diversity.net.nz:
I’ve written before about Apprenda, a company I’ve followed since I started blogging. Their company blog (sadly somewhat silent of late) was one of the early places for vendor thought-leadership around PaaS in particular. I was stoked to hear from CEO and co-founder Sinclair Schuller the other day that Apprenda had just s (Read More)
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The guarantee is the first of its kind and could mark a shift in the way SaaS providers assure customers of the safekeeping of their data. - The markets leading Exchange hosting provider, New York-based Intermedia,announced this week that it will roll out the first ever new hosting servicefor Microsoft Exchange 2010 with (Read More)
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Yesterday at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference the switch will finally be flicked on Microsoft’s long awaited cloud computing offering Azure. Of course spinning up an infrastructure offering is one thing, having products and services to run on it is another – and this is where my accounting/ERP interest dovet (Read More)
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Hosted and cloud services provider Rackspace says 65 to 70 percent of its SAAS business comes through its solution provider channel partners, and now it will expand those offerings beyond e-mail and hosted Microsoft Exchange to include two new storage services: file sharing and backup. A hosted Microsoft SharePoint offering (Read More)
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Momentum continues to build behind software as a service. Gartner is forecasting worldwide software SaaS revenue to hit $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion. And its not stopping there. Expectations for sales total $14 billion by 2013. Channel Insider breaks out the most promising (Read More)
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Seeking to recruit more U.S. partners, Storage Fusion is rolling out a SaaS-based storage analysis service that helps customers recover 10-15 percent of their storage assets and drives partners' professional services sales. - Specializing in storage analytics, UK-based Storage Fusion is reachingout to the broader channe (Read More)
Software as Services:
Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several attendees a-twittering. He revealed that the SaaS provider’s multi-tenant application infrastructure supports its 2,850+ customers and 5.4+ million users on just 150 servers.The a (Read More)
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Networking giant Cisco says that the ScanSafes security services will help to broaden Ciscos existing on-premise Web security offering as well as extend its reach into cloud-based services. - Cisco continued its recent shopping spree on Tuesday, snapping up security software-as-a-service player ScanSafe for approximately (Read More)
CloudAve:
Earlier this year at the Enterprise 2.0 conference “platform” was the name of choice. Seemingly every company I spoke to was a platform player. It seems the latest “fart on demand” iPhone application is a “platform for virtual flatulence generation”, that the latest Twitter clone with negligible uptake is “a platform for gl (Read More)
diversity.net.nz:
You’ve got to hand it to box.net (read about ‘em here), fresh from their last campaign which squarely put them head to head with Microsoft (see the evidence here) Box is today announcing that it is launching an application on the salesforce.com app exchange.While this may be a seemingly boring announcements, digging deeper (Read More)
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OAuth, or Open Authentication is “an open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications”. Basically it’s a way to allow one web application to utilize another without the need for users to worry about pesky authentication keys or the like. It also allows for dat (Read More)
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It’s easy for those of us who consider themselves cloud evangelists to overstate the current impact of cloud computing – every piece of literature I read that tries to analyze the market size for cloud, is always super-confident about the future potential, but somewhat subdued about current adoption. I’m always happy to hea (Read More)
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The software as a service (SaaS) solution allows channel partners to offer users managed, shared authentication to access multiple Websites through a one-time password (OTP) device. - VeriSign announced that it is teaming up with RSA to offer RSA SecurID hardware tokens as a means of second factor authentication in conju (Read More)
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Accounting 2.0 at CloudAveIn an ongoing series of reviews and analysis pieces, CloudAve will be taking a deep look into accounting software for the new world.See the other posts at this tagIntroduction & Background SoftlinePastel is a South African software house owned by Sage PLC. Pastel was founded in 1990 by Steve Cohen, (Read More)
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At the recent Auckland CloudCamp, a few of us got talking and thinking about what a tight network of SaaS/Cloud businesses could achieve – kind of a “united we stand, divided we fall” approach. Down here in Canterbury we have a surprising number of players in this field – all doing great stuff and all, to a certain extent, (Read More)