Executives from IBM’s Cast Iron Systems, SAP, Metastorm, Pervasive Software, OpSource and Informatica are scheduled to speak at CloudCon II on September 2, and present technology overviews, case studies and even preview future editions and vision for how cloud is improving enterprise IT…

…Organizations that attempt to integrate EDI and ERP systems themselves have tackled the problem in different ways, according to Simon Peel, senior vp of marketing and strategy, Cast Iron Systems, an IBM company, a company focused on providing integration tools between cloud and SaaS solutions with enterprise applications…

In May of this year, IBM acquired Cast Iron Systems (for an undisclosed sum) to help customers more effectively tackle the challenges of integrating cloud and on-premise solutions. Cast Iron, which was founded in 2001 and has 75 employees, provides hundreds of pre-built templates and a “configuration, not coding” approach to help streamline and shorten the time application integration. Cast Iron’s OmniConnect portfolio includes three deployment options, which all share the same interface, and deliver user interface mashups, process integration and data migration capabilities…

IBM has acquired Cast Iron Systems, a developer of cloud application integration services, in a move that will expand IBM's business process and integration software portfolio…

IBM moved Monday to improve its position in the emerging area of cloud computing architecture, purchasing Cast Iron Systems for an undisclosed sum. The privately held Mountain View, Calif.-based Cast Iron specializes in cloud computing systems integration; it matches, for example, cloud applications from players such as Salesforce.com and Amazon with traditional back-end ERP systems from the likes of JD Edwards and SAP…

Cloud computing has played a starring role in the technology press for the past 2-3 years, but it’s now moving from the haven of startups and random corporate side projects seeking flexible and cheap computing on Amazon’s Web Services to enterprises figuring out how to use on-demand compute capacity to change their IT cost structure and eventually link their internal applications to public clouds. So get ready for another round of acquisitions and maybe investments…

IBM needs to make sure the core value of integration, a mainstay of its WebSphere brands, does not slide up and out of the enterprises data center and then become controlled then by the likes of cloud leaders Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce.com. I guess we can think of Cast Iron as a way to bring WebSphere to cloud integrations…

IBM, which has eleven cloud computing labs around the world including one that is due to open in Singapore later this week, has already unveiled - last November - the world's largest private cloud computing environment for business analytics, an internal cloud called BlueInsight. Today, it has rounded out its Cloud strategy by acquiring Cast Iron Systems, advancing in a single step IBM’s capabilities for a so-called "hybrid" cloud model - attractive to enterprises because it allows them to blend data from on-premise applications with public and private cloud systems…

IBM announced its intention to acquire Cast Iron Systems today, bringing to an end the long-standing parlor game of which integration tool vendor would be the next to be acquired after Workday grabbed Cape Clear in 2008&hellip

For those enterprises trying to figure out whether cloud computing is worth the effort, one industry expert said the cloud just might be the next big paradigm, as was the emergence of the personal computer and of open source.

…Integration makes up more than half of all real-time cloud traffic, according to the e-book. I did not know that, but it's not surprising, and it explains – again – how critical integration is to SaaS. Chandar Pattabhiram, the vice president of Channel and Product Marketing for Cast Iron, calls integration the “loyalty app for SaaS,” and, as I've written before, nobody in the cloud is as smart about that as Salesforce…

AlwaysOn is excited to announce the 2010 OnDemand Top 100 Private Companies. The OD100 comprises companies pioneering cloud computing and SaaS…

On Thursday March 25, Tim Vibbert, the President/CEO of Oglala IS, an advisory and consulting practice focused on SOA and Cloud Computing, conducted the first session of the Cloud QCamp podcast series with Chandar Pattabhiram VP of Product and Channel Marketing at Cast Iron…

Loraine Lawson spoke with Chandar Pattabhiram, vice president of Channel and Product Marketing for Cast Iron. Earlier this month, Cast Iron unveiled OmniConnect, a new platform designed to tackle the integration problems of the cloud. But Cast Iron certainly isn't abandoning its roots as an appliance company…

In a move to tackle a persistent cloud computing challenge, Cast Iron Systems just rolled out a new platform that aims to help companies large and small securely integrate public clouds, private clouds and on-premise applications…

…Cast Iron OmniConnect, to be available Tuesday, represents an evolution of the vendor's existing IaaS (integration as a service) and on-premises offerings. It is available in on-demand form, as an on-premises or hosted virtual appliance, or as a hardware appliance…

Cast Iron Systems is shipping the next generation of its integration platform for linking applications running in public and private clouds and on-premise…

Industry Recognition Builds on Selection of Cast Iron by Microsoft, Google, HP, Salesforce.com, Dell, Amazon, and Oracle…

It’s a problem we’ve heard about time and time again: the benefits of cloud computing and SaaS sound appealing, but it’s hard for a company to justify a jump into the cloud when the legacy hardware and software, which cost a pretty penny to get up to speed not so long ago, has plenty of life left in it…

Data middlemen Cast Iron officially launched OmniConnect, its answer to the explosion of off-premise Software as a Service applications. It's a twist on Cast Iron's specialty of integrating back-end data with third party front-end systems that's geared towards next-gen services like NetSuite and Sales Cloud 2…

Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios…

Data integration specialist Cast Iron Systems is about to release a new offering aimed at both on-premises and cloud-based scenarios…

Providing an API is a key element in any mature cloud-based service and cloud integration as a service is no exception. Cast Iron’s latest integration platform provides a comprehensive set of APIs that allows users to provision, control and monitor their cloud integrations programmatically. -Rishi Vaish, Cast Iron Systems

The list was based on nominations from Solution Providers rating technology, channel influence, effectiveness and visibility along with business and sales impact. The final selections were made by a panel of Everything Channel Editors.

A combination of server virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and, soon, cloud-based storage meant so much savings for Extra Space Storage Inc. in 2009 that a competitor is actually copying the IT model, CIO Bill Hoban said…

Leading Cast Iron Customer Honored with Prestigious Award for Innovative Use of Technology to Further Business Goals

AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group overhauled its call center operations, replacing six legacy systems in eight business units with a new platform based on technology from Salesforce and Cast Iron.

More than 15,000 people are attending the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco starting Tuesday night—good proof that Salesforce.com is fulfilling its destiny as a cloud computing platform provider. (This many people wouldn't show up for a CRM conference.) Meanwhile, down in L.A., Microsoft execs are talking to developers about building apps to run on Windows Azure. Is that the crash-boom-bang of competitive thunderclouds I hear on the horizon?…

Cast Iron integrates Windows Azure, SQL Azure, Windows Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus and Access control with hundreds of on-premise enterprise applications…

SaaS application vendors, Cloud infrastructure megabrands, and growth in core business continue to drive expansion…

You’ve no doubt heard all the buzz about virtual data centers and doing business in the cloud, as well as all the money that can be saved. But when it comes time to make the move, there are a lot of things to think about. Will all of the data move to the cloud or will some of it stay local? What about flipping the switch? How long does that take? Will the business have to go dark at any time? What happens to the business operations? moving your business — or parts of it — to the cloud and that money that can be saved…

Cast Iron Systems, a provider of cloud computing integration services, is now offering a service utilizing Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud. Eight-year-old Cast Iron has worked with customers such as Allianz and Amerisource Bergen to integrate software-as-a-service applications with their on-premise applications. Cast Iron's primary product has been SaaS integration appliances, which are small servers programmed to let companies integrate their Salesforce.com application services, for example, with their onsite Oracle financial applications…

One of the hurdles that enterprises face when adopting cloud computing is the task of migrating data from on-premise data centers to the cloud and then ensuring that the cloud-based server is fully connected to the rest of the enterprise. Cast Iron Systems is a company that helps businesses solve this problem. Today, Cast Iron has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services to offer migration to EC2 servers.

In a move that could make cloud computing more accessible to a wider audience, Cast Iron Systems will unveil a deal Tuesday to make its data and application integration technology available through Amazon (NSDQ:AMZN) Web Services.

Cast Iron Systems today announced that it has been awarded top honors by the leading trade association for the world's information technology industry, the Computing Technology Industry Association. Specifically, Cast Iron is the winner of the 2009 SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Award for Most Innovative Service/Business Model.

aaS and Cloud integration leader judged most innovative and promising private technology company of all cloud and infrastructure nominees

Cloud computing offers clear advantages in terms of cost and efficiency. So why are some companies still reluctant to move their IT operations skyward? There are several important reasons, but they all come back to the same thing: Many companies aren't ready to expose their business-critical data and processes to the risks inherent in a shared environment. Private clouds could be the answer.

Cast Iron Systems today announced that it has been recognized by the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the leading trade association for the world's information technology (IT) industry, as a finalist for the 2009 SoftwareCEO Software Innovation Awards. Among 72 nominees in eight categories, Cast Iron was named a finalist in the innovation award category: Most Innovative Service/Business Model. Winners will be announced at an online award ceremony on June 17th, 2009…

Cast Iron Systems today announced that it has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Privately Held Companies in North America by Red Herring, a global, high-technology media company. The Red Herring editorial team deployed a detailed process to select Cast Iron from a group of 1,000 eligible, promising companies, and chose them as one of the Red Herring 100 North America Award winners…

Cast Iron SVP of Strategy and Marketing to share the keys to SaaS and Cloud integration success with European enterprise application industry leaders…

Cast Iron Systems, a SaaS and cloud integration company, and technology solutions provider HP (NYSE:HPQ) announced on Thursday (28 May) they are partnering to offer integration services for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) looking to reduce costs by utilising software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications within their existing infrastructures and applications…

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) struck a deal with Cast Iron Systems to make that company's Software-as-a-Service integration tools available to HP's 25,000 U.S. channel partners, a move that could give give those solution providers an entree into cloud computing…

Cast Iron Systems and Hewlett-Packard Company announced they are partnering to offer integration services for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) looking to reduce costs by leveraging software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications within their existing infrastructures and applications&hellps;

The FINANCIAL -- Cast Iron Systems and HP on May 28 announced they are partnering to offer integration services for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) looking to reduce costs by leveraging software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications within their existing infrastructures and applications…

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced on Thursday that it's partnering with Cast Iron Systems to help businesses solve one of the biggest hardships of software-as-a-service deployments: integrating SaaS and on-premises applications…

To be selected as a Red Herring 100 winner or finalist is a mark of distinction and high honor. Only 200 companies are chosen as finalists out of a pool of thousands. Of those finalists we selected 100 companies as winners. To decide on these companies the Red Herring editorial team diligently surveys entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers regard the Red Herring 100 lists as invaluable instruments to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation…

Astadia, Salesforce.com, Cast Iron, and 6 other SaaS leaders will explain why SaaS and the Cloud are transforming enterprise computing and present case studies from successful SaaS deployments.

Cast Iron Systems provides integration services between enterprises and various on demand services. The integration process offered by Cast Iron uses pre configured templates for integrating with on demand services resulting in benefits such as lower costs of integration, faster time to market and simple management among others…

Google's new Secure Data Connector could result in a plethora of tie-ups between its productivity software and a range of enterprise applications and data sources…

Google (NSDQ:GOOG) has taken a major step to link its Google Apps to the rest of the IT world, debuting the Google Secure Data Connector for linking Google Apps with corporate data that's stored behind a company's firewall…

Cast Iron announces integrated solution for connecting Google Apps and gadgets with enterprise applications

A familiar-sounding industry spat breaks out over standards…

SaaS and Cloud Integration Leader Provides Simplicity, Speed, and Flexibility to Accelerate Adoption and Realize Full Potential of On-Demand Services

Cast Iron SVP Simon Peel shares experience successfully selling SaaS and Cloud solutions to the Enterprise

Siemens Energy Inc. is expanding its use of Cast Iron Systems’ Integration Solution appliance throughout the enterprise. Based on an early success with Cast Iron's integratation appliance technologies, Siemens looks to cut costs to maintain and update their integrated systems, as well as combat degraded performance…

Cast Iron SVP Simon Peel shares insights on critical role of integration in using cloud infrastructure to offer SaaS business solutions

...a world-class group of thought leaders who are driving this market shift and get their candid input on the meaning of “Cloud Services/Computing”, and the challenges and opportunities ahead. What you will read in the following pages are their thoughts regarding the following questions:

1. 1. From your perch, what is the meaning of “Cloud Services/Computing”, and what are the most important benefits emerging from cloud services that will transform the economics of IT?
2. 2. How will concerns around data governance, availability and security impact the adoption of cloud services?
3. 3. How are cloud services testing traditional thinking around “control of data” and “guarantees of safety”; to include ownership, access and rights that supersede failure of the provider? Ultimately, who should be accountable; vendor or service provider?
4. 4. What are the SME (Small-Medium Enterprise) benefits that would work well in a departmental setting? What are the key adoption barriers?
5. 5. Is dominance among a few industry giants a good thing for cloud computing? What are the implications for the rest?

The Internet, combined with powerful commodity processing power, virtualization advances, improved systems automation and management, and a requirement for wide-scale financial de-leveraging is driving the next seismic shift in software known as "Cloud Computing".

Software as a service is making headway, but can't yet be called a game-changer in the enterprise software market. Here's what must happen for SaaS to gain wider acceptance in 2009.

AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Integrates Salesforce CRM With Enterprise Data Warehouse, Replacing Legacy CRM to Expand Call Center Productivity Across Multiple Business Units

AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group Integrates Salesforce CRM with Enterprise Data Warehouse, Replacing Legacy CRM to Expand Call Center Productivity Across Multiple Business Units

Cast Iron Systems, The #1 SaaS Integration Company™, today announced its public participation in the Microsoft ecosystem. Cast Iron is providing the simplicity, flexibility, and speed customers need to effectively connect Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM solutions with other enterprise applications.

CIOs and system architects find themselves stymied as they try to sledgehammer complex SOAs into their enterprises. Top-down, “if you build it, they will come” approaches to service-oriented architecture often wind up failing—sometimes spectacularly. Instead of better aligning business processes and IT departments, as was promised, too many employees remain oblivious to expensive SOA initiatives. And those optimistic ROI projections? Forget ’em…

Continued interest in software as a service (SaaS) stems from the pay as you go pricing, constant stream of innovation, rapid deployment options, and the ability to do an end run around IT. As the number of options proliferate, enterprises will increasingly lean on SaaS as the mission critical system. Thus, end users need an enterprise apps strategy for SaaS that addresses the "I" word - Integration. The requirements and leadership for integration will lead to the pragmatic realization that SaaS can no longer be ignored by the IT department. As organizations brace for the proliferation of SaaS procurements integration should focus on...

Cast Iron on Thursday [10/16/08] launched a hosted integration service for companies looking to connect applications from multiple software-as-a-service providers.

The Cast Iron Cloud would be particularly useful to a mid-size or small companies using, for example, NetSuite for their financial application and Salesforce.com for customer relationship management…

Integration vendor Cast Iron, which for years has offered its product packaged as a hardware appliance, this week unveiled a cloud-native integration service. The introduction of Cast Iron Cloud is the culmination of a transition begun earlier this year when Cast Iron began offering cloud hosting of its upgraded appliance product. Customers can now choose between an on-premise appliance, a dedicated cloud-hosted appliance or the multi-tenant cloud service.

First partner program for SaaS providers that solves enterprise integration via a combination of proven technology, services, and marketing solutions

Cast Iron Systems is striking a new pose by putting template-driven integration services in the cloud, offering customers a choice between cloud-based and on-premise "integration as a service."

Both Pervasive Software and Cast Iron Systems told me recently of fairly pure cloud offerings. In this, they're joining Informatica, which started offering Salesforce.com integration-as-a-service back in 2006. So far as I can tell, the three vendors are doing somewhat different things.

The Bottom Line: Siemens Power Transmission & Distribution used the Cast Iron Systems iA3000 integration appliance to rapidly connect SAP to Salesforce.com, improving demand forecasting and reporting and increasing management productivity.

Cast Iron Integration Solution for Taleo Business Edition Furthers Mid-market Taleo Adoption

Cast Iron has introduced an iA4000 series data-integration appliance that includes new data migration capabilities...

Integration appliance vendor Cast Iron Systems showed great foresight a few years back when it decided to target its business development energies at the SaaS market...

One of the biggest problems faced by service and solution providers that work with software-as-a-service applications is overcoming customer worries that on-demand software can't be easily integrated with other applications and IT systems.

Cast Iron Systems this week released a new version of its SaaS integration appliance that offers new data conversion, profiling and migration capabilities, as well as pre-built templates that simplify application integration tasks...

Cast Iron Systems, maker of an appliance for integrating SaaS and on-premise applications, is introducing a new version that adds data cleansing and migration tools, along with a library of prebuilt integration templates for connecting many commercial software-as-a-service products.

Cast Iron Systems, maker of an appliance for integrating SaaS and on-premise applications, is introducing a new version that adds data cleansing and migration tools, along with a library of prebuilt integration templates for connecting many commercial software-as-a-service products.

Secure, scalable integration solution helps mid-market companies accelerate NetSuite adoption

Simplicity is the number-one benefit of software as a service (SaaS) applications, like the popular NetSuite ERP offering. However, when users need to integrate their old applications with their new SaaS stuff, it can require complex coding, thereby hurting the SaaS value proposition. Cast Iron Systems today announced a new integration appliance that promises to alleviate the pain of connecting NetSuite installations with other SaaS apps or on-premise software, such as JD Edwards and Salesforce...

Simon Peel acknowledges that "90 percent of SaaS integration is with on-premises applications," but that hasn't stopped his company from introducing an appliance for SaaS to SaaS integration...

For years, the standard objections to deploying CRM applications via the Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand model were threefold: security, uptime and integration....

Cast Iron products combined with Saaspoint services will reduce integration time and costs by 80%

The company eases the integration of back-end systems with SPS Commerce EDI service.

Software integration is a familiar challenge for CIOs, but these days it comes in a new flavor: making your installed systems work with those running somewhere else.

SaaS integration leader builds on 2007 momentum with substantial growth in new customers, partners, and solutions

Vendors of IT appliances claim their offerings can provide substantial relief to several of the challenges confronting typical user IT organizations. Their claims sound much like those of many SaaS providers, in that appliances can:

• Simplify IT infrastructure complexity,
• Control or reduce IT management costs,
• Improve service levels, and/or
• Reduce or eliminate integration challenges.

SaaS is being proclaimed as the greatest thing since the microchip, why is it that most companies continue to run the their systems using in-house package software?

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.

Point-to-point integration dramatically increases the complexity of building and maintaining corporate business processes.

Episode 3: Ken Comée, CEO of Cast Iron Systems, holds forth on how his company is making SaaS integration easier and less expensive...

Cast Iron Systems, the fastest growing SaaS integration appliance vendor, today announced the appointment of Daniel J. Moore to the position of vice president of services.

More and more companies are adopting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, fueled by a fiercely competitive business environment. However, 62 percent of IT executives report "Integration with non SaaS applications" as their number one challenge when trying to roll out these applications. This article investigates why traditional methods of integration are failing to solve the problem and highlights the new technologies that are emerging to fill in the gap.

The need for application integration is greater than ever as companies seek to link legacy applications with newer applications to improve internal processes and work more effectively with partners, customers, and vendors. Traditionally, companies had just two choices for their integration needs: use complex platforms such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) or write custom code. The platform approach evolved to meet the needs of large enterprises and is very expensive to procure, install, deploy, and maintain. Therefore, most companies chose to develop custom code for integrating their applications and, as a result, custom code has become the most widely used integration solution.

Fastest Growing Appliance Vendor Extends Lead In Software-as-a-Service Integration

The success of software as a service rests on IT

Contrary to what SaaS (software as a service) vendors claim -- namely, that their wares are pay-and-play -- SaaS requires intervention from IT...

Interview: 

Midmarket Strategies: "What are the key trends driving the need for application integration today?"

Simon Peel: "There’s no doubt that the demand for application integration has never been higher than it is today, accounting for nearly 35 percent of the total IT cost of design, development and maintenance in a typical company, according to Gartner..."

As service-oriented architectures move into the IT mainstream, can appliances reduce complexity? We'll find out in our latest Rolling Review.

RightNow Technologies (NASDAQ: RNOW) wants to help consumer-focused enterprises deliver an "exceptional customer experiences at lower costs." In a way, this is a return to its eService roots.

Cast Iron Systems this week introduced its iA2000 integration appliance for small businesses, enabling companies to integrate with applications such as salesforce.com or Oracle...

Technology leaders of fast growing companies face a really complex problem - how to integrate their key applications in a way that keeps risks low, costs down and schedules short. Companies on a growth path don't have the IT resources they need, nor do they have the financial slack to invest in expensive and complicated software-based integration tools. Nevertheless, they must integrate their core applications in order to gain the most value for their business.

Reed DataLink for CRM, SFA Released, Accelerate4Pharma Released, Auto CRM in Iraq, Cornerstone and Microsoft, Kintera CRM, Open Solutions and Netupdate

George Gallegos, Cast Iron Systems

Salesforce.com [NYSE:CRM], the "market and technology leader in on-demand business services," and Cast Iron Systems, the "fastest growing application-integration appliance vendor," today announced that salesforce.com customers, ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to large enterprises, have successfully integrated Salesforce with their IT environments using Cast Iron's Integration Appliance...

Cast Iron Systems is rolling out for general availability three new integration appliances designed specifically for SAP customers. The entry-level iA2500-SP product links SAP to an additional third-party application, the [iA3000-SP] provides support for "SAP-to-many" applications, and the [iA3000HA-SP] is a high availability version of the latter. It consists of two appliances linked together for redundancy and fail-safe operations...

Beagle Research releases its third annual WizKid awards, which honors both big companies and niche players that have been frontrunners of innovation in the industry.

Already lapsed on your New Year's resolutions? It's not too late. These quick IT fixes will make you and your department look good

"...Cast Iron Systems attempts to simplify [EAI] by packaging all the production components of an EAI system in one preconfigured server..."

Thirty-three of Silicon Valley's hottest up-and-coming companies were honored Tuesday night at an awards ceremony for the winners of the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal emerging technology awards.

Integration Appliances – the Alternative to Custom Code...

Sometimes simple beats sophisticated. Harminder Tunwar, an I.T. project leader at Emerson Climate Technologies, used sophisticated integration technology from SeeBeyond for the first of several manufacturing floor to back office integration projects for the maker of heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration products. But today, he is instead using an integration appliance from Cast Iron Systems.