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Jun-2-2010 MarketWire
Mezeo Software Launches the Mezeo Ready Program to Simplify Cloud Storage Enablement
Mezeo Ready Ecosystem Offers Complete Portfolio of Proven, Integrated Solutions That Enable Mezeo Based Storage Cloud Solutions.

Mar-30-2010 eBizQ
The Cloud is Secure, It's Cloud Providers That Aren't
The drumbeat on the barriers to enterprise cloud infrastructure (or IaaS) adoption continues to roll to a single refrain, the enterprise won't adopt the cloud because it's not secure.

Mar-19-2010 ChannelWeb
Cloud SLAs Add New Level Of 'Confidence'
Cloud infrastructure player OpSource is looking to set the standard for cloud reliability, launching an ambitious service level agreement (SLA) that guarantees cloud uptime and lets solution providers offer customers air tight cloud performance.

Mar-2-2010 The Register
OpSource puffs up VMware cloud
OpSource is beefing up the infrastructure cloud it rolled out in beta last summer and put into production in the fall.

Feb-16-2010 eWeek
24/7 Uptime, Live Support Loom Important in Cloud SLAs
There's all kinds of research being done on cloud computing: Who's looking at it, who's using it, who's skeptical, who thinks it's just a fad, etc.

Jan-2010 Channel Web
20 Coolest Cloud Infrastructure Vendors
If cloud computing is on your radar screen, you'd better get to know these 20 cloud infrastructure players and soon.

Jan-28-2010 Channel Web
OpSource Takes On Amazon, Rackspace With Cloud Partner Program
Cloud infrastructure vendor OpSource is taking off the gloves and is ready to duke it out against rivals Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) and Rackspace. And the stage for the battle: In the channel.

Dec-31-2009 LightReading Europe
2009 Top Ten: Cloud Stories
2009 has been the year of telecom cloud formations, as service providers and vendors alike have rushed to promote and launch their offerings.

Dec-16-2009 Cloud Storage Strategy
OpSource's Treb Ryan on the Cloud Generation, Enterprise Clouds, Security, and Agile Customer Service
CloudStorageStrategy.com welcomes OpSource CEO Treb Ryan for an in-depth interview on cloud computing, from the perspective of the service provider.

Sep-21-2009 Reuters
OpSource Offers Enterprise-Level Security in Public Cloud
Leading Industry Analysts Echo Need for Innovative Cloud Solution for Enterprise Marketplace.

Aug-28-2009 eWeek.com
OpSource Offers Enterprise-Level Security in Public Cloud
OpSource, a company that delivers back-end services to software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers today announced the beta release OpSource Cloud, an offering the company calls "the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and controls the enterprise demands.

Aug-28-2009 Internetnews.com
OpSource Takes on Amazon, IBM, and Rackspace
OpSource, a company that delivers back-end services to software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers today announced the beta release OpSource Cloud, an offering the company calls "the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and controls the enterprise demands.

Aug-28-2009 The Register
OpSource floats VMware cloud Like Amazon EC2, only better
OpSource is hot on the heels of Amazon Web Services in announcing its own virtual private cloud with the debut of a beta program for what it's calling OpSource Cloud.

Aug-28-2009 ZDNet
When is a Cloud Not a Cloud?
The answer to the question I’ve posed in my title is blindingly obvious, yet it seems to be one of those things that never hits you between the eyes until one day, something makes you stop and just think it through.

Aug-28-2009 OpenSource Magazine
OpSource Unveils the ‘True Cloud’
Unlike Amazon, OpSource is offering 24x7 handholding, ticketing and status tracking and its SLA is betterTo most who practice it, technology is a religion. So it will come as no surprise that one amongst us now claims to have discovered the “true Cloud,” the Cloud beyond simple development, the Cloud that brings us to the nirvana of serious application deployment and production via the cloud.

Aug-28-2009 Saugatuck Technology
OpSource Cloud: Is the Public Cloud Enterprise Ready
In this Research Alert, we offer criteria to consider when evaluating a public Cloud offering for an enterprise production workload – and we provide a brief, summary assessment of the OpSource Cloud relative to these criteria.

Aug-27-2009 VentureBeat
OpSource Launches Virtual Private Cloud, Says It’s Better Than Amazon’s
OpSource just announced a new product called the OpSource Cloud, which it says will provide the benefits of cloud computing — where the computing takes place remotely, on someone else’s infrastructure — without sacrificing the control and security of traditional IT. Amazon made a similar announcement yesterday, but the startup’s chief executive Treb Ryan claims the OpSource Cloud goes further in addressing the needs of large, enterprise-scale companies

Aug-27-2009 TechCrunchIT
OpSource Unveils Hybrid Cloud Solution For The Enterprise
OpSource, which provides SaaS and Web applications for on-demand companies, will be launching a Enterprise-targeted Cloud solution, called OpSource Cloud, that hope to achieve the flexibility of the public cloud with the security of the private cloud. Here’s how it works: OpSource Cloud lets each user create a “Private Cloud” within the public Cloud, allowing

Aug-27-2009 TechNews.am
OpSource Unveils Hybrid Cloud Solution For The Enterprise
OpSource, which provides SaaS and Web applications for on-demand companies, will be launching a Enterprise-targeted Cloud solution, called OpSource Cloud, that hope to achieve the flexibility of the public cloud with the security of the private cloud. Here’s how it works: OpSource Cloud lets each user create a “Private Cloud” within the public Cloud, allowing

Mar-30-2009 gigaom
OpSource, Akamai Unite to Score a Slice of $56B Cloud Market Pie
Software vendors with dreams of moving toward Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings are ideal cloud computing customers: They see the benefits of delivering their applications as cloud services, but they have neither the resources nor expertise to build and manage the massive, multi-tenant architectures needed to so do. OpSource's On-Demand suite of solutions fills this gap holistically — providing not only the computing resources and managed hosting services needed to go SaaS, but also application and business operations capabilities like change management, compliance, analytics and a billing mechanism.

Mar-24-2009 ebiz
Goodnight Cloud Misconceptions

Mar-12-2009 SiliconBeat
Sign of the Times: The Going-Out-of-Business Guarantee
For three years, Treb Ryan has been been offering customers of OpSource a going-out-of-business guarantee. If, by some unfortunate turn of fate, the software companies who host their applications at OpSource’s data center ceased operations, the Santa Clara company would take over.

Mar-12-2009 Cnet
Cloud computing -- value is an assumption, but cost matters
Over the last 10 years, IT has moved further and further outside the firewall. Starting with ASP (application service providers) and moving to multitenant SaaS (software as a service) on-demand applications, and now into cloud-computing environments, the status of on-premise IT has shifted from being a necessity to an option.

Jan-26-2009 ebizQ
How SaaS Companies Can Survive the Downturn
With the world entering its second year of what promises to be a long recession, many ask what this means for Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. Much has been made of how the SaaS marketplace will benefit from a recession.

Dec-3-2008 TMC.net
DecisionView Launches Hosted Applications Services for StudyOptimizer
OnDemand Reduces Cost of Ownership and Optimizes Clinical Trial Performance

Dec-1-2008 Redmond Channel Partner
Landing New Business: S+S Incubation Centers Gives ISVs a First Step
Microsoft's Software plus Services Incubation Centers can help ISVs hook into SaaS opportunities by pairing them with experienced hosters.

Sep-22-2008 Oracle
Oracle Gains Momentum as Leading Platform for Independent Software Vendors Providing SaaS and Cloud-Based Applications
More Than 250 Independent Software Vendors Choose Oracle's Complete, Open, and Integrated Platform as Foundation to Develop and Deliver Software-as-a-Service Applications

Jul-15-2008 the Web Host Industry Review
The SaaS Score Sheet
This month, we invite a panel of service providers and others intimately familiar with the technology to discuss the state of software as a service, the platform options and the applications that are earning right now

Jul-1-2008 IEEE distributed systems ONLINE
Software-as-a-Service: The Spark That Will Change Software Engineering?
Much of the attention SaaS has garnered in recent months has focused on the new business model that on-demand software enables. However, some veteran technologists who’ve adopted SaaS for their own livelihood, and analysts as well, say that the phenomenon might well be the catalyst for a far wider-ranging discussion on software development for the next generation.

Jun-4-2008 TMCnet
OpSource Expands Business Continuity Application with OpSource Multisite
OpSource Business Continuity provides customers with off-site data backup and recovery support through its existing components - OpSource Disaster Recovery and OpSource Storage.

May-27-2008 MyCustomer.com
Interview: Treb Ryan, OpSource
"This generation will use the web in the same way my generation used the PC and SaaS is about how they go enterprise with what they do."

May-13-2008 bMighty.com
SaaS: Enterprise Power Comes to Smaller Businesses
With so many SaaS options on offer -- from ERP and CRM to spam blocking and servers, to online backups and PBX-based telephony -- which SaaS applications should small and midsize businesses study first?

May-11-2008 ConnectIT
Web services represent next-generation silo busters for SaaS
Direct selling isn't going anywhere soon, but the next generation of Web-based applications can offer SaaS companies significant advantages in terms of added functionality, application integration and new sales channel opportunities, according to OpSource CEO Treb Ryan.

Mar-5-2008 Network World
OpSource Says "Get On The Bus"
If you are at all involved in the software-as-a-service, hosting or MSP industry, you've likely heard of Internet startup OpSource. Headed by co-founder and CEO Treb Ryan, a former Metromedia Fiber Network exec, OpSource seeks to be the operations services company for others looking to get into the SaaS game.

Feb-29-2008 eWEEK
ISVs Snub Salesforce's Force.com Platform
ZDNet blogger (and Procullux Ventures Founding Director) Phil Wainewright hosted a panel discussion Thursday at the OpSource SaaS Summit here in San Francisco..

Feb-29-2008 NetworkWorld.com
SaaS Spawns Entrepreneurs
I'm attending SaaS Summit this week in  San Francisco, sponsored by SaaS aggregator OpSource. Companies ranging from Microsoft to my company Absolute ...

Feb-29-2008 Destination CRM
OpSource Sees SaaS Reigning In the Cloud
With its new OpSource Connect, the provider of software-as-a-service infrastructure sees mainstream acceptance of SaaS as a sign that the industry is primed to tackle integration now.

Feb-29-2008 TMC Net
An Interview With Treb Ryan, CEO
OpSource delivers Web applications and Software-as-a-Service for on-demand companies. FedEx delivers packages, OpSource delivers on-demand applications.

Feb-29-2008 ebizQ
OpSource Embeds Boomi On Demand into OpSource Connect
OpSource™ and Boomi announced that the companies have expanded their partnership to include an OEM agreement whereby OpSource will embed Boomi On Demand within its software-as-a-service application delivery system. Boomi On Demand will be built directly into Opsource Connect™.

Feb-28-2008 ADT Magazine
OpSource Rolls Out SaaS App Integration Offering
OpSource, the SaaS hosting company, today added an option to its service offerings that lets companies consume and publish multiple Web services, and connect those services with legacy apps too..

Feb-28-2008 PC World
For Web Apps, Get a Service Guarantee
As software-as-a-service (SAAS) adoption rises in the workplace, business managers mustn't overlook a key issue when selecting a Web-hosted applications suite: a service-level agreement.

Feb-11-2008 ebizQ
OpSource Comments on LeCayla Acquisition
OpSource, a SaaS company that specializes in SaaS application delivery, today announced that it will acquire LeCayla Technologies, an Irish SaaS billing provider

Feb-5-2008 SoftwareCEO.com
13 Habits of Highly Effective SaaS Companies
Any way you look at it, SaaS-enabling firm OpSource is having a heck of a run.  Founded in 2002, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has helped dozens of other software firms bring SaaS offerings to market. With 170 staff hosting 220 SaaS companies, OpSource now serves millions of end users and handles billions of transactions every day.

Oct/Nov 2007 www.siia.net
SaaS Success
In the past few years, software as a service (SaaS) has grown from a speck on the horizon to a thriving industry. A significant increase in demand for SaaS has led a large number of companies to enter the market, including start-ups and legacy providers of on-premise software.

Sep-28-2007 SDTimes.com
SaaS Gets Behind-the-Scenes Boost
Third parties tackle billing, tech support, performance.

Aug-25-2007 softwareCEO.com
11 top tips from our first-ever Innovation Award winners
The software industry, more than any other, is built on breakthrough ideas... ideas that must be tested and found valuable in the marketplace.

Jun-25-2007 gihyo.jp
Pacific Connection - Software without the Software: SaaS
Last year, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners got attention when it was revealed that 12 of its 30 funded companies were offering SaaS: software as a service.

Jun-7-2007 www.thewhir.com
On-Demand in Demand in Europe

May-16-2007 Dr. Dobb's Portal
Security and Virtualization

May-3-2007 Forbes.com
Nice Little Business?Now Get Out of the Way

Apr-4-2007 Web Host Industry Review
OpSource Simplifies SaaS Development
Software-as-a-service platform developer OpSource (opsource.net) is working to make application delivery simpler and more affordable, most recently by introducing its OpSource On-Demand 2.0.

Mar-2007 Softwaremag.com
Software as a Service Gaining as a Pricing Model
The move to on-demand software, or software as a service (SaaS) pricing, is gaining steam.

Mar-15-2007 InfoWorld
Microsoft sings SaaS song
Company sees opportunities in subscription-based, hosted software

Mar-15-2007 InfoWorld
Integration via SaaS planned
Everybody agrees that data integration is a difficult task. But could it ever be accomplished via SaaS (Software as a Service), with integration services being provided online?

Mar-12-2007
Are You Really a SaaS Vendor?

Jan-17-2007 ASPnews.com
OpSource Joins Select Group of Companies on 2007 ASPNews Top25 Enabler List
OpSource has been determined to be a Top 25 Enabler from ASPnews, being one of the most influential software or infrastructure providers for the ASP, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Utility Computing industries.

Sep-25-2006 ebizQ
Intel Leads $20M Funding of OpSource's SaaS Solution
Market share and -- and investment dollars -- keep flowing toward the Software as a Service sector, and OpSource is the latest firm to benefit from both trends.

Sep-20-2006 SYS-CON Media
SIIA White Paper Counters Common Misperceptions About Software-as-a-Service
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) today published a new white paper that takes a comprehensive look at total cost of ownership (TCO) of software applications. As the first in a series of industry updates from the SIIA's SaaS Executive Council, the white paper provides a true 'apples-to-apples' TCO comparison between the traditional on-premise model and the Software-as-a-Service model.

Sep-19-2006 Computer Wire
SaaS Enabler Lands $20m
OpSource Inc, an infrastructure provider for software as a service firms, bagged a further $20m in a Series C round of funding this week. The money has been raised through a combination of investment capital, venture leasing and credit lines.

Sep-5-2006 Server Watch
Hardware Today: Blades Deliver Software as a Service
Software as a service (SaaS), also known as software on-demand, has been gathering steam for several years now.

Jul-25-2006 Sys-Con Media
SIIA Launches SaaS Executive Council to Demystify Business Realities of Software-as-a-Service
Council Comprised of Broad Coalition of Software Industry Leaders

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