Verizon, Intuit, Boomi Jump Into Cloud Services

Interesting offering as companies moves to next level. Boomi has a nice framework for SaaS-SaaS integration

http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/saas/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217701667

Boomi AtomSphere is the framework - http://www.boomi.com/files/boomi_datasheet_atomsphere.pdf

Cloud Computing Use cases

A new google groups to create use cases for Cloud Computing

http://groups.google.com/group/cloud-computing-use-cases

Cassatt snaped by CA

CA acquired assets of Cassatt. Not sure whether it would be beneficial for Cassatt. For quite some time, Cassatt was looking for buyers.

http://www.ca.com/us/press/release.aspx?cid=207716

Cloud Slam 2009 videos

All video sessions of Cloud Slam can be downloaded from -
http://neotactics.com/blog/cloud-computing/cloudslam-09-conference-materials#more-200

Very good collection of Cloud products introduction and tutorials

CSC announces new family of Cloud computing services

They are

1. Cloud Orchestration Service
2. Trusted Cloud Service
3. World Class Consulting Capabilities

More details can be found at -

http://www.csc.com/financial_services/press_releases/27609-csc_announces_new_family_of_cloud_services

Silver (lining) from Tibco

Silver is a platform aimed at large enterprises that want to develop and deploy applications in cloud-computing environments, but still harbor uncertainties about that model

http://silver.tibco.com

NIST defines Cloud Computing

Nist is working on defining cloud computing. Here is the URL -

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/