Monday 15 March 2010
Taleo the leading provider of on-demand talent management solutions, and Cast Iron Systems, The #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company™, today announced that they are working closely together to offer fast, flexible data migrations from various on-premise applications to Taleo Business Edition’s on-demand recruiting and performance management solutions. Taleo and Cast Iron have also completed many successful real-time integrations between Taleo Business Edition and proprietary customer applications. Both solutions are bringing small and medium-sized customers better leverage of their investments in Talent Management.
To date, Taleo and Cast Iron have completed several hundred migrations from both replacement transactions and customers via acquisitions. The companies have also powered real-time integrations with on-demand solutions like Salesforce and on-site enterprise systems like PeopleSoft. Joint customers include BELL, Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Gallagher, among others.
BELL, the award-winning educational program provider, is using the Cast Iron Cloud to synchronize candidate status data in Taleo Business Edition Recruit with assignment information in Salesforce CRM.
“We recognized the critical role integration would play in the successful deployment of our new cloud-based IT infrastructure,” said Pete Capraro, director of IT at BELL. “To integrate data between Taleo, Salesforce, and Moodle, our learning management system, we knew that we needed a robust solution that could rapidly deliver reliable integration between multiple end-points. With thousands of customer integrations already in production, Cast Iron was the obvious choice for integrating Taleo with our custom applications.”
“In the past, migration and integration projects have been somewhat difficult due to their complexity,” said Jason Blessing, group vice president at Taleo. “With pre-built connectivity and the flexibility to deliver migration and integration in the cloud, Cast Iron empowers us to offer migration as a service to our customers and accelerates the adoption of our talent management solutions. Our customers now quickly realize the full potential of their investment in Taleo by rapidly leveraging their historical applicant information.”
“As demand for the rapid deployment of SaaS applications continues to rise, market leaders such as Taleo are recognizing that data migration and application integration are key to the swift on-boarding of new customers,” said Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron Systems.
About Taleo
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO) is the leader in on-demand unified talent management solutions that empower organizations of all sizes to assess, acquire, develop and align their workforces for improved business performance. Approximately 4,100 organizations use Taleo for talent acquisition and performance management, including 46 of the Fortune 100 and approximately 3,400 small and medium sized businesses across 200 countries and territories. Known for its strong configurability and usability, Taleo runs on a world-class infrastructure and achieves 99.9% availability. Taleo’s Talent Grid will harness the resources of the Taleo community of customers, candidates, and partners to power the talent needs of companies around the world.
Forward-looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the demand for Taleo’s solutions, results from use of Taleo’s solutions and the combined solutions of Taleo and Cast Iron and general business conditions. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based upon Taleo’s historical performance and its current plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation that such plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking statements represent Taleo’s expectations as of the date of this press announcement. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change, and Taleo disclaims any obligation to update the forward-looking statements in the future. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially. Further information on potential factors that could affect actual results is included in Part II, Item 1A of Taleo’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, as filed with the SEC on August 7, 2009, and in other reports filed by Taleo with the SEC.
About Cast Iron Systems
Founded in 2001, Cast Iron Systems is The #1 SaaS and Cloud Integration Company™. Cast Iron has thousands of deployed customer integrations across all industries and around the world at companies such as Allianz, British American Tobacco (BAT), Amerisource Bergen, Emerson, IBA Molecular, Krueger International, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, PGP Corporation, and salesforce.com, among many others. All are benefiting from the simplicity, speed, and flexibility of the Cast Iron Integration Solution, which enables them to integrate Cloud-based and SaaS applications with the rest of the enterprise in just days. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Tenaya Capital. Cast Iron is privately held and led by experienced technology executives from Informatica, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Vitria, and webMethods.
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VMware vSphere 4 Training
Recognizing that the vast majority of corporations have adopted VMware virtualization technologies to optimize performance while reducing costs, Batky-Howell has introduced a vendor-neutral, four-day VMware vSphere 4 course as a private training delivery, available immediately. The all-inclusive training event includes training at the client’s site, all the necessary course and lab materials, and individual access to an ESX server - providing an intense, hands-on learning experience.
VMware vSphere 4 encompasses a new suite of products that provides enhanced scalability, flexibility and reliability for server virtualization and opens the door to cloud computing. With VMware vSphere 4, data centers can deliver computing resources in an agile and cost-effective way.
The vendor-neutral aspect of this course ensures that students are exposed to both VMware and third-party tools, eliminating bias towards VMware-specific or endorsed products. The classroom lab will share a cluster of ESX Servers, a variety of different storage solutions (SAN, NAS, ISCI, local) as needed, a variety of third-party tools, and access to many pre-configured Virtual Machines, including Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. Each student will perform lab exercises using their own ESX Server and a Windows Server Workstation.
“This course is an extremely affordable and intense learning option compared to authorized VMware vSphere training. Over 70% of class time is devoted to live-lab exercises, ensuring students leave the course with a comprehensive, real-world knowledge of ESX Server, vCenter, and Virtual Machine Architecture, as well as advanced management techniques,” said, Bruce Batky, CEO.
A four-day Advanced vSphere training course and a three-day course specific to VMware View Manager 3 will be announced as available for private delivery shortly. In addition, Batky-Howell will continue to offer their VMware Infrastructure 3 Install, Configure, and Advanced Management course as a private training event for those organizations who have yet to migrate to the VMware vSphere platform.
About Batky-Howell, LLC
Since 1989, Batky-Howell has specialized in providing education and skill development of IT professionals, including software developers, programmers, system administrators and database administrators. Over 43,000 students have been trained by Batky-Howell in 3,200 courses - ranging from introductory HTML to advanced topics in UNIX, Java, Oracle, VMware, .NET, and more. Flexible training delivery options allow Batky-Howell to offer customers a cost-effective solution in a private or virtual classroom setting.
Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about security, quality of service, integration, compliance, lock-in, and the long-term costs of public clouds.
Private clouds for the exclusive use of one enterprise can however mitigate these concerns by giving the enterprise greater control. In a keynote address to be given at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, Richard Sarwal (pictured), SVP of Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager, will explore how enterprises are likely to adopt public and private cloud computing, building on a foundation of virtualization infrastructure and management systems. At the 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 2-4, 2009, being held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, more than 1,500 delegates will find out how cloud computing is transforming the way that enterprises everywhere build and deploy applications.
Provided below are two quotes, one from Larry Ellison of Oracle and one from Andy Isherwood of HP (both from 2008 so maybe their perspectives have changed). Not everyone, even those that would be serving this new Cloud Computing environment, are convinced that Cloud Computing is a new and improved way to do business. In fact, these two are claiming that they are already doing it. Luckily for us, not everyone is of the same mindset as these two but clients do have concerns and in some instances, rightly so.
The interesting thing about Cloud Computing is that we’ve redefined Cloud Computing to include everything that we already do. We don’t understand what we would do differently in the light of Cloud Computing other than change the wording of some of our ads. Gartner is also stressing to clients that they need to evaluate providers and service providers to ensure that their decisions to move to a Cloud Computing environment is the right one for them and their shareholders.
Organizations potentially can gain a competitive or cost advantage through selective adoption of cloud computing, but not without first taking a comprehensive look at the associated risks, ensuring that they are consistent with business goals, along with the expectations of regulators, auditors, shareholders and partners. Clients are not blind to these issues and you can see by this chart that their concerns map exactly to what we have been discussing as concerns with Cloud Computing.
Sybase’s mobile platform may provide a cloud-based lifeline for the likes of SAP, Microsoft, and Oracle, providing those legacy enterprise application vendors an entry into the mobile-computing world of the future. Sybase’s big play into cloud computing seems to be from the “client side” in the form of mobile access to applications in the cloud, not the data center side as some might expect. It may be that mobility-platform vendors are some of the biggest winners from the cloud-computing movement, as there is a lot of “work” to be done between the service and the device for most cloud applications. Yes, many cloud applications will be architected with mobility in mind (especially support for the Apple iPhone), and yes, Sybase seems to be targeting more ”traditional” Web and client-server applications, but in general, there is infrastructure that enables mobile phones to connect with cloud back-ends (e.g. 3G/4G, the Apple Store, etc.), and cloud computing could be a huge boon to mobile “glue” vendors that address the opportunity.
In-memory data grids store information that applications need in memory across a pool of servers, instead of reading it off disks, resulting in major performance gains. The Coherence product is one of the more mature in a space occupied by offerings from IBM as well as smaller companies like GigaSpaces and a number of open-source projects. Microsoft is also developing a system dubbed “Velocity.” o date, such systems have breathed rarefied air, mostly supporting large-scale Web sites and high-throughput transactional systems, such as stock trading applications. The in-memory data grid market in total generated less than US$100 million in revenue during 2008, according to Gartner, which prefers the term “distributed caching platforms.
But some observers believe that in-memory approaches to data management could eventually gain serious traction in cloud-computing deployments. The technologies would help applications that weren’t originally designed for elastically scalable infrastructure systems like Amazon Web Services to run more effectively, albeit “via some re-engineering,” Gartner analyst Massimo Pezzini said in a recent report. Beyond vendor trepidation, other factors stand in the way of broader customer adoption, such as the complexity of deploying and managing the systems and limited support from systems integrators and ISVs, according to Pezzini.
What we need is a nuts and bolts, sound-proofed room, gathering of the minds and Linux thought leaders to discuss Linux, its current state, its legal standing and its future as an operating system. I’m not talking about a nice little get together with keynote speakers with high-powered, 10,000 foot views of where Linux is and where it’s going. And I’m not talking about vendor booths touting the latest and greatest Linux toys or big blowout parties from a spectacle-making platinum sponsor.
What we need is a nuts and bolts, sound-proofed room, gathering of the minds and Linux thought leaders to discuss Linux, its current state, its legal standing and its future as an operating system. It’s time to get serious. It’s time to put aside our petty differences with the likes of Microsoft and Apple and just take care of business–the business of producing an operating system. It’s time to focus on the future.
We need key players and contributors from Google, Yahoo, Red Hat, Novell, Debian, Ubuntu, The Linux Foundation, Slackware, CentOS, Oracle, IBM, HP, Intel, AMD, VMware and Citrix to come together and hash out a grand plan for this once niche operating system that’s grown up into the enterprise-level beast that has changed the world.
Cloud computing news we see some of the concerns in adopting this new paradigm, even as some of the largest business and government entities adopt (or seek to provide) cloud computing services. We can easily see vendors like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, HP, IBM, Unisys, and many others jockeying for position. Having worked for a vendor I can state confidently that nowadays they make their moves based on demand, not “build it and they will come” wishful thinking. That demand is coming from your competitors, and sooner or later, those cost savings will show up in the form of more competitive pricing of goods and services making it more difficult to compete for those that don’t adopt these efficiencies.
Using the GSA Storefront, federal agencies would choose infrastructure, Web applications, or other IT services to begin a streamlined procurement process. t’s at the top of the hype charts. It probably won’t save you money, especially in the short term. It needs more standards. And, it’s going to transform the economic model for computing. It, of course, is cloud computing — one of the most powerful business computing trends we’ve seen in years.
The 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, November 2-4, 2009, being held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA, more than 1,500 delegates will find out how cloud computing is transforming the way that enterprises everywhere build and deploy applications. Now held three times a
year - in New York, Prague, and Santa Clara - the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. The event is co-located with our 7th International Virtualization Conference & Expo.
4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in November will introduce two new and dedicated tracks - “SOA in the Cloud” and “RIAs in the Cloud” - which will examine how service oriented architecture, AJAX, rich internet applications, enterprise mashups, social media and Web 2.0 find their new place in
the Cloud.
The business will offer customers access to software, computing power and storage as a pay-per -use, on-demand, online service. The “platform as a service” subscription includes a server-based pricing package and a per-CPU package. Prices start at S$434 for a single core server per month, to packages that include eight processor cores, 16 gigabytes of memory and 80 gigabytes of storage, for S$3,520 per month. Additional memory costs S$25 a month while storage is priced at S$6 a month for 10 Gbytes.
A second subscription option called “high performance computing” is priced at S$0.51 per hour per CPU, and S$0.60 per gigabyte of storage per month. Both packages require subsequent fees for memory and storage, as well as a one-time set up charge of S$500. Alatum also will provide software as a service in the accounting and finance areas. Partners include Avartis Planning; security solution provider BoxSentry; financial BPO specialist Melioris; enterprise application developers AlpSoft; enterprise software vendor Cnetric; SaaS vendor Aksaas; ADX (Asia Debts Exchange), Web security provider Resolvo, data management firm Atempo; customer feedback outsourcer Jusfeedback and business process consultant Acceval. Technology partners for Alatum include Citrix, Oracle, RedHat, Microsoft and Platform Computing.
