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San Francisco-based ezRez Software, an online travel Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendor, runs SIOS Technology Corp.'s SteelEye Protection Suite (SPS) for Linux for high availability failover of its PostgreSQL-based platform. According to Michael Bruttig, senior director of technical operations with ezRez, the suite's LifeKeeper software caught an issue that could have resulted in a global outage.

 Brivo Systems LLC, leader in Software as a Service applications for security management, today announced that the AAA Iowa Cubs have installed Brivo ACS WebService® at their home field, Principal Park, located in Des Moines, Iowa. The integrator for the project is Strauss Security Solutions of Urbandale, IA.

Principal Park, home to 72 Iowa Cubs games each season, sees more than 500,000 fans through its gates each year. Over the years, the stadium has undergone numerous expansions and improvements. The most recent multi-million dollar upgrade was completed for the 2007 season in which new seats were installed throughout the ballpark, a new scoreboard and videoboard were installed, a fountain in right field was completed, bleacher seating was expanded in front of the scoreboard, and a giant kids' playland was put in on the first base concourse.

The Spring 2011 release of Brivo's WebService Security Management system brings a new look, loads of new features, and an overall better user experience.

• Streamlined menus—easier to find what you need and get your work done faster
• List filters—quickly sort through lists of activities, users, journal events, and more to pinpoint what you need
• View video from Activity Log—OVR WebService video displays with user photo right on the Activity Log page
• Console View—Access to all system cameras; view 1, 2, 4, or 6 at a time, and even pulse a door directly from the Console

Check out the Spring 2011 Preview Webinar 

The Spring 2011 release of ACS WebService brings new functionality and enhancements, including a new, reorganized tab structure. Core elements of WebService like access control, ID management, and video are better coordinated and simpler to use. This webinar will introduce the changes to WebService administrators and Authorized Brivo Resellers.

article by :  Julien Weston  of Wired VC  

Crossroads Systems, Inc., an Austin, Texas based company providing SaaS solutions for enterprise cloud storage, has announced the completion of a $10m equity financing in a private placement transaction to a group of institutional investors led by Compass Global Management, Ltd.

The Company sold 12,500,000 shares of its common stock at $0.80 per share for gross proceeds to the Company of $10.0 million and issued warrants to purchase an additional 4,296,875 shares of common stock (including shares underlying a warrant issued to the placement agent) with an exercise price of $0.80 per share. The net proceeds of the offering, after deducting placement agent fees and estimated financing expenses, are expected to be approximately $9.2 million. MDB Capital Group LLC acted as sole placement agent for the offering.

CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd offers cloud computing service to the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) to boost the performance of FIMM’s advanced biomedical software environment. The service utilizes the high-speed data transmission link between Meilahti and Otaniemi established in June.

Biomedical sciences have become data and computationally intensive disciplines. Many research groups and institutions have set up their own local computational resources - usually compute clusters and storage solutions. However, often these resources become insufficient as the need for computing grows over time.

Many countries, including Finland, have set up supercomputer and data centers to satisfy this kind of demand. The current way of accessing the resources often implies that one size has to fit all. The users of the local compute clusters and storage solutions would like to migrate their tasks to a new more efficient environment, but this has not been a trivial task. Cloud computing is a technology that can offer a solution for exactly that.

"Cloud interface to high-performance computer clusters and storage in order to encapsulate scientific software environments aims to improve biomedical institutes' access to ICT centers' resources", says Tommi Nyrönen who leads the development at CSC. In practical terms this means that the FIMM’s compute cluster has seemingly doubled its size with half of the processors provided by CSC’s cloud. The arrangement utilizes the high-speed data transmission link between Meilahti and Otaniemi established in June.

Mission Mpower Finds SOX Compliant SaaS Hosting w/ Online Tech's Data Centers

from OnlinePRNews link below) Mission Mpower Inc., a New Jersey-based provider of administration and financial reporting software, has selected Online Tech as their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosting partner for their applications in Online Tech’s SAS 70 certified data centers.

“We wanted a partner that gave us the high availability and security we needed,” says Arnold Kingsberg, Mission Mpower COO. “We chose Online Tech to be that partner. We feel confident that our customers’ data is safe and secure and will always be available 24 X 7.”