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Research …Scientific ComputingAfter a two-year study of the feasibility of cloud computing systems formeeting the ever-increasing computational needs of scientists, Departmentof Energy researchers have issued a report stating that the cloud computingmodel is useful, …(more)

All Things DigitalYou know, this whole cloud computing thing might just turn out to besomething after all. NetSuite, the cloud-based software outfit thatbusinesses use to, well, run their businesses, just reported its latestquarterly and annual results, …(more)

Data Center KnowledgeCloud computing is gaining popularity. Yet, we know that only about 25% ofIT teams are actively involved in cloud computing within theirorganization. Why the disconnect? Many IT people tell me they areinterested, but just don’t have time to explore …(more)

EngineeringEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)BOSTON–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–roundCorner, a leading provider of CRMsoftware and cloud computing services for higher education, nonprofitinstitutions and Public Media, announced today the appointment of WillStansbury as Vice President of …(more)

When a customer is deploying a Vblock Infrastructure Platform with VMwareView or VMware vCloud Director, there is a consistent message that alwaysarises, …(more)

Cloud ProPlatform as a Service (PaaS) may be the quietest of the cloud computingbunch, but it is set to make its mark in the coming years, according toleading analysts. Gartner claimed PaaS was the “core layer” of cloudcomputing, being the starting …(more)

Cloud ProWith three main areas of cloud services, infrastructure, platform andsoftware as a service, businesses should view them as a holistic set ofsolutions that, when blended together, will deliver a far more focused,coherent and agile service to the …(more)

Network WorldSeveral speakers described the aggressive moves their companies are makingtoward the adoption of SaaS solutions. In many cases, it is the businessunits that make these decisions, with little notification to IT, let alonethe security group.(more)

By Evangelos Simoudis
Insight as a Service is a distinct layer of the cloud stack and ispositioned above Software as a Service, i.e., the cloud’s applicationlayer. The cloud provides insight-generation solutions with severaldistinct advantages: An efficient and …(more)

By Anand Akela
A. Oracle has created pre-built virtual machine assemblies and templates ofOracle software and will continue to add more configurations. … PaaS(Platform as a Service) for Database as a service, Java as a Service andData Service 3.(more)

By Sebastian Rzepka
With the adoption of cloud computing, many software as a service (SaaS)applications are getting more and more attention. One that attracts a greatdeal of attention is Salesforce.com. The SaaS provider, founded in 1999,has evolved from a …(more)

Cloud computing is a comprehensive solution that delivers IT as a serviceand simplifies IT infrastructure without sacrificing customization andintegration …(more)

OpenStack is supposed to be a vendor agnostic open community for buildingand open source cloud stack And it is unless you dont pull your own wait orif …(more)

ZDNet UK (blog)By David Meyer , 2 February, 2012 12:05 Follow @superglaze The OpenStack
cloud project is killing off support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, asthe code Microsoft has submitted to the project to ensure compatibility isapparently unmaintained and …(more)

PC AdvisorBy Nancy Gohring | 02 February 12 Despite Microsoft’s stated commitment to
Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will beremoved from the next version of the stack, developers decided onWednesday.(more)

Server WatchVMTurbo can also work with both public cloud and hybrid cloud environmentsby plugging into vCloud Director, enabling it to “optimize the market” whenthe market includes resources in multiple data centers, including thoseprovided by external vCloud …(more)

Hi there, Can someone tell me if true mutli-tenancy can be achieved bycustomer VLAN isolation in a single Zone? Let’s say we install Cloudstackfor an MSP.(more)

Redmondmag.comBy Kurt Mackie Members of the OpenStack community appear unimpressed by
Microsoft’s attempts to ensure the interoperability of its Hyper-Vhypervisor with the OpenStack open source cloud project. The grumblingswere noted in a ReadWriteCloud story and …(more)

The HMicrosoft says it is committed to OpenStack and OpenNebula support for itsHyper-V hypervisor. The company has previously said it is working with bothopen source cloud projects to see its hypervisor technology supported, butin neither case has …(more)

treasuryThe Asset… polled in a recent study said that their organizations are veryeffective, reports Reval, the leading global provider of a comprehensiveand integrated Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for enterpriseTreasury and Risk Management (TRM).(more)

ITWebA solution to reducing costs is based in cloud computing, which has becomea topic of interest for a variety of industries, specifically in mining,where historically, the preference has been to own and run applicationsonsite, says Bruce Taylor, …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)WSO2 will provide IT architects and developers insights into identifyingand addressing the challenges around building, exposing, and consumingRESTful APIs in a dynamic one-day workshop, “Creating RESTful APIs: Usingthe WSO2 Platform.(more)

By Legalskillsblog
Formal Opinion 2011-200, Ethical Obligations For Attorneys Using CloudComputing/Software As A Service While Fulfilling The Duties OfConfidentiality And Preservation Of Client Property. It examines the stateof the law on the use of cloud …(more)

In this video, Nicole Black, author of Cloud Computing for Lawyers,discusses the pros and cons of the practice, along with the legalcommunity’s reception of cloud computing, and what the future may hold forlawyers and law firms on this front.(more)

Palo Alto Sr. Product Marketing Manager - VMware vCloud Services Job - CA,94301.(more)

ComputerworldUKBy Agam Shah | IDG News Service | Published 11:00, 03 February 12 Dell on
Thursday said it is forming a Software Group, which will bring togetherdisparate products under one roof as the company tries to sharpen itsend-to-end enterprise offerings.(more)

EIN News (press release)The company’s CaaS platform is built on years of experience, processes,systems and tools, all proven over time to offer comprehensive cloud-basedsolutions. Resellers can sell SIP and unified communication serviceswithout an expensive and redundant …(more)

ReutersSwitzerland’s leading operator to address needs of enterprise customersfrom different industries with machine-to-machine (M2M) offering fromsummer 2012 Ericsson Device Connection Platform is brought to market with abusiness model providing a low …(more)

By Bernard Golden
The March of SaaS. Several speakers described the aggressive moves theircompanies are making toward the adoption of SaaS solutions. In many cases,it is the business units that make these decisions, with littlenotification to IT, let alone …(more)

The event takes place on 23/24th March in Saas Fee, Switzerland. Checkoutlast years promo video below and click www.saas-fee.ch/ for the full info.Saas Fee …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SkillSoft is a leading SaaS provider of e-learning and performance supportsolutions for global enterprises, government, education andsmall-to-medium-sized businesses. “We provide our customers with innovativetools to help them develop their …(more)

TalkinCloud (blog)by Matthew Weinberger on Piston Cloud, the very first enterprise OpenStackcompany, is bolstering its Piston Enterprise OS (pentOS) private cloudoperating system by way of partnerships with RightScale, Puppet Labs andOpscode for cloud management, …(more)

CIO IndiaDespite Microsoft’s stated commitment to Hyper-V in OpenStack, buggy codedesigned to support the hypervisor will be removed from the next version ofthe stack, developers decided on Wednesday. An OpenStack developer wrote apatch that removes the …(more)

The HThe KDE variant of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, now includes version 4.8 of the desktopenvironment, while the Server edition updates the OpenStack cloud platformto the Essex 3 milestone of the OpenStack project’s forthcoming release.(more)

Support database multitenancy as an optional featureusing standard JDOoptionjavaxjdooptionMultitenancy where different customers data can bestored in the …(more)

Crain’s Cleveland BusinessThe Cleveland private equity firm said it has acquired St. Petersburg-basedYourMembership.com Inc., a software-as-a-service provider with roughly 1000customers around the world. Terms of the transaction, which is Riverside’sthird acquisition of 2012 …(more)

Healthcare IT News (blog)The healthcare industry has long questioned the reliability and security ofcloud computing. It’s interesting to see such a consumer-focused microscopeplaced on a buzzword that has been bandied about with increasing frequencyin the healthcare field.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)In this webinar, ExecSense examines everything you need to know in 60minutes regarding the most up-to-date trends and best practices regardinghow top purchasing executives are planning on utilizing cloud computing in2012.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)SeaMicro, the ambitious start-up that has been building so-calledmicroservers out of low-power Intel Atom chips, has started buildingmicroservers out of low-voltage quad-core Intel Xeon chips using the samearchitecture its Atom systems use.(more)

Financial TimesAt least a fifth of every product offering can be defined as a service,such as support or training. All you need to do is ask the customers whatthey want. More often than not, they will ask for additional services.Every sales manager’s dream is to …(more)

PlansPCWorldStill, such a purchase would also give Dell an array of PaaS(platform-as-a-service) technologies, from the Force.com platform toHeroku. Dell has already ventured into IaaS (infrastructure as a service),announcing an OpenStack-based system last year, …(more)

TalkinCloud (blog)by Matthew Weinberger on In a further sign of the federal government’swillingness to move to the cloud, the US Department of Defense has tappedplatform-as-a-service provider OutSystems and its Agile Platformdevelopment environment to assist the US …(more)

Seeking AlphaNetSuite sells Software as a Service (SaaS). Its accounting and databaseapplication software is designed to be delivered online. Where a few yearsago the SaaS acronym itself was the thing, today that’s called cloud. Butit’s important that, …(more)

Enterprise Apps TodayNetSuite CEO Zach Nelson attributed a significant amount of 2011’s revenuegrowth to the SaaS ERP provider’s business with larger companies. In thefourth quarter, NetSuite saw a 43 percent increase in deals worth more than$100000.(more)

Wall Street JournalShoreTel Inc. (SHOR) agreed to acquire cloud-computing company M5 Networksfor up to $162.4 million in cash and stock, adding to the online telephoneprovider’s software portfolio. ShoreTel makes voice-over-Internet-protocolproducts, …(more)

I have been trying to export some VMs from my home lab to my public cloudprovider, however when I tried to select a cloud I received the error thatthe vCloud …(more)

PCWorldBy Nancy Gohring, IDG News Despite Microsoft’s stated commitment to Hyper-V
in OpenStack, buggy code designed to support the hypervisor will be removedfrom the next version of the stack, developers decided on Wednesday. AnOpenStack developer wrote a …(more)

Next week, the European free and open source software developers willconverge to Brussels for FOSDEM. We took this opportunity to apply for anOpenStack …(more)

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computingarchitecture, and its evolution will affect the future of most users andvendors in enterprise …(more)

TechnoratiCloud computing has been a lifesaver for the industry of general computingand information technology. One day, cloud computing services will replacestandard web server machines as many businesses, organizations, andindividuals alike have counted …(more)

ComputerworldFinance and IT professionals, facing the need for greater computing powerfor everything from operational management to hedge accountingareunderstandably tempted by SaaS, given the cloud’s relatively low startupcosts and the fact they may lack the …(more)

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)LINDON, Utah–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Domo, a newsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) venture launched by Omniture co-founder JoshJames to redefine the business intelligence (BI) market and transform theway business is managed, today announced it has …(more)

By Fang Feng
And that’s more of the definition of a platform. So it’s kind of acoordination of multiple nodes to give you a platform, not just a singleoperating system; instead it’s really a software that’s built up on thosemultiple instances of those operating systems. … It can take the conceptof setting up individual infrastructure as a service and almost get to thestep of being a platform as a service, because it can coordinate thestarting up of multiple nodes for you. So that’s where CloudBurst isdifferent …(more)

Seeking AlphaWe continue to see increasing demand for our heterogeneous cloud managementand SaaS solutions. During the quarter, we had dozens of cloud wins at allmajor geographies. New cloud wins included Atos and CSC, 2 large and globalIT services in solutions …(more)

PCWorldBy Joab Jackson, IDG News In anticipation of offering its open-source
content management software as a service, Alfresco has upgraded itsnamesake product to work with multiple clients and to interact with a widerrange of form factors, …(more)

Computer Business ReviewBusiness service management firm BMC Software and Virtual ComputingEnvironment (VCE), a company formed by Cisco and EMC, have partnered toaddress the demand for converged infrastructures in cloud computingprojects. Under the partnership, BMC and VCE …(more)

Technology SpectatorBut the influence of Kindle sales on Amazon’s ambitions for Australiashould not be underestimated by our already threatened retail sector, norour embryonic cloud computing industry. Amazon is spending heavily onexpansion into new regions and …(more)

TWOdW AIX Scalable Vector Graphics in HTML5 mod_pagespeed cloudmultitenancy. slaningham 100000GSNP | | Tags twodw scalable_vector_graphicshtml5 …(more)

nebusiness.co.ukby John Hill, The Journal HOSTED desktop provider Atlas InfrastructureManagement has added another client after encouraging environmentalconsultancy ECUS to try out its pay-as-you-go cloud computing model. AtlasIM launched last year in the North …(more)

AcuminBusinesses that employ security consultants are among some of theorganisations that can benefit from using cloud computing in their everydayoperations. Peter Job, founder and chief executive officer of IntergenceSystems, believes that businesses …(more)

InfoWorld (blog)The growth can be attributed to Amazon Web Services’ focus on building asuccessful cloud storage offering and the rapid adoption of AWS –including the S3 cloud storage service — as the cloud computing standard.More enterprises are seeking storage …(more)

Popular …MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Feb 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Piston CloudComputing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack company, today announcedstrategic partnerships with leading cloud infrastructure automationcompanies Opscode, Puppet Labs and RightScale …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)Dome9 earned this industry recognition for its leading cloud securityfirewall management service securing cloud server firewalls and addressingthe number one inhibitor to cloud computing adoption — security.”Recognizing leaders in the advancement …(more)

CloudTweaks NewsWhile technology seems to be the cost and time efficiency driver in manyindustries, cloud computing is the emerging solution for the financialservice industry, especially capital markets. In order for their assets tobe used optimally by multiple …(more)

OStatic (blog)02, 2012Comments (0) In a big endorsement of the SaaS(Software-as-a-Service) model, enteprise content management system (CMS)maker Alfresco is embracing cloud- and mobile-based usage of its platformwith its new Alfresco 4 release.(more)

ReutersThe value of this Software as a Service (SaaS) deal exceeds EUR 350000.With the Basware scan & capture service, the customer is able to receiveall purchase invoices in an electronic format. Basware scans and validatesall incoming paper invoices and …(more)

Agency …MarketWatch (press release)The firm will build on its aggressive 2011 integrated marketing effort thatlaunched Knowlagent’s new Software-as-a-Service Productivity Platform.Arketi is charged with supporting Knowlagent’s public relations, digitaland traditional marketing …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Under the terms of the agreement, WorkForce Software has developed apre-configured interface between their award-winning EmpCenter suite ofworkforce management solutions and Patersons’ CloudPay platform. Thecombined offering empowers employers to …(more)

TechWeekEurope UKThe OpenStack open source cloud project will push Microsoft’s Hyper-V outof its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) framework, blaming poor supportfrom Microsoft. OpenStack Cloud-building software. OpenStack, launched in2010, aims to offer open surce …(more)

The Complete Managed Services ResourceBy integrating this new program, service providers who are building public
or private cloud offerings with VMware vCloud, Citrix CloudStack orOpenStack platforms will be able to sign up and offer their customers afree ScaleXtreme Xpress account to …(more)

judgecorp writes “The OpenStack open source cloud project has removedHyper- V from its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) framework, sayingMicrosoft’s …(more)

Benefits …MarketWatch (press release)”For the medical industry it appears that the only question about cloudcomputing is not if, but when,” states Ken Terry of Fierce Health IT. Theidea of cloud computing is to allow hospitals and clinics to digitize theirpatients’ records through mass …(more)

HostReview.com (press release)SAN FRANCISCO–LiveVox Inc., the provider of cloud contact centerapplications, today announced it received a 2011 Cloud Computing ExcellenceAward from Cloud Computing Magazine, a new publication from TechnologyMarketing Corporation (TMC), a global, …(more)

TechEyeWhile the OpenStack community is considering dropping support for Hyper-V,the code has got backing from Microsoft. Hyper-V is considered by some asbroken and unmaintained and fairly pointless. Thierry Carrez, a developerhandling release management …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)RALEIGH, NC and WALTHAM, MA, Feb 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –Peoplefluent(TM), offering a unique combination of best-of-breed mobile andSaaS suite solutions for Total Talent Management, today reported a 30percent increase in net new annual …(more)

FCW.com (blog)Can the current acquisition practices translate easily to the dynamic worldof cloud computing?” The article quoted a technical manager at DHS who wasworried about the ability of the procurement system to accommodate to cloudcomputing, though it also …(more)

TechFlashMicrosoft is no slouch when it comes to cloud computing. The company has afull suite of products and services to help businesses that want to storedata and software applications offsite and access them through theInternet.(more)

TechWeekEurope UKAnalyst house Gartner has said that platform as a service (PaaS) is a corelayer of the cloud computing architecture, and its evolution will affectthe future of most users and vendors in enterprise software markets. PaaSis a common reference to the …(more)

Network WorldBy Agam Shah, IDG News Service Dell on Thursday said it is forming a
Software Group, which will bring together disparate products under one roofas the company tries to sharpen its end-to-end enterprise offerings. Thesoftware unit will be led by John …(more)

NetworkComputing.com… Cloud Standards Customer Council, the OpenStack Compute for developinga cloud-based server environment and OpenStack Object Storage forcloud-based storage, the IEEE’s Cloud Computing Initiative and the CloudsStandards Customer Council (CSCC).(more)

Stock …eWeekBy Clint Boulton on 2012-02-02 Facebook filed for its initial public
offering as expected Feb. 1, ending a week of hype, buzz and punditry thathad financial and Internet analysts predicting the social network giant’sinitial public offering would be …(more)

TechnoratiCloud computing and higher learning are an ideal partnership, with cloudsystems being an orderly, constructive, and easily tweaked etherealresearch mechanism. Just as two University of Indiana students arediscovering, cloud systems, since not yet as …(more)

EngadgetSpeaking at the company’s analyst day, Read stated that the chipmaker willfocus on outflanking Intel in the tablet space and by growing its businessin cloud computing and emerging markets like China (read: entry-level PCsand devices).(more)

Competitive …The Complete Managed Services ResourceAmong these cloud supporters is Rise, a premier provider of cloud computingand hosted IT services, which announced its recent track record of successwith helping managed service providers (MSR) gain a competitive advantage.The company’s web hosting …(more)

Sprawl’The Complete Managed Services ResourceBy Erin Harrison Expanding on its Software-as-a-Service and appliance
hybrid cloud file server platform, SMEStorage has added support forfederated data services SugarSync and Ubuntu (News - Alert) One Cloud. Thecompany’s cloud file server can now …(more)

CIOWhat’s your stance on SaaS? Is your perimeter as secure as you think? Howcan the insurance calculus on asymmetric risk illuminate your company’ssecurity exposure? CIO.com’s Bernard Golden recaps the provocativediscussions entertained at the Security …(more)

Billing World (blog)Over the last few weeks I wrote the term “SaaS” so often that I began tohear in my head every time I typed these four letters the unmistakablemusical motif from the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. You know it.Sing it with me: BUH!(more)

vCloud Direct allows you to easily create secure site-to-site VPNs (VirtualPrivate Networks) between clouds. Learn more in our latest blog post.(more)

Maple Valley ReporterBill Saas, who won his seat in November 2009 and his term was to end Dec.31, 2013, resigned Jan. 21. Saas was on the council during some if the mostcontroversial and difficult decisions, including the weeks of hearings andeventual approval of the …(more)

By SWFLN
For Software as a Service (SaaS). iCal Import. Start: April 6, 2012 10:00am; End: April 6, 2012 11:00 am. Venue: Online; Address: United States.This one hour free webinar will include an overview of the LYRASISTechnology Services …(more)

CIO MagazineMicrosoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as thecommunity considers removing the code — which one OpenStack developercalled broken and unmaintained — from the stack. “Microsoft is committedto working with the community to …(more)

Saas Fee hotels. Online hotels guide and hotel reservations in Saas Fee.(more)

Domo the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founderJosh James has raised $20 million in new funding from Institutional Venture…(more)

By SWFLN
For Software as a Service (SaaS). iCal Import. Start: April 2, 2012 1:00pm; End: April 2, 2012 2:00 pm. Venue: Online; Address: United States. Thisone hour free webinar will include an overview of the LYRASIS TechnologyServices Software …(more)

By madhura
Cloud versions of WSO2 ESB and WSO2 BAM also are available as part of theaward-winning WSO2 Stratos cloud middleware platform and WSO2 StratosLiveplatform-as-a-service (PaaS) hosted by WSO2. As 100% open source solutions…(more)

Private Equity Hub (press release)Domo, a software-as-a-service venture launched by Omniture co-founder JoshJames has closed $20 million from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) inSeries A-1 funding. This round brings total investment in Domo to $63million.(more)

Globe and MailTo complicate matters, more businesses are adopting cloud computing, inwhich they run software and store data on computers outside their ownpremises and their own direct control. (The term can also refer to internalor private clouds, …(more)

Focus Taiwan News Channel1 (CNA) Only 25 percent of companies in Taiwan are using cloud computingtechnologies, far below the global average of 60 percent, Barry Chen,general manager Taiwan of VMware Inc., said Wednesday. This is anindication that cloud computing is still in …(more)

Blogs.Oracle.Com - BI & EPM Partner Community EMEA.(more)

The web’s technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the moment’shottest tech stories on a single page.(more)

In a multi-tenant environment, a SaaS company can reduce costs if it sharesor reuses more of its resources. However, the more the company sharesresources, …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Charlie Osborne | February 1, 2012, 4:22am PST Summary: Two students
have received grants of $50k each to use in cloud computing researchprojects. Two doctoral students at Indiana University have secured a grantof $100k, to be shared equally, …(more)

ashdowngroup.comCloud computing developments are set to have benefits not only forindividual businesses but the UK economy as a whole, it has been reported.According to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE),cloud developments will promote …(more)

Networking …MarketWatch (press release)Supporting the transition to higher networking speeds, in addition toCisco’s recently announced CloudVerse solution, is a key element of Cisco’sstrategy to help its customers meet the demands of emerging cloud computingtrends and the resulting data …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Motivated by this initiative, CECOM’s Software Engineering Center (SEC)needed a high-performance application development and delivery environmentthat could function with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities.OutSystems’ Agile Platform provides …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)FAST 3.0 highlights scalability and flexibility, and it now includes threeservice delivery options which can be accessed independently or as a fullyintegrated solution: Network as a Service (NaaS); Platform as a Service(PaaS); and Software as a …(more)

BusinessCloud9Software as a Service has already established itself as viable servicedelivery model that many businesses can exploit. Now this year we canexpect to see a far wider and more granular range of services comeavailable, which in turn will shift the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)SurgiScheduler serves both large and small healthcare clients as a Softwareas a Service (SaaS) vendor and workflow software designer. CardiovascularSurgeons Chief Operating Officer Lou Zaste says, “Our seven surgeons coverthree hospitals, …(more)

ComputerworldUKBy Nancy Gohring | IDG News Service | Published 13:30, 01 February 12
Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as thecommunity considers removing the code, which one OpenStack developer calledbroken and unmaintained, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)With iIT, these companies are now able to provide their customers with acomplete cloud computing solution, all hosted from their secure Australianand New Zealand based infrastructure. Australian Cloud and Kiwi Cloud beganas Nous Factory PTY LTD, …(more)

eWeekNews Analysis: EnterpriseDB is hoping entice more enterprises into cloudcomputing with a database-as-a-service offering geared to challenge Oraclein the database market. EnterpriseDB has announced a newdatabase-as-a-service offering, …(more)

United States Army (press release)US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command’scommunications-electronics center’s Intelligence and Information WarfareDirectorate hosts the Tactical Cloud Integration Lab in an effort toexpedite cloud computing technologies to the Soldier.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Feb 01, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Gridstore(TM),the leader in grid based, scale-out storage solutions, today announced thatthe company has been awarded the first Cloud Computing Excellence Awardfrom TMC.(more)

NetworkComputing.comOracle also singled out software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor Salesforce.comas a competitor whose sales force automation and other business tools comeup short compared to the breadth of the Oracle/RightNow tools. Oracle hasdissed Salesforce in other …(more)

as …MarketWatch (press release)”Advisors on the TD Ameritrade Institutional platform who participated inthe Roadmap program over a 12 month period experienced nearly double thegrowth rate (17 percent) of non-Roadmap users (9 percent),(3)” said GeorgeTamer, director of strategic …(more)

From Yahoo! Finance: OutSystems, provider of the industry-leading AgilePlatform application development environment, announced today a contractwith the …(more)

One of the most pleasant surprises over the last decade has been thesuccess of Amazon’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, Amazon WebServices (AWS).(more)

Taipei TimesBy Amy Su / Staff Reporter Demand for employees with cloud-computing
technology expertise is expected to grow substantially this year as agrowing number of local corporations are adopting the technology to enhancework efficiency, a survey released by …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)STAMFORD, Conn., Feb 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Platform as a service(PaaS) is a core layer of the cloud computing architecture, and itsevolution will affect the future of most users and vendors in enterprisesoftware markets, according to Gartner, …(more)

Network WorldIn addition, the new version includes integration with VMware’s vCloudDirector management platform, which enables viewing and managing assetsthat fall under VMware’s vCloud Director platform, applying OperationsManager’s optimization and quality of …(more)

TalkinCloud (blog)Now ScaleXtreme has launched a partner program, enabling service providersthat build their public or private clouds on VMware vCloud,Citrix/Cloud.com CloudStack or OpenStack offer customers easy, integratedadministration tools.(more)

ZDNet (blog)Gartner is now officially on the platform as a service bandwagon. Platformas a service (PaaS), which features cloud architecture that includesapplication services and middleware, is one of the many flavors of cloudcomputing. There’s software as a …(more)

Localization …MarketWatch (press release)REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Avangate, the agileeCommerce solutions provider trusted by thousands of Software and SaaScompanies to grow their business worldwide, is announcing the addition ofnew localization capabilities …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)RevealCloud Pro is a SaaS-based server monitoring service that provides adetailed, common view of all of your servers, running any OS, across publicand private clouds, and virtual and physical environments. It providesreal-time, in-depth insight …(more)

CSOAnd they have evolved to the point where they operate much like thelegitimate software industry. It is possible to buy malware from whatamounts to an app store, or to contract for Malware as a Service (MaaS).”The life cycle of (malware) products is …(more)

Search SAPA newly adopted and highly aggressive cloud computing strategy has led AAANorthern California, Nevada and Utah (AAA NCNU) to choose Dell Boomi cloudintegration tools over IBM Cast Iron and Jitterbit, an IT official with theorganization said.(more)

Months …MarketWatch (press release)The Index continually tracks the enterprise value of 120 companies in ITServices and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO); IT Supply Chain Services;and Software including SaaS. According to Marty Wolf, Founder andPresident, “The MW IT Index is the …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — PlanSource Holdings, Inc., a cloud-basedHR and healthcare SaaS technology company, has announced that it hasreceived a $12 million investment led by Lemhi Ventures to leverage itstechnology leadership position and …(more)

Information ManagementThe SaaS platform includes access and collaborative notes that can beshared across enterprise departments and users. In addition, the help deskfeatures the same functionality built on HTML5 through a mobile app.Additional reporting tools, social …(more)

Microsoft may try to revive support for HyperV in OpenStack as thecommunity considers removing the code which one OpenStack developer calledbroken and …(more)

ebizQ (blog)… (ie old on-premises technology stacks that have been “re-hosted” on aCloud, but provide none of the benefits of real Cloud and SaaS solutions)could be packaged up and inappropriately marketed as “iPaaS”, with theimplied (although not actual!(more)

Ars TechnicaBy Jon Brodkin | Published February 1, 2012 12:17 PM In October 2010,
Microsoft started working toward making the OpenStack open source projectcompatible with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization software. The projectnow seems to be hitting a snag …(more)

SearchServerVirtualization.comBig name vendors like VMware Inc. with vCloud Director, Microsoft Corp.with System Center, and BMC with Cloud Lifecycle Management and a host ofstartups offer cloud management software that provide self-serviceprovisioning and service catalogs, …(more)

BizSpark PluseWeekMicrosoft announces BizSpark Plus, an extension of its BizSpark program,and teams with startup accelerator TechStars to offer $60000 in cloudcomputing services to startups. Microsoft announced both its new BizSparkPlus, an extension to its BizSpark …(more)

NDSU The SpectrumTogether they developed a cloud computing disaster management system thatwould help communities more easily share information in the wake of acalamity. “Natural and manmade disasters require effective and efficientmanagement of massive amounts of …(more)

PC MagazineBy John C. Dvorak The shut down of Megaupload by the US government is not
being perceived for what it is: a mega failure for cloud computing. Theoperation, which had 50 million users, was a lot more than a pirateoperation.(more)

Virtualization ReviewFollowing Azure in respective order are Amazon S-3 ($94843), CloudComputing ($92830), VMware vCloud ($88854), Virtualization (86669), Xen($85591), …(more)

PriceEON: Enhanced Online News (press release)SAN DIEGO–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–MetaFlows, Inc., a startup focusedon leveraging emerging cloud and virtualization technologies for the nextgeneration of network security solutions, has developed a Software as aService (SaaS) product that …(more)

Cloud ProHotDocs today unveiled its new Software as a Service (SaaS) application,aimed at lawyers in both the UK and US. HotDocs Document Services claims toautomate time consuming activities carried out by law firms in order to cuttime and costs.(more)

eWeekSecurity as a Service (SaaS) vendor combines hosted security with cloudaccess to build secure environments for public and hybrid cloud users. Whenit comes to the cloud, security has always been the No. 1 concern forusers. After all, as data travels …(more)

Word is that Red Hat refused to sign on to OpenStack when it was announcedbecause it didnt like the governance model Red Hat also has its own cloud…(more)

DailyFinanceBy Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool Posted 6:07PM 01/30/12 Investing Now that
2011 has passed and 2012 is upon us, it’s time to evaluate the stocks youown and are interested in. Should you buy? Sell? Hold? Ignore? Today, we’llput these questions to …(more)

I see the new Multi-Tenancy Lync “Feature Pack” has been released - howeverI can’t see how anyone could actually use this for enterprise voice with socalled …(more)

PC MagazineThe company is touting those performance and performance-per-watt levels asideal for systems running networking and cloud computing applications. “TheTILE-Gx36 has demonstrated an industry-best CoreMark score of over 165000while consuming a fraction …(more)

Public …Information Law Group[Full disclosure: I'm a member of several NIST working groups, includingone currently working on the NIST draft of Challenging SecurityRequirements for US Government Cloud Computing Adoption.] Carrying on withits cloud mission, NIST last week …(more)

PCWorldBy Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS
(software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that canreach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter.Desk.com, which is based on …(more)

ManagementIntegration DevelopersThe explosive success of cloud computing, and especially SaaS, will driveIT in 2012 to search for better ways to ensure security, privacy andenterprise-wide identity and access management. IDN speaks with DarrenPlatt, CTO of Symplified about what …(more)

TechCrunchLast September, Salesforce bought social customer service SaaS startupAssistly for $50 million-plus to help expand its service cloud offerings tosmall businesses. Today, Salesforce is debuting a brand newAssistly-inspired social and mobile customer …(more)

Wall Street & TechnologyBut clients that already have their own established infrastructures mighttake a first step toward cloud computing with an order management system orEze Castle’s disaster recovery services, Guilbert adds. “As they movetoward a technology refresh, …(more)

Research …PR Web (press release)China is a very large potential SaaS market for basic business applicationssuch as accounting, HR and manufacturing related applications. New marketresearch report “China Enterprise SaaS Market Survey Analysis, 2012″developed by TechSci Research has …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)WASHINGTON, DC, Jan 31, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Anybill, Inc., aleading accounting automation software provider, announced today that MannySiddiqui, a technical leadership veteran, has been named chief technologyofficer (CTO).(more)

Research …San Francisco Chronicle (press release)New market research report “China Enterprise SaaS Market Survey Analysis,2012″ developed by TechSci Research has been recently published by MarketPublishers Ltd. Software as a service (SaaS) or cloud computing has provedto be a significant software …(more)

The HAlthough it is still under development, some Red Hat developers have alsoundertaken to integrate all of the components of the Essex release ofOpenStack. A number of new features of interest to everyday users were alsoaccepted, including support for …(more)

Good Gear Guide… includes connectors for tracking resources on both Amazon Web Servicesand those based on VMware’s vCloud standard, such as Terremark’s service.(more)

Cloud ProThe mobile mogul announces cloud management for its smartphones and theintegration of Microsoft’s headline SaaS product. Research in Motion (RIM)chose this week to make a big leap into the cloud, announcing integrationof Office 365 and cloud …(more)

PR Web (press release)One of the most notable changes is the addition of the GravityMarketeCommerce platform (serving mid-market e-tailers) to its portfolio ofsoftware as a service (SaaS) products. As a result, Acumium will have aSaaS offering for its base Acumium WCMS, …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)AdJuggler Inc., an industry leader in high performance, SaaS-based digitalad management systems, announced today that, since the launch of itsExchange Media Program (EMP) in April, it has successfully bid anddelivered more than 1 billion real-time …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)NEW YORK, Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Digital Reef, leading Software asa Service (SaaS) eDiscovery provider, offering the fastest and smartestpath to legal review, today announced that it has enhanced its integrationwith kCura’s Relativity to …(more)

Agreement …MarketWatch (press release)CINCINNATI, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Streamline HealthSolutions, Inc. (nasdaqcm:STRM), a leading provider of enterprise contentmanagement and business analytics solutions for healthcare organizations,today announced that Riverside …(more)

Comprehensive …MarketWatch (press release)… a full-service Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider announcesits technology solution for legal service providers. This comprehensiveoffering enables service providers to deploy a more robust and dynamicinfrastructure and storage platform.(more)

Built …MarketWatch (press release)By leveraging Desktone’s multi-tenant DaaS platform and NetApp’s storage
systems and management expertise, Quest is able to deliver cost-effective,full-featured virtual desktops to any device on-demand. Quest providesbusiness technology consulting …(more)

TechNewsWorldThe number of ways that an application or entire desktop can be deliveredto employees has expanded tremendously, from centrally hosted software suchas terminal servers or Citrix-based sessions to new approaches such asSoftware as a Service, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”This name change reflects Cyan’s ongoing focus on delivering a family ofinnovative packet-optical transport solutions with a broadening range ofsoftware and software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems, and comprehensiveprofessional services,” says Frank …(more)

The VAR GuyvCLoud Director Integration: For managing cloud operations and tweakingresources for optimal performance. Mulit-hypervisor Management:Platform-agnostic …(more)

MarketWatchCloud-scale management through VMware vCloud Director integration. vCloudDirector enables the consolidation of virtual infrastructure acrossmultiple …(more)

NetworkComputing.comThe acquisition, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatoryapprovals, will further accelerate the growth of BMC’sSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) business as well as provide customers of bothcompanies access to IT management capabilities, …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Nimsoft today announced the release ofthe first localized version of Nimsoft Service Desk Software as a Service(SaaS) solution, a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager that enablesenterprises to manage and resolve …(more)

Competency …MarketWatch (press release)NASHUA, NH, Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SkillSoft, a leading SaaSprovider of e-learning and performance support solutions for globalenterprises, government, education and small to medium-sized businesses,today announced SkillSoft Professional …(more)

CTRThe improved capabilities of VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 includecloud-scale management through VMware vCloud Director integration.(more)

User …MarketWatch (press release)31, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — eXo, the user experienceplatform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today announced generalavailability of eXo Platform 3.5. This new release of eXo Platform isdesigned for organizations that want a cloud-enabled …(more)

Deliver …MarketWatch (press release)PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — WSO2 announced todaythat Godel Technologies (GodelTech) has implemented an API platform for thetransportation services agency of a major euro zone city using two productsfrom the WSO2 Carbon …(more)

Sacramento Bee31, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Nimsoft today announced the release of thefirst localized version of Nimsoft Service Desk Software as a Service(SaaS) solution, a component of Nimsoft Unified Manager that enablesenterprises to manage and resolve IT …(more)

MarketWatchWith the integration, any service provider building public or private cloudofferings with VMware vCloud, Citrix CloudStack or OpenStack platforms cannow …(more)

PCWorldHP Software’s Content Pack 10 for DDMA, released Tuesday, includesconnectors for tracking resources on both Amazon Web Services and thosebased on VMware’s vCloud standard, such as Terremark’s service. DDMA probesa network and returns a description …(more)

CRNBy Andrew R Hickey, CRN Salesforce.com continued its social enterprise
mission Tuesday with the launch of a customer service play, dubbedDesk.com, that the SaaS giant said injects social and mobile capabilitiesinto the help desk.(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)To date, Totango has analyzed and optimized the customer engagement withmore than one million prospects and customers leading to increases in salesperformance and higher rates of customer success for its SaaS(software-as-a-service) customers.(more)

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Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service)help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users throughsocial networks like Facebook and Twitter. Desk.com, which is based onSalesforce.com’s … The Desk.com service is positioned withinSalesforce.com’s Service Cloud application lineup, which it has grownthrough other acquisitions, particularly the 2008 purchase of call-centerplatform vendor Instranet. Assistly is used by some large …(more)

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Moxie Software, purveyor of social networking solutions for the enterprise,says that 2011 was a strong year for the company — so strong, in fact,that it added 75 new customers and boosted recurring revenues by 40percent. … Moreover, Kelly says that 79 percent of existing Moxiecustomers deepened their usage in 2011, which contributed to quadrupledsales of the Moxie Employee Spaces collaboration platform from last year.Going forward, Kelly says that Moxie is in a good place …(more)

Browse Product Engineer - Software as a Service (SaaS) jobs at Dice.com.(more)

MarketWatchThe Holly heritage of offering reliable, scalable multitenancy solutions isextended in the Holly Voice Platform 6.0. The new release offers moreefficient …(more)

InformationWeekAs White House continues to push cloud computing, federal IT managers stillworry about security and costs, Ponemon survey finds. By J. Nicholas HooverInformationWeek Federal IT managers are working to adopt cloud computingtechnologies and comply …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Phil Wainewright | January 31, 2012, 11:56am PST One of the fundamental
principles when implementing cloud computing is the concept of repeatablescale. There was a great illustration of that principle in operation inlast week’s Wired report on …(more)

Agreement …Sacramento BeeBy Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. CINCINNATI, Jan. 31, 2012 –
/PRNewswire/ — Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NasdaqCM: STRM), aleading provider of enterprise content management and business analyticssolutions for healthcare organizations, …(more)

PCWorldBy Nancy Gohring, IDG News Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V
in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code — which oneOpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained — from the stack.”Microsoft is committed to working …(more)

Corporate IT… beware of cloud solutions that are actually just virtualisation dressedup as cloud, they’re not the same thing-vCloud is not fundamentally wherecloud …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)As highlighted in the GC Community Cloud presentation from the CanadianFederal Govt, the organization has the typical enterprise applicationsestate of SAP, Oracle, Microsoft et al, as well as having a goal of acommon Messaging platform too.(more)

Bollywood LifeRucha Gujarati, who took a year-long-sabbatical post her wedding, recentlymade a comeback with a grey character in Sony Television’s Saas BinaSasural. But she asserts that the real Rucha doesn’t have a mean bone inher entire body and firmly believes …(more)

Comprehensive …MarketWatch (press release)All of the Cisco VXI validated Wyse solutions are demonstrated working withthe VXI architecture and either VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop, as wellas enabling mobile cloud computing on Wyse mobile clients and tabletsincluding the Cisco Cius …(more)

RegisterO’Neill has first hand experience of cloud computing: the GDS rolled outcloud desktop services to 125 of its users in October. Over the last fourmonths, the cloud software has worked out 80 per cent cheaper than atraditional on-premise desktop set …(more)

International Finance Centre (press release)The research firm Gartner defines Cloud Computing as ‘a style of computingwhere scalable and elastic IT capabilities are provided as a service tomultiple customers using Internet technologies’. ‘Datacentre outsourcing,and in particular Cloud …(more)

vCloud Usage Meter version 2.3 includes some very exciting new features aslisted on the community main page. We request you to exercise these newfeatures …(more)

In doing past articles on how to transform your blog into a vCloud Expressbased setup on Bitnami, I discovered a few things that I wanted to shareabout …(more)

ZDNet (blog)It’s also worth noting that Nimsoft is a SaaS company. Nimsoft could beviewed as CA’s lifeboat in simplistic terms. In any case, Nimsoft is thefuture of CA and new customers start with SaaS. Existing customers willexpand via SaaS while keeping CA’s …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)React.com lauched a free version of it’s SAAS platform for socialanalytics. The platform offers a combination of services, plugins andanalytical tools that deliver a insights over the visitors and users of anywebsite.(more)

Platform …TechCrunchSo many companies are turning to alternative, technological means to findthe right candidates for job openings, some using algorithms, rankingsystems, SaaS solutions like Taleo’s, and more. In fact, one in six are nowfinding jobs on social networks.(more)

ReadWriteWebHP began its OpenStack-based Cloud Services this month, and there is a lotof promise but not much in the way of actual implementation yet. HP intendsits cloud to cover both public and hybrid uses. Initially, the beta is freeof charge although you …(more)

PriceMarketWatch (press release)SAN DIEGO, Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — MetaFlows, Inc., a startupfocused on leveraging emerging cloud and virtualization technologies forthe next generation of network security solutions, has developed a Softwareas a Service (SaaS) product that …(more)

and …MarketWatch (press release)DUBLIN, CA, Jan 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Taleo Corporation/quotes/zigman/98181/quotes/nls/tleo TLEO -1.29% , the global leader ofSaaS-based Talent Management solutions, today released a report summarizingthe 2011 business climate and …(more)

Priority(TM)”MarketWatch (press release)NEW YORK, Jan 30, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Digital Reef, leading Software asa Service (SaaS) Early Case Assessment (ECA) and eDiscovery provider,announced today that it has added attorney accelerated functionality calledPredictive Priority(TM) to …(more)

from …ReadWriteWebMicrosoft announced it had partnered with Cloud.com to support Hyper-V withOpenStack in October 2010. This was not long after the land-rush ofcompanies clamoring to announce their support for OpenStack in the wake ofits unveiling at OSCON 2010.(more)

openstack team mailing list archive …Toopenstackxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxopenstackxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; From ThierryCarrezthierryxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Date Fri 27 Jan …(more)

DABCC.comvSphere 5 offers outstanding performance and vCloud Director (which hasbeen updated to v1.5) continues to lead the way as the most powerful toolto manage …(more)

MSPmentora healthy portion of the event content will focus on cloud computing andcloud services. That’s hardly surprising, considering nearly 60 percent oftop MSPs now offer cloud and SaaS services to their customers, according toour fifth-annual MSPmentor …(more)

NetworkComputing.comCloud computing has taken center stage over the last two years as the hotenterprise technology, but in the database realm, the public cloud andoff-site hosted database services still represent too many unknown factorsto truly have mass adoption.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)TechAmerica Foundation’s State & Local Government Cloud Commission OffersBest Practices for Adopting Cloud Computing by States and Localities –Will Announce Findings at Silicon Valley; Event on February 16, 2012 –Featuring California Lt. Governor …(more)

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More enterprises are looking to platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)whether in atrue public cloud or as an on-premise private cloudto build a strongframework that lets developers go beyond just hosting an image in a cloud.This session will explore how the WSO2 Stratos cloud … It also willexamine how developers can quickly build out highly scalable applicationsand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, free from any lock-in.Additionally, the session will dig into the challenges of …(more)

ReadWriteWebWord is that Red Hat refused to sign on to OpenStack when it was announced,because it didn’t like the governance model. Red Hat also has its own cloudmanagement software projects. But the company that once dismissed OpenStackseems to be coming …(more)

Sacramento BeeAided by Cloud computing and Software as a Service provision, innovativecompanies are gaining competitive advantage and operating more efficientlyby extending their core IT services to mobile workers armed with laptops,tablets and smartphone devices …(more)

ForbesMore than one out four of the 1364 organizations surveyed (27%), in fact,already use or plan to use cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offeringsto augment their core business intelligence (BI) functions. In addition,17% indicate that they are …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), Datalliance VMI now supportsover 14000 customer locations worldwide, over 14 million individual SKUs,and nearly $10 billion of inventory — and growing every month. Datallianceadded 12 new supplier …(more)

360Measures(R)MarketWatch (press release)Its Software-as-a-Service, cloud-based approach offers unparalleledopportunities to analyze, monitor and remediate care gaps throughout theyear, thereby reducing year-end fire drills associated with HEDIS(R)performance.(more)

SBWire (press release)With the huge number of SMB’s, China is anticipated to be a very largepotential SaaS market for basic business applications such as HR, security,accounting and manufacturing related applications. SaaS will emerge as animportant part of China’s next …(more)

BioinformaticsHPCwire… Two doctoral candidates at Indiana University Bloomington’s School ofInformatics and Computing will share equally in a $100000 gift frominternational software company Persistent Systems to support research incloud computing and bioinformatics.(more)

Accelerator …The Complete Managed Services ResourceBy Kerry Doyle Cloud computing can make a variety of computing services
available to companies of all sizes on an ‘as-need’ basis. It allows cloudproviders to offer a range of physical resources, such as processors, datastorage, applications, …(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Heather Clancy | January 30, 2012, 1:07pm PST Summary: Certain
TechStars, Global Accelerator Network companies could receive $60000 worthof cloud computing and storage capacity at no cost for up to two years.Startup business incubator TechStars …(more)

This FAQ covers VMware vCloud Director installation, licensing requirementsand other issues with the cloud management tool.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Our hosted Solutions-as-a-Service model helps bring DevonWay ContinuousImprovement capabilities to a broad audience efficiently and affordablywithout additional hardware, software or data center personnel at eachparticipating station.(more)

Print Catalog SoftwareasaService. Visit Site. Installed. Smart Install …feedsthe same as you provide to Google Product Search Magento eCommerceplatform …(more)

GigaOmThe deal will provide a year of hosting on Microsoft’s Azure platform as aservice for existing and former TechStars participants, and the second yearat half off, for up to $60000. It also extends to the more than 300startups that are part of …(more)

Kitsap SunBy Michael C. Moore mmoore@kitsapsun.com 360-792-9218 RICHARD THORNTON,
JEWEL BOX THEATRE / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Peggy, played by Kathy Currie, isquestioned by Floyd, played by Fred Saas. RICHARD THORNTON, JEWEL BOXTHEATRE / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Peggy, …(more)

Wall Street JournalAs crooks get more sophisticated, ATMs may soon turn to cloud computing,holograms and biometrics, Suzanne Kapner reports on Markets Hub. Not longago, the makers of automated-teller machines only had to worry aboutthieves with a blow torch and a pair …(more)

Dr. Dobb’sBy Adrian Bridgwater, January 29, 2012 Enterprise middleware player WSO2
has readied its StratosLive Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for market onthe Google Apps Marketplace this month. With an emphasis onservice-oriented architecture and composite …(more)

Dr. Dobb’sBy Adrian Bridgwater, January 28, 2012 Scandinavian software testing
company Codenomicon has this month released its Fuzz-o-Matic cloud-basedTesting-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for applications running on Windows,Linux, Mac, and mobile operating …(more)

Hindu Business LineMany companies, which are turning to cloud computing, will find the need tomanage their cloud space becoming more important. Most of these companiesrely on both public and private clouds. The impact in India could be higherthan in developed …(more)

If I have multiple VMs in a vApp in vCloud, is there a way with SnapCreatorto only restore a single VM without restoring the entire vApp? So far withmy testing, …(more)

Multi-tenancy and Custom STS in CBA mode. Search SharePoint - Developmentand Programming (pre-SharePoint 2010) Forum; Search All SharePoint …(more)

In this second post from guest blogger Adron Hall, we dive into the variousparts, configuration, and setup of the PaaS product Cloud Foundry and the.NET fork …(more)

When it comes to procurement, any technology or service should be evaluatedwith a good set of criteria. Executive decisions should not be weightedsolely on a single selection criterion such as price. This applies to anycloud computing …(more)

Crafty …PR.com (press release)Belfast, United Kingdom, January 29, 2012 –(PR.com)– RFD Beaufort, asubsidiary of global survival specialist, Survitec Group, has launched itsnew Marin Ark Service Management Platform, developed by Belfast softwarespecialist, Crafty Devil.(more)

eChannelLineAccording to a survey of 1364 IT managers and business users of BIplatforms in the fourth quarter of 2011, only 17% of organizations havereplaced or plan to replace parts of their core BI functions withcloud/SaaS offerings.(more)

CrmServiceHelpers.cs and GetServerConfiguration() - Multitenancy. SearchCRM Development Forum; Search All Dynamics Forums; Search All Microsoft …(more)

Learn some considerations that new software as a service (SaaS) vendorsneed to take into account when developing applications or modifyingexisting ones to …(more)

FeBRuARY 2012 | VoL. 55 | No. 2 | coMMunicaTions of The acM. 81 inperforming them for terabyte or larger datasets (increasingly common acrossscientific …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)Cloud Computing is still a hot topic in 2012. For the Small and MediumBusiness (SMB) community, it is a game changer. Unlike the days of past,cloud computing offers leverage previously only available to enterpriseclass companies.(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Facebook will put in its papers to IPO next week, according to the WallStreet Journal Friday, maybe by Wednesday February 1. Apparently the timingis still a bit up in the air but it’s in the works. The offering, lookingto raise $10 billion, …(more)

CenterBeamWhile much of the talk of cloud computing and security over the last fewyears has been making the cloud more secure, one company that makesautomated teller machines is looking to protect data being collected withthe cloud, according to the Wall …(more)

of …The IndependentIn Saas-Fee, the exquisitely sculpted resort at the heart of Switzerland’snarrow Saas Valley, there are three to choose from: Optimum (swanky greengear), Eskimo (powder blue) and the Swiss Ski School (red and white,naturally).(more)

MarketWatch (press release)MILPITAS, CA, Jan 27, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Aryaka, provider ofthe world’s first cloud-based WAN optimization and application accelerationsolution, today announced TMC has named Aryaka a winner of the CloudComputing Excellence Award as one …(more)

Cloud computing adoption is mired in misconceptions about cost,infrastructure and a lack of standards. Don’t fall victim to these cloudcomputing myths.(more)

ZDNet (blog)By Joe McKendrick | January 27, 2012, 9:46pm PST Summary: Among other
things, cloud computing’s support for rapid development and utility-stylebilling can counter fears about most IT shadow projects. Cloud in and ofitself may or may not add value to …(more)

GigaOm26, 2012, 10:31am PT 2 Comments Developers concerned about confining theirapps to a single Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, such as Amazon WebServices, need worry no more. If they’re willing to utilize Cloud Foundry,the open-source …(more)

PR.com (press release)Avema, a global TEM SaaS provider, and Breakaway Services announce a newpartnership that will deliver superior telecom expense management toBreakaway clients. Denver, CO, January 28, 2012 –(PR.com)– Avema, aglobal provider of telecom and wireless …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)As always we are going to gather user feedback and incorporate it into theproduct before final release. We are also going to implement a PowerShellinterface for OpenStack Object Storage to help users automate their routinetasks.(more)

PR.com (press release)Dartmouth, Canada, January 28, 2012 –(PR.com)– SimplyCast.com, a globalleader in multi-channel marketing Platform-as-a-Service solutions, hasreleased Version 7.0 of its online marketing application, moving to theforefront of multi-channel …(more)

WebcastBusiness Wire (press release)DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Archipelago Learning Inc. (NASDAQ: ARCL), aleading subscription-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider ofeducation products, plans to report its fourth quarter 2011 financialresults after market close on Tuesday, …(more)

For most SaaS firms, they really view their platform as synonymous withtheir company’s overall brand, which includes more than just thetechnology. This brand …(more)

Independent Skiing Holiday Guide - We bring you the latest news on skiresorts, and reveal the best ski areas to help you plan that perfect skiingholiday …(more)

NIST Issues Cloud Computing Guidelines for Managing Security and Privacy.(more)

GigaOm28, 2012, 12:00pm PT No Comments There are currently well over 2000 SaaSvendors by some counts, and according to Gartner over 95 percent ofcompanies have expressed interest in maintaining or increasing theircurrent SaaS usage.(more)

Why Software As A Service (A Personal Reminder). I am in the process ofmigrating a bunch of stuff off an ancient server which has been upcontinuously for 5 …(more)

Enforcing Multitenancy for Cloud Computing Environments … Learn about thearticles in this special issue and how to enforce multitenancy in cloudcomputing …(more)

TechWeekEurope UKNearly one-third of organisations either already use or plan to use cloudor software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core businessintelligence (BI) functions, according to a report from IT research firmGartner.(more)

ExecutiveGovThe National Institute of Standards and Technologies is calling on agenciesto take the lead in addressing security and privacy challenges relating topublic cloud computing. NIST’s Guidelines on Security and Privacy in PublicCloud Computing do not …(more)

ITWebIn what is probably not a shocker, new research from Gartner shows thatmore companies are turning to software as a service (SaaS)-based businessintelligence (BI) over traditional on-premises BI, GigaOM reports. BI, oranalytics software from such …(more)

Send Resume to: akacur@altaits.com Job Description: The Citrix Engineercandidate will be supporting the following: Duties include leadingenterprise platform …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)A new report says there’s little stopping Europe catching up to the US incloud computing. The study, carried out by the London School of Economicsand Political Science and commissioned by Microsoft, looked at theprojected economic impact of cloud …(more)

Backup Technology (blog)As Cloud Computing becomes more prevalent onsite hardware sales will feelthe impact. However the Cloud has manifested itself in many forms anddistributors will not necessarily suffer on all fronts. Distributors muststay relevant to solution …(more)

PR Leap (press release)NET software developers can install a pre-configured local Platform as aService (PaaS), designed to make the deployment of Microsoft .NETapplications to the cloud as easy as clicking a button. “It is thrilling tosee Cloud Foundry broaden its appeal …(more)

CRM Marketplace (press release)3Seventy expands into the Canadian market with a number of clients in theadvertising, loyalty marketing, and consulting firms to deliver mobilecustomer relationship management software-as-a-service. Austin, TX (PRWEB)- 3Seventy, a leading provider …(more)

Leveraging …Sacramento BeeA new white paper by Software-as-a-Service marketing technology provider,Hydra highlights how digital marketing specialists can enhance theirkeyword lists to elicit the desired response from their prospects. In arecent survey of 200 digital …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Amazon’s cloud, which, let’s face it, is still pretty much developer turf,broadened its push into the enterprise Wednesday with the introduction ofAWS Storage Gateway, a beta virtual appliance nominally meant to automateenterprise data backup to S3 …(more)

SYS-CON Media (press release)Seems just the other day - actually it was two weeks ago - that we divinedthat HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get thewebOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped,then open sourced - life’s …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)A program focused on putting real-world case studies and user experienceson the stage has attracted the attention of a growing list of largesponsors for the Cloud Fair 2012 cloud computing conference. Box, AmazonWeb Services, Google, Red Hat, …(more)

ClassPR Web (press release)The CCSK course is intended to assist professionals in successfullycompleting the CCSK examination and gaining practical experience insecuring cloud computing. The industry’s first user certification programfor secure cloud computing, …(more)

IT News OnlineThe new Converged Access group aims to build on innovative technologyspecially developed for the Identity as a Service / SaaS offering ofidOnDemand as well as the traditional strength of Identive in networkaccess smart card reader technology.(more)

studyForbesThe development of cloud computing will promote economic growth, increaseproductivity and shift the type of jobs and skills required by businesses,according to a new study by the London School of Economics and PoliticalScience.(more)

Sacramento Bee27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - SimplyCast.com, a global leader in multi-channelmarketing Platform-as-a-Service solutions, has released Version 7.0 of itsonline marketing application, moving to the forefront of multi-channelmarketing automation.(more)

Computerworld”What we’ve done is create a cloud-ready platform that handlesautomatically all management and policy controls with a combination of alightweight host-based agent and software-as-a-service grid,” Wacker said.Halo NetSec runs a small, 3MB daemon on a …(more)

VMware vCloud Blog. Run Manage and Secure Your IT Infrastructure andApplications. Join Our Nextcloudtalk with VMware Knowledge Experts ChrisColotti and …(more)

Independent …MarketWatch (press release)PLEASANTON, CA, Jan 27, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Workday Inc., theleader in SaaS-based enterprise solutions for global human resources (HR),payroll and financial management, today announced it is identified as a”leader” among HR management …(more)

Integration DevelopersOpSource’s ability to offer these key Oracle components as part of its menuof managed infrastructure services may prove a game-changer for manyworking on SaaS, cloud apps and services, OpSource senior vice presidentKeao Caindec told IDN.(more)

Register… as you can see in the release notes (PDF), there are 15 new resourceadapters, including ones for Red Hat’s KVM hypervisor, VMware’s vCloudDirector, …(more)

eWeekCloud platform vendor ServiceMesh has forged a relationship with Fujitsu,giving ServiceMesh customers access to Fujitsu’s global, on-demand cloudcomputing footprint. ServiceMesh’s customers will now be able to buildhybrid cloud instances, …(more)

Wall Street JournalMoreover, efforts by companies to analyze and profit from all that data,plus the trend of selling business applications as a Web-based service–orsoftware as a service–have turned business software into another importantarea of growth.(more)

Network WorldAT&T’s new portfolio leverages the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution(HCS) platform. The Cisco HCS platform also supports other existingenterprise and other carrier deployments, including those from OrangeBusiness Services, and Verizon Business.(more)

WebcastMarketWatch (press release)DALLAS, Jan 27, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Archipelago Learning Inc./quotes/zigman/115276/quotes/nls/arcl ARCL +0.97% , a leadingsubscription-based, software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of educationproducts, plans to report its fourth quarter 2011 …(more)

The first OpenStackbased cloud operating system came out Wednesday …cloud environments It uses Diablo the latest cut of OpenStack It’s onlygood inside a …(more)

Cloud …MarketWatch (press release)PARIS, Jan 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Arkadin, a leading providerof collaboration-as-a-service solutions, today announced the launch of theArkadin Cloud Collaboration Platform. The platform is architected on aninnovative, private global-IP …(more)

Find out which database server vCloud Director is using.(more)

Stackato enables you to create a private PaaS hosted on the cloud of yourchoice (your own or with a hosting provider) to empower your developers todeploy, …(more)

ForbesThe federal government has been very active in the cloud computing space inrecent times, and accordingly, The National Institute of Standards andTechnology has been busy researching and setting definitions and guidelinesto ensure agency and …(more)

Einnews PortugalIT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in information security training,consultancy, books and tools, has today launched the Cloud ComputingFoundation training course. January 25, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — ITGovernance Ltd, the leading expert in …(more)

RepublicaThey are dumping traditional IT infrastructure for cloud computing,becoming one of the pioneers to use this service at enterprise level inNepal. To give a quick 101, the cloud basically denotes the Internet. Soeverything done on the Internet, …(more)

OfferingPR.com (press release)Now, with the Ospero DaaS platform software companies can deploy theirapplication in over 19 countries in four continents. As usual, they justpay for what they use and manage their global estate through a singleportal. Ospero also operates a single …(more)

OpenStack. I have transferred this from Cloud as it had started to lookmore like an OpenStack description than a general Cloud page –OlivierBerger …(more)

Experian QASAlmost one-third of organizations plan to use or have already implementedcloud computing services to improve their business intelligence (BI)functions, according to new research. Gartner’s study indicated that theappeal of both cloud and …(more)

2016Fresh Business ThinkingThe Strategy Analytics Extended Enterprise Software Strategies (EESS)service report, Global Cloud Computing Services Forecast and Analysis:Software, Infrastructure and Platform Development as a Service Move to theMainstream shows that cloud services …(more)

San Francisco Chronicle (press release)With McAfee SaaS email filtering service integrated with GlobalOutlook’semail service, customers are protected against email-borne threats and getworld class email protection and continuity with no hardware or software tobuy, no back-ups to run, …(more)

ReutersBeyond this performance, the recurrence of SaaS revenues from multiannualcontracts guarantees Sidetrade an excellent visibility in the mid-term. Theorder book related to Sidetrade Network’s SaaS activities amounted toEUR16.8 million on December 31 …(more)

market …4-traders (press release)Over 3600 customers have already chosen Orange Business Services cloudcomputing solutions. This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing ExpressInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, andover 2500 small business …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)… providing innovative mobile solutions for businesses, has announcedthat it is now ready to offer its mobile communication platformfreedomone(TM) in cloud computing mode, thus allowing it to offer itssolution as software as a service (SaaS).(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Two new offerings, Verdasys Managed Service for Information Protection(MSIP) and Verdasys Information Protection as a Service (IPaaS), providebusinesses on-demand data protection technology hosted within Verdasys’secured facilities: MSIP offers a …(more)

in …MarketWatch (press release)CollabNet’s Codesion platform-as-a-service brings enterprise-grade,on-demand development and deployment capabilities to developers and teamslooking to harness the benefits of cloud computing. Haque is a managingpartner at Norwest Venture Partners …(more)

CTR… was critical because Nexica’s environment also includes Cisco UCS bladeservers and VMware vCenter, VMware vCloud Director and VMware vShield.(more)

Sacramento BeeVMware, VMware vCetner, VMware vCloud Director and VMware vShield areregistered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the UnitedStates and other …(more)

FierceCIOTraditional on-site business intelligence appears to be losing sometraction in the face of SaaS-based alternatives, according to a survey byGartner. A third of the 1364 IT managers polled reported plans to use aSaaS-based BI offering.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)In this newly created position, Mr. Robbins will be responsible fordesigning, managing and assuring the scalability and reliability of EllieMae’s data center operations to support the company’s expanding software asa service (SaaS) business model.(more)

BusinessWeek26 (Bloomberg) — The European Commission aims to support the region’scloud-computing industry by encouraging governments to jointly buy softwareand computing resources on the Web, Digital Affairs Commissioner NeelieKroes said.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)26, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — EMC Corporation/quotes/zigman/225273/quotes/nls/emc EMC +2.19% today announced thatNexica, a Spanish provider of ICT infrastructure managed services includingcloud computing and critical application hosting, …(more)

InformationWeekIn SAP’s case, it laid out a five-point plan on Wednesday to extend itsmomentum in enterprise applications, analytics and mobility while steppingup its efforts to crack into the database and cloud computing markets.SAP’s robust fourth quarter and …(more)

Sacramento BeeVnetrix is differentiating itself by rolling out cloud infrastructure in afew hours to support its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) andPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. “The CA AppLogic platform givesVnetrix a clear competitive edge in an …(more)

Multitenancy with Fluent nHibernate and Ninject One Database per Tenant. upvote 0 down vote favorite. shareg+ sharefb sharetw …(more)

By Duncan Epping
Below you can find the passwords of the vCloud Director Appliance and theembedded database, just in case you need it: VMware vCloud DirectorAppliance: username = root password = Default0; VMware vCloud DirectorAppliance/Oracle …(more)

SYS-CON Media… that portable applications can be deployed on any cloud infrastructureand reap all its benefits in terms of scalability, elasticity,multitenancy, etc.(more)

3600 …MarketWatch (press release)This includes 110 for the Flexible Computing Express Infrastructure as aService (IaaS) offer, introduced in October 2011, and over 2500 smallbusiness customers for Cloud Pro, a suite of online services launched inJune 2011.(more)

a …MarketWatch (press release)All components of the suite are offered via software as a service (SaaS),improving operational efficiencies and reducing technology supportrequirements. Currently, 15 MedAssets clients are implementing the newAccess Integrity suite’s intelligence …(more)

Cadalyst MagazineIn addition to the four types of clouds described above, there are threesegments of cloud-based technology: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. SaaS. Short forsoftware as a service (also known as software on demand), SaaS is deployedover the Internet and is made …(more)

eWeekThe company introduced two new offerings, Verdasys Managed Service forInformation Protection (MISP) and Verdasys Information Protection as aService (IPaaS), that offer data protection as a managed service, Verdasyssaid Jan. 26.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Deployed its Compuware Changepoint Software as a Service solution forprofessional services automation at Brisbane, Australia-based Unidel.Additionally, Dynamic Risk Assessment Systems selected CompuwareChangepoint for professional services …(more)

Einnews PortugalFieldOne Systems (http://www.fieldone.com) is a leading provider of SaaSand software solutions for field service companies, enabling them to spendless time entering and managing data, freeing up valuable time for workthat generates revenue.(more)

PlatformBusiness Wire (press release)(BUSINESS WIRE)–Codenomicon, the leading vendor of proactive securitytesting solutions, today announces the release of Fuzz-o-Matic cloud-basedsoftware security Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform for enterprisesoftware and applications running on …(more)

GovInfoSecurity.comGuidance coauthor and NIST Computer Scientist Tim Grance says public cloudcomputing is a viable choice for many applications and services forenterprises to consider. “However,” Grance says, “accountability forsecurity and privacy in public cloud …(more)

IT Business Edge (blog)By date: by PaulShread, QuinStreet The editors of the IT Business Edge
Network give their views on what’s in store for cloud computing in 2012 andbeyond. In a few short years, cloud computing has gone from a curiositythat most corporate IT …(more)

Management …EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Widen Enterprises, a Madison, Wisconsin-baseddigital asset management software and premedia services company, hasbrought a dozen new names into its fast-growing list ofSoftware-as-a-Service DAM customer brands.(more)

Boston.comThe shift to cloud computing is creating a favorable business climate forEMC Corp., the world’s largest maker of data-storage computers. EMCprovided the latest evidence Tuesday with the release of its fourth-quarterearnings and its initial outlook …(more)

MarketWatch (press release)Joyent licenses its cloud software to service providers that include Dell,FirstServer, XYBase, ClusterTech and Uniserve. Joyent offerings alsoinclude Platform-as-a-Service based on Node.js, the open source server-sideJavaScript development …(more)

ScreenScape’s software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)) platform helpsbusinesses engage audiences inside real locations using Internet-enableddigital …(more)

From Yahoo! Finance: BMC Software , the leader in IT Service Management ,today announced the availability of its Remedy OnDemand solution for the…(more)

MarketWatch (press release)HP Cloud Compute currently leverages the OpenStack Nova compute platformand API. “Postgres Plus Cloud Database is the only solution on the markettoday that makes deploying new instances of PostgreSQL or Postgres PlusAdvanced Server easy in any …(more)

CNVO …China AnalystIt is now trading at 79% of its 52-week high. inContact, Inc .(NASDAQ:SAAS) is the 10th best rebounding stock in this segment of themarket. It has risen 82% from its 52-week low. It is now trading at 97% ofits 52-week high.(more)

Does using cloud computing services based in the United States create arisk of US law enforcement access to people’s data? The US Department ofJustice …(more)

View and apply for the Operations Support Engineer - MCTIP+ Security, VCP,vCloud, RHEL, HP Blades Job at Crystal Equation Corporation in GreaterAtlanta …(more)

GeminiStamford (ip-192.com): Nearly one third of organizations uses or plans touse cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their corebusiness intelligence (BI) functions. According to a survey of 1364 ITmanagers and business users of BI …(more)

Moneycontrol.comNearly one third of organisations either already use or plan to use cloudor software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to augment their core businessintelligence (BI) functions, according to Gartner, Inc. According to asurvey of 1364 IT managers and …(more)

Einnews Portugal/EINPresswire.com/IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in informationsecurity training, consultancy, books and tools, has today launched theCloud Computing Foundation training course. This course is based on theEXIN Cloud Computing Foundation …(more)

App …Sacramento BeeXform Computing’s AlwaysOnPC App has raised the bar for Cloud-poweredmobile apps, and is well aligned with Amazon’s Cloud Computing strategy.Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet already includes the Silk “cloud-assisted” WebBrowser, and it offers cloud …(more)

MarketWatch… VMware vCenter Server and vCloud Director; Red Hat KVM hypervisor; andlayer 1 switches that include Curtiss-Wright, Cytec Mesa, and MRVCommunications.(more)

MarketWatch (press release)”Karen has an extensive background in B2B marketing, and specific expertisein marketing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products. She has a demonstratedtrack record of working with high technology companies to accelerate theirgrowth.(more)

VentureBeatThe OpenStack open source cloud platform may have started in 2010, but 2011was the year that it really kicked into high gear. Built oncommunity-contributed code, OpenStack aims to let any enterprise deliverits own infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) …(more)

Sacramento BeeIn December 2011, Cloudplace received the Red Herring Global 100 Award inLos Angeles, CA for their disruptive platform-as-a-service. Reader commentson Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. Ifyou see an objectionable …(more)

Place …MarketWatch (press release)In addition, CloudNOW, a nonprofit group of women in cloud computing, willhost their first annual CloudNOW Awards during Cloud Connect. As thepremier technology event for cloud computing, featuring the latesttechnologies, strategies and innovations …(more)

Consultation …MarketWatch (press release)25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Blue Mountain Labs (www.bluemountainlabs.com ) announced today the launch of a program toprovide a free one-hour cloud computing phone consultation to those inenterprise IT that are seeking initial guidance on the …(more)

Investorplace.comWhile it’s unlikely that these services would be shut down, the episode hastaken some of the shine off of cloud computing just as IT departments havebegun to embrace the concept. The fear among legitimate file sharingwebsites and cloud computing …(more)

InformationWeekBy Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek Several states are using an online
balloting website based on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform to allow USvoters living overseas to cast their votes via the Web in 2012 primaryelections.(more)

Network WorldA blog post from the Electronic Frontier Foundation makes the case that theUnited States is jeopardizing its position in the worldwide cloud-computingmarket by failing to provide the kinds of privacy assurances demanded byinternational laws.(more)

GigaOm25, 2012, 10:05am PT No Comments In what is probably not a shocker, newresearch shows that more companies are turning to SaaS-based businessintelligence over traditional on-premises BI. Business intelligence, oranalytics software from such companies …(more)

Result of a poll in the Software as a Service ( SaaS) LinkedIn group to askexerts their opinions about which category would see the most growth in2012.(more)

Redmondmag.comThere’s also an older Microsoft white paper, dated February 2011, thatrecommends the reference architecture for the “Hyper-V Cloud Fast TrackProgram” …(more)

eWeek From Lucas Carlson, CEO of AppFog: In the coming year as the OpenStackcommunity grows and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) matures,platform-as-a-service (PaaS) companies will begin offering IaaS options totheir customers as single infrastructure …(more)

Falling …MarketWatch (press release)SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan 25, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — New Relic, Inc.,the SaaS-based cloud application performance management provider,introduced a new white paper today that details how factors like cloudcomputing, the explosion of mobile …(more)