OneBill Updates Extensible SaaS-Based Subscription Commerce Platform

2012-02-15

AppFog PaaS Continues to Add Ecosystem Partners, Capabilities

2012-02-14

A recent Gartner report finds the PaaS (platform as a service) market is ready to take off on a multi-year growth surge. The report says investments from vendors and venture firms is growing, all major software firms will soon have a PaaS play and cloud customers are seeing the benefits. 

Scribe has launched an innovative cloud-based service to simplify data synchronization between CRM (customer relationship management) and other cloud and on-premise business applications. IDN speaks with Scribe CEO Lou Guercia about the Scribe Online Synchronization Services, its latest extension to the Scribe Online platform.

The explosive success of cloud computing, and especially SaaS, will drive IT in 2012 to search for better ways to ensure security, privacy and enterprise-wide identity and access management. IDNspeaks with Darren Platt, CTO of Symplified about what his firm, which just closed on $20 million in funding, sees coming for cloud security.

Managed service provider OpSource Inc. is in a game-changing partnership with Oracle Corp. to provide customers monthly access to Oracle’s database and Oracle Fusion Middleware’s WebLogic Server. These monthly options, which let customers avoid the need to commit to a perpetual license, apply to both testing and live deployments, OpSource execs said.

Apprenda is offering a free downloadable version of its PaaS optimized for .NET deployments. Apprenda 3.0 helps IT tap into PaaS power by creating a middle tier fabric between applications and underlying server OS components. Apprenda Express runs on clusters with up to 12GBs of RAM.

Desktone’s cloud-based desktop-as-a-service platform is letting Paladin Building Services deploy virtual desktops in the cloud. Desktone’s Desktop Cloud architecture is helping redefine VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) solutions by lowering upfront costs, eliminating complexity and making it easier to scale systems.

CaseCentral, a provider of cloud-based eDiscovery software, has rolled out the new self-service CaseCentral CloudConnect software for the CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform. The company’s SaaS option is designed to simplify management, integration of electronically stored information and data.

The Scribe Online cloud integration platform is helping one of the world’s largest sports leagues for kids cut cost and complexity for integration.  In the project Upward Sports is using Scribe Online to tie customer registration data into its business-critical, cloud-based apps from Microsoft.

More companies will adopt cloud development practices in 2012 as IT organizations build and deploy software in the cloud, according to CollabNet. The result will be new lifecycle models for software design, development and deployment.

ASG Software Solutions is shipping an update to its CloudFactory cloud management application suite for private, public or hybrid clouds. The updates extend the ability to easily and quickly provision and manage a wide range of cloud-based ‘as-a-service’ options. It also sports a new UI for better self-service and usability.