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A list of on demand (SaaS) Message Queuing (MQ) providers

( AWS and Cloud Computing and SaaS )

I mentioned in the article on SaaS offering of ITIL, that the cloud computing or as SaaS matures, more infrastructure software components would be made available in the cloud.  For example on demand Message Queuing (MQ) service.
In house MQ software has played an important role in the enterprise application integration world for over a decade. [...]

Service-now, a SaaS offering of ITIL

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of processes for enterprises seeking a service centric approach to managing their IT operations rather than, following a system based approach. The latest release of ITIL is version 3 and uses a slightly different terminology from ITIL v2.
ITILv2 is predominantly adopted in the enterprise while [...]

Enhance your blog using Zemanta

( Web 2.0 )

Summary
Zemanta is one of a number of semantic computing startups attempting to address the problem on how to enhance the content that a publisher authors.  Zemanta attempts to answer this question by processing the text in the content in real time to suggest four things that are contextually relevant: images, stories, in-text links [...]

Amazon expands its cloud by getting Windows

Amazon announced that it will offer the ability to deploy Microsoft Windows Server and MS SQL Server on Amazon EC2. This has multiple implications:
1. Having the ability to run Microsoft on EC2 would accelerate the enterprise adoption of cloud computing especially favoring Amazon EC2.
2. Running MS Windows Server would bring Windows based development [...]

Gnip 2.0 launches, with a pricing model

Gnip launched v2.0 yesterday with some enhancements and a pricing model. The pricing model is based on chargeback model as I speculated when I first wrote about them here. For those of you who don’t know about Gnip, Gnip notifies changes to the data that you are interested in, on an endpoint you [...]