Cloud Computing News Desk brings the latest industry news related to the Cloud paradigm of massively scalable IT resources and capabilities delivered as a service using Internet technologies.
Salesforce.com has announced that Ingres Corporation is using Salesforce CRM to support its global business growth. Following a two week deployment, Ingres integrated Salesforce CRM with the Intacct financial management system from the Force.com AppExchange. Salesforce.com partner Dema...
Hostway Corporation has launched its cloud computing infrastructure FlexCloud, adding cloud computing functionality to all its hosting packages. The new service includes automated allocation of CPU, memory, storage and bandwidth for individual websites. The company states that the firs...
Soonr has announced the launch of an iPhone application that uses cloud computing to keep users in touch with their documents. A free version is available from the Apple App Store with expanded versions offered through mobile operators and SaaS providers. Soonr makes the documents on a...
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Scio Consulting, a provider of Nearshore Outsourced Product Development (OPD) for ISVs, SaaS and Web companies, has announced a key addition to their executive management team. Scio CEO, Luis Aburto, said that the company hired former MassMutual and Kanbay (now CapGemini) executive Jer...
Following 5 years of research and development, Cfengine AS has released an upgrade of the Open Source, self-repairing software cfengine based on its Promise Theory technology. Cfengine is a self-repairing maintenance engine capable of fixing errors and misalignments in the Data Center ...
JumpBox has announced the release of 38 Open Source applications to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The release enables server application deployment, configuration, and management almost completely independent of any user hardware. JumpBox offers small to mid-sized org...
Today’s litigious and regulatory environments mean organizations are obligated to electronically store information to support discovery and disclosure requests. Organizations that archive email in a ‘fractured’ environment risk losing control and may struggle to produce evidentia...
Increasingly complex messaging requirements characterized by worldwide regulatory, compliance and archiving issues in addition to longstanding security concerns are driving the adoption of holistic email management "from the cloud." Holistic email management solutions from the cloud ar...
Insight Enterprises has announced that it has been named the first U.S.-based reseller partner to offer subscription licenses to serve the expanded VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP). VSPP partners are part of the VMware vCloud Initiative, which delivers an enterprise-class cloud c...
CX2 Technologies announced that it has completed the installation and testing of a 220 MHz data communications system for Kennedy Wireless Partners in Brooklyn, New York. While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has distributed many 220 MHz licenses, the CX2 installation for K...
PS Audio is now shipping its Cloud Computing-based line of power conditioners. PowerPlay, a web-controlled power conditioner, utilizes Cloud Computing for access and control of components of home theater systems. “The robust nature of the Cloud enables the PowerPlay system to provide...
Global notebook PC shipments exceeded those of desktops on a quarterly basis for the first time ever in the third quarter, marking a watershed event in the history of the industry, according to iSuppli Corp. Notebook PC shipments rose almost 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008 comp...
VAI (Vormittag Associates, Inc.), an IBM Premier Business partner, announced that it has joined the IBM Software as a Service (SaaS) Specialty program to deliver cloud services to its clients. VAI’s S2K Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software Suite, leveraging IBM’s Power Syste...
PortWise has announced the worldwide availability of PortWise 4.7, a new open authentication platform and transaction gateway focused on web service transactions and extended support for secure cloud computing.
“With PortWise 4.7 we further extend our versatile authentication platfo...
"The Internet IS cloud computing," according to a holiday-time broadcast on National Public Radio. The program, called 'Will Cloud Computing Work in the White House' aired December 21 on NPR's All Things Considered and involved NPR's Andrea Seabrook discussing with security and technol...
According to Brett Slatkin of Google's App Engine Team, a new billing feature for App Engine is on the horizon, which will enable an app to grow beyond Google's free quotas. He also unveiled an App Engine System Status Site that monitors the latency and uptime of various components and...
As the year draws to a close, many companies are left wondering what next year will bring for this year's hottest technology trend - cloud computing. To answer these questions, Appirio today released its top 10 predictions for how cloud computing will evolve in 2009 and the impact thos...
CohesiveFT has announced its partnership with Virtual Iron to automate the deployment of Virtual Iron servers via the Elastic Server web-based factory. Elastic Server is an automated "factory" that allows IT professionals to assemble, deploy, and manage virtual servers using a simple p...
Aptana has launched the 1.0 version of Aptana PHP, an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP application development. Aptana PHP extends Aptana Studio, the Eclipse-based IDE for AJAX and Web development that is on track to exceed 2.8 million downloads before year...
OpSource has announced that Taleo will leverage OpSource On-Demand to deliver Taleo Business Edition Platform. Taleo Business Edition is the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering consisting of recruiting and performance management solutions for small and medium businesses (...
SYS-CON Events, producer of the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers has been attracting a record number of submissions. The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2009. Topics pr...
GigaSpaces Technologies announced the availability of GigaSpaces' eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) for MySQL Enterprise, addressing the scalability and performance needs of demanding MySQL Enterprise customers. Applications running on the combined platform leverage linear scalability...
Movero Technology and Ezwim announced a global partnership to deliver a joint mobile lifecycle management service based on the integration of their respective TTM and Maestro Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms. The joint offering enables organizations to gain visibility into and co...
Neptuny introduces Caplan SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), to provide capacity management for small to medium-sized enterprises who want to set up a small-scale capacity planning and management project. Caplan is able to cover multiple domains with its agent-less architecture, out-of-the-...
"In conjunction with Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront in the EU, Amazon Web Services customers can now locate their storage, distribution, and compute in Europe, better allowing them to achieve low latency to their European customers and to meet EU data storage requirements when applica...
SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo attracted more than 40 sponsors and exhibitors with over 1,200 preregistered delegates. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technica...
Servoy has introduced Servoy 4.1 featuring a single code base development and deployment for desktop and Web applications. Servoy 4.1 is an update to Servoy 4.0, an Eclipse plug-in, enabling Servoy developers to produce enterprise-level applications using a standards-based IDE (Integra...
"As businesses are beginning to see more traffic through their cloud services or APIs than their browser-based applications, it is necessary to have a scalable, easy to install analytics solution for valuable business insight," said Chet Kapoor, CEO of Sonoa Systems, as his company ann...
How can Trend Micro Enterprise Security, powered by the unique cloud-client architecture of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, help you ensure that you are immediately and automatically protected from the latest threats with a continuously updated and correlated threat databases? Ho...
WaveMaker has announced WaveMaker Cloud Edition. WaveMaker Cloud Edition is an open source, integrated development environment (IDE) for cloud computing. WaveMaker Cloud Edition lets anyone build web applications that deploy to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). With WaveMaker Clo...
"We’re very excited to be working with RightScale's experienced team to guide the company's growth, including its expansion into the European market," said Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer as it was announced today that RightScale has secured $13 million in its second round of vent...
Salesforce.com has announced an expansion of its global strategic alliance with Google with the availability of Force.com for Google App Engine. Force.com for Google App Engine is a new set of tools and services to enable developer success with application development in the cloud. The...
Salesforce.com has unveiled Force.com Checkout, a new set of services to accelerate customer and partner success with buying and selling enterprise cloud computing applications. Customers can use Force.com Checkout as a single source for finding, trying, buying, and deploying salesforc...
If your data is on a European server, and you’re in the US, which country's laws does your data and activities fall under? The Economist addresses these and other questions in a recent report on cloud computing, which they describe as “the ultimate form of globalization.”
Hosting.com has announced the general availability of CloudNine, a hosted cloud computing environment that provides intuitive, scalable business solutions. CloudNine production solutions are immediately available for beta users, clients and prospects. Hosting.com is continuing to allow...
Launching what it calls "the only CRM built on an enterprise cloud computing platform," Salesforce this week declared: "Cloud computing's unique model has enabled Salesforce CRM to easily and securely connect separate Salesforce CRM deployments, allowing companies to share sales leads,...
Third Brigade has announced the availability of Third Brigade VM Protection, a free-of-charge software package that complements the security-hardened VMware platform and helps organizations achieve protection and compliance for VMware virtual machines (VMs) that are deployed in private...
"I think it was a great success" (MIchael Sheehan, GoGrid); "very exciting times, and a great event" (Dmitry Sotnikov, Quest); "Interesting stuff" (Parand Darugar, Yahoo!); "I was surprised at how crowded the sessions were" (Mike Maxey, ParaScale); "jam-packed, with standing room overf...
In a move that takes SpringSource further into the cloud computing environment, SpringSource announced at its annual developer conference in Florida that it will be working with VMware to make available VMware images of its software. “The partnership between SpringSource and VMware b...
SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal seeks to boost your understanding of Cloud Computing concepts and to bring you the latest news, views, and developments - but we couldn't do so without our amazing high-energy pool of contributors, including many of the hard-working executives driving ...
"The Internet IS cloud computing," according to a holiday-time broadcast on National Public Radio. The program, called 'Will Cloud Computing Work in the White House' aired December 21 on NPR's All Things Considered and involved NPR's Andrea Seabrook discussing with security and technol...
According to Brett Slatkin of Google's App Engine Team, a new billing feature for App Engine is on the horizon, which will enable an app to grow beyond Google's free quotas. He also unveiled an App Engine System Status Site that monitors the latency and uptime of various components and...
As the year draws to a close, many companies are left wondering what next year will bring for this year's hottest technology trend - cloud computing. To answer these questions, Appirio today released its top 10 predictions for how cloud computing will evolve in 2009 and the impact thos...
OpSource has announced that Taleo will leverage OpSource On-Demand to deliver Taleo Business Edition Platform. Taleo Business Edition is the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering consisting of recruiting and performance management solutions for small and medium businesses (...
SYS-CON Events, producer of the 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, to be held March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City, announces that its Call for Papers has been attracting a record number of submissions. The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2009. Topics pr...
"In conjunction with Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront in the EU, Amazon Web Services customers can now locate their storage, distribution, and compute in Europe, better allowing them to achieve low latency to their European customers and to meet EU data storage requirements when applica...
SYS-CON's 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo attracted more than 40 sponsors and exhibitors with over 1,200 preregistered delegates. The three content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions led by exceptional speakers about the business and technica...
"As businesses are beginning to see more traffic through their cloud services or APIs than their browser-based applications, it is necessary to have a scalable, easy to install analytics solution for valuable business insight," said Chet Kapoor, CEO of Sonoa Systems, as his company ann...
How can Trend Micro Enterprise Security, powered by the unique cloud-client architecture of Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, help you ensure that you are immediately and automatically protected from the latest threats with a continuously updated and correlated threat databases? Ho...
"We’re very excited to be working with RightScale's experienced team to guide the company's growth, including its expansion into the European market," said Index Ventures partner Danny Rimer as it was announced today that RightScale has secured $13 million in its second round of vent...
If your data is on a European server, and you’re in the US, which country's laws does your data and activities fall under? The Economist addresses these and other questions in a recent report on cloud computing, which they describe as “the ultimate form of globalization.”
Hosting.com has announced the general availability of CloudNine, a hosted cloud computing environment that provides intuitive, scalable business solutions. CloudNine production solutions are immediately available for beta users, clients and prospects. Hosting.com is continuing to allow...
Launching what it calls "the only CRM built on an enterprise cloud computing platform," Salesforce this week declared: "Cloud computing's unique model has enabled Salesforce CRM to easily and securely connect separate Salesforce CRM deployments, allowing companies to share sales leads,...
"I think it was a great success" (MIchael Sheehan, GoGrid); "very exciting times, and a great event" (Dmitry Sotnikov, Quest); "Interesting stuff" (Parand Darugar, Yahoo!); "I was surprised at how crowded the sessions were" (Mike Maxey, ParaScale); "jam-packed, with standing room overf...
In a move that takes SpringSource further into the cloud computing environment, SpringSource announced at its annual developer conference in Florida that it will be working with VMware to make available VMware images of its software. “The partnership between SpringSource and VMware b...
