Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 9, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Polycom Expands RealPresence Video Platform With Cloud Solution
- Newcomer Koupon Launches Cloud-Based Digital Offers Platform
- Synnex CEO Kevin Murai: Tablets, Mobile, Cloud Computing (p2)
- CS169 – Software as a Service – Lecture 10 – YouTube
- For what Saas (Software as a Service) – Hacker News – Y Combinator
- Xuropa | Software-as-a-Service
- Understanding Platform As A Service (PaaS) | Computer Science …
- NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson expects toothbrush commerce
- Infor Business Cloud Expanded to IBM SmartCloud Platform
- CloudStack Blog
- IBM, AT&T team on cloud services
- Services hold key to cloud computing success
- Significant surge in use of cloud computing by Irish CIOs
- OrientDB and Multi-Tenancy – Gremlin-users | Google Groups
- VMware integrates DynamicOps self-service IT portal into vCloud Suite
- VMWare in further data centre land grab with vCloud update
- Industry First – BMC Software Transforms the Service Desk Into a “Genius
- App-Driven World Requires Bankers Be Open to a Little SaaS
- Workday IPO set to run as Solar City lays market groundwork
- Glowpoint Announces Next Generation of Video-as-a-Service Offerings from …
- Open vs. Closed: The Cloud Wars
- AT&T and IBM Create Breakthrough Global Cloud Service for Businesses
- Factors Making Cloud Computing Difficult To Convert Into A Utility For
- 3 cloud sweet spots in healthcare
- How Will Rackspace Hosting OpenStack Cloud Computing Certification
- CloudStack alert users to critical vulnerability
- IBM, AT&T team on cloud services
- IBM Expands PureSystems Line, Announces Cloud Partnership
- Dovetail Insurance Recognized for Cloud Computing
- VMware vCloud Automation Center
- Top 8 questions for the OpenStack Summit
- Certeon Integrates Cloud-Ready aCelera with VMware’s vSphere, vCloud APIs
- Ellison hawks Oracle’s cloud stack, calls out Salesforce.com | IT News
- Critical Cloudstack vulnerability discovered
- AT&T, IBM Jointly Offer Secure Cloud for Businesses
- Verizon expands management service to mobile devices
- Expert Q&A: Cloud computing, HIE will be the ‘new normal’
- Cloud Operating System TransOS Coming Soon Say Researchers
- Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) May Give Enterprises Peace of …
- EU Eyes Cloud Computing to Kick Start Economy – Business News …
- David vs Goliath: is cloud computing the new slingshot? | Media …
- TechSoup Webinar: Cloud Computing — Benefits and Barriers for …
- How Will Cisco Embrace Virtual Networking? It’s Complicated
- Critical Flaw Reported in CloudStack
eWeek Polycom is significantly expanding its video collaboration portfolio with a host of new and upgraded offerings, with the centerpiece being a cloud-based extension of its RealPresence software platform. … The new CloudAXIS solution creates what … (more)
eWeek Koupon’s software-as-a-service offering enables enterprises to create, distribute, personalize, and analyze all of their digital coupon, offer, and loyalty programs. Retailers such as grocery and convenient stores can use digital campaigns to reach … (more)
The VAR Guy Part 2 of 3: Synnex CEO Kevin Murai describes challenges and opportunities for VARs, managed services providers (MSPs) and cloud integrators during Synnex National Conference 2012. He mentions the tablet, cloud computing and managed IT services … (more)
Lecture 10 – 10/1/12 – Computer Science 169 Software as a Service Instructors: Armando Fox … (more)
11 points by kornnflake 4 days ago | 12 comments. Wonder for what Saas ( Software as a Service) are you guys paying? I try to keep mine as short as possible 
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Xuropa is a Platform as a service (PaaS) for deploying your installed enterprise software on the cloud for production use as a service (SaaS). By using the … (more)
Title: Understanding Platform As A Service (PaaS). Mr. Cody Bumgardner Graduate Student, Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky. Wednesday … (more)
Register The genius side of things Nelson attributes to NetSuite’s 1999 as a Larry Ellison side project that championed software-as-a-service before the term became fashionable or the concept seemed feasible. Nelson clambered aboard in 2002 and at the event … (more)
MENAFN.COM NEW YORK, NY, Oct 08, 2012 (Menafn – MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –Infor, a leading provider of business application software servingmore than 70,000 customers, today announced Private Beta availabilityof the Infor Integrated Platform-as-a-Service … (more)
Discussion on the state of cloud computing and open source software that helps build, manage, and deliver infrastructure-as-a-service. (more)
Computerworld Customers will be connecting to IBM’s cloud computing resources, using AT&T’s virtual private network, with tightly integrated security protections. As a result, customers will be able to shift information or applications between their own data centers … (more)
InfoWorld Cloud computing is, at its core, a new take on an old model (timesharing) for consuming IT resources, but for many enterprises, it requires a new architecture based on services rather than apps. As cloud computing evolves, we’ll become more accustomed … (more)
Siliconrepublic.com Three fifths of private sector respondents use some form of cloud computing, while a quarter of those respondents in the public sector indicated that they are using cloud services. Of the respondents who are not currently using cloud computing within … (more)
OrientDB and Multi-Tenancy. Options … Hi everyone,. NuvolaBase (the commercial offering of OrientDB) has publishing a blog on multi-tenancy. (more)
ZDNet Introduced in August at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, version 5.1 of the vCloud Suite included more than 100 updates and new features for better service when it comes to business-critical workloads, low-latency, and I/O-sensitive apps. VMware chief … (more)
ComputerworldUK Last month at VMWorld in San Francisco the company launched the vCloud suite consisting of various module products designed to support organisations moving towards virtualised cloud data centre management, whether involving private or hybrid cloud … (more)
Bar … NASDAQ “The flexibility and choice that the BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite provides enabled ConAgra to move from an on-premise environment to a Software-as-a-Service environment,” Michael Tomasiewicz, senior system and network administrator for … (more)
PYMNTS.com Today, Intuit Financial Services announced its new online and mobile software-as-a-service platform that provides financial institutions more flexibility to meet their customers’ needs. The new platform will enable Intuit’s more than 1,250 customer … (more)
Upstart (blog) This week, Workday will provide a window on whether the stock market still loves software as a service, and SolarCity plans to test the market’s tolerance for solar installation. The Renaissance IPO Calendar shows Workday plans to go public on the New … (more)
Telepresence Options Glowpoint Inc. , a leading global provider of cloud and managed video services, today announced OpenVideo 2.0 – the next generation of Video-as-a-Service offerings from the company that will allow businesses of all sizes to easily try, buy and use … (more)
New York Times (blog) … York Times Oracle, run by Larry Ellison, left, is facing a challenge from young startups like Aaron Levie’s company, Box. For all the freedom promised by cloud computing, businesses may be really looking at less choice and more constraint than ever … (more)
Sacramento Bee When customers of the new service connect to IBM cloud computing resources across AT&T’s virtual private network, the innovative technology tightly integrates the security protections of both, allowing customers to quickly and reliably shift … (more)
Small … CloudTweaks News Cloud computing use has increased phenomenally over the last years. Businesses use it for different functions and the results are tremendous benefits in efficiency and cost incentives. However, managing expectations remains a challenge to cloud … (more)
Government Health IT A recent MarketsandMarkets report forecasts cloud computing in healthcare to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 20.5 percent from 2012 to 2017. Although cloud computing offers significant advantages to healthcare organizations and other … (more)
Affect … DABCC.com Rackspace Hosting has initiated a new effort to help the cloud community grab some attractive certifications, in the form of OpenStack Fundamentals. This offering is based on teaching materials that hosting company developed internally for a course … (more)
The H The Apache CloudStack code has been updated with a fix for the issue and it is believed that the issue should not affect any upcoming releases of the incubating Apache CloudStack project; version 4.0 has currently been frozen and a release candidate is … (more)
InfoWorld The service to be delivered from early next year is targeted at clients worldwide who are deploying clouds that demand high levels of security and availability, and who often cite security as a key inhibitor to cloud computing adoption, the companies … (more)
Datamation Second, Big Blue will team with AT&T to enable more secure cloud computing. IBM’s new PureSystems offerings are called PureData System for Transactions, PureData System for Analytics and the PureData System for Operational Analytics. Writing for … (more)
Insurance Networking News Insurance software solutions provider Dovetail Insurance has won the Palmetto Pillar Award for cloud computing, which is sponsored by the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Columbia Information Technology Council. (more)
VMware vCloud Automation Center helps to enable customers to rapidly deploy and provision cloud services across private and public clouds physical … (more)
GigaOM To say there’s been a lot of build up to this year’s OpenStack Summit would be an understatement. The drama around VMware’s application to join the OpenStack Foundation and the delayed acceptance of that bid got tongues wagging. It’s only natural, as … (more)
Integration Developers Application performance company Certeon’s aCelera wide area network (WAN) optimization platform is integrated with VMware vSphere 5 and VMware vCloud APIs. aCelera platform accelerates VMs moving between datacenters and private, public and … (more)
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison made a vigorous sales pitch on Tuesday for his company’s next-generation Fusion Applications and underlying technology platform, … (more)
iT News Incubated by the Apache Software foundation, Cloudstack counts over 50 large organisations such as Intel, BT, Alcatel-Lucent, ActiveState and Tata Communications among its technology partners. In March this year, Citrix announced that it would abandon … (more)
Sci-Tech Today It provides private clouds, IaaS, Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, and consulting and implementation services. Erich Clementi, senior vice president for IBM Global Technology Services, told news media that, “as more organizations realize … (more)
Network World This feature is made possible by using Enterproid’s Divide software, now a standard feature of Enterprise Mobility as a Service. Third is expanded Wi-Fi connectivity management, including a new ability to set up an automatic switch for data from … (more)
TechTarget Ken Ong, M.D., chief medical informatics officer for New York Queens Hospital, New York Presbyterian and iHT2 advisory board member who participated in the iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City, joined SearchHealthIT to discuss how cloud computing … (more)
RedOrbit The push toward a world of total cloud computing continues, as a group of Chinese researchers are developing a critical piece of software meant to be accessed and stored offsite: The operating system. These days, even the most casual of computer users … (more)
Like other software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, SECaaS is designed to reduce capital expenditures and also function with less on-site manpower. For example … (more)
With a four-year debt crisis and recession affecting many of its member countries, the European Union (EU) is turning to cloud computing to create 2.5 million … (more)
Higher product quality and greater staffing flexibility make cloud-based development a compelling option for small firms, writes Sarah Goff-Dupont. (more)
TechSoup Global recently released the findings from our 2012 Global NGO Cloud Survey, which collected more than 10,500 responses from nonprofits, libraries … (more)
Wired Tucker will put them to work on OpenStack, a widespread effort to create an open source platform that mimics the massively popular cloud services offered by Amazon. OpenStack is a means of offering up virtual servers, virtual storage, and, yes, virtual … (more)
Threatpost (blog) CloudStack is a project that’s under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation and there hasn’t yet been an official release of the platform. However, users can download versions of it from the Apache project page and all of the versions up until … (more)