Barracuda gobbles up SaaS security start-up Purewire.

In exciting news, Barracuda Networks has announced the acquisition of PureWire Inc, managed security service provider. The acquisition will help Barracuda to expand its footprint in the market for web services. The terms of the deal were not disclosed and the founders of PureWire will be getting management positions in Barracuda.

Boomi Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award.

THINKstrategies Inc., the leading strategic consulting company and founder of SaaS Showplace Awards has announced that Boomi Inc, has been named as the latest winner of the Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Awards, a program that brings attention to SaaS and cloud computing companies that are producing tangible business benefits for specific user organizations. "Boomi's AtomSphere integration platform enables enterprises to ensure they can properly connect their SaaS solutions with their legacy applications and databases." stated Jeffrey M. Kaplan, the founder of the SaaS Showplace and Managing Director of THINKstrategies.

RSA and VeriSign Partner on Cloud-Based OTP Service.

In recent news, VeriSign has partnered with RSA to offer RSA SecurID hardware tokens as a means of second factor authentication in conjunction with the VeriSign Identity Protection, cloud based authentication service. This deal will allow VeriSign to leverage the RSA SecurID Authentication Engine under the hood, offering additional form-factor flexibility to VIP customers. "The alliance of two powerhouses with the integration of RSA SecurID technology into VIP will strengthen their combined market leadership and work to increase the collective clout of both VeriSign and RSA," said Mary Monahan, managing partner with Javelin Strategy & Research, who sees the new partnership as a win-win for the companies.

Esker Demonstrates Solutions for Paper-Free Processes at SAP TechEd 2009 Phoenix.

Esker, the leader in document process automation solutions, today announced its participation at SAP’s premier educational event, SAP TechEd 2009 Phoenix. They will be showcasing newly released Esker on Demand packaged solutions for electronic accounts. “These new offerings are another reinforcement of Esker’s presence in the SAP ecosystem. We created the pre-packaged SaaS solutions to meet the needs of small and medium businesses for whom a large on-premise solution is not practical, as well as larger companies that want to optimize process efficiency but do not want more software to maintain.” said Catherine Dupuy, senior product manager at Esker.

IT Structures Lets Companies 'Test Drive' Oracle 11g in Seconds.

In recent news, IT Structures announced the support for Oracle 11g on its cloud-based service that allows companies to try out any software they choose, even the most difficult to install products in a matter of seconds. "IT Structures handled all the heavy lifting and we were running Oracle 11g thirty seconds later. With nothing to install, the product alleviated all the challenges and headaches typically associated with demoing software locally," said Andrey Abramov, Director of Sales Engineering at WiFiCommute.

Learn.com Launches its Category Killer - The Learn.com Global Edition at the 2009 ETRE Conference.

Learn.com has announced the availability of its Global Edition at the 2009 ETRE Conference. The Global Edition of Learn.com’s SaaS platform now supports 24 languages and offers global content libraries with thousands of localized courses. "Making Learn.com's platform available to people all over the world represents a major milestone for us," said Learn.com President and CEO Jim Riley.

Jitterbit 3.0 Enterprise MX Edition Now Available.

Jitterbit Inc, provider of enterprise integration software has announced the release of Jitterbit 3.0 Enterprise MX edition that includes powerful management tools that will enable large enterprises to manage multiple Jitterbit servers, multiple staging environments, as well as multi-user projects. "Our SaaS logistics services for the transportation industry capture more than 50,000 gate moves, equipment bookings and exchanges, work orders, rail bills, and track and trace transactions every day. As we prepared to transition to a new platform, we needed an enterprise-class tool to help us synchronize the old and new databases. We choose Jitterbit because it provided outstanding features and good value," said Rodrigo Silveira, vice president of engineering at International Asset Systems.