Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 10, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/082912-vmware-openstack-262036.html
- Macquarie Telecom’s cloud gains SAP certification
- Sophos introduces first cloud-based solution with hosted version of
- EPA Victoria deploys SAP CRM
- Lost in the cloud: Agencies go elsewhere for computing needs
- Why Cloud Computing Is Unavoidable In The Automotive Industry
- ResearchMoz.us: Mission Critical Middleware Messaging Market Will Reach …
- Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO to Speak at TechCrunch Disrupt
- vCloud Director 5.1 VXLAN
- FatFractal Takes On Parse, Stackmob & Others With New Engine-Based App …
- Epicor Goes Upmarket With Cloud ERP, Targets SAP, NetSuite
- Park City Group, Inc. Schedules Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year-End 2012 …
- Former Verizon, Terremark Cloud Sales Executive Joins Nirvanix as Head
- Private Cloud Wars
- Microsoft sabotages Windows-via-the-cloud services
- LiveTime Service Desk Software Now Out for Android
- GoodData targets big business data with new offering
- Software as a ServiceSaaS Security and Risk Management Part 1 …
- Benefits of Private Cloud over Public Cloud
Network World VMware is now officially a part of OpenStack. The newly-formed OpenStack Board of Directors voted Friday afternoon to accept VMware, along with Intel and NEC into the project as gold members. Jonathan Bryce of Rackspace, who is one of the leaders of … (more)
iTWire He described the process of obtaining certification as “a very detailed piece of work: it covers the facilities, the operation model, the platform itself, the systems and tools we use to run it and a commitment to be regularly audited.” Macquarie … (more)
mobile … PRWire Sophos Mobile Control is available for on-premise installation or as Software as a Service under a subscription license. The on-premise version is also included in the Sophos Complete Security Suite, which combines endpoint, data, email, web, server … (more)
Delimiter Oracle announced in January that various top Australian public and private sector entities had implemented its CRM On Demand software as a service suite. SAP does have a SaaS-based platform including CRM functionality, Business ByDesign. However … (more)
Federal Times In anticipation of the administration’s IT reform plan released in December 2010, then-federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra in 2009 asked GSA to create the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative Program Management Office. The GSA office was … (more)
CloudTweaks News It is no longer a mere premise that the prospects of integration of cloud computing are embraced by nearly all major industries, including the automobile industry. Cloud computing is bound to change this industry and the driving experience as we know … (more)
Sacramento Bee The 2012 study has 503 pages, 192 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve significant growth as middleware messaging becomes the foundation for cloud computing and enterprise participation in mobile markets. To Browse Full TOC, … (more)
Sacramento Bee Founded in 1999, salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing leader. Using salesforce.com’s social and mobile cloud technologies, companies can connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. Based on salesforce.com’s … (more)
The new vCloud Director 5.1 delivers many new features and enhancements one in particular is the introduction and support of Virtual Extensible LANVXLAN … (more)
TechCrunch FatFractal offers an applications development platform that combines the power of an engine-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) with the elegance and simplicity of a Backend as a Service (BaaS), so developers can easily go from code to cloud. Developers … (more)
PCWorld (blog) Initially, Epicor tested the SaaS (software as a service) waters with Epicor Express, which was launched in 2010 and aimed at companies with just a handful of users. Epicor had about 200 customers running Express as of mid-July, and is expanding access … (more)
NASDAQ 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Park City Group (NYSE Amex:PCYG), a Software-as-a-Service provider of unique supply chain solutions for retailers and their suppliers, today announced the Company plans to release results for its fiscal fourth quarter and … (more)
of … Sacramento Bee Gravel is a top-performing, award-winning executive with over 20 years of sales experience in the cloud services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) industries. Gravel held several positions of increasing responsibility at Verizon/Terremark, most recently … (more)
Windows IT Pro At this year’s VMworld 2012 conference, that meant the vCloud Suite 5.1. In case you didn’t know it, the vCloud Suite 5.1 consists of several components that are designed to help you manage your virtual cloud infrastructure. The base version of vCloud … (more)
InfoWorld (blog) EMC VMware made much of its dual-prong approach to overcoming challenges in cloud infrastructure with its vCloud Suite and end-user computing arena with its new Horizon suite. A great deal of work remains, but the goal of these two suites is to … (more)
Campus Technology The applications are available in both on-premises or software-as-a-service versions and include reporting and dashboards; OpenID authentication to enable users to log in via an existing Google or Yahoo account to track their support tickets; language … (more)
GigaOM Cloud analytics provider GoodData has a new suite of offerings that let users connect their various data sources into a single platform that handles the analysis and visualization for them. It’s made possible by a confluence of technology trends that … (more)
Beyond Widgets What a RIA Platform Should Offer … categories Software as a Service Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service where the IaaS Is … (more)
Datamation In terms of public cloud offerings, there are three services: IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service) and SaaS (Software as a Service). IaaS: The Infrastructure as a service model refers to the outsourcing of equipment that … (more)