Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 29, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- software as a service Open source ASPNET MVC project for a SaaS …
- Jennifer Matt on selecting a web-to-print technology
- ZOL Startup Challenge 2011 winners: Where they are now
- A Dividend Payer Set To Take Control Of Cloud Computing Services
- NAMA Boosts Operations With Cloud Computing
- Ernst & Young’s IT security survey shows struggle to control cloud
- Young entrepreneurs start local software company
- The impact of the SaaS and Cloud evolution on ISVs
- Hurricane Sandy path kills events by Google, Facebook, WSJ (update)
- Larry Ellison Gives Four Reasons to Love the Oracle Cloud
- GreenQloud, Xeround Partner to Boost Cloud Storage Sustainability
- CIOs struggling with cloud computing, social media and mobile risks
- Hurricane Sandy Puts Spotlight on Cloud-Based Data Storage
- Rackspace, Hortonworks collaborate to deliver OpenStack, Hadoop
- Sandy: The Last Storm of the Pre-Cloud Trading Era
- CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 | Presentation The …
- Software startup engineers a smarter grid
- VMware vCloud Director Secure Private Clouds Infrastructure as a …
- ARI Network Services Announces Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Results
- CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 | Presentation Hack Fest …
- CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2012 | Presentation Packaging …
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What They Think The third question I would ask yourself is do you want to partner with a vendor in a licensing model or software as a service model. So I’ve written extensively about this on WhatTheyThink, but the basics are licensing is you buy the software. Software … (more)
Technology Zimbabwe The 2011 winner was Mukela Travel, a startup building an online reservation and hospitality management platform. … Up until now our main business has been focused on bespoke, one off development and while there is a great need for this service in … (more)
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AllAfrica.com Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has said that its recent deployment of Windows Server 2012, has improved the agencies services as well as led to the reduction of its Information Technology costs. The Chief Information Officer, (CIO) of NAMA, … (more)
computing … PC Advisor Many CIOs and chief information security officers are struggling to adapt security practices to a changing environment that includes cloud computing, social media and tablets , according to a survey of 1,850 such IT pros. Related Articles. IT stressed … (more)
The Daily Progress The company is developing and marketing a software-as-a-service platform for database management. The duo met earlier this year at CrossFit Charlottesville, which Redinger also co-founded. VividCortex recently completed a round of seed funding, netting … (more)
Channel Pro Colleen Smith, a Vice President at Progress Software looks at the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS), and more recently the Cloud. An evolution that has brought both technology and business … SaaS has been around long enough that most ISVs … (more)
Computerworld (blog) … Facebook, and the Wall Street Journal to cancel events planned for this week. And Google’s philanthropic arm offers updates on the storm’s progress and emergency information. Also, how much do our cloud-computing needs rely on that part of the county? (more)
Forbes Oracle CEO Larry Ellison believes cloud computing is rapidly gaining favor among businesses for a variety of reasons, but at or near the top of any such list of reasons are flexibility in consumption, the simplification of IT infrastructures and … (more)
eWeek Cloud computing and data storage specialist GreenQloud and database software developer Xeround announced a partnership to run their zero-management cloud database solution for MySQL applications on GreenQloud’s 100 percent renewable … (more)
CIO UK The Ernst & Young 2012 Global Information Security Survey published today found cloud computing to be one of the main drivers of business model innovation and IT service delivery, with 59% of respondents saying they use or plan to use cloud services. (more)
TalkinCloud (blog) The cloud computing skeptics may still think keeping data locked away within the four walls of a business is the best way to protect data, but as Hurricane Sandy continues up the Eastern Seaboard, the best place to store data may very well be the cloud … (more)
applications … Computer Business Review Rackspace will release an OpenStack public cloud-based Hadoop service, which will be validated and supported by Hortonworks and will enable customers to create a Big Data environment in short time. Through the joint efforts, customers will be able to … (more)
TheStreet.com But it’s a good day to review what we should know about cloud computing, what it is today, what it will be tomorrow and what that means for the markets. Cloud remains misunderstood by many. It’s not the IBM Service Bureau of the 1960s. It’s not … (more)
CloudStack was born with the intention of providing EC2like functionality to service providers and has since proved quite successful Along the way the team … (more)
EE Times A handful of semiconductor-industry refugees on Monday (Oct. 29) unveiled their grid-optimization startup with fresh venture capital funding and the launch of a software product that uses big data to improve power power use and cut costs for utilities … (more)
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Sacramento Bee About ARI ARI Network Services, Inc. (“ARI” or the “Company”) is a leader in creating, marketing, and supporting software, software as a service (“SaaS”) and data as a service (“DaaS”) solutions that enhance revenue and reduce costs for our customers. (more)
Come help integrate Apache Deltacloud with CloudStack’s API so that CloudStack providers have an easy option to expose the DMTF CIMI API to their users … (more)
Packaging CloudStack. David Nalley. Audience level: Intermediate … Packaging CloudStack can be challenging Pick your favorite distro and lets work on … (more)