The emergence of Software as a Service or SaaS has revolutionized the way in which packaged software like financial software, operations management software and software used to automate tasks are offered to the customers. Instead of a network based solution wherein the customers buy t...

With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference... We hav...

Three years ago I began as IT Director for Fetch Technologies, where we started working on a new mission: to create the perfect network. Fetch wanted a network that would be cost effective, reliable and scalable, with a simple web interface to create and manage virtual servers. The inn...

What does the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Abiquo, Apprenda, Tier3, OutSystems and OpSource, the Co-Founder & CTO of Dell Boomi, the CTOs of Rackspace, rPath, Compuware, BMC, NextIO, SoftLayer, SOASoftware, Gale Technologies, CiRBA and UShar...

Real benefits of the Cloud Computing model will go beyond the Dynamic infrastructure and on demand computing. For the enterprises saving 10% of the Server Cost is important but that is not their core need, rather adopting Common industry standards for service end points,...

VMware is going to buy Shavlik Technologies to reinforce its security. The nigh-on-to 20-year-old Minnesota concern, started by one of the original developers of Windows NT, has cloud-based IT management solutions for SMBs and sells a portfolio of on-premise and SaaS-based manageme...

Delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors will be traveling from all over the world to New York this coming June 6-9 to attend 8th International Cloud Expo in New York City, co-located at the Jacob Javits Convention Center with 11th Virtualization Conference & Expo. Here is an ea...

One sure sign that a new technology market is approaching critical mass is when people start fighting over it. I’m not talking about abstract arguments and dialectical debates about meanings and means. I’m talkin’ fisticuffs, mano a mano, the sweet science! And with cloud computing,...

A new report on Cloud Computing from the London-based investment advisory firm Edison Investment Research takes a measured approach in examining the topic. The report focuses mostly on SaaS and on specific software-company investment opportunities in the UK, but takes a global view of ...

A few days ago, Microsoft published The Economics of the Cloud, a whitepaper that has so far not gotten nearly as much attention or consideration as it deserves. Perhaps this indifference is due to a collective freshman flashback on the dreaded “Econ 101” or, to skepticism about Micro...

6fusion has released V3 of its UC6 platform, a sophisticated set of cloud management tools that allow private and public cloud managers and service providers to meter, manage, and monetize the resources, services and applications on multi-tenant private and public cloud infrastructure....

Recent research has shown how the growth of SaaS applications in the cloud is starting to take its toll on packaged and licensed software applications. In addition to that, though, if we factor in the effects of piracy, shelfware and open source, and their interplay with the global so...

The private cloud enables elastic computing but the public cloud enables the elastic enterprise, a new business model where IT is resource that is shared with partners and customers. It can create new business processes that have greater richness, flexibility, and efficiency than thos...

There are lots of different cloud-based document management services already out there, and virtually all of them force customers to store documents in the cloud and tightly couple storage with management and access functions into web-based applications. This approach is fine for some...

A wide-ranging interview by the Dallas Morning News with AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson shows whether or not AT&T is about to become a cloud computing leader and provides a peek at life after Apple.

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is increasingly considered “enterprise grade” by many IT buyers, and a viable choice to achieve reduced costs, improved service, and ongoing timely functional currency. Customers are looking for "just what I need" solutions – in terms of pricing, functional...

Cloud Expo General Session Speaker Marty Gauvin believes that 3G-SaaS – the combined effect of Cloud Computing and outsourcing with application management – will drive the use of IT for a significant period of time. By leveraging existing Cloud service providers, the pay-as-you-go mode...

“Mårten is unmatched in his ability to blend open-source business techniques and technologies to build an industry leading company. We are thrilled and honored to have the opportunity to work with him and look forward to seeing his knowledge and boundless energy move Eucalyptus forward...

You have a virtualized environment, now what do you do? Well, hey, that's a good question! It's probably a question that's being asked of IT managers and CIOs from uncomprehending top execs all over this world. It's also the title of a session at Cloud Expo, to be presented by Da...

Bull will now offer its German customers Open-Xchange mail and groupware. They can use Open-Xchange as a hosted solution provided by Bull or run it in-house as on-premise installation – and switch between the types of operation any time they like.

QuickBooks is well known among small businesses used in managing their finances. Microsoft and Intuit are targeting small businesses by integrating their Cloud Platforms. Microsoft will offer its Cloud Platform Windows Azure SDK so that developers can author applications to run Intu...

Today’s CIO organizations face a complex array of challenges in managing the Business Platform (the group of applications and services that implement the Business Value Chain (BVC)). The business expects technology innovation as a business differentiator, demands application portfolio ...

Lots of discussion lately about the need for virtualization in a cloud computing context. On one side you have people saying it's not necessary and adds extra complexity, on the other you have people (vendors) saying that virtualization is inherently a cloud infrastructure. Some even g...

Service virtualization is the ability to create a virtual service from one or more predefined Service files, typically defined in a Web Service Description Language (WSDL, pronounced Wizdel) file. Typically, service virtualization takes place across multiple back-end systems that expos...

Delegates will leave Virtualization Expo with a full understanding of the interaction between virtual servers and the rest of the data center infrastructure. Indeed our overall aim is to ensure that all attendees leave the Jacob Javits Convention Center with abundant resources, ideas a...

I attended the second day of the HP Converged Infrastructure Roadshow in NYC last week. Most of the day was spent watching PowerPoints and demos for the HP Matrix stuff and Virtual Connect. Then came lunch. I finished my appetizer and realized that the buffet being set up was for someo...

WSO2, the open source SOA company, announced the launch of the WSO2 Business Activity Monitor (WSO2 BAM), which provides real-time visibility into service-oriented architecture (SOA) processes, transactions and workflows. The WSO2 BAM system is designed to support the heterogeneous SOA...

Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its...

A look at several different cloud computing solutions will reveal a technological enabler present in almost each one. The enabler I'm talking about is the use of virtual images. I cannot think of many, if any, cloud computing solutions that provide software elements (i.e. more than jus...

I have a pet peeve concerning two things I’ve been meaning to write about lately, namely CRM and multi-tenancy. I recently read an excellent article referencing both concepts and thought it might be a good stepping stone to a quick blog post. In his article Don’t Get Conned – The ma...

I was lucky enough to be at Dreamforce 2009 last week and wanted to pen down a few thoughts while the event is still fresh in my mind. I don’t think there was any earth-shattering news there, and I got the feeling (both onsite and online) that a lot of people didn’t really grasp the va...

Latest from Open-Xchange is this announcement about an agreement with Nexen-Alter Way Hosting in France to offer hosted e-mail and collaboration. This on the heels of Dotster, announced last week, and Versatel, NameCheap earlier this year. Now, Open-Xchange is used by more than 15 mill...

Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) announced the release of its updated guidelines "Bessemer's Top 10 Laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS." The material can be found in a condensed form as an Op-Ed in the Sandhill.com newsletter and in its entirety on BVP's website at www.bvp.com/cloud. Byro...

3PAR, the leading global provider of utility storage, announced that TheLadders.com cut their total cost of storage in half by replacing their legacy storage infrastructure with 3PAR Utility Storage. The online job search website deployed 3PAR Utility Storage in conjunction with server...

Versatile's broad expertise in architecting and deploying large scale virtual systems in both the data center and at the desktop are on display at this event. Event attendees will be able to have hands on experience with these technologies including key Versatile technology and engage ...

A round-up of the wide range of important issues and timely topics due to be discussed by over 130 industry experts at SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, opening today at the Santa Clara Convention Center, November 2-4, 2009. From Building Scalable and Exten...

Welcome to our enterprise cloud computing blog where we'll share our perspectives on cloud computing trends and best practices for the enterprise. We're a team with extensive experience in IT software and systems (learn more about us), and we're passionate about the opportunity that cl...

Many IT managers would love to move some of their applications out of the enterprise data center and into the cloud. It's a chance to eliminate a whole litany of costs and headaches: in capital equipment, in power and cooling, in administration and maintenance. Instead, just pay as you...

In the most difficult economic climate in decades, CIOs are reevaluating their strategies and looking for new ways to reduce data center costs and overhead while improving responsiveness to business requirements. Cloud computing has emerged as a much more agile and efficient approach t...