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Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 28, 2008

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

• Scio Consulting Offers SaaS Acceleration Solutions to ISVs

TMCnet - USAScio Consulting has announced the launch of a collection ofSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) Acceleration Solutions to helpsoftware companies …(more)

• Blog Past: The Coming Age of ASPs

Even as globally ASPs are making a comeback and software-as-a-service seemslikely to define at least a part of the industry, in emerging markets, theopportunity for both SMEs in Emerging Markets (SMEEMs) and the ASPs issignificant. …(more)

• Tech Talk: Thinking WCF towards Enterprise SOA

By elLoco
“SAAS” or “Software as a Service” what was called “ASP” or “ApplicationService Provider” before “ESB” or “Enterprise Service Bus” what was called”EAI” or “Enterprise Application Integration” before …(more)

• Book clubs, reading groups, book discussions, and book club topics …

Besides the huge growth of Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine, we sawSalesforce launch Force.com , a true platform-as-a-service. My picks forthe most interesting … Mozilla’s mobile browser gets closer to prime time…(more)

• How to Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 Safely and Ensure Compatibility

There are a few ways to do this, either install it as a service runningunder your desktop operating system (Windows) using Apache or variousalternative and lightweight web servers like nginx or lighttpd. …(more)

• the Unstuck Diaries: watching

In the mountains, whilst squatting in the attics of a chalet in Saas Fee,Switzerland, during the winter of 1980, I watched and I waited. And so Ihad, during the long dark winter evenings, time on my hands.Saas-Fee-night-81.jpg …(more)

• Is the cloud computing maturity model unnecessary or simply …

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA… years of experience in distributed systems development and deployment,focusing on service-oriented architectures, cloud computing, andvirtualization. …(more)

• SaaSNews : A look back at 2008 - Sunday Times.lk

Sunday Times.lk A look back at 2008 Sunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka - 30 minutesago SaaS ( Software as a Service ) vendors such as Salesforce will expandtheir offerings to meet customer demands and provide one-stop …(more)

• The Renco Lounge: Will Network Management Software move to SaaS???

By Vetty Officer
We are living in the period which is the beginning of the SaaS era. Afterthe entry of Google into this territory, the awareness about SaaS hadincreased tremendously - thus increasing the market size. …(more)

• SaaSNews : Scio Consulting Taps Beck as VP of Business Development …

Scio Consulting Taps Beck as VP of Business Development PR.com (pressrelease), NY - 12 minutes ago Net, C/C++, and Java expertise, the companyalso brings significant experience in the Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS )and Rich Internet …(more)

• Cloud Computing - Is it the future?

Examiner.com - USACloud Computing or more accurately, Virtualization, is not a new concept -I’ve been reading about software utility companies for decades, but theidea was …(more)

• SAAS Translator 0.0.16 software download - Windows - VersionTracker

Find SAAS Translator downloads, reviews, and updates for Windows includingcommercial software, shareware and freeware on VersionTracker.com.(more)

• Linux News: SaaS: Enterprises Reach for the Cloud

By ECT News Network
Linux news and information from around the world with fresh perspective onLinux and the open-source movement.(more)

• CIO > Four Things Microsoft Got Right in 2008

So Microsoft has stepped in the ring with cloud computing players (GoogleApp Engine), Amazon (EC2) and IBM (Blue Cloud utility computing platform),but it hasn’t thrown any punches yet. Those companies have cloud computingplatforms in …(more)

• Does it rain or does it pour? | Capping IT Off | Capgemini …

As Mark stated earlier on this blog, Cloud Computing is about trust and’trust is a value I am choosing to rely on for anything I do on the web.Without trust, the web wouldn’t have evolved into what it is today’. Trustis a good thing, …(more)

• Links for 2008-12-27 [del.icio.us]

Category: Cloud Computing | Tags: cloud cloud computing. RationalSurvivability: Virtualization? So last Tuesday. An excellent rundown byChris Hoff of how the focus of security efforts cycles back and forthbetween the host and the …(more)

• Working smarter can keep costs down, says Telecom

NZ Herald Wellington Metro - Wellington,New ZealandAdvancements in technology such as smart phones, software as a service andinternet protocol are often prescribed to companies looking to manage thetime- …(more)

• Bill Owens on Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Technical Version …

By Bill Owens
Supports both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0;Supports form-based authentication; Supports multi-tenancy. With thisadapter, you can integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 with any othernon-Microsoft business …(more)

• Goodbye Macworld, Apple Bites the Hand That Feeds It

Alan Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Cloud Computing Journal and isSYS-CON’s “Cloud Computing Bootcamp” Instructor. He is widely recognized asan early expert on Cloud Computing. Alan is a Sun Java Champion and creatorof …(more)

• acid tracks: Pollution - Volume IV

By acid tracks
Cloud Computing leads to things like Cloud Commuting- more productivity andefficiency, more leisure time, less pollution, less time wasted- Educationand achievement ten times better than today, 250000000 million householdswatching …(more)

• socialmedian: Technology Review: The Year in Computing

By socialmedian
Technology trends (Users: 156). Stories in 24 hours: 17. Aviation (Users:11). Stories in 24 hours: 37. Campaign 2008 (Users: 1063). Stories in 24hours: 333. 4G (Users: 14). Stories in 24 hours: 164. Cloud Computing(Users: 224) …(more)

• IT industry: waiting to exhale in 2009

Hindu - Chennai,IndiaThis makes cost-effective models, such as SaaS (software as a service),remote infrastructure management, cloud computing and virtualisationtechnologies, …(more)

• Data Centers Cut Budgets

PC World - USAAbout 13% of the managers said they had planned to increase or addsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) as an alternative to internally hostedapplications. …(more)

Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 27, 2008

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

• Here s A Quick Way To Earn More Money With Internet Marketing …

… things up the right way to get the best results and start earning moreThe Benefits of Software as a Service The implementation ofSoftware-as-a-Service amongst e-commerce sites is on the rise According toone recent news article, …(more)

• Spinfluencer: On the Record…Online with Vocus Executive Kye Strance

By Schwartzman & Associates
7:21 - Strance reveals the most commonly asked questions PR practitionershave about the Vocus online PR platform. 8:13 - Strance on online PRsoftware as a service providers like Vocus and iPressroom. 8:95 - Stranceon selling online …(more)

• My IT Predictions for 2009 - Chris Fleck

The recent Windows offering by Amazon will validate the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service ) model as a viable platform for companiessmall and large looking to add test and targeted production capacitywithout capital and facility …(more)

• provtest AllAboutHMC.xml : HMC 4.5 and Exchange 2007 SP1 - Part #4 …

Now, we all know Exchange 2007 wasn’t packaged with multi-tenancy enabledout of the box. The problem is this, the identification of what isconsidered internal and what is external. If a mail is sent from one userto another (even …(more)

• Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Software as a Service Could …

Experts predict governments will focus on budget-friendly technology.(more)

• More companies look to cloud computing - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com

Cloud computing has already swelled into an estimated $36 billion marketthis year, representing roughly 13 percent of global software sales.(more)

• How To Use Blgging For Profit-00-2051

Always think to upload your personal software from wordpress.com wheneveryou’re actually serious about blogging for profit. Be sure that your serveroffers MySQL. Wordpress is recommended, because it’s the best internetsoftware. …(more)

• Architecting for Green Computing

InfoQ.com - Toronto,CanadaInsofar as this these models [cloud computing] consolidate organizations,consumption has the potential to be remarkably reduced as the Internetscale data …(more)

• A look back at 2008

Sunday Times.lk - Columbo,Sri LankaSaaS (Software as a Service) vendors such as Salesforce will expand theirofferings to meet customer demands and provide one-stop consulting servicesrather …(more)

Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 26, 2008

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

• While I was working…: Cloud Computing in Plain English

By Etay Gafni
When I talk to people about Veodia, the “What is Cloud Computing?” questionpops up once in a while. The long ‘text-based’ answer, is, as always, atWikipedia. Some attempts to simply explain it by using video interviews ofexperts are …(more)

• SaaS may not live up to ‘recession-proof’ tag

ZDNet Asia - SingaporeBy Larry Dignan, ZDNet commentary The software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry
has been making headlines: Salesforce.com is establishing itself as aleading …(more)

• Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008 - bobgable’s posterous

Amazon Web Services, led by Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic ComputeCloud (EC2), was the first major cloud computing platform and today itpowers the backend for many startups. At the beginning of the year we notedthat Amazon’s …(more)

• New Economics of Advertising: 5 Hints for Personal Productivity …

By Editor
Cloud computing, RSS integration, microformats, semantic web, and mash-ups- drop the acronyms. Web 3.0 has arrived and we’re having fun. Suggest yourideas. Tell us why we should become partners. Let’s get to work. Labels:about adEcon …(more)

• Free key for advanced task scheduler Download - key for advanced …

It is an extremely versatile event scheduling software that can be ran as aservice or as a desktop application in the background. It has very flexiblescheduling and conditional triggers for running various task and has alsothe …(more)

• IT-infrastructure reporting software. Active Directory, Exchange …

Solution that provides reports about the state of enterpriseIT-infrastructure, security audit, inventory of hardware and software, andpreparation for migration and upgrade. Reports on Active Directory,Exchange Server, local computer …(more)

• PaaS gets a boost

Express Computers - Bombay,IndiaWhen we started working on this Platform-as-a-Service story more commonlyreferred to as PaaS, we though that we would not have a strong story totell. …(more)

• New Harvey Co. sheriffis eager tostart his job | Crime & Courts …

“I also saw it as a service to the community.” He became a full-time Newtonpolice officer in 1988. In 1994, on his first day as a detective, he foundhimself at the home of 36-year-old Rhonda Krehbiel. While Krehbiel was homewith her …(more)

• LIS to host SaaS application on NaviSite servers

Computer Business Review - UK… services provider NaviSite’s expanded line of dedicated servers to hostits SaaS application and its associated web interfaces and databases. …(more)

• Dataline Expert Weighs in on White House Cloud Computing

24-7PressRelease.com (press release) - USAMCLEAN, VA, December 26, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ — Dataline’s expert onCloud Computing Security, Kevin Jackson, lent his insight into the safetyof cloud …(more)

• The Indian PC Magazine - Reviews, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks, News …

Of course, we cannot talk about innovation without also looking at cloudcomputing, which has been growing by leaps and bounds. One big advance in2008 was Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), which lets you install a runtimeon multiple OSs …(more)

• Just the Best Tech Lists of 2008 - eCoustics.com

This collection of notable quotes from 2008 covers a lot of ground, rangingfrom Larry Ellison’s cloud computing admission to Linux mastermind LinusTorvalds’ “masturbating monkey” reference while discussing securityvulnerabilities. …(more)

• GlobalOutlook offers SaaS, host exchange | FINANCE.INFOKHAZANA

HYDERABAD: GlobalOutlook, a newly-promoted Hyderabad-based company, haslaunched operations in host exchange and software as a service (SaaS).Addressing a press conference, Executive Chairman of the company DayakarPuskoor said …(more)

• Software ensures quality of enterprise data.

ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA… Data Quality (CDQ) Platform. With enhanced support for global data,access to value-add services in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or hybriddeployments, …(more)

• Dataline Expert Weighs in on White House Cloud Computing

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA26 /PRNewswire/ — Dataline’s expert on Cloud Computing Security, KevinJackson , lent his insight into the safety of cloud computing and it’spossible …(more)

• Iasta Achieves SAS 70 Type II Certification

Supply & Demand Chain Executive - Gilbert,AZ,USAApplication service providers (ASPs) as well as software-as-a-service(SaaS) providers must demonstrate that they have adequate controls andsafeguards in …(more)

• SaaSNews : Iasta Achieves SAS 70 Type II Certification - Supply …

Iasta Achieves SAS 70 Type II Certification Supply & Demand ChainExecutive, AZ - 17 minutes ago Application service providers (ASPs) as wellas software-as-a-service ( SaaS ) providers must demonstrate that they haveadequate controls …(more)

• Business - International Business Law

This year my firm has handled several software licensing and Software as aService (SaaS law) transactions in Europe, Asia and the Middle East andseveral real estate deals and private equity investments (through angelinvestor groups …(more)

• A Serious Look at Dynamic Infrastructure

IT Business Edge - Louisville,KY,USAHe just spun off a new blog from his regular Archimedius Report to talkspecifically about cloud computing and how it will usher in an era ofdynamic …(more)

Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 25, 2008

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

• Forums - GOOG: cloud computing

Cloud computing has already swelled into an estimated $36 billion marketthis year, representing roughly 13 percent of global software sales. Thebig question now is whether it can turn into a technology tsunami that …(more)

• Real Time View: Continuing to Innovate in 09!

By Richard Buckle
Under the banner of Monolithic to Polymorphic computing Martin introducedthe community to his views on Cloud Computing, and since that event Martinhas continued to heavily promote the concept and the innovative …(more)

• ZapThink :: News - Cloud Maturity Models Don\’t Make Sense

… to Cloud Maturity Models, especially if your focus is on software as aservice or even capacity as an automated, self-administered service, whichis what many organizations seems to be looking for in their current cloudexperiments. …(more)

• Gene Carr’s Patron Technology Blog: Why 2009 Will Be Good for the …

If you’re talking with a SaaS company, typically there won’t be a balloonpayment up front, but rather a flat fee per year, with options for supportlevels and additional modules. From a pricing perspective, the lattershould be vastly …(more)

• Happy Holidays 2008 from BetaNews

BetaNews - USAVirtualization and cloud computing will help cut costs, new systems will bedeveloped for better regulating the complex financial markets, andinnovation on …(more)

• Siemens OpenScape Contact Center Offers Enhanced Multi-Tenancy …

Siemens announced today the latest release of its OpenScape Contact Center,a highly scalable,(more)

• Lifeline Data Centers Blog: The great paradigm shift of cloud …

By Lifeline Data Centers, LLC
Some would say multi-tenancy, self-service and pay-per-use (includingbilling and elastic capacity). With specific regard to EC2, I would tend toagree. (I would also hasten to point out that Amazon provides some veryPaaS-like services …(more)

• Keyboard based ‘launcher’ for opening your chosen websites super …

Besides the huge growth of Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine, we sawSalesforce launch Force.com , a true platform-as-a-service. My picks forthe most interesting … Vote Facebook for California attorney general? …(more)

• Recovery may begin late next year

Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,IndiaThen looking at new areas like cloud computing, which is partly sharedservices and partly the delivery mechanism which would be software as aservice, …(more)

• Utility Computing aka Cloud Computing: [ Cloud Computing ] Re …

By Khaz Sapenov
[ Cloud Computing ] Re: State of affairs : Moving Healthcare Appli cationsto the Cloud.. Here is another instance of an ondemand Patient/Clinicaltrial related. Product/App moved in to SaaS model …(more)

• Verizon Business identifies trends for 2009 | Mayer Consulting …

Getting SaaSy - The network becomes king once again in 2009, making it theperfect platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery. Servingcontent, applications and security in a centralised online environment willbecome the rage. …(more)

• Working with DSLs and Computation Expressions in F#

C++0x: The Dawning of a New Standard Going Mobile: Getting Your Apps On theRoad Software as a Service: Building On-Demand Applications in the Cloud ANew Era for Rich Internet Applications The Road to Ruby Vista’s Bounty:Surprising …(more)

Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 24, 2008

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

• Cloud Computing Needs To Help People Migrate From Old Electronic …

David Churbuck says that cloud computing (aka the cloud) needs to alleviatethe nasty, stupid experience of migrating from an old PC to a new one. I’ma Mac.(more)

• Cloud Maturity Models Don’t Make Sense

InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USAAn issue that’s been roiling the cloud computing blogosphere the past fewmonths is the notion of a maturity model for cloud computing, which Ioppose. …(more)

• SaaS Development Platform

ebizQ - New Rochelle,NY,USAOne of the major trends for 2009 will surely be cloud computing, alsocalled SaaS (software as a service). In bad economic times, organizationshave less …(more)

• Two Expressos show how Silicon Valley reinvents the familiar

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USAIt is yet another start-up in the valley’ growing software-as-a-service(SaaS) field, one that enables businesses to collaborate on Microsoft Excel…(more)

• SaaS Development Platform

ebizQ - New Rochelle,NY,USABy Beth Gold-Bernstein on December 23, 2008 8:53 PM 0 0 Vote 0 Votes One of
the major trends for 2009 will surely be cloud computing, also called SaaS…(more)

• Dana Epp’s ramblings at the Sanctuary: The TCO of Cloud Computing …

By Dana Epp
Which gets me to a side benefit of Cloud Computing. I can delegateresponsibility of all the day to day tasks of managing the systems to thesefirms. I do that now with services from Salesforce.com and Own Web Now. …(more)

• Two Expressos show how Silicon Valley reinvents the familiar - San …

It is yet another start-up in the valley’ growing software-as-a-service(SaaS) field, one that enables businesses to collaborate on Microsoft Excelspreadsheets over the Web, with PowerPoint and Word document services duein January. …(more)

• Utility Computing aka Cloud Computing: Cloud Computing Conference 2009

By Khaz Sapenov
The Cloud Slam Conference is the world’s premier cloud computing event,covering research, development, innovations and education in the world ofcloud computing. The Technical Program is unmatched, and reflects thehighest level of …(more)

• White Paper: Passing on the Savings: Multi-Tenant Consideration in …

The benefits of software-as-a-service in a multi-tenant environment; Thecommon concerns that customers have about multi-tenancy; How to definedevelopment costs and associated pricing models; How both the provider andthe customer can …(more)

• Welcome 2009: Rough Ride Ends Fine?

CRM Buyer - USAWe call them “early adopters,” and they have been the ones who have so faradopted social computing, on-demand and Platform as a Service. …(more)

• Android Aside, Google Proves Frugal For This Who’s Christmas

eWeek - New York, NYI wished: for a more aggressive PAAS (platform as a service) effort fromGoogle. Specifically, I wanted a Google Web Services platform to rivalAmazon Web …(more)

• SaaS - Should Software Vendors Even Care About It?

TMCnet - USAWill the economic conditions force independent software vendors (ISVs) tochange their delivery model to a Web-based online SaaS (News - Alert)model? …(more)

• David Stout Joins Daston Corporation’s SaaS Practice as Technical …

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAIn response to this increased demand, Daston Corporation, a leadingprovider of SaaS business solutions to government contractors, todayannounces that …(more)

• Cloud platforms of the future: Hadoop and Eucalyptus

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA… Engine we saw Salesforce launch Force.com, a truePlatform-as-a-Service. My picks for the most interesting software of 2008are Hadoop and Eucalyptus. …(more)

• Data center budgets to stay course in 2009?

Register - London,England,UK… the need for physical servers, but only 12.6 per cent said they wouldbe using hosted applications, SaaS-style, instead of doing these apps inhouse. …(more)

• New Virtualization and Cloud Computing Initiatives

SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USAThat means that the networking industry needs to articulate its relevanceto these initiatives more forcefully as IT automation initiatives continueto …(more)

• David Stout Joins Daston Corporation$B!G(Bs SaaS Practice as Technical …

David Stout Joins Daston Corporation$B!G(Bs SaaS Practice as TechnicalDirector. December 24th, 2008 $B!&(B No Comments $B!&(B Read the original articlehere $B!&(B Share/Save. Tags: Press Room. 0 responses so far $B”-(B. There are nocomments yet. …(more)

• SaaSNews : Scio Consulting Offers SaaS Acceleration Solutions to …

Scio Consulting Offers SaaS Acceleration Solutions to ISVs TMCnet - 12minutes ago Scio Consulting has announced the launch of a collection ofSoftware-as-a-Service ( SaaS (News - Alert)) Acceleration Solutions to helpsoftware …(more)

• Nano Particles to Clean and Green | SensoryMetrics

Brian Norman on The Vista 350 telephone and the birth of SaaS; jeff on TheVista 350 telephone and the birth of SaaS; Rodney on The Vista 350telephone and the birth of SaaS $B!&(B Mitch Brisebois on The Vista 350telephone and the birth of …(more)

• Scoble$B!G(Bs Twitter/Friendfeed Intervention (aka these tools are for …

For Executives, Entrepreneurs, and other Digerati who need to know aboutSaaS and Web 2.0. Home $B!&(B About $B!&(B Themes. Blog Tools. Subscribe using yourfavorite reader $B!&(B Technorati Favorite $B!&(B E-Mail Subscription $B!&(B Bob’sShared Google Reader …(more)

• Finding Success with SaaS Business Intelligence

Build a relationship with a BI vendor that shares your vision.(more)

• Opinion: Man tweets from plane crash

Computerworld Reports. Computerworld Report- Large Enterprises Pay More forIPAM $B!&(B Mobility @ the Speed of Business $B!&(B SaaS Solutions for RemoteSystems Management. Editor’s Picks. Microsoft warns of critical bug in SQLServer …(more)

Vendor Cloud Strategy Map

This is a lazy post. I am just pasting my twitter messages (@zhenjl) here.

Been spending a bit of time on the cloud plays from various big names like VMW, CTXS, and MSFT 34 minutes ago from TweetDeck

CTXS seems to be content to be a infra tools provider, no immediate vision as a platform tools provider 33 minutes ago from TweetDeck

VMW with its VDC-OS definitely is going to be providing cloud platform tools..MSFT has always been a platform type of play, also w/ azure 32 minutes ago from TweetDeck

CTXS also owns WAN opt that can help move VMs/apps around…VMW doesn’t have that and will need to partner 31 minutes ago from TweetDeck

CSCO talks about application delivery in the inter-cloud and moving apps around…pro’ly winner as they r the network guy for any players 29 minutes ago from TweetDeck

have to say on the infra level, CTXS vision is easier to understand than VMW..cloud center, delivery center..that’s it 27 minutes ago from TweetDeck

VMW’s got VDC-OS, vSphere, vClient, vCenter, vCloud, not to mention all the other product names…head spinning 26 minutes ago from TweetDeck

VMW’s strategy seems to first abstract the hardware, second abstract the OS 25 minutes ago from TweetDeck

both VMW and CTXS want to own the endpoint and server…imagine all ur data flows thru VMW or CTXS owned infra (VDI, srvr virt, net virt) 24 minutes ago from TweetDeck

My beginning attmpt for a vendor cloud map…incomplete..work in progress http://is.gd/decr 14 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Look for updates probably on a daily basis since I have this week off.

Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 23, 2008

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

• Siemens Communications Looks to Break Down Silos

Destination CRM - New York,NY,USAbased research firm Frost & Sullivan, explains that while multi-tenancylicensing is not a new innovation, it is an important one for the companyto drive …(more)

• Half of data centers surveyed plan 2009 cutbacks

Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USAAbout 13% of the managers said they had planned to increase or addsoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) as an alternative to internally hostedapplications. …(more)

• What Will Sell in 2009? SAAS, Mobile Apps & Security

GigaOm - San Francisco,CA,USAExpect that number to rise as penny pinching CEOs finally realize that SAASis good for the bottom line. Even Larry Ellison, Orcale CEO has changed histune …(more)

• Google, Salesforce.com Vs. Microsoft Headlines Cloud Computing …

SAAS integrator and consulting services firm Appirio has some strongopinions about the way the cloud computing will evolve in 2009. In short,it sees open.(more)

• The Office in the Clouds - Empowering Front Line Managers for …

… neglected operational business needs with ad-hoc, situationalapplications; How to automate integration between cloud services andon-premise applications; Why multi-tenancy, SOA and MDM are key to thesuccess of business mashups …(more)

• PortWise AB: PortWise Delivers Support for OATH and Security for …

International Business Times - New York,NY,USAAs the adoption of cloud computing becomes more common security solutionswill need to embrace cloud computing as well. PortWise already withpreviously …(more)

• JumpBox: Open Source Meets SaaS (Again) | Computer & Internet

The VAR Guy: “The shift of open source applications into the cloud and SaaS(software as a service) models. A case in point: JumpBox has pushed a dozenopen source applications into the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)service. …(more)

• NTT America enhanced customer care service choices

Web Hosting Hub : Resource of web hosting services included top 10 webhosting in Best Web Hosting, low cost web hosting in Cheap Web Hosting,linux base server in linux web hosting, asp platform services in asp webhosting, …(more)

• Daily IT News: Forecast for computing: cloudy

By Admin
Tim O’Brien, Microsoft’s senior director of the platform strategy group,acknowledged that cloud computing really isn’t that different from earliertechnology trends involving hosted services. “There’s a joke about how wehad cloud …(more)

• A year in the clouds

InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USAWe see that as an unnecessarily narrow view and prefer to include SaaS andits ilk. To us, it’s all about computing services, apps included, …(more)

• The ERP/SaaS Conflict Is a Myth - Dennis Byron

(I am not going to get into the differences among the three such asmultitenancy, etc., which are simply based on natural evolution;timesharing, service bureaus, ASPs and SaaS are basically the same thing.But see my recent blog post …(more)

• BroadSign Reports Strong Growth in 2008, Introduces Strategic New …

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USABroadSign International Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of Software asa Service (SaaS) solutions for managing digital out-of-home networks. …(more)

• Trial Solutions Announces Partnership with earlyCASE(TM) to …

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USAearlyCASE(TM) is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based eDiscoveryapplication which runs on your local PC and analyzes the ESI that yourcomputer can access …(more)

• More companies look to cloud computing | Got Access News

Cloud computing has already swelled into an estimated $36 billion marketthis year, representing roughly 13 percent of global software sales. Thebig question.(more)

• Cloud computing looms larger on corporate horizon : Google Adsense …

Cloud computing looms larger on corporate horizon. Posted on December 22,2008. Filed Under Uncategorized. Todd Pierce recently put his job on theline. To meet the computing needs of 16300 employees and contractors atGenentech Inc. …(more)

• Kyte: Channel View - Scobleizer

Syncplicity’s CEO talks Cloud Computing Current show: Syncplicity’s CEOtalks Cloud Computing Watch and Chat tags: geek, technology, nerd,developer, programmer, gadgets, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurs chatmessages: …(more)

• Cloud Computing in Plain English

CIO - Framingham,MA,USABy Bernard Golden Yesterday I received a Christmas e-Card from rPath, which
specializes in virtualization, virtual appliances and cloud computing. …(more)

• Trial Solutions Announces Partnership with earlyCASE(TM) to …

International Business Times - New York,NY,USAearlyCASE(TM) is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based eDiscoveryapplicationwhich runs on your local PC and analyzes the ESI that yourcomputer can …(more)

• Mobile VoIP and “The Cloud”

TMCnet - USAMicrosoft has abandoned trying to fix Vista and replaced it with the AzureCloud Services Platform, Amazon has already proven the value of CloudComputing …(more)

• Adobe Flex Technology Has Enabled ValueTrak Users to Interact With …

MSNBC - USAThe Adobe Flex technology has enabled ValueCentric to be one of the firstcompanies with the Software as a Service business model to incorporate this…(more)

• Leading Indicator Systems, LLC Selects NaviSite’s Managed …

SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA”By selecting NaviSite, firms like Leading Indicator Systems are assuredthat their SaaS hosting needs are being handled by one of the leadingproviders of …(more)

• Cloud computing ‘becoming more popular’

ihotdesk - IT News - London,UKCloud computing is becoming more popular as a “new class of outsourcing”,according to an expert. Tom Austin, head of software research at Gartner,…(more)

• SaaS could be 2009 capex avoidance plan - Uncommon Wisdom: A …

Many are expecting that companies will turn to cloud computing to avoidcapex in 2009, and there are certainly indicators that would suggest thatat least some are doing just that. Past history and buyer research.(more)

• SaaSNews : Web Hosted SaaS Provider, OpSource, to Support Taleo …

Web Hosted SaaS Provider, OpSource, to Support Taleo Business EditionTheHostingNews.com (press release), OR - 5 minutes ago Taleo BusinessEdition is the company’s Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) offering consistingof recruiting and …(more)

• Microsoft Security Advisory (961040): Vulnerability in SQL Server …

Interview: Sam Ramji says open source is burgeoning at Microsoft …..MySQL thoughts from the head of Sun’s database group ….. JumpBox: Opensource meets SaaS (software as a service)….. 10 ways to speed up yourLinux boot process . …(more)

• OStatic Buffer Overflow….. - Linux, Microsoft, Software

OStatic Buffer Overflow….. - Interview: Sam Ramji says open source isburgeoning at Microsoft ….. MySQL thoughts from the head of Sun’sdatabase group ….. JumpBox: Open source meets SaaS (software as aservice)…..(more)

• Unisys’ top eight enterprise solutions

CIOL - Bangalore,Karnataka,IndiaBut today, software as a service (SaaS) is growing at an annual rateexceeding 40 percent. By 2010 it is expected to command a 23 percent shareof the $120 …(more)

Daily Cloud Feed - Dec 22, 2008

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

• FutureNow Releases Subscription-Based Online Marketing …

International Business Times - New York,NY,USAWilliam Schloth, FutureNow’s CFO, said, “We are pleased to be comingtomarket with our software-as-a-service product offering. …(more)

• Digital Body Language - B2B Marketing: Interesting Times in The …

By Steven Woods
It’s an excellent benefit of the SaaS model. Even things like the work thatwas done in preparation for our SAS-70 audit, although not required by thesmaller organizations we work with, will benefit them in terms of processmanagement …(more)

• Adrian Cockcroft’s Blog: Capacity Planning for Cloud Computing

By Adrian Cockcroft
Now, this was a conference full of people who already know how to docapacity planning, so they were interested in what was new about CloudComputing (or even what it was all about from first principles), so theslides …(more)

• Getting to grips with Fujitsu in BPMS

IT-Director.com - USAThis capability is enhanced with advanced support for applicationpartitioning and multi-tenancy capabilities. Each partition segregates:process …(more)

• Larry Ellison May Not Understand Cloud Computing but Oracle Is …

DABCC.com - Sarasota,FL,USANot long ago, Larry Ellison, the wizard who built Oracle to a multi-billiondollar colossus said he didn’t understand cloud computing. I don’tunderstand it …(more)

• Ten Cloud Computing Predictions for 2009 - From Appirio

As the year draws to a close, many companies are left wondering what nextyear will bring for this year’s hottest technology trend - cloud computing.To answer these questions, Appirio today released its top 10 predictionsfor how cloud …(more)

• Cloud computing daunts corporate firms

Siliconindia.com - Bangalore,India,USABy siliconindia news bureau Bangalore: Companies are increasingly taking to
cloud computing to manage the increasing computing needs of the growing …(more)

• Locus’ Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) SaaS Module Offers …

Market Wire (press release) - USA… of a robust ad hoc query capability that produces boardroom qualityreports with a single mouse click — all delivered through Cloud computingor SaaS. …(more)

• Cloud Computing Will Never Work

24/7 Wall St. - New York,NY,USACloud computing has started to pick up some fans. Google (GOOG) markets alot of the stuff. It allows things like e-mail, documents, and spreadsheetsto run …(more)

• Solidcore and Esprida Partner to Simplify Security and Remote …

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USAEsprida is an industry leader in remote management software forself-service, providing a Software as a Service (SaaS) product line thatautomates and …(more)

• Ketera On Demand Spend Management Enables Businesses to …

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USAThe company’s groundbreaking vision and SaaS offerings are changing theeconomics of spend management, enabling businesses to control and reducecorporate …(more)

• VAI Joins IBM Software as a Service Specialty

SYS-CON Brasil - NJ,USAVAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.), an IBM Premier Business partner,announced today that it has joined the IBM Software as a Service (SaaS)Specialty program …(more)

• Financial uncertainty fosters opportunity for campus cards

CR80News - Tallahassee,FL,USASoftware as a service, remote hosting, multi-school collaboration/sharing,open-source software and even complete program outsourcing are nowcommercially …(more)

• Oracle: Unbreakable Salesforce.com on its way?

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USAOracle’s latest fixation on Salesforce might suggest that its efforts toclobber the SaaS leader with its own SaaS offering haven’t worked, at leastnot as …(more)

• VAI Joins IBM Software as a Service Specialty

Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USARegardless of the state of adoption, IBM can help its partner’s design,build, deliver and market SaaS solutions to help clients transform theirbusinesses. …(more)

• ALERT : PATCH INTERNET EXPLORER NOW - cloud computing is not in …

there is one thing for which cloud computing should be interesting and thatis for the integration of several security scanning services into one. Thatidea should be integrated in independent appliances on which you can choose…(more)

• VAI Joins IBM Software as a Service Specialty

Earthtimes (press release) - London,UKIBM offers hardware, software and infrastructure technologies to help itsBusiness Partners deliver secure and scalable cloud services. …(more)

• Wistia Announces Online Video Sharing for B2B Applications

MSNBC - USAAvailable today, Wistia follows a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model with amonthly subscription. Package starts at $79 per month, which includes one…(more)

• Virtualization & Cloud Computing: Public Clouds Are Not Just Big …

SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USAMulti-tenancy is a mechanism whereby public cloud providers give customerscost efficiencies by aggregating capex at scale and providing it as a …(more)

• More than cost savings alone, cloud computing will transform …

TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USATo better understand the value and opportunity unfolding around cloudcomputing, Dana Gardner recently interviewed Andy Mulholland, global chieftechnology …(more)

• How to Choose a Storage-as-a-Service Provider?

As businesses large and small manage through an uncertain economy withtightening IT budgets, many are looking to on-demand technology solutions,like software (SaaS) and storage-as-a-service (STaaS,) as a way to cut …(more)

• SaaSNews : 2008 Year in Review: Hosted UC arrives in force …

2008 Year in Review: Hosted UC arrives in force FierceVoIP, DC - 17 minutesago Next year will likely see more UC SaaS ( Software-as-a-service )packaging and/or offering. Expect to see more weather talk, as Microsoft…(more)

• Weekly Poll: Remote Managed Services for the Holidays | MSPmentor

Frankie Says: It sounds like Kaseya is late to the SAAS game compared toother MSP software… Joe Panettieri: Stu: I wonder if any of the MSPsoftware vendors would be interested in a… StuFinancesTech: Joe, thanksfor …(more)

• SaaSNews : The cloud computing revolution - ComputerWeekly.com

The cloud computing revolution ComputerWeekly.com, UK - 11 minutes ago Thismeans that, despite the fact that software-as-a-service ( Saas ) is one ofcloud’s most widely recognised forms, it is strictly speaking a …(more)

• SaaS Contract Negotiation Essentials: What Sourcing Executives …

As firms increase their usage of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applicationsand deploy SaaS for more mission-critical functions, they must be moreprudent about what to put in their contracts.(more)

• NOW Solutions Announces On-Demand Integration, NOW Solutions, Inc.

With the emPath(R) SaaS HRMS and payroll solution, clients can expectsignificant additional benefits — quicker provisioning, hardware andsoftware setup and support, disaster recovery, increased scalability, …(more)

• IT in Transition: Virtualization, SaaS Soared in ‘08

InternetNews.com - USAThis year, enterprises coped with growing needs and dwindling budgets byturning to some recent arrivals on the software landscape: virtualization,SaaS and …(more)

• SaaSNews : VAI Joins IBM Software as a Service Specialty - Trading …

VAI Joins IBM Software as a Service Specialty Trading Markets (pressrelease), CA - 7 minutes ago … Business partner, announced today that ithas joined the IBM Software as a Service ( SaaS ) Specialty program todeliver cloud …(more)

• UK ERP Business Software: Using VOIP

By Bob
The intention of this Blog is as a forum to discuss UK ERP BusinessSoftware in it various forms; from simple accounting programs likeQuickBooks (not really ERP) through to the top of the range software likeSAP. …(more)

• NTT America, Web Hosting Enterprise Solutions, Enhanced | Web …

Offered under an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) arrangement, thecompany provides cost-effective and scalable solutions for medium, largeand very large companies who are seeking a competitive and financial edgein managing their …(more)

• KOMPUTER DAN SOFTWARE: Panda Managed Office Protection

By Smith
It offers Security as a Service for SMBs via the web and through amanagement portal that enables SMBs to delegate, if desired, their securitymanagement to a Service Provider. Panda Managed Office Protection iscomplemented with …(more)

• IW: Amazon CTO honored as chief of the year

Seattle Post Intelligencer - USAAmazon’s 50-year-old CTO has emerged as the right person at the right timeand place to guide cloud computing–until now, an emerging technology forearly …(more)

• Should Enterprises Be Wary of Cloud Computing?

Gotta Be Mobile - Colorado Springs,CO,USAPersonally, I see Cloud Computing taking a few hits on the chin next yearas firms take a wait-and-see on what Web 2.0 will make it. …(more)

• Getting a return before investment with SaaS and open source

CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USAThis is the new enterprise software model, whether