The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced newly confirmed keynotes and panelists for its Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. The Summit, now in its fourth year, takes place April 14-16, 2010 at the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco.

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is the only event where a true cross-section of leaders from the Linux developer, industry and end user communities meet face-to-face to tackle today’s most pressing issues facing Linux, including technical development, legal topics, ISV porting and end user requirements. The Summit is designed to accelerate collaboration and problem solving by bringing key stakeholders together in a neutral setting.

This year’s Collaboration Summit prominently features content on three trends driving the Linux market currently: mobile computing, cloud computing and legal topics associated with the platform.

Highlights from this year’s program include:

* Full-day session on MeeGo, the new computing platform backed by Intel and Nokia and hosted by The Linux Foundation. Nokia Vice President Ari Jaaksi will deliver a keynote that provides a complete overview of the project.

* The Linux Kernel Roundtable Panel featuring James Bottomley, Jon Corbet, Christoph Hellwig, Greg Kroah-Hartman and Andrew Morton.

* Does Open Source Mean Open Cloud? Moderated by John Mark Walker, founder and chief community architect at Community Root, LLC. Panelists include Matt Asay, chief operating officer at Canonical; David Lutterkort, principal software engineer at Red Hat; Sam Ramji, vice president at Sonoa Systems; and Doug Tidwell, senior software engineer at IBM.

* A tongue-in-cheek keynote about community dynamics from Josh Berkus, chief operating officer, PostgreSQL Experts, How to Prevent Community: Making Sure Your Pond Stays Small.

* Keynote from Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin, The State of the Linux Union.

* Why Your Life Might Depend on Your Code. A keynote by Alexander Schanz who uses Linux in his post as Head of Data Center at DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH, German air traffic control.

* 10 Years of Linux at IBM, a keynote from Dr. Daniel Frye, vice president, Open Systems Development, IBM, and board member at the Linux Foundation.

Day two includes the half-day session dedicated to “The Year of Cloud Computing,” which will be moderated by cloud computing expert Bernard Golden. Executives from IBM and Bull will host a full-day session on High Performance Computing. And, the Linux Foundation’s legal counsel Karen Copenhaver will lead the full-day session on “Legal for Non-Lawyers.” Day three includes a variety of workgroup meetings, including Linux Standard Base (LSB), FOSSBazaar, Driver Backport, Filesystems, Desktop, OpenPrinting, Toolchain and Green Linux.

To review the complete schedule, please visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/agenda

Sponsored by IBM and Intel with additional support from Google, HP and Nokia, the Collaboration Summit is an invitation-only, exclusive event that is bringing together the brightest minds in Linux, including core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations.

For more information on the Linux Foundation’s Annual Collaboration Summit, please visit: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com. For more information, please visit www.linuxfoundation.org.

Trademarks: The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet.

The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Google’s crusade to convert the world to “cloud computing,” the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs also is stored in data centers run by third parties such as Google.

More than 50 software makers have agreed to sell their Internet programs through Google, which will keep 20 percent of the sales. The prices are expected to range from $50 annually to several hundred dollars annually per user.

Intuit Inc., a maker of business accounting software, and Concur Technologies Inc., a maker of expense reimbursement software, are among the best-known vendors peddling their wares in Google’s store.

All the applications sold in Google’s store can be melded with Google’s own cloud-computing services, said Vic Gundotra, the company’s vice president of engineering.

Google views cloud computing as a way to deepen people’s dependence on its services and generate more revenue beyond the Internet search advertising that provides virtually all its income.

Cloud computing also provides Google with a weapon that could weaken one of its biggest rivals, Microsoft Corp.

Although it’s introducing more online alternatives, Microsoft still makes most of its money from individual computer licenses of its Windows operating system and software programs.

The applications store could also could provide fodder for the low-cost computers that will run on a Google operating system named after its Chrome Web browser. The first computers using Chrome OS won’t have a hard drive, meaning they will need Internet access and cloud-computing services to perform the tasks routinely done on Windows-powered machines.

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CloudSlam’10™, a virtual conference developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in the world of Cloud Computing, will commence on March 23. CloudSlam’10™ is organized by leading experts and authorities in the Cloud Computing industry and backed up by the world’s largest Cloud Computing community. Key topics will include Cloud Standards, Security, Transition Strategies, Compliance & Impact of Cloud Computing on the Global Economy. Attendees will hear breaking news, views & opinions which are exclusive to CloudSlam’10™.

CloudSlam’10™ gives industry leaders’ and professionals’ keen insights into published research, unique and evolving ideas and best practices, as well as an opportunity to network with leading experts within the Cloud Computing industry. The conference is designed to be a thought leadership platform for Business, Government and Academia. It’s also an ideal opportunity for corporate leaders to glean information on the latest innovations in Cloud Computing, generate new contacts and develop ideas on how to capitalize on what’s estimated to eventually become a $100 billion dollar market.

The CloudSlam’10™ speaker line-up will highlight new players in the Cloud Computing arena, as well as established players like IBM, who has been selected to be the Exclusive Diamond Collaborator for CloudSlam’10™. Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, CTO Enterprise Initiatives and Vice President Cloud Platforms, IBM Corporation, will present the Day One Headline Keynote address at the CloudSlam’10™ virtual event.

Drawing on experience of working with IBM customers and IBM’s internal cloud deployments, Dr. Kloeckner will review the conditions under which Cloud Computing can deliver its promise of cost reductions, delivery efficiency, flexibility and agility, as well as share insights around customer adoption based on careful selection of workloads and appropriate deployment models.

In addition, IBM senior software engineer Doug Tidwell will discuss the need for and status around cloud computing standards.

IBM Primary Keynote Sessions:

• “Headline Keynote Presentation” - Presented on March 23rd @ 13.30(pm) EDT.

• “Headline panel Discussion” - Presented on March 23rd @ 16.00(pm) EDT.

• “Headline Expert Session” - Presented on March 24th @ 13.30(pm) EDT.

• “Headline Case Study Session” - Presented on March 25th @ 14.45(pm) EDT.

Commenting on the announcement today, CloudSlam’10™ Chairman – Khazret Sapenov said, “We are truly delighted to have IBM join this year’s proceedings as our Headline collaborator for the event. IBM brings a wealth of expertise and know-how which we are certain will educate our event delegates, Cloud Computing group community members, as well as the Global audiences tuning in worldwide.”

CloudSlam’10™ - Produced by Cloudcor, Inc.™, is the premier Cloud Computing event. As an affordable way for industry leaders to exchange ideas and experiences, CloudSlam’10™ opens new horizons of cloud computing and serves as a springboard to success. CloudSlam’10™ will take place March 23-25 2010 -Online. For more information, contact Khazret Sapenov at k.sapenov@cloudslam.org or visit http://cloudslam10.com

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Carpathia Hosting, the leading provider of enterprise managed hosting services for government agencies and businesses, today announced it has teamed up with Citrix® Systems, Inc. to launch the second generation of its enterprise cloud offering, Carpathia InstantOn™. Powered by Citrix® XenServer™, InstantOn is the first cloud solution truly aimed at meeting the needs of enterprise computing for public clouds and private virtual datacenters, while delivering cloud solutions that are managed, flexible and scalable.

Carpathia InstantOn is easily-accessed and managed through Carpathia’s web-based E3 Portal™ and is powered by XenServer, the only enterprise-class, cloud-proven server virtualization platform.  Enterprises using Carpathia InstantOn can easily deploy custom compute and storage solutions, blending dedicated and cloud resources in a single solution.  Solutions are available in either multi-tenant or private clouds to meet the most stringent security and compliance requirements including government standard like FISMA and DIACAP, financial standards like PCI and healthcare standards like HIPAA.

“Delivering robust public and private cloud solutions for production-ready applications has been our focus from day one,” said Jon Greaves, CTO, Carpathia Hosting.  “With the announcement of our second generation cloud service built on Citrix XenServer, we are giving our customers additional flexibility, scale and management that further allows them to take advantage of both our enterprise cloud services as well as our traditional managed hosting services.”

Built to meet the needs of small, mid-size and large organizations with production-ready applications, the following cloud services are available with Carpathia InstantOn:

* Virtual networking.  Networking solutions to support virtual compute and storage allowing InstantOn to be deployed in enterprise configurations taking advantage of solutions like Citrix® Netscaler® VPX™.
* Virtual Compute.  On-demand computing services for both simple virtual machines and complex topologies including connections to existing dedicated infrastructure in a secure manner.
* Virtual Storage.  Object and block storage solutions designed to support enterprise compute requirements.  Storage can be shared between multiple virtual machines and dedicated servers with multiple copies of each object.
* Private Cloud or Private Virtual Datacenters.  Virtual Compute and Storage solutions deployed in a private or reserved deployment.  Combines the advantages of cloud technology such as dynamic scaling and instant provisioning while being fully managed.
* Compliant Cloud.  Designed to meet government IT standards including FISMA and DIACAP.  Enhancements include RSA authentication, SSL VPN for management access and inter/intra virtual machine firewalling.
* Virtual Disaster Recovery. Replicated data ensures you have a current offsite copy of mission critical information at a fraction of the cost of traditional disaster recovery solutions.  Pay for cloud resources on-demand during DR testing and DR events.
* Virtual Development & Test.  Virtual Compute, Storage and Networking solutions designed specifically for test labs for easy deployment and promotion into production at a dramatically lower price-point than deploying dedicated development and test lab environments.

Enterprises using Carpathia InstantOn can also easily deploy custom compute and storage solutions, blending dedicated and cloud resources in a single solution. InstantOn can be used in conjunction with Carpathia AlwaysOn™, a traditional managed dedicated hosting solution, to deliver the ultimate in flexibility.   Underlying all Carpathia InstantOn solutions is Carpathia Cloud Orchestration™.  Cloud Orchestration allows cloud and managed dedicated resources to scale seamlessly in a single solution allowing customers to select which applications and services fit best in the cloud and which should reside on dedicated infrastructure.

“We have been impressed with how Carpathia Hosting has approached building enterprise cloud solutions for public and private clouds, especially when it comes to access and payment models tailored for enterprises deploying production-ready applications,” said Simon Crosby, CTO, Datacenter and Cloud Division at Citrix Systems.  “The combination of Citrix Cloud Center (Citrix C3) and Carpathia’s unique Cloud Orchestration model has resulted in an enterprise cloud solution that is truly industry-leading.”

In addition to Carpathia InstantOn, the companies plan to team up on additional cloud offerings including virtual desktop as a service.  Carpathia Hosting and Citrix will host a live webcast on March 16 at 1:00pm EDT to discuss private and public clouds for the enterprise as well as Carpathia Hosting’s second-generation InstantOn cloud service.  For more information and to register for the webcast, visit www.carpathiahosting.com/enterprisecloud.

About Carpathia Hosting, Inc.

Carpathia Hosting is a leading provider of managed hosting services, providing secure, reliable and compliant IT infrastructure and management for some of the world’s most demanding enterprises and federal agencies. Founded in 2003, Carpathia Hosting is a growing, profitable business run by a seasoned management team with deep experience in delivering enterprise hosting solutions including colocation, managed services and cloud computing. Carpathia’s suite of services is designed for organizations seeking scalable, secure, robust and enterprise-grade hosting solutions that can be quickly provisioned or tailored to meet unique requirements. Backed by its E3 Promise, Carpathia Hosting consistently delivers an experience that exceeds customers’ expectations. Contact Carpathia Hosting at 1.888.200.9494, or visit http://www.carpathiahosting.com for more information.

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With Cloud Optimized blee(p), communication service providers can deploy the award-winning blee(p) billing and BSS application within any virtual environment. These enhancements enable Transverse customers to realize a significant reduction in total cost of ownership for their back office operations. In addition to being optimized to run in cloud computing environments, this version of blee(p) also provides Transverse customers with integration to public cloud services such as inventory, fulfillment, eCommerce, and payment gateways, which provides further economies of scale that the public cloud has to offer.

“In today’s rapidly changing environment, service providers need the flexibility to quickly and easily deploy new services with minimal investment,” said Jim Messer, chief executive officer, Transverse. “Transverse is unique in the BSS industry by providing SOA and web services-based BSS solutions, which are optimized for the cloud. We help keep our customers’ total cost of ownership to a minimum, while providing them with the ability to better monetize their most valuable assets — their customer relationships.”

Cloud Optimized blee(p) scales up and down on demand based on communication service providers’ needs, eliminating the need for costly infrastructure that can stand idle at times of low or normal usage. By optimizing blee(p) for a virtual environment, customers can run their back office more cost-effectively, while still receiving best-in-class functionality including:

* Billing/invoicing
* Customer care & self-care
* Mediation
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* Service creation & service delivery
* Resource management/provisioning
* Promotions and campaign management
* Point-of-sale
* Inventory management
* IP contact center
* PCI Compliance

About Transverse

Transverse is an Austin, Texas-based provider of business support systems. The company specializes in providing innovative solutions to complex business environments characterized by sophisticated ordering and fulfillment processes, subscription and usage based charging models, virtual / digital products, pre-paid billing authorization and micro-payments.

As a solutions company focused on tapping the value of SOA and web services architecture models, Transverse provides customers with greater business agility and business model innovation under a commercial open source model. The company’s core offerings include strategic architecture, application portfolio selection and assembly, billing, order management and customer care applications. For more information visit, www.gotransverse.com.

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Cetrom President and CEO Chris Stark stated “Unfortunately, it sometimes takes a significant event like this to truly demonstrate the liability and exposure to downtime events that a business can realize with their own computer network. If a business faces absolute performance guidelines with regard to client deliverables and other deadlines, disaster recovery planning takes on a much higher precedent. These businesses would do well to evaluate and embrace the level of business continuity and scalable performance that is readily available in the “Cloud”.

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Initial interviews include those of Aneesh Chopra (Federal CTO), Linda Cureton (CIO, NASA), Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media Group), Nigel Ballard (Federal Marketing Director, Intel), and Teresa Carlson (VP, Microsoft Federal).

IT spending on cloud computing is increasing, with 16 billion USD spent in 2008 and 42 billion USD forecasted by 2012. With Minds in the Cloud, viewers will be able to understand more fully why cloud computing services are becoming increasingly important, and what the future may hold for citizens, businesses, and the government as this shift occurs. Candid discussion of issues related to privacy, data portability, standards development, and the social implications of cloud computing will be discussed.

Viewers are encouraged to visit http://mindsinthecloud.org to watch the latest interview, as well as to follow http://www.twitter.com/mindsinthecloud for notifications about new episodes as they become available. Minds in the Cloud will be capturing interviews across the United States in Q1 and Q2; if you’re a subject matter expert in this area, please feel free to reach out to setup an interview.

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Nucleus polled NetSuite customers to gauge their success and satisfaction with their decision to entrust mission-critical business functionality to cloud computing. Ninety percent of the customers surveyed rated their satisfaction as four or five out of five — satisfied or very satisfied, and no company rated their satisfaction below three. When asked to elaborate on the reasons for their satisfaction, NetSuite’s ability to drive cost reduction was mentioned as a key driver. By offering tremendous scalability and breadth of functionality, with little to no IT expertise required to install and manage, NetSuite has earned long-term satisfaction and loyalty. “Because the application has been validated by users as an effective tool in cost reduction, deployment footprints at existing customers are more likely to increase rather than decrease,” wrote Nucleus in the report.

“It’s wonderful to hear Nucleus Research confirm that NetSuite’s world-class functionality using a cost effective, customer-empowering cloud computing suite is appreciated by our more than 6,600 corporate clients,” said Stephen Wolfe, SVP of Worldwide Support at NetSuite.

By providing efficient, intuitive, and powerful enterprise suite applications without the overhead of on-premise solutions, NetSuite enables companies to avoid best-of-breed integration hassles as well as interoperability conflicts. The lack of high up-front costs enables companies to deploy NetSuite more quickly, often without a major capital expenditures process. Nucleus credits this customer-friendly approach with much of NetSuite’s success in attracting and retaining customers, and notes that it bodes poorly for legacy rivals. “The findings are bad news for traditional on-premise suites such as SAP,” Nucleus wrote. “It is one thing for SAP or Oracle to have SaaS-based rivals. But a SaaS-based rival that also provides integration-friendly enterprise applications such as CRM or financials is an even bigger threat.”

The Nucleus survey findings are the perfect punctuation to conclude 2009 – a year full of accolades for NetSuite. In the summer of 2009, Gartner Dataquest released figures showing that NetSuite has joined the ranks of North America’s top ten ERP vendors by revenue. In November, IDC awarded NetSuite its SMB Excellence Award in Software as a Service and Cloud Computing. Strategic advisory service ISM Inc. recognized NetSuite and NetSuite CRM with a Top 15 CRM Small & Medium Business Software Award for 2009. Customer Interaction Solutions magazine named NetSuite CRM as a recipient of a 2009 CRM Excellence Award. And in October, British businesses named NetSuite the top Enterprise Accounting Software vendor in Sift Media’s Software Satisfaction Awards 2009.

The reputation for satisfaction and customer loyalty is another compelling reason why companies of all sizes looking for a powerful, integrated cloud computing business management software solution are turning to NetSuite.

For more information about NetSuite Inc., please visit www.netsuite.com.

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This research explored the telecom lifecycle management strategies of over 750 organizations throughout 2009. Telecom lifecycle management is defined as the cradle-to-grave management of network and telecom infrastructure starting with strategic planning and business alignment to the eventual disconnection, replacement, and recycling of used assets and services.

The top 20% of respondents to this study were able to reduce costs by 16%, meet 87% of their service level agreements, and provide advanced communications capabilities to 45% of their organization. In short, they reduced costs, achieved superior support, and had greater propagation of advanced technologies such as video, unified communications, and mobility compared to their counterparts. Companies that defined best practices were also twice as likely as lower performing firms to focus on communications deployments that supported top-line revenue growth, rather than focus specifically on cost reduction.

“As companies make strategic investments in their computing and communications infrastructure, they must make sure that they can actually manage the technologies deployed,” said Hyoun Park, research analyst, Aberdeen Group. “If organizations don’t know what they have now and how they are using their communications assets and services, they have no chance of fully utilizing new technologies to get the value and productivity that they expect.”

Top-achieving companies adopted a number of capabilities and technologies that prepared them for new communications investments, including complete archived records of communications usage, visibility to asset depreciation and disputed services, and adoption of a consolidated telecom expense management solution that provided a complete view to telecom and network spend and inventory. By showing how organizations successfully integrated telecom lifecycle management into their IT and operational departments, this report will show the enterprise how telecom and network departments must prepare for future communications deployments.

A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the following underwriters: AnchorPoint, a division of MTS and Tangoe. To obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=6013

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CRN editors wrote: “With its on-demand sales performance and incentive compensation management applications, Callidus seeks to do for sales compensation management what Saleforce.com has done for CRM. The applications help businesses manage incentive payments to employees, distributors, brokers and — yes — channel partners, to help align those incentives with corporate goals.”

“We’re very excited to be named to the 100 Top Coolest Cloud Computing Products,” said Lorna Heynike, senior vice president of marketing at Callidus Software. “This recognition validates Callidus’ strong leadership in developing innovative cloud computing solutions in the sales performance management marketplace. It underscores our commitment to providing best-of-breed on-demand solutions that enable businesses to leverage and align sales and channel behavior to consistently and reliably meet sales targets.”

The “100 Top Coolest Cloud Computing Products” list was based on nominations from Solutions Providers rating technology, channel influence, effectiveness and visibility along with business and sales impact. The final selections were made by a panel of Everything Channel Editors. Winners were announced online at www.channelweb.com and featured in the January 25 issue of CRN.

Callidus Software’s award-winning solutions manage the entire sales life-cycle from on-boarding, deployment and payment, to talent development, while providing visibility into sales operations and financial performance. The software is used by leading companies in a broad range of verticals including high-tech, telecommunications, banking, insurance and pharmaceuticals. Since its inception nearly 15 years ago, the company has evolved into the most experienced, proven, and reliable SPM vendor in the marketplace. Callidus Software manages over $50 billion in incentives and compensation for more than 2 million payees in over 140 countries.

For more news on sales performance management, follow Callidus Software on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.

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Callidus Software (www.callidussoftware.com) (NASDAQ: CALD) is the market and technology leader in Sales Performance Management (SPM). Callidus’ customers gain a competitive advantage by maximizing sales cost efficiencies and driving improvements in sales execution. Our award-winning Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications set the standard for performance management across the sales force. Over 2 million employees and channel partners have their performance managed by Callidus Software.

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Everything Channel, headquartered in Framingham, MA, is a technology marketing and sales solutions company. Through its “Complete Technology Channel Solution,” Everything Channel offers the right business tools to accelerate technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to the sellers of technology to achieve measurable and significant results.

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