Friday 03 September 2010
Job in Cloud Computing
If you need a job or if you need to find skilled employees, look to the clouds at www.cloudjobs.net where you can post or find a job in the Cloud Computing Jobs.
SaaS is the latest innovation in Internet technology. The term “cloud” is a metaphor used to describe the Internet. Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the “cloud” that supports them.
Parent company, Cloudcor, Inc. recently revised their online service portal to make it easier to use and more intuitive than any other online resource offers both free and paid services which can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
The new control panel is easy to understand and even easier to use meaning visitors will spend more time on finding that right job instead of trying to figure out how to use the system
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There are many jobs already available at www.CloudJobs.net including jobs that require vmware certification and experience. HPC and data center specialists are also in high demand on http://www.CloudJobs.net.
Cloud Jobs was founded in 2008 by former Fortune 50 consultants with a great deal of experience in IT technologies, computing models, software services and more. Our newsletter, the Cloud Computing Group, is read by over 17,500 readers, making it currently the largest Cloud and grid computing group in the world. We have successfully helped qualified professionals land careers in some of the world’s leading companies including: Intel, Microsoft , Amazon, Argonne National Lab, SGI, Hitachi, CitiCorp, IBM, HP, SUN and more.
For more information about Cloud Jobs and its services, please contact Khazret Sapenov at:
Cloudcor Inc.
2980 Don Mills Rd., Suite 910
Toronto, Ontario, M2J 3B9 Canada
tel: (510) 984-2312
fax: (510) 373-1709
e-mail: info@cloudjobs.net
Website: http://www.CloudJobs.net
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Revel Consulting
Revel Consulting, a business and IT consulting firm, announced the launch of its Cloud Computing Practice, providing business solutions for both software companies transitioning to web-delivered services, as well as businesses incorporating web-based technologies into their operations.
Cloud computing, which encompasses software-as-a-service (SaaS), is any business or end-user service provided to customers via the Internet. Revel has been providing cloud consulting services since the industry’s inception. This experience allows the firm to service an industry which, according to Gartner, will see revenues reach $150 billion by 2013.
“Cloud computing is more than a short-term trend. There are legitimate benefits to companies adopting cloud services into their business such as reduced expenses and efficient scaling,” said Vikas Kamran, CEO and Co-Founder of Revel. “Our deep experience in the cloud, coupled with our agile business model provides clients an unmatched path to the cloud, moving them ahead of the competition.” Revel noted its services range from helping assess the cost and benefits of migrating to the cloud, to helping companies integrate SaaS applications such as customer relationship management (CRM) or financial management into their business and existing IT environment.
“Our Cloud Computing Practice is uniquely positioned to help both companies that offer cloud services as well as companies who will be the cloud’s end-users,” said Michael Tan, Senior Associate and Cloud Computing Practice lead for Revel. “These two sides of the industry have distinct business challenges and require specific solutions - we have a proven track record across the spectrum.” Revel Consulting is a business and IT consulting firm.
hybrid model of both cloud and dedicated hosting
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE:RAX), the world’s leader in hosting, today announced that FreshBooks, the leader in online invoicing and bookkeeping for professionals, is leveraging the company’s new hybrid model of both cloud and dedicated hosting to service their IT needs. A long time customer of Rackspace Managed Hosting and Rackspace Email & Apps, FreshBooks is now using The Rackspace Cloud™ to support the needs of its rapidly growing business.
With over 1,000,000 users and growing, FreshBooks offers fast and simple invoicing, expense and time tracking services, which help business professionals spend more time on their work, not their paperwork. A typical customer, FreshBooks claims, is able to get paid an average of 14 days faster using their service with sixty percent of FreshBooks users collecting more money through the service due to timelier billing and improved record keeping.
The Rackspace Cloud offers a suite of services, Cloud Servers™, Cloud Sites™ and Cloud Files™ designed to help companies like FreshBooks minimize the hassles, high costs, and complexities associated with scaling dedicated hardware. Through The Rackspace Cloud, FreshBooks now offers its users expanded capacity, and much faster access to their information.
“As a SaaS vendor, we share a strategic alignment with Rackspace around values for the highest level of customer service,” stated Mike McDerment, CEO, FreshBooks. “At FreshBooks we believe we are a service, not a technology. When you call us, you get a live person and a commitment to solving your problem. Over the years, Rackspace has consistently demonstrated to us the same focus on support and has enabled us to grow our business more quickly because we can concentrate on our core competencies, while Rackspace manages the technology. By moving to The Rackspace Cloud, we can continue to deliver more value to our customers at lower costs to ourselves and our customers.”
Since 2004, FreshBooks has been providing small and medium businesses, consultants, and freelancers with a fast, cost-effective and easy way to create a polished image for their business with a professional web-based invoicing, expense and time tracking service. Users can send invoices by email or ground mail and take advantage of features including recurring billing, employee timesheets, and project management features. Business professionals can customize the look of their billing systems and invoice templates. FreshBooks supports payments with plug-ins like PayPal, Authorize.Net, VeriSign, PSiGate, iTransact, Link Point and more. FreshBooks automatically creates invoices; sends late payment notifications; creates robust reports and can easily import/export data – all with a very simple and easy to use design.
“We are pleased to work with a fast-growing SaaS leader like FreshBooks who is constantly looking for ways to innovate and excel for their customers. We take away the headache of managing hardware to give them more time to develop and grow their business.” stated Emil Sayegh, General Manager, The Rackspace Cloud. “Hybrid hosting allows the Cloud to be used for scalable storage or compute power together with more traditional dedicated managed servers, which is the way we believe computing will be done in the future. I’m glad to see FreshBooks jumping on that train.”
FreshBooks hosts its applications on managed dedicated servers across two Rackspace data centers, for redundancy, and the company’s employee mailboxes are managed by Rackspace Email & Apps. By moving to The Rackspace Cloud, FreshBooks continues to offload non-strategic tasks that need to scale infinitely in order to focus more on their core business function of delivering high quality hosted bookkeeping services to business professionals.
About FreshBooks
FreshBooks, the leader in online invoicing and bookkeeping, helps professionals in over 100 countries save time, get paid faster, look professional and focus on what they love to do — their work. Read our customer survey results — 99% recommend FreshBooks. Our users are served by a tight-knit team of 31 dedicated individuals based in Toronto, Canada who’ve been at this since 2004.
About The Rackspace Cloud
The Rackspace Cloud provides on-demand scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through its suite of cloud solutions, Cloud Sites™, Cloud Files™ and Cloud Servers, The Rackspace Cloud enables astute developers and IT managers to minimize the hassles, upfront investments and high costs associated with dedicated hardware while offering the ability to easily scale hosting resources. For more information about The Rackspace Cloud, visit www.rackspacecloud.com or call 1-877-934-0409.
About Rackspace Hosting
As the leader and specialist in hosting services, Rackspace® Hosting is changing the way businesses worldwide buy IT. Rackspace delivers computing-as-a-service, integrating the industry’s best technologies into a flexible service offering, making computing more reliable and affordable. A trusted partner to companies of all sizes, Rackspace enables IT departments to be more effective. Rackspace is distinguished by its award-winning Fanatical Support®, furthering the company’s mission to be one of the world’s greatest service companies. Rackspace is recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 100 Best companies to work for in the US, ranking number 43 on the list. Rackspace’s portfolio of hosted IT services includes Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting, and Email and Apps. For more information on Rackspace Hosting please visit www.rackspace.com.
Cloud Computing and SaaS
Synverse Technologies (www.synverse.com) headquartered in UK, an innovative IT Global Managed Services provider driven by SaaS and Cloud Computing differentiators, today announced the expansion of its office in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. A dramatic increase in demand for the company’s services necessitated a move to a new facility which is significantly big compare to company’s previous office in Banjara Hills.
Sudeesh Dodda, COO of Synverse Technologies said “Software companies with a bottom line focus are looking to overseas markets to support future revenue growth. Leaders in various industry sectors have turned to Synverse Technologies to provide them with services they need to rapidly globalize and cope with emerging markets”.
“This expansion is primarily because of recent growth in SaaS, Managed Services and Cloud Computing opportunities and the need for corporate and ISV’s to enable more and more applications moving towards innovative model of Managed Services and SaaS. Our new Hyderabad office will enable us to better respond to the needs of our customers and will support growth in all of our functional practices” Said Anuj Sachdeva, CEO of Synverse Technologies.
The company’s new address is 3 Cube Towers, Whitefield Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad - 500084, AP India.
About Synverse Limited:
Synverse is a next generation global IT Services Company headquartered in UK. It is led by innovation, solution accelerators and methodologies with core focus on enterprise integration, collaboration solutions driven by SaaS and Cloud Computing under managed services business offerings. Synverse differentiates with other market players by virtue of its unique business, solution and technology accelerator frameworks which enables/empowers an organization with aggressive time to market on lower total cost of ownership, without compromising on the service quality.
Contact Synverse at:
Tel (UK): +44 2033 717 255
Tel (India): +91 40 65265221
Email: marketing@synverse.com
Website: www.synverse.com
What may be less obvious is the extent to which internal “private” clouds are in the open source camp. At a session at O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) this week titled “Private Clouds — Why They Matter,” there was a robust discussion regarding internal cloud computing plans. While few of the attendees had large-scale internal clouds in production, several had some operating cloud infrastructure running in-house, and many claimed to be actively evaluating the technology. To be fair, some of the session attendees were from companies such as SaaS providers or software developers — though their comments were clearly directed toward use of cloud technologies for internal applications (rather than their public Web sites). However, there were several traditional end users there as well.
It quickly became clear that many of these internal private clouds were not just using open source (Linux, MySQL, etc.); they were built on open source. Eucalyptus was most often cited as the base platform for building private clouds, and this was true even when VMware was an organization’s primary virtualization environment.
There are several kinds of Cloud Computing service offerings. Here are the most common ones. Common Services. Some products offer Internet-based services—such as storage, middleware, collaboration, and database capabilities—directly to users.
SaaS. Software-as-a-service products provide a complete, turnkey application—including complex programs such as those for CRM or enterprise-resource management—via the Internet.
PaaS. Platform-as-a-service products offer a full or partial development environment that users can access and utilize online, even in collaboration with others.
IaaS. Infrastructure-as-a-service products deliver a full computer infrastructure via the Internet.
DaaS. Desktop-as-a-service which utilize virtualization of desktop systems serving thin clients.
The answer is yes. The cloud approach is both mature and functionally deep enough to drive a significant level of IT success for today’s new generation of supply chain experts. The supply chain world is experiencing a major structural shift as more companies rely on a community of partners worldwide to carry out the complex dance of designing, manufacturing, and distributing products. Today, the majority of supply chain activity already takes place in a virtual, “cloud-like” environment—outside the four walls of one company, across a global web of trading partners. This new approach, called Community Supply Chain Management, demands a new technology model and cloud computing is a natural fit. When it comes to business applications, the emerging “as a service” delivery model—e.g. Software as a Service, or SaaS—might be considered a cloud application. However, unless it is massively scalable and available to many users simultaneously, it is just a variation on license models and not necessarily a true cloud application.
Compared to traditional software, SaaS-based CRM and ERP vendors have been successful in delivering significantly better performance, security, and reliability—all at a lower cost—for optimal levels of customized, secure processes. This has paved the way for a move into mission-critical, multi-company SCM. And unlike the original SaaS model in which a vendor runs an application on its own servers rather than on a company’s private services, the cloud provides access to thousands, or even millions of supply chain community members—anywhere, at any time, through an intuitive front end. It requires little to no IT expertise and those leveraging the cloud model need not worry about software installation or maintenance.
No doubt its an innovative concept but somewhere it is threatening IT jobs. IDC has predicted that by 2012, investment on cloud service will increase to $42 billion. Analyst firm indicated that as time will pass cloud computing will become more and more prevalent it will replace the jobs performed by IT professionals. There’s nothing to worry, this won’t happen at least for the next few months. As of now SaaS is in and cloud computing is the next level but not its replacement. It is more likely to take five years for any company to switch over. Initially, cloud computing will create new jobs for monitoring infrastructure performance, datacenter operations, shifting to cloud service provider like Google, Amazon etc. According to Mark McDonald, Vice President of Gartner’s group, there will not be much growth in these infrastructure jobs at cloud providers end, due to the economies of scale that came from massive, highly automated and virtualized service-based infrastructures.
This is basically the shift from blue-collar to white-collar IT professionals. Configurations and maintainance of infrastructure jobs will face a major risk as outsourcing the functionality would just ignore administration. So, lesser jobs will emerge for server administrators, database administrators and infrastructure as network staff and companies don’t need to carry their extra burden. Some of these people can be retained by companies but will be given the role of datacenter automation or some monitoring work instead of CRM. And the in-house software developers’ job will be more of SaaS integration with SaaS.
Microsoft’s survey of more than 600 Small Business Specialist partners in the U.S., U.K., Canada, France and Brazil, found that these partners anticipate a 20 percentage point increase this year in the number of SMBs that use SaaS. Ross Brown, vice president of solution partners at Microsoft, says SaaS makes sense for SMBs in the current economy. “Most SMBs are cash-flow-financed instead of debt-financed, and the pay-as-you-go model lets them spend more money on service configuration than on capital costs,” Brown said. Brown says Microsoft is seeing “significant uptake” in its Business Productivity Online Services suite, which includes hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications Server and LiveMeeting.
Microsoft partners are seeing ample services opportunities in migrating SMBs from legacy e-mail systems to hosted Exchange, according to Brown. But while SMBs are interested in SaaS, they still face certain obstacles in shifting their business operations to services. For example, many SMBs have line-of-business apps that are designed to run in client-server environments, such as those built on Access or SQL Server, said Dave Sobel, CEO of Evolve Technologies, a Fairfax, Va.-based Microsoft Gold partner. Virtualization and IT consolidation were identified by fully half of survey participants as the most effective for cutting operating costs. But for SMBs, the cost savings of virtualization aren’t just on the server, but also in application virtualization and streaming
As time progresses, analyst firms foresee the cloud becoming more prevalent, absorbing functions traditionally done by IT. IDC predicts that worldwide IT spending on cloud services will grow almost threefold by 2012 to $42 billion. Gartner has even predicted that, for IT, cloud computing will become as influential as e-business has been. Any large-scale shift to cloud computing is a decade or more away, says Gartner analyst Ben Pring. “For now I look at software as a service [Saas] and cloud computing as an extension of the company’s network, not a replacement,” says Kim Terry, president of Terrosa Technologies, which helps software vendors make their wares available through the cloud. “In most organization, it’s likely to be five years before anyone is ready to change out a company’s financial systems
The cloud will create a few jobs, at first In the short term, cloud computing today may actually create some IT jobs, says James Staten, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. The reason: Today, cloud computing is mostly used for new applications. Some percentage of the jobs actually performing infrastructure services, monitoring, and datacenter operations in-house will shift to cloud service providers like Google, Amazon, and the telcos,” says Mark McDonald, Gartner’s group vice president of executive programs. But if you’re able to get one of these jobs, in many cases it’s a skill set that is less technical and more managerial and administrative, with days full of conference calls and putting out fires.
