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Microsoft and Salesforce Kiss and Make Up
Aug 5th
SAN FRANCISCO – Software manufacturing leading corporation Microsoft has revealed it has reached a deal to resolve a patent duel with Salesforce.com – a cloud computing firm.
Each had brought a lawsuit in the US court accusing the other to have violated its patented technology.
Under the terms and conditions of the agreement, both companies will have the rights to use each others technology. It was also decided that Salesforce.com will pay compensation to Microsoft, though the amount to be paid was not revealed.
“We are pleased to reach this agreement with Salesforce.com to put an end to the litigation between our two companies,” said Horacio Gutierrez – Microsoft corporate Vice President.
“Today’s agreement is an example of how companies can compete vigorously in the marketplace while respecting each other’s intellectual property rights.”
The legal duel arose as Microsoft is finding it hard to accustom itself with latest trends of programs being shared as services in the internet cloud instead of being purchased, installed, and maintained on individual computers.
Microsoft manufactured its trend defining software such as Office, outlook, and Windows, whereas San Francisco-based Salesforce has rapidly become popular and prospering name in cloud computing.
Microsoft has introduced Windows Azure cloud Platform providing wide range of live services offered through web.
Salesforce filed a litigation in June against Microsoft for violating its patent rights, apparently as retaliation for similar lawsuit that the US technology giant filed against Salesforce in May.
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NASDAQ and Xignite to Provide On-Demand Tick Data Via Cloud Computing Platform
Jun 22nd
Costs Expected to Fall for Back-Testing of Algorithmic Trading Systems
NEW YORK and SAN MATEO, Calif., Jun 22, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (NDAQ 19.00, +0.00, +0.00%) , the world’s largest exchange company, and Xignite, Inc., the leading cloud services provider of on-demand data distribution technologies, today announced that NASDAQ has selected the XigniteOnDemand platform to build NASDAQ Data-On-Demand, a cloud-based computing solution for historical tick data distribution.
NASDAQ plans to launch Data-on-Demand in the second half of 2010 to provide easy and flexible access to large amounts of detailed historical NASDAQ Level 1 trade and quote data for all U.S.-listed securities. Tick data is increasingly used in quantitative environments for back testing of algorithmic trading strategies. As the securities trading industry pushes the limits of high frequency trading, algorithms require ever more rigorous back testing and fine tuning based on actual historical data. Obtaining and collecting tick data can be onerous and time-consuming as firms are required to establish feeds and maintain large amounts of data on-hand. By providing this data on-demand and allowing it to be purchased on-line, Data-on-Demand will make it easier than ever for firms to back-test their strategies.
“We are always looking to reduce costs of consuming data,” said Randall Hopkins, NASDAQ OMX’s Senior Vice President of Global Data Products. “Today our customers spend a large amount on technology infrastructure, not the market data itself. With Data-on-Demand, we want to drastically cut data management costs by running the technology infrastructure on the cloud for our clients and delivering to them the data they need, when they need it, and how they need it.”
Unlike traditional means of market data delivery, such as feeds and files, on-demand market data distribution gives applications a way to cherry pick the specific subset of data that the application needs with pinpoint accuracy. Instead of combing through very large data sets of historical tick data, developers will be able to program their applications to select very specific data sets and obtain them on-demand and process them instantly. Data-on-Demand will also allow clients to download large tick data subsets on a scheduled basis.
“NASDAQ has decided to bring significant cost savings to one of the industry’s highest priority requirements–timely access to high quality market replay information–by leveraging the industry’s most powerful technology innovation today–on-demand cloud computing,” said Stephane Dubois, CEO of Xignite. “This clearly shows NASDAQ’s commitment to staying ahead of their customers’ needs and reducing their costs. We are thrilled to partner with them on this industry-leading solution.”
“We’re excited about working with Xignite to launch Data-on-Demand,” said Mr. Hopkins. “We had experience using the cloud to store and manage the large volumes of data we collect every day, and we needed someone to help make this data accessible to our clients in an easy, scalable and reliable manner. Xignite’s proven technology and years of experience with on-demand market data and cloud computing will give us a tremendous jumpstart, saving us at least a year of development time.”
Xignite developed XigniteOnDemand specifically to help financial marketplaces grow revenues for their market data businesses and accelerate product launches. XigniteOnDemand includes a complete, end-to-end solution ranging from a high-performance, scalable cloud computing technology platform to professional services for turnkey sales, marketing and customer support.
About NASDAQ OMX
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world’s largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with more than 3,600 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com . Please follow NASDAQ OMX on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/nasdaqomx ) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/nasdaqomx ).
About Xignite
Xignite is the leading provider of on-demand market data and on-demand data distribution technology–fulfilling more than three billion service requests per month. Xignite offers the broadest selection of financial Web services available today with more than 50 solutions covering global equities, commodities, currencies, options, fixed income, analyst predictions, company fundamentals and news. Xignite solutions power mission-critical applications for front, back and mid-office, investor relations, dashboards, e-commerce, wireless applications and financial websites for more than 700 global clients, including Citi, GE, Bank of New York Mellon, Wells Fargo, ING, Exxon Mobil, Forbes.com, kaChing.com, Wolfram|Alpha, Seeking Alpha, Starbucks, and Wendy’s. For more information, please visit www.xignite.com or call 1-866-XML-SOAP
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uTest Wins a Spot on AlwaysOn’s East List of Top 100 Companies
Jun 22nd
Crowdsourced Testing Leader Recognized as Emerging Private Company & On-Demand Pioneer on the East Coast
BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – June 22, 2010) – uTest, the world’s largest software testing marketplace, today announced that it has been selected as an ‘AlwaysOn East Top 100′ winner. The AO East 100 list is comprised of leading East Coast companies pioneering in cloud computing and SaaS, digital media, and green tech. These companies were selected based on their track-record of creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets, establishing significant market traction, and demonstrating leadership amongst its peers.
“After examining the companies that are on the AO East 100 list, it’s obvious that innovation is not only alive and well on the East Coast, it’s accelerating in economic power and scope,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “The companies certainly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in the private company marketplace.”
The AlwaysOn editors will honor uTest and the AO Top 100 companies at opening night of Venture Summit East on June 21st, 2010 at Harvard Business School in Boston, MA. Matt Johnston, uTest’s VP of Marketing & Community, will also be presenting at Venture Summit East as part of a select group of top executives showcasing their technologies in the “SaaS and Enterprise” track on June 23, 2010 at 1:30pm (Burden Hall).
“uTest’s on-demand model is transforming the software testing industry,” said Matt Johnston, uTest VP of Marketing and Community. “uTest enables companies of all sizes to launch higher quality web and mobile apps, to get to market faster, and to lower their total cost of testing. We are honored to be recognized in AlwaysOn’s elite group of SaaS leaders.”
About uTest, Inc.
uTest is the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services. The company provides real-world testing services through its community of 25,000+ professional testers from 165 countries around the world. More than 1,000 companies — from startups to global software enterprises — have joined the uTest marketplace to get their web, desktop and mobile applications tested. More information can be found at www.utest.com or the company’s Software Testing Blog at blog.utest.com.
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Salesforce’s Benioff: Microsoft, IBM play catchup in cloud computing
May 11th
With Google, IBM and Microsoft suddenly racing to deliver Software-as-a-Service to small businesses, Marc Benioff, outspoken co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.com, couldn’t be more tickled.
Benioff has been championing the service as disruptive technology for more than a decade. Technology Live caught up with Benioff shortly after he delivered this keynote presentation at a Google event promoting Google Apps Marketplace. Excerpts of that interview:
TL: So what do you make of all of these clever, discrete hosted services suddenly becoming available to small business?
Benioff: No one has to buy software anymore. The software has gone online. That’s where the software lives. It’s not anything more than that.
TL: So what’s driving this?
Benioff: Users are just completely frustrated with the lack of innovation that has occurred in traditional business software. You look at products like Microsoft SharePoint or IBM’s Lotus Notes and they’re designed for systems whose days are gone by.
TL: Why are you such an enthusiastic backer of Google Apps Marketplace?
Benioff: Google Apps Marketplace is kind of like Apple’s iPhone apps store, except it’s for business software. The idea is that customers can choose from a lot of different vendors and technologies and easily integrate them. That’s where the power is. There are a lot of different ways you can integrate these services together.
TL: Surely you’re not ruling out Microsoft and IBM in this emerging space?
Benioff: No. I’m not ruling out Microsoft and IBM, but they have done a terrible job over the last decade. That’s just material fact. Certainly their investors have paid the price for their inability to innovate and their attempts to try to hold on to the old paradigms instead of innovating aggressively in the Internet. It’s not about Microsoft or IBM; they’re just trying to figure out how they can tactically catch up.
TL: Where do you see this going in the next year or two?
Benioff: We are entering the second generation of cloud computing, call it Cloud 2.0. It’s about enabling a whole new level of capabilities for business users delivered on the next generation of BlackBerries, iPhones and iPads. It’s about all these cloud services providing a greater level of collaboration, social computing, communication, entertainment and information management.
TL: Do you see cloud computing emerging as an X-factor; can it help small business boost the economic recovery?
Benioff: Yes, this is fantastic for small business because it gives them the power of big business. We have large customers and we have small customers. Cisco has 50,000 users with us, Dell has 80,000 users. But we have lots of customers with five users, 10 users and 30 users. They’re all running the exact same code from the exact same servers. It used to be small business lined up over here to buy this software, medium business lined up over here and large business lined up over here. Cloud computing blurs those lines. All businesses are now able to get this kind of capability with a level of equality that’s never been possible before. It makes it a more democratic world.
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50 Cloud Computing Technology Blogs List
Jan 8th
1
cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/
CloudComputing
Journal
2
http://www.cloudcomputingblog.com/
To
provide good coverage of what the Cloud Computing trend makes
possible from an ordinary user’s perspective.
3
http://cloudcomputing.blogspot.com/
India
Needs Public Policy And Service Innovation And Not Web 2.0 Companies
4
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/08/18/cloud-computing-blogs/
A list
of the blogs we find worthwhile in a sector of the data center world
5
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9924552-7.html
New
security blog on cloud computing
6
http://blogs.msdn.com/cloud/
All
about Cloud computing tools
7
http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/blogs
How
cloud computing changed internal IT in 2009,
8
http://blogs.cisco.com/tag/cloud+computing
The
term “cloud computing” covers many topics. One hot area
is infrastructure as a service (IaaS),
9
http://blog.gogrid.com/2008/08/26/helpful-listing-of-cloud-computing-blogs/
10
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/10/26/cloud-computing-at-red-hat-and-novell/
Cloud
Computing at Red Hat and Novell
11
http://www.infosysblogs.com/cloudcomputing/
The
commoditization of technology has reached its pinnacle with the
advent of the recent paradigm of Cloud Computing.
12
http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/05/26/define-cloud-computing/
Define
Cloud Computing,Applications in the cloud,Platforms in the
cloud,Infrastructure in the cloud
13
http://blogs.gartner.com/thomas_bittman/
Virtualization
Unlocks Cloud Computing,A Better Cloud Computing Analogy
16
http://blog.mariaspinola.com/
Cloud
Computing Implementation Road-Map
17
http://blog.sciodev.com/
6
Points for Successful SaaS
18
http://fobregona.blogspot.com/
SAAS,
CLOUD COMPUTING,
19
http://softwareyservicio.wordpress.com/
Saas -
Software como servicio
20
http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/Default.aspx
Pursuit
of Intercloud is Practical not Premature
21
http://blogs.gartner.com/eric-knipp/
Richness,
Reach, and the RIA Marketplace
22
http://swathidharshananaidu.posterous.com/
Despite
possible privacy and security issues, cloud computing has been taking
over,
23
http://footprintsinthecloud.blogspot.com/
Information
for SMBs about Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service solutions.
24
http://www.ips.co.uk/2009/07/what-is-cloud-computing-.html
What
is Cloud Computing ?
25
http://john-savageau.com/2009/12/17/a-cloud-wish-list-for-2010/
A
Cloud Computing Wish List for 2010
26
http://externalidades.net/
cloud
computing.
27
http://blogs.msdn.com/dachou/
28
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/search/label/cloud%20computing
Cloud
adoption and getting voted best mid-market solution at the Mid-sized
Enterprise Summit
29
http://blog.visi.com/2009/12/14/visi-comments-on-cloud-computing-in-mn-cpa-publication/
VISI
Comments on Cloud Computing in MN CPA Publication
30
http://www.privatecloud.com/
An
industry destination for news, resources, and conversation on
enterprise cloud computing
31
http://www.allaboutit.eu/
arts
of the IT industry expect 2010 to be the year of cloud computing (the
other parts expect it to be the year of VDI
32
http://kevinljackson.blogspot.com/
cloud
will provide a “faster, better, cheaper, and safer”
Information Technology solution for the IC.
33
http://www.rackspacecloud.com/blog/
Conversant
Media Leverages The Rackspace Cloud For Next-Generation Content
34
http://www.webcloudworld.com/
35
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=1133&tag=content;col1
Fixing
IT in the cloud computing era
36
http://www.davidezordan.net/blog/
Silverlight,
Cloud Computing, Programming and New Technologies
37
http://zalandas.com/blog/
Believers
in cloud computing. Yes, we strongly support Google Apps (and nearly
everything Google).
38
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/cloudview/?lang=en
39
http://www.examiner.com/x-33449-Chicago-Cloud-Computing-Examiner?showbio
40
http://peteryared.blogspot.com/
41
http://kevintunis.com/
Microsoft
Online Services has Some Limitations
42
http://rosalynmetz.com/ideas/2009/12/07/creating-an-ebs-backed-ami-in-the-cloud/
Creating
an EBS Backed AMI in the Cloud
43
http://blog.elasticserver.com/
44
http://smattey.wordpress.com/
Social
computing apps and platform9
45
http://www.icomplete.com/blog/
The
Future of Telecoms – Cloud is the Answer
46
http://blog.cloud404.com/
WPA
Cracker is a cloud cracking service for penetration testers and
network auditors who need to check the security of WPA-PSK protected
wireless networks.
47
http://blog.truecloud.com/
2010
Predictions for Cloud Computing
48
http://expanz.wordpress.com/
2010
– team in place, time to accelerate.
49
http://gevaperry.typepad.com/
Thoughts
on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
50
http://cdnn.wordpress.com/category/cloud-computing/
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2010 the year of cloud-computing… And the SaaS market
Dec 29th
Cloud computing is still more attractive to venture capitalists than it is to enterprise IT buyers, and that’s unlikely to change in 2010. As IT buyers warm to the idea and implementation of cloud computing, 2010 is going to prove to be a very big year for cloud-computing M&A as big-fish vendors like VMWare, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle round out their cloud product portfolios with little-fish innovators.
Computing (and M&A) heads for the cloudSome, like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, suggest that cloud computing is simply a fad, one that attempts to solve many of the same problems that SOA, EDI, etc. already attempted to fix.
Tell that to the buyers. Gartner expects the cloud-related SaaS market to top $8 billion in 2009, which suggests that real customers paying real money.
They may not be paying enough, however, to support the mushrooming cloud vendor marketplace. Not yet.
Industry insiders are predicting a shakeout as pre-recession venture funding runs out for many of the early cloud vendors, forcing them into the arms of buyers or bankruptcy courts.
This is the inevitable separation of wheat from chaff, and it’s a very good thing for an industry that has been long on hype and short on delivery to date.
But don’t confuse the hype with vaporware. And don’t for a minute think that any of the big (or small) vendors has a complete offering yet. As IDC research director Dan Yachi posits:
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Top 10 Cloud Computing Flashpoints of 2009 – CloudTweaks.com
Dec 15th
By Jeffrey M. Kaplan
E-Commerce Times
A brief history of SaaS and cloud computing in 2009 suggests that it has arrived as a viable mainstream business model; that the market is volatile, and missteps won’t be overlooked; that there’s still plenty of room for innovation; and that it will be a growing force to be reckoned with in 2010.
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Plenty of industry observers are already issuing their predictions for 2010, but I think it is worth taking a look back at the past year’s events to see how quickly the Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing marketplace is evolving.
So, following are 10 events that I consider bellwethers of the rapid evolution process, which could be important indicators of the future direction of the SaaS and cloud computing industry.
Wheeling and Dealing
1. Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) surpasses US$1 billion in revenue. Hitting this financial milestone clearly shows that SaaS has become mainstream and is a scalable business model.
2. Xactly Acquires Centive. Despite SaaS industry growth, an inevitable market consolidation has begun with this merger of two key players in the on-demand sales Download Free eBook – The Edge of Success: 9 Building Blocks to Double Your Sales compensation market. Also, Salary.com buys the assets of Makana Solutions and NetSuite acquires head-to-head professional services automation (PSA) competitors OpenAir and QuickArrow.
3. LucidEra fails. The demise of one of the pioneers of the SaaS business intelligence and analytics market shows the willingness of VCs to walk away from even the most prominent SaaS players.
4. Intacct establishes alliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and its CPA2Biz subsidiary. This partnership agreement illustrates the growing acceptance of SaaS, as the association broadcasts its endorsement of Intacct’s on-demand financial management Take the worry out of managing your enterprise applications. Click to learn how. solution as the preferred alternative to traditional financial applications to its 45,000 member CPA firms and their 350,000 SMB clients.
5. Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) offers to buy Sun. Despite Larry Ellison’s rants that SaaS will never be a profitable business model, Oracle uses its proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) as a catalyst to promote its growing cloud computing capabilities.
Experiments and Validation
6. Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) fortify SLAs. Faced with a steady stream of service outages, both Amazon and Google have introduced new service level agreements with more “teeth” to appease the continuing concerns of IT and business decision-makers, and to fend off the challenges of a growing number of cloud computing competitors.
7. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) becomes a SaaS reseller. After being a showcase user of Salesforce.com solutions, Dell becomes a Salesforce.com channel partner, offering customers access to AppExchange SaaS vendors.
8. Marc Benioff Speaks at Oracle OpenWorld. Benioff’s presentation promotes the business benefits of on-demand and on-premise software integration in hybrid operating environments, recasting SaaS as a natural progression of the market rather than a revolutionary overthrow of legacy applications. (This speech may also be the preamble to an Oracle takeover of Salesforce.com.)
9. Salesforce.com unveils its social computing strategy, Chatter. Rather than simply tightening its integration with Facebook and Twitter, Salesforce.com decides to build its own enterprise-class alternative, which is met with mixed reviews at Dreamforce.
10. Gartner (NYSE: IT) identifies cloud computing the top strategic technology for 2010. There is no better lagging indicator of key industry trends than Gartner prognostications, which give them further validation and greater visibility.
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GoGrid Announces Version 2.0 – Cloud Computing Service
Aug 11th
GoGrid Announces Version 2.0
Today GoGrid, the Cloud Computing service from ServePath, released version 2.0 of its award-winning Cloud Computing Infrastructure solution. With this release, GoGrid users now have the ability to create personal server images, known as MyGSIs. MyGSI stands for “personal GoGrid Server Image,” a “Golden Master” server image that can be customized, saved and stored for future deployments. Users are now able to create new servers from stored MyGSIs via the GoGrid web portal or API quickly and easily.
We are extremely excited about this innovative new GoGrid release
This is an important development in the Cloud Computing marketplace, and further demonstrates our visionary approach to providing Cloud Computing functionality and features that our customers desire.
“We are extremely excited about this innovative new GoGrid release,” said John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid and ServePath. “This is an important development in the Cloud Computing marketplace, and further demonstrates our visionary approach to providing Cloud Computing functionality and features that our customers desire.”
The creation of a MyGSI is an extremely simple 3-step process. First add an Image Sandbox, second, configure and prepare the Image Sandbox and third, save the Image Sandbox as a MyGSI. When a user needs to create a new Windows or Linux server based on the pre-configured MyGSI, they simply choose the saved image, fill in a few details, and instantiate the server in minutes within the GoGrid cloud.
There are several benefits and advantages of using a MyGSI to deploy servers within the GoGrid cloud:











