Webcloud World

OpenAir, a web-based accounting software will be integrated to NetSuite CRM suite aimed at small and medium businesses. The company is said to currently have 300 customers.

The folks at Intridea have been coding up a storm!
In time for this week’s Railsconf, they are rolling out a hosted, on-demand version of their popular Scalr tool, a new release of their MediaPlug media server appliance, and the Acts as Community social network.

Scalr gives enterprise IT professionals the ability to quickly and easily set [...]

Amazon EC2 users now have access to a pair of new "High-CPU" instance types. The new instance types have proportionally more CPU power than memory, and are suitable for CPU-intensive applications. Here's what's now available:
The High-CPU Medium Instance is billed at {content}.20 (20 cents) per hour. It features 1.7 GB of memory, 5 EC2 Compute [...]

Seattle-based Napera Networks has built a really interesting piece of hardware. The Napera N24 Appliance automatically enforces health and identity rules for up to 200 computers, preventing rogue or unpatched machines from accessing a corporate network in an uncontrolled fashion.

The device basically protects access points in conference rooms, sales offices and wireless networks from [...]

I finally had a chance to sit down and read a McKinsey report titled “The Emerging Platform Wars” that was a good and lengthy treatise on SaaS and the emergence of PaaS offerings to solve all that ails software companies.
The report did a good job at breaking down PaaS archetypes, value propositions, etc. but one thing [...]