SAN MATEO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–newScale^® Inc., pioneers of the self-service IT storefront for the enterprise, today announced that newScale 9, the latest version of the company’s market-leading FrontOffice^™ Suite, has been named the Gold Winner in the “Private Cloud Computing” category of the Best of VMworld 2010 awards. Announced today, the Best of VMworld 2010 awards winners are selected by an independent team of experts and editors from TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com based on innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

As noted on SearchServerVirtualization.com, the judges for the VMworld 2010 Award cited newScale because it “brings the iPhone experience to the enterprise.” The judges selected newScale for its innovative “app store for the enterprise,” highlighting the software’s “user-friendly interface that lets you order, receive and deploy applications in your private cloud infrastructure.”

All products considered for a Best of VMworld 2010 Award are from companies exhibiting at the VMworld 2010 conference, held in San Francisco this week. SearchServerVirtualization.com received over 200 nominees for the nine categories in the contest, which is in its fourth year. The “Private Cloud Computing” category was new this year and recognizes on-premise cloud products.

“We are honored to be selected as the first Gold winner in this important new category for the Best of VMworld awards,” said Scott Hammond, newScale president and CEO. “This award is great recognition of newScale’s innovation and success with customers deploying private or hybrid clouds. Cloud computing for the enterprise requires a simple e-commerce ‘shopping’ experience for the IT consumer, together with the policy-based controls, governance, lifecycle management, and orchestration we provide. We look forward to helping drive the market for enterprise cloud computing.”

While newScale earned the Gold award in the Best of VMworld 2010 Private Cloud Computing category, rPath’s rBuilder was selected as the finalist. In separate news last week, newScale and rPath announced their collaboration together with Eucalyptus Systems and MomentumSI to deliver an integrated technology platform – providing an on-ramp to private and hybrid cloud computing in the enterprise.

Earlier this week, newScale announced that newScale supports the new VMware vCloud™ Director software for building and operating secure clouds. Enterprises and service providers can complement the power of VMware vCloud Director with newScale’s consumer-like e-commerce IT storefront, policy-based governance, and lifecycle orchestration for all data center services, including storage, network, security, and applications.

The newScale FrontOffice Suite provides a unified e-commerce IT storefront portal for data center services, managing virtual, cloud and physical environments. With newScale, enterprise IT teams and service providers can define standard offerings, enable self-service, automate the service request workflow, manage the end-to-end service lifecycle, and track IT costs. Users have easy, yet controlled, access to the IT resources they need on-demand – instead of waiting days or weeks. A free trial is available at: www.newscale.com/rcdtrial.

About newScale, Inc.

newScale is the leading provider of self-service, service catalog, and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private/hybrid cloud computing. With more than two million users worldwide, newScale helps IT organizations and service providers offer a self-service storefront for both desktop and data center services-across physical, virtual and cloud environments. newScale customers – including 20 percent of the Fortune 50 – benefit from greater IT agility, increased user satisfaction, and tens of millions of dollars in savings. For more information, visit www.newscale.com.

About SearchServerVirtualization.com

SearchServer Virtualization is an enterprise virtualization-focused website providing IT professionals and the community with the latest server virtualizations news, articles, tips and expert advice. Other virtualization information includes webcasts and industry white papers covering all areas of server virtualization, such as virtualization platforms, server hardware, managing virtual environments, virtualization architecture and strategies, application issues, and more. Its sister site SearchVMware.com is dedicated to helping IT organizations evaluate products, services and business strategies that can lead them to successfully implementations of virtualization technologies in VMware environments. And sister site SearchVirtualDesktop.com is the premier source for information on desktop virtualization application virtualization, and virtual desktop infrastructure.

Editor’s Note: All newScale brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of newScale Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Source: BusinessWire

Where a lot of Google converts wax poetical about how the Apps suite met their security, onboarding, and infrastructure cost saving needs, the IT staff-less Luna & Larry is a lot more straightforward with what they were looking for:

“As we are a growing business with employees often on the road it was important to us that we have secure, easy access to everything no matter where we might be,” Kiley Gwyn, Online Community Manager at Coconut Bliss, is quoted as saying in the Google blog entry.

Both Microsoft and Google focus on cloud computing much. The point is that while Microsoft and Google both love to tout their biggest cloud wins, complexity isn’t always the selling point that’s needed.

Facetime

Now, organizations can convey control over social media features and communications for both users on the corporate network and for those situated remotely.

Socialite, the first hybrid solution,  delivers noteworthy benefits to organizations requiring the secure and compliant use of social networks, including:

• Identity Management: the ability to establish a single corporate identity and track users across multiple social media platforms e.g. @SarahFaceTime on Twitter and Sarah Louise Carter on LinkedIn
• Data leak prevention: preventing sensitive data from leaving the company, either maliciously or inadvertently
• Granular Application Control: enabling the access to Facebook and its thousands of “applets” by category or individual application
• Activity control: the ability to manage access to features, such as who can read, like, comment upon or access 95 distinct features on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter
• Moderator control: can be applied to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter where content is required to be pre-approved by a corporate communications officer or other third party
• Log conversation and content: capture all posts, messages and commentary made to Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in context, as well as exporting to an archive of choice for eDiscover

Berlin, Germany 16 August 2010: CommuniGate Systems, the leader in efficient, massively scalable Unified Communications, today announces its partnership with Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), an industry leader in international carrier solutions, to deliver white-label Unified Communications as a Service platform to carriers.

Carriers across the world are looking to provide competitive and distinctive communication products to their Small-to-Medium Business (SMB) customers that deliver real value and return on investment (ROI) to both the carrier and the SMB. With traditional communication solutions from industry incumbents and internet giants, carriers face challenges of scale, cost and customer ownership. The partnership between Deutsche Telekom ICSS and CommuniGate Systems delivers the simple, cost effective and scalable solution carriers are looking for.

Deutsche Telekom ICSS’s MyCommsuite offering is based on CommuniGate Systems’ UC Centrex and delivers the industry’s only complete Unified Communications solution for the carrier environment. UC Centrex enables Deutsche Telekom to offer a full range of integrated communication services as white-label offerings to carriers, thus allowing them to provide distinctive and compelling Unified Communications products to their SMB customer base.

Powered by UC Centrex, MyCommsuite provides a suite of SMB applications to the carriers on a turnkey hosted SaaS platform that minimizes carrier investment, reduces deployment and operational complexity, and delivers rapid return on investment (ROI) with customer-centric applications that are simple to market, distribute and sell to all sizes of SMB from 5 people and up.

The solution enables carriers to provide highly customizable individual solutions to their SMB customers under their own brand; thereby delivering significant value to their customer, whilst maintaining customer ownership, increasing customer lifetime value and ARPU, and enhancing brand value and awareness.

Based on the rich feature set of UC Centrex, MyCommsuite enables an almost endless list of service configurations on an unbreakable, super efficient platform that scales to support hundreds of thousands of individual companies of all sizes – from the very small to the very large.

Example services include:
- Push mail, calendar & contact synchronization for smart phones: Delivering high value mobile productivity solutions across a wide range of devices without the need for software to be installed on the mobile device.
- Hosted PBX: Full IP PBX functionality, hosted in the Cloud to enable even the smallest of businesses to present a professional image. Including call management, customizable IVRs, High-Definition Voice, conference calls and more.
- eDisc Cloud Storage: Network based secure file-storage and sharing, compatible with mobile and desktop clients.
- Total Small Office Communications: A complete Unified Communications solution for the small office, unified messaging (including email, instant messaging, social networks, SMS), HD Voice, IP PBX, eDisc Cloud Storage, push mail & mobile synchronization, zero-install desktop client for any computer, and more.

“CommuniGate Systems’ software enables Deutsche Telekom ICSS to offer an extremely competitive Unified Communication Software-as-a-service to our wholesale customers globally, stated Dr. Ulrich Hammerschmidt, Deutsche Telekom ICSS. “The reliability and the constant release of new features convinced us that CommuniGate Systems is the ideal partner for us.”

“Deutsche Telekom ICSS are undisputed leaders in the industry, and we are delighted to be working with them,” said Scott Stonham, Vice President Marketing, CommuniGate Systems. ”With MyCommsuite, Deutsche Telekom’s customers can rapidly deliver innovative productivity solutions to their small-to-medium sized business customers, under their own-brand and control; from Blackberry-style mobile push to fixed-mobile-convergence, IP PBX and mobile VoIP (mVoIP) solutions.”

Deutsche Telekom ICSS will be joining CommuniGate Systems at their Annual Executive Summit in Bodrum, Turkey to discuss the impact of disruptive technologies such as Skype and Google Voice with selected Telecommunication Executives from around the world. To find out more visit www.communigate.com/Bodrum and request your invitation.

About CommuniGate Systems (www.communigate.com)
CommuniGate Systems develops carrier-grade unified communications software for fixed-line, cable and mobile operators to deliver value-added voice and multimedia services over their IP-based networks. The Company’s software solutions enable service providers to deliver hosted, SaaS, or cloud-based communications, including Voice over IP (VoIP), Mobile Voice over IP (mVoIP), Unified Communications and converged mobile and fixed-line services cost-effectively at massive scale.
The Company’s software comprises of CommuniGate Pro™, and the application suites MobileOffice™, UC Centrex™, VoicePlus™ and MessagePlus™.

For further information please contact:
Scott Stonham
CommuniGate Systems
+49 30 2589 5018
public-relations[at]communigate[dot]com

Over the last couple of years, more and more enterprises have concentrated on web based software or program in order to reduce their expenditure. However, the technology is shifting in the way larger companies are spending on SaaS. You would be surprised to know that  approximately 75% of SaaS revenues currently come under cloud computing. It is expected that it  will rise up to 90% by 2014.

SaaS Revenues To Pass $8.5bn

“After a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets,” said Sharon Metz, research director at Gartner. ” SaaS has become the alternative source of  reducing overall budget of  companies and the growth and extension of SaaS will continue as long as  companies around the world have  interests in SaaS

“Adoption varies between and within markets, and although use is expanding to a wider range of applications and solutions, the most widespread use is still characterised by horizontal applications with common processes, among distributed virtual workforce teams and within Web 2.0″

ZumoDrive is a cloud-based file synchronization and storage service. The service enables users to store and sync files online and between computers using their HybridCloud storage solution.ZumoDrive has a cross-platform client  between (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, and Palm webOS)

Carbonite’s online backup service works quietly and continually in the background protecting your files. If something goes wrong or you delete a file by accident, we’ve still got a copy. Carbonite Online Backup now includes remote file access! Retrieve files you have backed up with Carbonite from any computer with an internet connection.

HostedFTP currently uses Amazon S3 to store customer files and Amazon EC2 to host their website and database.  In addition, they use Amazon EC2’s EBS (Elastic Block Store) to manage their codebase. This system allows them to quickly deploy new versions of their software with zero downtime and without having to create new EC2 machine images.

Wuala is a free secure online storage which allows its users to securely store, backup, and access files from anywhere and to share files easily with friends, groups, and the world. Tens of thousands of users and thousands of communities around the world are already actively sharing millions of files, growing quickly.

Egnyte delivers an all-in-one file server solution that combines unlimited, on-demand file storage and workgroup collaboration capabilities with an automated, online backup. Egnyte has versions for both Windows and Mac, and is aimed at the small business/home office market.

Windows Live allows cloud storage of files which enables computers to synchronize with other computers even if one or more of those computers are switched off or disconnected from the internet.  Windows Live or Live mesh is a data synchronization system from Microsoft that allows files, folders and other data to be shared and synchronized across multiple personal devices and up to 5GB on the web.

Jungle Disk is an online backup tool that stores its data in Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files. It was highlighted by Amazon as one of the earliest S3 clients The basic Jungle Disk software is sold as a monthly subscription model, and the customer is billed directly by Amazon for data storage and transfer.

Buoyed by lower startup and maintenance costs compared to on-premises application deployments, as well as the ability to distribute and share applications and documents through the cloud, software as a service (SaaS) is is poised for rapid growth for at least the next four years.

“After a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets,” Gartner analyst Sharon Mertz said in the report. “As tighter capital budgets demand leaner alternatives, familiarity with the model increases, and interest in platform as a service and cloud computing grows.”

This year, Gartner predicts worldwide SaaS sales will eclipse $8.5 billion, up 14.1 percent from 2009 sales of $7.5 billion. More telling, this rapid increase in both customers and SaaS vendors means that on-demand applications will make up a larger percentage of total enterprise software sales this year and for the foreseeable future.

SaaS apps, which accounted for a little more than 10 percent of the total enterprise software market last year, are expected to represent at least 16 percent of worldwide software sales by 2014.

For the report, Gartner defined SaaS as software that is owned, delivered and managed remotely by one or more providers.

“Adoption varies between and within markets, and although use is expanding to a wider range of applications and solutions, the most widespread use is still characterized by horizontal applications with common processes, among distributed virtual workforce teams and within Web 2.0 initiatives,” Mertz added.

Gartner estimates that 75 percent of the current SaaS delivery revenue could be considered a cloud service, and that could exceed 90 percent by 2014 as the SaaS model matures and converges with cloud services models.

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SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – July 12, 2010) –  OpSource, Inc., the leader in enterprise cloud and managed hosting, today announced that OpSource will be a featured speaker at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, which is being held July 11-15, 2010, in Washington, D.C. OpSource will discuss how to increase profit and reach in the Software-as-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing marketplace on a panel entitled “Best Practices Moving to SaaS.” The panel, which will be held on Thursday, July 15, 2010, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. ET and from 3-4 p.m. ET, will be moderated by Trina Horner, Strategy Manager, Cloud ISV Strategy, Microsoft, and also feature Marketing Advocate CEO Gary Morris.

“OpSource has helped hundreds of companies, such as Marketing Advocate, successfully move to the powerful and flexible on-demand environment,” said Jon Beck, SVP of Sales and Business Development, OpSource. “This session will be a great opportunity for anyone thinking of moving their applications from on-premise to a hosted Windows platform. We’ll share a real-world example of how to achieve this move quickly and easily — and with great ROI.”

OpSource is a Microsoft Gold Certified Hosting Partner and an integral part of the Microsoft Cloud ISV Incubation Center, which helps software vendors move from on-premise to on-demand environments, letting them take advantage of the power, flexibility and scalability of the cloud. Going beyond traditional hosting, OpSource provides a suite of hosting solutions for SaaS ISVs that includes application management, database management — including support of Microsoft SQL — change management, performance management and application optimization. In 2009, the company introduced OpSource Cloud, a cloud service for companies requiring enterprise-class performance as well as high security and control.

About OpSource

OpSource provides cloud and managed hosting solutions that enable businesses of all sizes to accelerate growth and scale operations while controlling costs and reducing IT infrastructure support risks. More than four hundred Software-as-a-Service ISVs, cloud platform providers, carriers and enterprises rely on OpSource’s expertise, experience and agility to operate high-availability, business-critical hosting environments. Our industry-leading Application Operations service goes beyond traditional hosting by providing application management, change management, performance management and application optimization. OpSource Cloud™ is the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Founded in 2002, OpSource is SAS 70 Type II, PCI DSS Level 1 and European Safe Harbor certified and has operations in California, Virginia, UK, Ireland, and India. For more information, please visit www.opsource.net.

OpSource, OpSource Cloud and the OpSource logo are trademarks of OpSource, Inc. All other trademarks and company names mentioned are protected by their respective owners.

Forward-looking information about future company performance may be discussed during the teleconference call. This call is open to the public and will be hosted by Scott Scherr, CEO, president, and founder, and Mitchell Dauerman, CFO, executive vice president, and treasurer. The call will be audiocast live via Vcall at http://www.investorcalendar.com/IC/CEPage.asp?ID=159791.

We recommend that you access this site 10 minutes before the start of the call. Windows Media Player or Real Player software is required to listen to the call and can be downloaded from the site. The call will be available for replay at the same Web address at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time on July 27, 2010.

Ultimate’s press release for second-quarter financial results will be available after 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on July 27 on the company’s Web site at www.ultimatesoftware.com.

About Ultimate

The leading provider of unified, end-to-end human capital management (HCM) SaaS solutions in North America, Ultimate markets its award-winning UltiPro solution as an on-demand service through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Based in Weston, FL, Ultimate employs approximately 1,000 professionals who are focused on developing the highest quality products and services. In 2009, Ultimate was awarded first place in the People’s Choice Stevie(R) competition for Favorite New SaaS Product and was ranked the #1 best medium-sized company to work for in America by the Great Place to Work(R) Institute for the second consecutive year. In 2008, Ultimate was the first HR/payroll SaaS provider to be audited and awarded the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Certification for security management and was recognized for having the #1 “Best Product Development Team” in the nation by the American Business Awards. Ultimate has more than 1,900 customers representing diverse industries, including such organizations as Adobe Systems Incorporated, The Container Store, Culligan International, Elizabeth Arden, Major League Baseball, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, and Ruth’s Chris Steak House. More information on Ultimate’s products and services can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com.

UltiPro is a registered trademark of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Ultimate Software

Providing consulting, training, and management services for the Medical Clinic of North Texas P.A., Impel Management has been relying on a payroll service bureau that offered very little functionality for reporting or human resource management and that required the HR team to manage vacation requests, third-party data transfers, direct deposit changes, and nearly all employee events manually with spreadsheets and paper forms.

Sandra Dehu, HR director for Impel Management, joined the company two years ago and, along with members of the finance, operations, and payroll teams, immediately began investigating alternative solutions as a top priority. Dehu had experienced the range of challenges with traditional service bureaus, so she knew she wanted better control of her employee information, processes, and payroll schedule to transform HR operations at Impel Management. However, she didn’t want the responsibilities and costs that can be associated with maintaining a typical on-premise business application. With more than 40 medical clinics throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, Impel Management chose UltiPro in March 2010 after considering a wide variety of solutions.

“Our previous methods were so vanilla,” said Dehu. “The ability for managers to see details on their staff was practically non-existent. Employee self-service was limited at best, and reporting was very poor. It was really a nightmare. Ultimate offers us the broad spectrum of HCM features that our company will benefit from for years to come.”

Although functional attributes were important to Dehu and the decision team, Ultimate’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery was a key decision driver.

“We expect to reap hard- and soft-cost returns with Ultimate, and we like the per-employee-per-month pricing available with SaaS. We’re also glad to have our data stored securely in Ultimate’s data center, where we don’t have to worry about the added responsibility of protecting our data,” said Dehu. “This peace of mind is an invaluable benefit.”

“Business efficiencies and advanced technology are key reasons that companies select UltiPro, and the additional value derived from our SaaS model is exponential. SaaS delivery can save our customers thousands of man hours in enhancement and maintenance costs,” said Greg Swick, chief sales officer for Ultimate. “With our focus on end-to-end HCM combined with our innovative leadership in the SaaS industry, we are well equipped to help improve HCM operations and deliver tangible business impact to Impel and other organizations.”

About Ultimate

The leading provider of unified, end-to-end human capital management (HCM) SaaS solutions in North America, Ultimate markets its award-winning UltiPro solution as an on-demand service through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Based in Weston, FL, Ultimate employs approximately 1,000 professionals who are focused on developing the highest quality products and services. In 2009, Ultimate was awarded first place in the People’s Choice Stevie(R) competition for Favorite New SaaS Product and was ranked the #1 best medium-sized company to work for in America by the Great Place to Work(R) Institute for the second consecutive year. In 2008, Ultimate was the first HR/payroll SaaS provider to be audited and awarded the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Certification for security management and was recognized for having the #1 “Best Product Development Team” in the nation by the American Business Awards. Ultimate has more than 1,900 customers representing diverse industries, including such organizations as Adobe Systems Incorporated, The Container Store, Culligan International, Elizabeth Arden, Major League Baseball, The New York Yankees Baseball Team, and Ruth’s Chris Steak House. More information on Ultimate’s products and services can be found at www.ultimatesoftware.com.

UltiPro is a registered trademark of The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. All other trademarks referenced are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE: Ultimate Software