increasing value proposition of Software as a Serviceas a make-sense strategy for campuses everywhere. The dictum of the newparadigm …(more)
Computer Business ReviewOKI has launched its EXaaS Call Center Service, a new item on its EXaaScloud computing service menu for the Japanese market. The EXaaS Call CenterService is a cloud-based service designed for corporate customers seekingto open and operate call …(more)
PC QuestOpenStack is a collaborative software project designed to create freely …OpenStack is currently developing three interrelated projects: OpenStackCompute …(more)
IT News AfricaCloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) represents a great opportunity forSouth African entrepreneurs. The much lower barriers to entry andsimplicity of launching cloud-based services open up international marketsto local businesses. …(more)
The FINANCIALOffered as a service, organisations can pay monthly for the threatmitigation services, which include DDoS mitigation, intrusion preventionand email filtering. Moving the security services onto the cloud platformresults in a quick and easy set up and …(more)
ComputerworldA storage-as-a-service offering also reduces IT management complexity inthat IT departments no longer have to manage multiple storage systems ordeal with interoperability challenges. Lucas Mearian covers storage,disaster recovery and business …(more)
BernamaBy Tengku Noor Shamsiah Tengku Abdullah SINGAPORE, Nov 29 (Bernama) — The
market for public cloud computing is set to reach US$5.8 billion by 2015,growing at a compound annual growth rate of 39 per cent between 2012 and2015. …(more)
BusinessWeek29 (Bloomberg) — Lenovo Group Ltd., the world’s second-biggest maker ofpersonal-computers, will offer upgraded versions of its smartphone andtablet computer in China, where the company is starting a cloud-computingservice for consumers. …(more)
MarketWatch (press release)LONDON, Nov 29, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — NSPCC, the UK’s leading children’scharity specialising in child protection, aims to deliver cost savings byusing Rosslyn Analytics’ award-winning cloud-based spend analytics andcontract management platform, …(more)
ZDNet AsiaWhile PaaS might receive the most attention from vendors, SaaS continues tobe the primary cloud service businesses are adopting and the market canexpect “explosive growth ahead”, he said. SaaS players will have to movebeyond pure SaaS offerings and …(more)
ZDNet UKThe technology can be integrated with clouds from VMware, Amazon via AmazonWeb Services, OpenStack, RightScale and others. The software iscross-platform, …(more)
MarketWatchPuppet Labs has also continued to grow its partner ecosystem such that itnow offers integrations with VMware, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, OpenStack,…(more)
12-Fold …MarketWatch (press release)All regions included in the study — Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa,Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and North America– are currently ready for basic cloud-computing applications, such associal networking and Web …(more)
ZDNet (blog)Experts love holding up cloud computing infrastructure as an ideal model ofgreen IT because of the architectural efficiencies it entails (at least intheory). Most of us equate cloud infrastructure with massive data centers,but a new paper from …(more)
SaaS …MarketWatch (press release)One of the key findings of the survey is that integration is the mostcommon hurdle in the sales process for SaaS/Cloud providers, with almost90% of respondents considering integration to be important or extremelyimportant in winning new customers. …(more)
Join Voxel’s very own Judd Maltin at the Boston OpenStack Meetup tomorrowNovember 29th at 6 PM Judd will be there to answer questions aboutOpenStack Swift …(more)
VentureBeatA new study by Cisco estimates that global traffic generated by cloudcomputing services will increase a staggering 12 times by 2015 compared tocloud traffic in 2010, while data center traffic will increase at aless-showy-but-still-impressive four …(more)
Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 29, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — 8×8, Inc./quotes/zigman/86315/quotes/nls/eght EGHT -1.11% , provider of innovativecloud communications and computing solutions, today announced theavailability of its new Windows Cloud …(more)
MarketWatch (press release)We believe that we have reached a tipping point with cloud computing andare seeing demand for cloud financial management and accounting platformslike Intacct growing rapidly.” Equation has offered ERP software, systemsintegration, …(more)
SYS-CON Media (press release)Facebook is thinking of going public in the spring and raising $10 billion- a record amount for a high-tech or Internet IPO or pretty much any otherIPO – on an estimated valuation of more than $100 billion, according toboth Bloomberg and the Wall …(more)
PR Web (press release)Everest Group’s Scott Bils will chair a first-of-its-kind track at the 2012Cloud Connect event focused on how enterprise IT can prepare for thecultural and organizational structure shifts made necessary by the move tocloud computing. …(more)
Overview …MarketWatch (press release)This course is designed for Government IT managers interested inunderstanding the benefits of cloud computing and complying with CloudFirst. “As cloud computing revolutionizes IT, government agencies aresearching for the right cloud solution to …(more)
SearchCloudComputing.comDo you have anything to do with the OpenStack open source? Ulander: We do.OpenStack launched last year, and we were one of the founding members.There were 24 or 25 members ranging from big hardware companies to smallersolution providers like …(more)
GreenBiz.com (blog)By Leslie Guevarra Autodesk is on a mission to dispel any doubts about the
power and possibilities that cloud computing brings to sustainable design.The technology and its impacts on design are Topic A this year at company’suser conference in Las …(more)
Web Host Industry Review (blog)By Nicole Henderson, November 29, 2011 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web
hosting provider Virtual Internet announced on Monday that its public cloudhosting service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status. Virtual Internetlaunched its cloud hosting …(more)
PCWorld (blog)According to Cisco, the global Internet traffic generated by the use ofcloud computing services will increase 12-fold by 2015. If you’ve been toopreoccupied with the business of growing your business to consider whatcloud computing could offer, …(more)
VentureBeatIn a few short years, we all have witnessed cloud computing unleash a waveof innovation in IT. Enterprises are continuing to adopt cloud-basedservices and entrepreneurs are finding plentiful low cost and low frictioncompute resources to transform …(more)
SaaS …MarketWatch (press release)Callidus’ Monaco On Demand SPM Suite delivers a 100% multi-tenant SaaSsolution that helps companies maximize their sales and channel performancewith targeted incentives and rewards. The solution: The Monaco On DemandSPM suite is delivered as part of …(more)
InformationWeekBy Alistair Croll Just as enterprise IT comes to grips with the
inevitability of cloud computing, the demands of the business are shifting.That’s because every time the landscape shifts, new things are possible. In”Why Things Bite Back,” Edward …(more)
ZDNetEach element had multiple contracts, In the new paradigm, all elements thatwork towards achieving the ultimate business outcome of processing theclaim – the software, the applications, the tools, the platform and the setof human operators comprising …(more)