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• Court bars Ex-EMC exec from joining HP | Business and Technology …

By Subraya Mallya
… Recycling recycling old phones SaaS SaaS Adoption Save Energy SaveEnvironment Software-as-a-Service South Africa Steroid scandal SunMicrosystems T20 WorldCup Twenty 20 Cricket World Cup Waste Management windenergy Windows …(more)

• IBM tackles Microsoft with blade servers and cloud services …

By Jacqueline Emigh
Although theoretically, WebSpan might be used by a customer of any size,the software as a service (SaaS) concept tends to hold particular sway withsmaller companies not interested in running their own data centers. …(more)

• 30 Day Free Trial Expense Report Software

By certifypers
SaaS or Software as a Service is the current technology today that allowsyou to use the full feature services of a software in a remote server. Thislets you easily use whatever the software can provide without spendingmoney for the …(more)

• TechLife Columbus: What is Web-Scale? – OCLC Engineering

By Ben Blanquera
These include: “utility computing”, “web-scale computing”, “on-demandinfrastructure”, “cloud computing”, “Software as a Service (SaaS)” and”Platform as a Service (PaaS)”. Available and Reliable: 99.9 or 99.99%Availability (24x7x365, …(more)

• Microsoft Online Services Team Blog : Microsoft Online Services at …

By paulenglis
Keith Ridings, from Microsoft Online Services partner Quest Software, andErik Ashby, from the Microsoft Online Services engineering team, focus onmigration to Microsoft Online Services from Exchange and non-Microsoftsystems such as Lotus Notes, … from the Microsoft Online Servicesdeployment and SharePoint product management teams, lead an interactivediscussion on the differences between deploying SharePoint on premises as aserver and in the cloud as a service. …(more)

• Cloud computing is for the birds – May. 4, 2009

For small companies, cloud computing costs can add up fast.(more)

• Signs of the Times News for Fri, 08 May 2009

In Switzerland Andermatt, Saas Fee and Zermatt have the greatest snowdepths and added more fresh powder at the start of the week. Each has asnow depth of more than four metres (13 feet) on upper slopes. Most of theSwiss resorts that …(more)

• database news around the world: Oracle Reportedly Developing Cloud …

By Dinesh Asanka
Oracle Reportedly Developing Cloud Computing Products. Oracle is reportedlydeveloping a line of seven new SaaS products to meet the onlinecompetition. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, remember, has scoffed at SaaS asunprofitable although he …(more)

• 10-Q: DIGITAL RIVER INC /DE

MarketWatch (press release) – USAOverview We provide end-to-end global e-commerce and marketing solutions toa wide variety of companies in software, consumer electronics, computergames, …(more)

• Five Free Mashup Tools You Should Know About | Web 2.0 Journal

After leaving Persistence Software in 2005, Chris spent a year in France aschairman of Reportive Software, a Paris-based maker ofbusiness-intelligence tools, and as an adjunct professor andentrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school…. To see the current line-up of database and developer tools, includingJBuilder, C++Builder, Delphi, RAD Studio, and All-Access – thecost-effective, multi-platform, on-demand tool c. …(more)

• Project Management Software Reviews

By admin
Clarizen CEO, Mr. Avinoam Nowogrodski presents Clarizen’s unique vision ofthe Enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) market and the future of.(more)

• Dealing with a computer that shuts itself down – Computerworld Blogs

By Michael Horowitz
(Source: Actuate) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has quickly become a commonmeans to adding new enterprise application functionality instantly, withpredictable costs and low up-front… Stop paying more for less space andfewer features …(more)

• New for 2009! The ABA Legal Technology Survey – ABA Site-tation

By Tonya L Johnson
Sixteen percent of respondents report having used a web-based software orservice solution/Software as a Service (SaaS), compared with 13% whoreported using an online service provider in the 2008 survey. The largestincrease was seen …(more)

• SYS-CON.TV: Cloud Computing Expo Power Panel | iPhone Developer’s …

About Cloud News Desk. Cloud Computing News Desk brings the latest industrynews related to the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources andcapabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies. … toolsbusiness from Borland on July 1, 2008). To see the current line-up ofdatabase and developer tools, including JBuilder, C++Builder, Delphi, RADStudio, and All-Access – the cost-effective, multi-platform, on-demand toolc… May. 8, 2009 01:37 PM EDT …(more)

• Richard A. Clarke: Obama’s Challenge in Cyberspace

By Richard A. Clarke
As a service to the new president, the Center for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS) empaneled members of Congress and otherexperts last year to review how a new administration should deal with theissue. … are regularly losing to foreign cyber espionage (most likelyChina’s) what gives the US firms their competitive edge: the results ofexpense R&D, engineering plans, chemical and biological formulas, complexsoftware, even customer lists and pricing data. …(more)

• Computing in the Cloud with The Easy Office | larryaronson.com

By larry
The EasyOffice is an exciting new entry in the world of Cloud Computing andsoftware as a service (SaaS) for small and medium sized businesses. TheCEO, Philip Meese, and I belonged to a small collective of freelance APLprogrammers in …(more)

• New Florence. New Renaissance.: Travel Technology Trends

By tmirchan
PhoCusWright’s 2009 predictions – available for purchase here 1. DespiteMarket Woes, Pockets of Investment Still Exist 2. The Entire TripExperience Will Be ‘Informationized” 3. Software as a Service (SaaS), CloudComputing and Open …(more)

• Storage vendors add deal-sweeteners – Storage Soup

By Beth Pariseau
Through its Switch It On program, Hitachi Data Systems is offeringcustomers free virtualization software licenses through the end of the yearif they use it to attach another vendor’s storage to the HDS UPS-Vplatform. …(more)

• SaaS Accounting | Accounting

By admin
Watch your business no matter where you are. Manage everything with easewith our free online accounting service. Go to hubpages.com.(more)

• South African Airways

By Fly-Hub International
SAAs Cyclad Premium Lounge in Johannesburg was voted the third best in theworld in a Skytrax survey in 2002.Business and first-class passengers arepampered even more. Business class offers the best business flat bed seatsin the …(more)

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• SAA | Your Travel Plans Including Travel Sites, Hotel Deals And …

By Tom Martens
South Africa’s largest domestic and international airline, South AfricanAirways, was established in 1934. SAA was created as one of the firstnational airlines on Earth. SAA has its main, modern hubs in Cape Town andJohannesburg.(more)

• IT- Accessories: Hosted Website Technology Firm, DataSphere …

By yadav
Software as a Service (SaaS) web technology company, DataSphere, haslaunched its DataSphere TotalSite for Real Estate, a component of the newDataSphere Web Suite. Andrew Reid, president, Hanley Wood MarketIntelligence remarked, …(more)

• Supply chain software: NetSuite steps further into manufacturing

MMH.com – Newton,MA,USAIf you’re interested in what’s happening in the market for on-demandenterprise software, also known as cloud computing or Software as aService, …(more)

This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.

• Gartner revises software-as-a-service forecast

Experian QAS Australia – Sydney,AustraliaGlobal revenues from software-as-a-service (SaaS) products will increase by22 per cent this year, according to a leading technology analyst. …(more)

• Cloud and API Updates Will Drive ‘Significant’ SOA Growth

Integration Developers – Corte Madera,CA,USA… of SOA component services will be driven by both enterprise use andcloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service)projects. …(more)

• Federal Cloud Computing Heating Up !

SYS-CON Media (press release) – Montvale,NJ,USABy Kevin Jackson Note 1: Cloud computing is still an evolving paradigm. Its
definitions, use cases, underlying technologies, issues, risks, andbenefits …(more)

• Sysco rolls into SaaS business with ERP on demand

Siliconrepublic.com – Dublin,Ireland08.05.2009 Software company Sysco has become the first Irish softwarecompany to launch enterprise resource planning (ERP) as a software as aservice (SaaS) …(more)

• Veeva Systems Hosts Largest Pharma SaaS CRM Gathering

CRM Today – USAOn May 19th and 20th, Veeva Systems will host the largest SaaS CRMconference ever held exclusively for the life sciences industry inPhiladelphia. …(more)

• Appoint IT LLC Selects Scio Consulting for SaaS Product Design and …

24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – USAAppoint IT has announced today they have selected Scio Consulting to designand develop Appoint IT, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) appointmentscheduling …(more)

• SaaS ERP market poised for strong growth

ZDNet Asia – SingaporeBy Konrad Foo, ZDNet Asia The market for enterprise resource planning (ERP)
applications delivered through the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model isset to …(more)

• Plex Systems, Inc. Announces Availability of “A Platform Approach …

Emediawire (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USAHowever, many executives still have questions regarding how to implementsuch a platform. Solutions such as Plex Online Software as a Service ERPfor …(more)

• saas is a Game-changer

CRN – Mumbai,IndiaThis has already been demonstrated in Microsoft’s saas policy for thechannel where the software major has clearly stated that it will manage thebilling …(more)

• Cloud Computing for Business Agility

SYS-CON Media (press release) – Montvale,NJ,USATV recently invited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss howCloud Computing brings the economics of the Web to Enterprise IT and wherethe move …(more)

• Do Private Clouds Make Sense?

E-Commerce Times – USAAn appreciation of the principles of multitenancy is also essential toensure the kind of scalability that makes cloud computing economical. …(more)

• Outsource Your Processes, Keep Your Customers

CRM Buyer – USASoftware. Many organizations can now buy Software as a Service to quicklyand economically deploy new applications, manage sales and satisfycustomers. …(more)

• Middleware as a Service Starts to Mature

eWeek – New York, NYWith advent of so many software-as-a-service and cloud computing platformsnow becoming a standard element of the enterprise, the role of senior IT…(more)

• ManageEngine Blends SaaS, Managed Services and Zoho

MSPmentor – New York,NY,USAI want to reiterate to readers that I am NOT stating that SaaS is betterthan on-premise, or vice-versa. It truly depends on each MSP’s specificneeds, …(more)

• Cloud Computing at the IBM Impact Conference | Cloud Computing Journal

He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, and writer, and formed BlueMountain Labs, a leading cloud computing advisory, validation, andconsulting organization. In his career, Linthicum has formed or enhancedmany of the ideas behind …(more)

• The Business Value of Cloud Computing | Eclipse Developer’s Journal

Eclipse Developer’s Journal, SYS-CON Media, NJ, Breaking Technology News.(more)

• Cloud Computing for Business Agility

By Feeds
With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage,and networking power as they need it from the cloud, SYS-CON.TV recentlyinvited four leading industry thought leaders to discuss how CloudComputing brings the …(more)

• Cloud Computing Goes Mainstream | Digital Media Buzz

By mavrasin
cloud computing information and trends for digital media professionals.(more)

• The Forrester Blog For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals

By Christian Kane
It’s important to be careful, though, in articulating new businessenablement that truly is leveraging the key differentiators of cloudcomputing (pay per use and elasticity) from the normal outgrowth of theInternet. …(more)

• Portable Apps vs. Cloud Computing | PortableApps.com – Portable …

By dpihl
There are appealing benefits of cloud computing, but there are problemstoo: -Privacy. Myself, I don’t want Google to read all that I write. It’slike installing spyware yourself. -Security. Do you trust that a cloud sitewon’t loose …(more)

• Linux Cloud Computing For The Masses With Zimory

LinuxPlanet – Darien,CT,USAZimory is a new player in the “cloud computing” space and offers what theyfeel are a number of unique capabilities. The focus of their service is to…(more)

• Cordys enables business process automation for Google Apps

By Ani
PUTTEN – Cordys, a leading provider of software for business processinnovation, has joined the Google Enterprise PartnerT program and isdelivering structured workflow capabilities to the Google AppsT suite ofcommunication and collaboration tools. … Based on aPlatform-as-a-Service, this process orchestration solution helps companiesto rapidly build situational applications (MashApps(r)) to instantly meetspecific business needs. Organizations moving to these cloud …(more)

• Cordys enables business process automation for Google Apps …

By Geeta
The combination of the Cordys Process Factory with Google Apps PremierEdition, delivered in the cloud, provides a messaging and collaborationsolution for less money and with no software installation. The combinationof the two increases the … Based on a Platform-as-a-Service, this processorchestration solution helps companies to rapidly build situationalapplications (MashApps(r)) to instantly meet specific business needs.Organizations moving to these cloud based …(more)

• Cordys enables business process automation for Google Apps

By Ani
PUTTEN – Cordys, a leading provider of software for business processinnovation, has joined the Google Enterprise PartnerT program and isdelivering structured workflow capabilities to the Google AppsT suite ofcommunication and collaboration tools. … Based on aPlatform-as-a-Service, this process orchestration solution helps companiesto rapidly build situational applications (MashApps(r)) to instantly meetspecific business needs. Organizations moving to these cloud …(more)

• Cordys enables business process automation for Google Apps …

By Geeta
The combination of the Cordys Process Factory with Google Apps PremierEdition, delivered in the cloud, provides a messaging and collaborationsolution for less money and with no software installation. The combinationof the two increases the … Based on a Platform-as-a-Service, this processorchestration solution helps companies to rapidly build situationalapplications (MashApps(r)) to instantly meet specific business needs.Organizations moving to these cloud based …(more)

• Two Maine newspapers test the future of newspapers’ web plans …

Village Soup, which also has a paper in the state capital, is now undercontract to expand its online model to five newspapers in Alabama and NewYork state via a software-as-a-service model hosted on virtual, cloud-basedservers. …(more)

• Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Federal Cloud Computing Heating …

By noreply@blogger.com (Kevin Jackson)
Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS). The capability provided to the consumeris to use the provider’s applications running on a cloud infrastructure andaccessible from various client devices through a thin client interface suchas a Web … Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS). The capability provided tothe consumer is to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-createdapplications using programming languages and tools supported by theprovider (e.g., java, python, . …(more)

• E-Commerce News: BPM & BPO: Outsource Your Processes, Keep Your …

By Steve Ditto
Software. Many organizations can now buy Software as a Service to quicklyand economically deploy new applications, manage sales and satisfycustomers. Automation. Organizations can reduce costs and drive increasedrevenue by automating …(more)

• Google CEO backs cloud computing for netbooks

StrategyEye (subscription) – London,UKHowever, he was voluble on the subject of cloud computing, noting thatnetbooks could be an ideal client device for accessing cloud services. …(more)

• Where Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) must go next

ZDNet Blogs – USAWhen those apps start showing up in the cloud, we’ll start seeing some realcloud and platform adoption then. Several large software vendors thoughwill not …(more)

• New opportunities emerge in the wake of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun

Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA… combine that platform with a range of Oracle middleware or enterpriseapplications, some of which already run in Software as a Service (SaaS)mode. …(more)

• Another week, another $70m vote for SaaS

ZDNet Blogs – USAAfter last week’s announcement of a $75 million VC funding round raised byWorkday, I thought it would be a while before I heard of another SaaScompany …(more)

• Dr. Louis Cornacchia III, MD, FACS Appointed to the Board of …

Earthtimes (press release) – London,UKDr. Cornacchia is the President and CEO of Doctations Inc.(www.doctations.com), a web-based, multi-tenancy, integrated community forphysicians and their …(more)

• Spending on Cloud Computing Going Up, Up, Up

IT Business Edge – Louisville,KY,USABy date: Is there any doubt that interest in, and thus spending on, cloud
computing is on a steep upward trajectory? Not according to Gartner, …(more)

• Leveraging cloud computing for new business enablement

ZDNet Blogs – USAIn yesterday’s Forbes.com HP VP and CTO Russ Daniels wrote a shortcommentary on how cloud computing can help reignite the global economy andhis focus is …(more)

• Oracle Reportedly Developing Cloud Computing Products

SYS-CON Media (press release) – Montvale,NJ,USAMaureen O’Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, isthe Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media….(more)

• Cloud management top of mind among VMware faithful

SearchServerVirtualization.com – Needham,MA,USABy Bridget Botelho, News Writer WASHINGTON, DC — As everyone knows by now,
cloud computing is all the rage. But how to manage all those applicationsand …(more)

• iCIMS Announces Launch of the Talent Platform v. 9.1

Talent Management Tech – Peterborough,NH,USAby TMT Newswire Hazlet, NJ (PRWEB) May 8, 2009 — iCIMS, the third-largestprovider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition solutions, …(more)

• 10-Q: PERVASIVE SOFTWARE INC

MarketWatch (press release) – USAOur agile, multi-purpose Pervasive Data Integrator integration platformaccelerates the sharing of information between multiple databases,applications, …(more)

• Sphinn – Cloud Computing Goes Mainstream

Two years ago, cloud computing was considered experimental. Not anymore.Essentially this centralized computing paradigm is a network of highlyscable servers, software and connections available through the Internet asservices.(more)

• If you worry about hardware, it’s not cloud

By Lydia Leong
If you have to negotiate the price of that RAM each time they buy some, youare really really not doing cloud computing. I talked to a client yesterdaywho is in exactly this situation, with a small vendor who calls themselvesa cloud …(more)

• Sun Open Cloud – Detailed Review

By Soumya Sinha
Sun Microsystems unveiled its combined open cloud computing infrastructureat the CommunityOne developer event in New York in March. Though some maysay that for a company like Sun, this may be a bit late into the game ofclouds but …(more)

• A Nimbus Rises in the World of Cloud Computing

National Science Foundation (press release) – USACloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even ifyou’re not a tech-phile, chances are if you’ve watched a lot of televisionor …(more)

• IBM tackles Microsoft with blade servers and cloud services

BetaNews – USAAlthough theoretically, WebSpan might be used by a customer of any size,the software as a service (SaaS) concept tends to hold particular sway withsmaller …(more)

• MSPAlliance Lauds All-Star Members | Xaas.info – SaaS News

By admin
SaaS News writes… At MSPWorld, MSPAlliance confers its Managed ServicesIndustry Leadership Awards for executive leadership, green IT initiatives,community.(more)