This post is a daily aggregation of all news links from @onsaas. This post is automatically generated everyday at 11:45PM UTC.
- SaaS Branding | 6 Challenges of Killer Cloud Brands
- Comparing participation in the open source cloud communities
- OpenStack development finds big growing pains
- STEPHEN SPECTOR What Is Platform-as-a-Service?
- OpenStack Essex Delivers Cloud Dashboard
- Report: IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack
- Cloud Computing Course
- Quickly Finding Objects Using the vCloud API Query … – VMware Blogs
- SimplyCast’s Online Marketing Software Now Available in Chinese
- 3 Reasons Why a VMware/Rackspace Acquisition Would be Bad for Customers
- iSoftStone Teams With IBM and Local Governments to Co-build IBM Cloud …
- Equinix Enables Unitas Global’s APAC Expansion
- Basware Has Signed a Software as a Service Deal in North America
- RackSpace calls Citrix’s Bluff over CloudStack Citrix Folds | The …
- AppFog PaaS is Verified as Citrix Ready
- UmbeeCloud Intros Citrix CloudStack-based Hosting: A First?
- Citrix: It’s All About Open
- Citrix’ CloudStack Lets IT Build, Control Their Own Amazon-like Clouds
- Cloud apps, big data and the wisdom of swarms
- HOB GmbH: Multi Tenancy in Cloud Computing a must for Service …
- CloudStack, OpenStack and the Significance of Support
- 8 Reasons Why Cloud Computing is Even Better for Small Businesses
- Job Security and Cloud Computing
- Cloud Computing Can Drive Business Value, Report Says
- Group aims to vet worth of ID standards for mobile, software, other cloud
- ENISA: Guidelines for Monitoring Cloud Computing Contracts
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)By Joel York SaaS branding has some unique challenges that aren’t covered
in the average MBA program. As a new communication channel, the Internethas altered the rules of branding for almost every category of product.However, cloud brands that owe …(more)
ComputerworldEucalyptus, which is a private cloud Infrastructure as a Service model,recently announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to ensureinteroperability between the two systems. Meanwhile, Citrix announced thisweek it would be migrating away from …(more)
ComputerworldOpenStack reached a milestone on Thursday, with the fifth release of itssoftware, code named Essex, which a variety of OpenStack supporters saybrings the project to a new level of maturity, interoperability with othercloud providers and ease of use.(more)
Over the past few weeks, I have been detailing some basic concepts of cloudcomputing …(more)
Server WatchBy Sean Kerner (Send Email) The open source OpenStack cloud platform is out
with its fifth major release today, delivering new features for clouds.OpenStack enjoys the support of more than 150 companies, including bignames like Rackspace, Cisco, …(more)
ComputerworldBy Brandon Butler Network World – IBM and Red Hat could soon be joining the
ranks of OpenStack supporters, giving the open source cloud project a bigboost. The addition of Red Hat and IBM, first reported by GigaOm, has notbeen confirmed by either …(more)
Times of IndiaDELHI: According to a Microsoft commissioned study conducted by IDC, cloudcomputing will generate over 2 million jobs in India by 2015. To assist theIT Industry with its problems, Indian Institute of Job Training (IIJT),launched a new course on …(more)
In earlier releases of vCloud Director1.0 to find a particular vCloudobject using the vCloud API you always had start at the root of your vCloudinstance …(more)
PR.com (press release)Dartmouth, Canada, April 06, 2012 –(PR.com)– SimplyCast.com, a globalleader in multi-channel marketing Platform-as-a-Service solutions, todayannounced that it has released a fully translated Chinese version of itsonline marketing application, …(more)
DABCC.comThis time, according to The VAR Guy, rumors have been floating around thatVMware is considering purchasing Rackspace to neutralize the perceivedthreat that the OpenStack project poses to VMware’s vSphere and vCloud.(more)
MarketWatch (press release)The CCoE will provide smart city and cross-industry cloud computingservices to clients in the Jilin province and in Northeast China and InnerMongolia. iSoftStone will participate in building the smart city cloudcomputing platform and the Liaoyuan …(more)
Data Center KnowledgeEquinix (EQIX) announced that managed infrastructure as a service providerUnitas Global has selected Platform Equinix in Singapore and Sydney,Australia to support its global business expansion. Unitas supports over100 customers currently with its IT …(more)
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release)Basware Inc. has signed a Software as a Service deal with a largemanufacturing company of industrial batteries. Basware will deliver invoiceprocessing, scan & capture, supplier portal, e-Invoicing and service forsending procurement messages.(more)
Citrix has given up Project Olympus which was based on the Open SourceOpenStack platform in favor of its own Open Source CloudStack initiative(formerly k.(more)
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)Customers can be confident that AppFog PaaS has successfully passed aseries of tests established by Citrix, can be trusted to work effectivelywith CloudStack in order to accelerate cloud application deployments, andoffer customers added choice.(more)
TalkinCloud (blog)by Brian Taylor on In the battle of Citrix CloudStack vs OpenStack, UmbeeLtd. is choosing sides. Indeed, Umbee Ltd. claims to have launched theworld’s first cloud hosting service based on CloudStack 3.0, an open sourcecloud alternative to OpenStack.(more)
DABCC.com[Citrix contributing CloudStack to Apache is] massive. And it could be avery pivotal moment in the story of the internet. In a nutshell: cloud justwent mainstream. (British Telecom) Wow. That is just some of the many wordsof support for our …(more)
Integration DevelopersThis month, Citrix is shipping CloudStack 3 to let enterprise IT easilybuild, operate and manage flexible Amazon-style clouds. CloudStack 3 aimsto allow IT to use various hypervisors, network equipment and otherresources for private, …(more)
ZDNet (blog)By Phil Wainewright | April 6, 2012, 8:57am PDT Summary: Siri’s approach to
deciphering voice recognition has lessons for SaaS vendors who are debatinghow to mine their stores of big data for value. It was only after my wifeacquired an iPhone 4S this …(more)
The source for news and information about Cloud Computing, VirtualizationTechnologies, High Scalability, Data Center Technologies, Storage and RealLife …(more)
By Sam Dean
In the wake of Citrix’s decision to cut its support for the open sourceOpenStack cloud computing platform and move full steam ahead with the nextphase of its CloudStack strategy, it still seems clear to most observersthat OpenStack and …(more)
ReadWriteWebSure, cloud computing offers benefits to companies of all sizes. But theclouds’ advantages apply even more dramatically the smaller and newer yourcompany. At the same time, the standard objections to cloud computingmatter less to small companies …(more)
Midsize InsiderAccording to a recent Computerworld article, embracing cloud computing canbe both a positive and negative force when it comes to looking at jobsecurity in IT today. Generally for enterprises, it’s about cost savingsbecause deploying the cloud means …(more)
Midsize InsiderCloud computing’s ability to lower technical adoption complexity and costsand decrease time frames has made it attractive to organizations of alltypes and sizes. However, a recent report by the IBM Institute for BusinessValue and the Economist …(more)
servicesZDNet (blog)The use case includes authentication, authorization, audit and compliancefeatures and is defined for public and private cloud deployments andplatform/infrastructure/software-as-a-service. The TC is asking reviewersto submit their comments via the …(more)
ENISA: Guidelines for Monitoring Cloud Computing Contracts Cloud computingservices are increasingly important for governments and businesses, and …(more)