SAP played host to the EuroCloud UK monthly meeting on March 18th addressing “How ISVs Make the Transition to SaaS”. The topics addressed were SaaS channel partner strategy, pricing and packaging insights, “as-a-service” infrastructure choices and assuring customer satisfaction and retention. Eurocloud is the industry body for SaaS and Cloud vendors.
The greatest benefit to be achieved from Software As A Service (SaaS), particularly in the area of customer relationship management (CRM) is agility. Particularly for small and medium sized businesses, the ability to switch on an application and have results within weeks or in some cases days of its implementation is a tremendous advantage. With [...] http://tinyurl.com/ycka754
Eucalyptus Systems creators of the leading open source private and hybrid cloud software has announced the appointment of Mårten Mickos as their new CEO. Mickos comes to Eucalyptus with a track record of building global disruptive businesses, most recently as CEO of MySQL AB, where he grew the company from a start-up to the second [...] http://tinyurl.com/y9k7ylx
Social networkers and Cloud Computing explorers filled the Conference Centre at Olympia for a combined Social Media and Cloud conference and exhibition staged by 6 Degrees. There was a good mix of speakers and topics from Enterprise customers and the leading Cloud and SaaS vendors.
Cloud Vision is pleased to be participating in the Cloud Telecom 2010 conference being presented by Upperside Conferences at the Novatel Conference Centre at Paris CDG. Our editor Michael Knuckey will be a presenter and a Chairman of the second conference day.
Mitre, the US-based systems engineering consultancy focused on major Federal Government projects has launched the “Ahead in the Clouds” public forum to provide federal government agencies with meaningful answers to common cloud computing questions including security issues. They will be drawing from leading thinkers in the field.
According to a recent survey by Evans Data Corp, over 60% of IT departments are likely to adopt a Hybrid Cloud Model during the coming year, moving some of their IT resources to the Public Cloud. There will be a growing need for highly scalable integration tools to link legacy on premise back office applications [...] http://tinyurl.com/yejcjuk
Join a great lineup of industry leaders at BrightTALK free, online Cloud Security Summit on March 11th. The live, interactive webcasts will address the issue of trust within the cloud security environment, uncover the risks within cloud computing and security, the barriers to adoption and ways to mitigate these risks.
The Cloud Computing Congress and Enterprise Social Media Forum takes place on March 15th/16th. Sign Up for the Cloud Vision eNewsletter and enter the draw which takes place on Thursday evening March 11th.
Dot Net Solutions and Microsoft have released a joint white paper entitled “Outlook: partly cloud with sunny spells to follow. Discussing a hybrid approach to cloud computing” – see the Dot Net Solutions website
A new report from Juniper Research predicts that the number of enterprise customers using mobile Cloud Computing applications will rise to more than 130 million by 2014. This growth will be facilitated by platform as a service (PaaS) deployments from players such as Google and Microsoft.
CA known for its portfolio of telecoms and ITIL compliant IT datacentre management tools has chosen to buy (rather than build) into a new solution set for Cloud Computing – the latest acquisition announced is 3Tera whose AppLogic tool facilitates the rapid provisioning of Public and Private Clouds.