Storage effectiveness requirements drive computing into the cloud.

Storage Expo organizers conducted a survey among 875 organizations, the findings of which proved that the key drivers among IT managers remain to be storage effectiveness, reliability, scalability and access speed apart from storage efficiency.

Computer applications float in Internet cloud.

The popularity of speedy computer chips, blazing fast internet connections and low cost smart mobiles have led the technology titans like Google, Microsoft, Apple to jump in the "cloud computing". The proof of cloud computing picking up is clear from the report released by salesforce.com which stated that they expect their annual revenue to cross one billion dollar.

iStreamPlanet Manages Webcast of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Launch Event.

A innovator in digital media strategy, iStreamPlanet announced on Thursday it’s successful management of a multi-zone live webcast of the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 4. The company provides fully managed live services and on-demand streaming media services. It also created a registration page for the launch event enabling attendees to register to view the live webcast in any of the following time zones: North America, Europe, India, Singapore/Hong Kong, and Australia.

ChoiceStream Announces SaaS-Based RealRelevance(R) Anywhere Personalized Recommendation Service.

ChoiceStream’s SaaS-Based RealRelevance(R) Anywhere Personalized Recommendation Service is an automated SaaS solution that drives consumer loyalty and revenue growth through personalized recommendations. The SaaS solution is a flexible and low-cost solution that can deliver the business impact that the consumer’s expect and is already being used by it’s clients like Yahoo, AT&T and Blockbuster.

SharePoint Control Panel Debuts as SaaS.

SharePoint Control Panel System has been released by MachSol Inc. a SaaS-enabled control panel software vendor. eJad Service Provider Management system (eJadSPM) a SaaS enabled hosted services delivery platform for HSPs and Telco. With eJadSPM one can manage service plans, bill clients, provide help desk support, manage account renewals etc. Max Roosenbrand, CEO and resident of MachSol noted: ”eJadSPM SharePoint Control Panel allows HSPs and Telco to drastically lower down their operations cost, quickly introduce profitable services, organize business and improve usage of hardware and resources.”

Tangent Goes SaaS With Email Archival.

Innovative technology solutions developer Tangent Inc., recently announced a hosted version of DataCove. Organizations of all types must store all their e-mails, instant messaging chats and digital faxes to comply with regulations and E-discovery requirements. DataCove e-mail archiving appliance will help enterprises stay in compliance with E-discovery requirements.

Syscon to offer its solution through SaaS.

A Hyderabad based software product development company by the name of Syscon Solutions will expand its sales and implementation ecosystem to cater to the small and medium enterprises (SME’s). It will offer an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution by the name Syscon Cronus via the SaaS model. Cronus, the ERP solution for SME’s will include functions like sales, inventory, excise, financial accounting, planning, production, quality, maintenance, dispatch production and payroll.

Single Sign On For Multiple SaaS Apps.

A start-up from 2007 by the name of Symplified has created a cloud service, which will act as an identity proxy between enterprise users and SaaS applications. As the comfort level of the enterprises increases as and when they use SaaS, their users may have access to multiple services like Salesforce, Google Apps. Etc.

SaaS Comes to VoIP: PanTerra Networks Offers Feature-Rich Hosted Service.

Pan Terra Networks Inc. , an on-demand unified communications solution offers Communicator, Collaborator, Messenger and Call Center suites that will address typical business function needs as packages of advanced services to which customers can subscribe. The costs of the low-end suites will be USD 40 per user per month and high end ones would be for $100- 120 range.

Multicast to Provide Hosted Transcoding Solution for Adobe Flash Media Encoding Server Software.

Multicast is a leading Internet Video Platform company which announced a hosted Transcoding-as-a-Service (TaaS) solution for the newly released Adobe(R) Flash(R) Media Encoding Server software. “Our hosted TaaS solution is powerful and reliable and allows for quick transcoding of most media formats. We believe that through our TaaS technology, more businesses will be able to deliver rich multimedia content over the Internet."  Said Lou Schwartz, CEO of Multicast Media Technologies Inc.