Grazed from The Next Web.  Author: Scott Gerber.

Thanks to a growing selection of Software as a Service (SaaS) apps, the mundane yet tedious activities of any business strategy can now be automated. These apps can capture the nuances of a customer’s online behavior while leaving no room for human error — why waste employee man hours on a repetitive process when there’s a game-changing app that’ll do it for you?  These SaaS apps are only getting better and better. I asked a panel of 8 successful young entrepreneurs the following question:

What newer SaaS do you think has the power to change the way we do business soon and why?

Below are their top picks. Which of these do you use, in or out of the office?…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Much like Moore’s Law and Metcalfe’s Law have fueled the utility of computing and networking industries over the past few decades, I’ve observed something else about the forward-moving nature of networking that seems to be rooted in some sort of universal law. Computers are driven to increasingly complex forms of networking to improve intelligence, efficiency, and productivity. Once networked, they never go back. Like life itself, computing is evolving into a higher form organism. With each new inter-connection, the whole system becomes smarter and more powerful. And we’re not just talking PC to PC, or smartphone to smartphone, it’s everything in between, including servers and APIs that connect people and things, consumers and enterprise.

Networking hates friction

While computing is driven to network, one of the biggest problems it introduces is how to secure each domain (e.g. protecting stuff behind the firewall), while simultaneously enabling transactions between the domains. It’s this last statement where we still have a massive problem today…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

Corelynx Inc, an enterprise software product development and services company, is now Consulting Partner of Amazon AWS cloud computing solutions to offer better and improved cloud hosting and delivering solutions to its clients.

Corelynx Inc., has been a pioneer in developing enterprise application suite and cloud hosting solutions since 2007. They were one of the early cloud hosting solutions providers capable of exploring the potential of cloud. Over the years they have garnered vast experience in delivering cloud to different business environment across industry verticals and helped organizations in making the most needed shift to cloud. They have earned experience in offering solutions in all three cloud computing models, namely – Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions…

Grazed from Wall Street Journal.  Author: Steven D. Jones.

Virtualization underpins the shift to cloud computing, which makes more efficient use of servers by pooling their resources. The software allows companies to run multiple computers on a single machine, saving hardware cost and handling tasks from banking to retail.

Redmond, Wash-based Microsoft introduced its HyperV virtualization software in 2008 and has climbed to second in the $5 billion market behind industry leader VMware Inc. VMW -0.53% of Palo Alto, Calif.  “We’re now in a situation where we have a very, very strong market share. We’re growing every quarter, and the dominant guy is losing every quarter as it relates to virtualization,” Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner said at an investment conference this week. VMware said no one was available to comment…

Grazed from VentureBeat.  Author: Mark Boyd.

Fragmentation between software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions is beginning to affect the average business that has moved from server-based software to the cloud.  Christian Staples runs spa installation business Arctic Spas Utah, and uses eight SaaS apps: accounting using Xero, CRM and support with Zoho, collections through Bill.com, ecommerce on Big Commerce, email marketing via Constant Contact, Service Pro, and a phone system from Ringio.

Like many businesses that have moved to some or all in cloud for their business IT, the difficulties now are in getting these apps to connect data and keep business processes flowing along.  “The frustration is to get everything to talk with each other and sync. Everything is manually entered. It is hours everyday for sure,” Staples said…

Grazed from InfoQ.  Author: Aslan Brooke.

Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project, discussed how private Platform as a Service (or PaaS) fits into DevOps with Steven Witkop, John Skovron, and Elis Booker in early may. Elis Booker facilitated the discussion with questions about DevOps, dispelling misconceptions about private PaaS, and how to get started with private PaaS. Each panelist contributed a distinct view on the topics to create a multifaceted message about private PaaS.

Gene Kim provided insight into the problem domain by describing the theory of constraints as it applies to DevOps and listing constraints in developing software that should be addressed in sequence:

1. Provisioning of environments/deployment (for which PaaS is a solution)
2. Test Setup, Test Runtime
3. Architecture Changes
4. Development/Product Management…

Grazed from GCN. Author: Rutrell Yasin.

Five years from now there will be a suite of international interoperability standards that will lead to a cloud of clouds, or “inter-cloud,” a future where there will be tight integration between multiple clouds. This tighter integration of clouds will have practical implications for government agencies, giving analysts the ability to sift through siloes of big data applications to make better informed decisions, according to John Messina, a senior member with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cloud computing program.

Big data sets that hold kernels of information that can be useful for decision-making are in semi-structured and unstructured formats in siloed data sources. “Think of the data resources you will have access to that will allow you to find kernels or nuggets that will help you make better business decisions” in a scenario where different types of cloud infrastructures are interconnected, Messina said during a panel discussion May 30 at the Federal Cloud Computing Summit held in Washington, D.C…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Datapipe, a global provider of managed services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has honored the company’s Stratosphere(R) cloud computing platform as a 2013 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine.

Stratosphere(R) is Datapipe’s globally available, high-performance managed cloud computing platform, designed to meet enterprise requirements for governance, usability, compliance and interoperability. The Stratosphere(R) cloud management portal enables self-service cloud environments, cloud diversity in conjunction with the AWS ecosystem, as well as hybrid cloud options featuring Datapipe’s managed hosting, compliance and security services…

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Tim Worstall.

An interesting little report here about how Amazon’s AWS cloud computing services are a serious threat to a certain segment of the enterprise computing market. The specifics of it aren’t quite what I want to talk about it, rather, to use this as an example of how economies advance. The moneymen have finally looked up from beneath their golden canopies and noticed, hovering above them, a cloud named Amazon that is putting traditional IT companies in the shade.

Amazon’s cloud poses a major threat to most of the traditional IT ecosystem, a team of 25 Morgan Stanley MS +1.7% analysts write in a report, Amazon Web Services: Making Waves in the IT Pond, that was released on Wednesday. Brocade, NetApp NTAP -0.63%, QLogic, EMC EMC -0.2% and VMware VMW +1.37% are said to face the greatest “challenges” from the growth of AWS…

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

The latest cloud computing report this time comes from Microsoft in collaboration with 451 Research, and again looks towards the hybrid as the tangible future of cloud computing. The study, ‘The New Era of Hosted Services’, took responses from more than 1500 organisations and revealed that in two years’ time 68% of organisations will adopt the hybrid cloud model, up from 49% currently. “The next two years will be the era of the hybrid cloud”, trumpeted Marco Limena, Microsoft VP hosting service providers business.

This is simply the latest in a series of reports examining the importance of the hybrid cloud, utilising the best elements of private and public clouds. Earlier this month CloudTech reported that hybrid cloud was the “wave of the future”, according to seven in 10 IT executives, with the primary reason for adoption being that cloud apps were deployed faster; whilst back in April Virtustream research revealed that 86% of companies in the study with more than 1000 employees used hybrid clouds. Similarly, a recent research study from PEER 1 outlined that 78% of those surveyed preferred a hybrid solution…