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Cloud Summit – Turning the Cloud Promise into Business Reality
Aug 25th
CloudTweaks would like to introduce the Cloud Summit Event in November with one of our Event Partners. TM Forum.
TM Forum
Management World Americas
Cloud Summit
Turning the Cloud Promise into Business Reality 
November 9-11 2010
Orlando, Florida
TM Forum’s Cloud Summit is the only conference this year giving you a front row seat in the cloud debate amongst industry leaders.
This is your opportunity to meet and learn from the companies at the cutting edge of cloud technology and enterprise deployment.
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To register:
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Jerry Huang, CEO of Gladinet: Interview with CloudTweaks
Aug 19th
CloudTweaks/August 19,2010
Are you seeking a Cloud Technology Platform for backing up your critical data? It is a struggle for many firms to make the decision to back-up on local servers or use a Cloud Platform offsite. Gladinet , the Cloud Storage Access Platform company, has solutions which enable organizations to back up their files and critical database information. Their unique technology offers a variety of platforms focused on delivering a back-up solution tailored to your companies platform needs.
The CEO of Gladinet is Jerry Huang, an engineer and trailblazer in cloud technology. He is renowned for his insight and innovative approach to complex cloud solutions. In an exclusive on-line interview with Jerry, we asked him to respond to some of Cloudtweak subscribers’ most important questions regarding back-up solutions.
Cloudtweaks:
” Jerry, what are the key questions most of your customers ask related to security and back-up concerns? “
Jerry:
” They ask about what security algoritum is used and ask for stand alone decryption tool. They want it to be both secure and open. secure so no one else can decrypt the file. Open so they can still have file back as long as they have the key. “
CloudTweaks:
” How do you internally insure that client data can be restored if you yourself are subject to a major threat to your datacenter? “
Continue Reading The Interview More >
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CA Technologies buys its way into cloud fray
Jul 28th
By Kevin Kwang, ZDNet Asia
Its 2010 acquisition blitz to date includes Oblicore, Nimsoft and 3Tera and shows no signs of slowing as CA Technologies (CA) continues its buying spree to “plug gaps” and bulk up on technical capabilities, particularly in the cloud environment.
According to Andi Mann, vice president of product marketing at CA, the company has “some money left to spend” on companies that will complement the technologies and capabilities it already has.
“Previously, we have been acquiring companies for revenue stream but with the acquisitions of Nimsoft, 3Tera and others, we are now looking to buy technologies that can solve the problems we see our customers struggling with in the cloud environment [such as vendor lock-in and platform interoperability],” Mann said in an interview with ZDNet Asia.
He noted that with these acquisitions in place, the company’s products are now able to operate atop various data center architectures such as x86, Linux and Unix.
Cloud thrust fueled by customer interest
Elaborating on the company’s move to focus heavily on the cloud, Mann said businesses in the region are showing strong demand for the delivery model.
He pointed to IDC’s cloud computing survey conducted in April this year, which showed that 25 percent of companies surveyed in six Asia-Pacific countries–Australia, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and India–said they currently use cloud computing.
This is more than double of a similar study conducted in 2009, when only 9 percent of respondents were actively using cloud technology, he said, noting that the increase is indicative of the market’s potential.
To illustrate CA’s cloud strategy, Mann cited the 3Tera acquisition as an example of how the company aims to address the issue of vendor lock-in for applications architected over on-demand infrastructure provided by cloud vendors such as Salesforce.com, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
With 3Tera’s AppLogic technology, he explained that companies can now simply “click and drop” applications from existing datacenter systems to virtualized machines, thus, simplifying the architecting and deployment of complex software across various platforms.
The simplicity of the technology also helps alleviate the lack of skilled manpower to move organizations into cloud computing, he added.
According to Chris Morris, IDC’s Asia-Pacific services director, the recent global recession had resulted in a lack of enterprise investment in IT skills and employee training over a 12- to 18-month period. This caused the skills shortage, said Morris, who sat in on the interview.
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Rackspace Open Sources Cloud Platform; Announces Plans to Collaborate with NASA and Other Industry Leaders on OpenStack Project
Jul 15th
SAN ANTONIO, Jul 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Rackspace(R) Hosting (RAX 16.64, -0.66, -3.82%) today announced the launch of OpenStack(TM), an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings to the OpenStack project. The project will also incorporate technology that powers the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. Rackspace and NASA plan to actively collaborate on joint technology development and leverage the efforts of open-source software developers worldwide.
“Modern scientific computation requires ever increasing storage and processing power delivered on-demand,” said Chris C. Kemp, NASA’s Chief Technology Officer for IT. “To serve this demand, we built Nebula, an infrastructure cloud platform designed to meet the needs of our scientific and engineering community. NASA and Rackspace are uniquely positioned to drive this initiative based on our experience in building large scale cloud platforms and our desire to embrace open source.”
OpenStack will feature several cloud infrastructure components including a fully distributed object store based on Rackspace Cloud Files, available today at OpenStack.org. The next component planned for release is a scalable compute-provisioning engine based on the NASA Nebula cloud technology and Rackspace Cloud Servers technology. It is expected to be available later this year. Using these components, organizations would be able to turn physical hardware into scalable and extensible cloud environments using the same code currently in production serving tens of thousands of customers and large government projects.
“We are founding the OpenStack initiative to help drive industry standards, prevent vendor lock-in and generally increase the velocity of innovation in cloud technologies,” said Lew Moorman, President, Cloud and CSO at Rackspace. “We are proud to have NASA’s support in this effort. Its Nebula Cloud Platform is a tremendous boost to the OpenStack community. We expect ongoing collaboration with NASA and the rest of the community to drive more-rapid cloud adoption and innovation, in the private and public spheres.”
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Cloud Computing Boosts Virtual Companies – Cloud Technology
Apr 9th
Cloud computing is no longer a fluffy abstraction. Consider California-based Rimon Law Group, which calls itself a Web 2.0 legal firm. Rimon employs 28 senior lawyers in seven U.S. states but has no offices, thanks to cloud computing services that are helping to change the face of businesses across the globe.
Rimon and many other professional services companies such as Innovations International, a 25-year-old U.S. consulting firm, are using cloud computing to slash costs, put on a professional face for clients, and transform themselves into virtual organizations.
What exactly is cloud computing? By one definition, it means shifting computing tasks and storage from local desktop PCs and company servers to remote systems across the Internet. And in the case of communications services, it means replacing local electronic switches known as private branch exchanges—which can range in price from several thousand up to hundreds of thousands of dollars—with software that can be easily controlled by any company employee over the Internet, without any training.
Both Rimon Law Group and Innovations International are among thousands of companies now using technology from RingCentral, a seven-year-old company based in San Mateo, Calif. RingCentral was named a 2010 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum and has raised $25 million in funding from the likes of venerable Silicon Valley venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures. The company’s software is lowering the cost structure for business phone systems to as little as $10 a month and delivering those services in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
RingCentral’s pitch is resonating with clients who are eager to save money and ensure they don’t lose business when executives are on the move. The company’s cloud-based technology “is a great equalizer that allows very small companies to come across as a fully professional entity to their customers,” says chief executive Vlad Shmunis, a native of Ukraine who now lives in the U.S. “Similarly, companies of any size can just be more accessible to their customers anywhere in the world.”
The market for these types of cloud-based unified communications services is projected to be worth $1.6 billion by 2016 in Europe alone, says Dorota Oviedo, a research analyst in the Warsaw office of Frost & Sullivan. It’s no surprise, then, that a number of newcomers are targeting the same space, including Poland’s Edge Solutions. Edge has a cloud-based offering called IntraOut which provides mobile phone synchronization, email, business grade instant messaging, high definition VoIP, groupware, teleconferencing, and videoconferencing.
Unified communications are only one of a number of software services being delivered via the cloud. Other services include email, customer relationship management, human resources and executive search, application development, storage, and security. Innovations International, for example, says it is using RingCentral instead of a private branch exchange, plus Google apps for e-mail and calendar functions, and technology from Mountain View (Calif.)-based Egnyte for cloud-based data management. Combined, cloud based services are projected to grow globally from $14 billion in 2009 to $33 billion in 2013, according to research firm IDC.
A 2009 IDC survey of 75 British companies with 250 or more full-time employees found that 47% of companies are already using some cloud services in two or more areas and 16% are using them in seven or more areas. Expect that number to mushroom as more and more services move to the cloud, says David Bradshaw, IDC’s research manager for European cloud services.
Both small businesses and large enterprises are interested in unified communications being delivered as a cloud service, since it represents a cost savings and eliminates the headache of managing and integrating multiple applications and vendors, says Frost & Sullivan’s Oviedo.
For law firm Rimon, the choice to go virtual was easy. The average price per office per associate in downtown San Francisco is $10,000 annually, a waste of money since most of lawyers never see clients in their offices anyway, says Yaacov Silberman, the firm’s co-founder. What’s more, it’s easier to attract the best people if employers can promise better quality of life, such as by letting people work from home or easily move from place to place without fear of losing their jobs, if, for instance, their spouses are transferred, he says.
Since its creation in 2008, the virtual law firm has successfully lured high-profile talent such as Dov Grunschlag, a 30-year legal veteran specializing in labor and employment who worked as a professor of law at the University of California’s Davis campus and served as law clerk to then-Chief Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court before entering law practice. Other Rimon Law attorneys include seasoned Silicon Valley attorney Fred Tsien and Martin Goodman, a lawyer with 40 years experience specializing in creditor’s rights, who has worked for credit unions and banks such as Citibank.
RingCentral’s services include multi-extension business phone systems with an auto-receptionist that professionally answers, greets, and directs callers to the right department or person. Each employee can define how they want to automatically route calls to their home office or mobile phones, based on the time of day and availability. Users also can make calls from their iPhones while on vacation and make it look as if the call was placed from their office. And, Internet fax capabilities convert incoming faxes to PDFs, making them immediately available to distribute to team members to view, forward, and file electronically.
Phone companies see such services as a compliment, rather than competition. That’s why AT&T and ClearWire have both partnered with RingCentral to distribute the service in the U.S., says Shmunis. In Britain, RingCentral worked with BT Group in 2008 to offer services to BT’s small business customers with cloud based phone systems. RingCentral says the partnership was disbanded due to strategic and other changes at BT. In a written reply to a question from Informilo BT confirms it had a commercial partnership with RingCentral. “However, however, after a performance review, we decided to discontinue the relationship,” BT says. RingCentral is now directly servicing the U.K. small business market via its own local Web site.
Shmunis, a seasoned entrepreneur who sold a telecommunications company he co-founded called RingZero Systems to Motorola in the late 1990s, remains optimistic about RingCentral’s international expansion and says he also sees huge growth opportunities for the company in the U.S. Since one-half of the work force in the U.S. is employed at businesses with 100 people or less, Shmunis believes there are well over 10 million potential businesses that could be customers of such services in the U.S. alone. Source: BusinessWeek
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When will cloud computing start raining cash? Cloudtweaks.com
Mar 30th
Open-source cloud vendor Eucalyptus is rumored to be raising venture money at a $100 million valuation. Meanwhile, an Under The Radar conference dubbed “Commercializing the Cloud” is set for mid-April at which a host of new start-ups will talk about how they’re set to shake the clouds free of billions of dollars in sales.
Will money fall from the sky?
It can’t come soon enough. For all the talk about cloud computing, the business of cloud computing is still in its infancy.
When will it grow up?
There’s no shortage of exceptionally cool cloud technology. The most recent company to get buzz (and props from Amazon Web Services’ chief evangelist) is JumpBox, which enables open-source applications to be delivered as virtualized cloud services.
But is there gold in them thar clouds?
Of course there is. The question is when it will materialize.
By some estimates, it already has. Gartner pegged the cloud computing market at $56.3 billion back in 2009, but that estimate took a pretty expansive view of what comprises the cloud, throwing SaaS and a host of other things into the cloud category.
What about infrastructure-as-a-service and more “traditional” definitions of cloud computing. How is that market doing?
Not nearly as well, though it is growing. Some have speculated that Amazon’s EC2, the epicenter of IaaS, is now generating north of $220 million in annual revenue. That’s a big number, but is it enough to warrant the cloud hype?
In a word, yes. That’s because although we’re still a year away from cloud computing trickling into the mainstream–and hence creating serious revenue waves–it’s clearly coming. Talking with open-source cloud vendors such as Eucalyptus, VMops, and Open Nebula, as well as others like Northscale, VMware, etc., there’s a tremendous amount of trial and evaluation happening right now, which should translate into paid engagements in the very near future.
So, $100 million may seem rich for Eucalyptus, given that it’s still in its youth as a cash-generating business. But it’s also a sign of good revenue to come in the next few months, not years. Full Source
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2010: The Year of the Cloud Platform
Mar 9th
For the 3rd installment of our webinar recap series, we dive into what the future holds for cloud computing. In particular, will look at the role of platform-as-a-service in the broader cloud ecosystem. In particular, will 2010 be “the year of PaaS?” Read on for more about why platform-level services will be hot in 2010, and who we felt would be the big winners this year as the focus shifts from the infrastructure to the platform
2010: The Year of Platform as a Service
Michael: 2010 is going to be the year of the platform layer. If we look back at the predictions in 2008 going into 2009, people were getting excited about cloud. People were talking very much about virtualization. People were talking very much about renting resources and tying them all together.
That was great, and we saw that come together in 2009, a lot of excitement out of Amazon and VMware with their various solutions for public and private clouds. A lot of users are coming. When we talk to our customers and various users around the country, I hear a lot of application developers come and say, “But wait how do I tie all of this together? What tools are there for me to take advantage of this new paradigm?” That’s really the core of this prediction.
The platform tools are there. We have our platform tools that assist developers to put together these large applications so they can focus on their value add. There are frameworks such as Hadoop where with just writing a couple of functions of code, you get this massive platform for churning through terabytes or petabytes of data across your infrastructure.
These are the tools. This is the next tier up on the cloud technology stack. This is what people are going to be looking for. I think it’s interesting that if you look back in 2009, you see this come. I see two big points that really drive this.
First of all, there was the VMware acquisition of SpringSource. VMware is still all about the private clouds for tying together your resources and being able to control them dynamically, but you could tell they saw that, to them, the VM is still just a black box that they manage.
They really don’t have the insight into what the application is doing, and they needed those tools to go one tier up. So, here they look at SpringSource. They have more control on runtimes. They have the Hyperic monitoring system to see what’s going on inside the VM, and they can control it at a tighter level.
We talked about standards for 2009. Here at the end of 2009, I’ve seen the first talk about not standards at the infrastructure layer, but standards at the platform layer, about how to try to keep these tools together. So it’s time. People need to move up that stack.
The masses of developers don’t want to be distributed computing experts. They want a tool set to assist them on top of this tremendous infrastructure we’ve built, and I really see it all coming together with another round of great tools for application developers to build upon.
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Cloud Computing News – Apple looks to move movies to the cloud…
Mar 3rd
Apple’s plans for cloud computing go beyond music.
The company’s representatives have recently spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company’s servers, two people familiar with the discussions told CNET. That’s in addition to streaming television shows and music.
Apple has told the studios that under the plan, iTunes users will access video from various Internet-connected devices. Apple would, of course, prefer that users access video from the iPad, the company’s upcoming tablet computer, the sources said. Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said Apple doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation.
The news comes a month after Apple spoke to the major record companies about a similar plan involving music. Apple’s vision is to build proverbial digital shelves where iTunes users store their media, one of the sources said. “Basically, they want to eliminate the hard drive,” the source said.
By cramming digital songs, videos, and all manner of software applications on computers and handheld devices, there’s some indication that consumers are maxing out hard drives, particularly on smaller mobile devices. That has led to speculation among Apple watchers that some consumers might slow their purchasing of new content, if they have nowhere to easily put it.
It’s a bit of leap to reach that conclusion, certainly when a stagnant economy might be hampering sales, but there are some worrisome signs. The NPD Group reported last week that the number of people who legally downloaded songs dropped by nearly a million, from 35.2 million in 2008 to 34.6 million last year. Screen Digest, a research firm that focuses on the entertainment industry, on Monday said growth in movie downloads slowed dramatically in 2009, following sharp increases in the two prior years. Screen Digest had projected that total U.S. online movie sales for 2009 would come in at about $360 million, but the total reached only $291 million, the company said.
“(Apple) just doesn’t have the leverage it once did. Apple can’t dictate terms or position itself as a digital savior.”–James McQuivey, Forrester analyst
Before iTunes users can store their movies and TV shows in Apple’s cloud, the company must get the studios to sign on. This may not be easy. The studios want to make sure that Apple’s plans play nice with non-Apple devices and services.
Hollywood isn’t interested in any walled gardens, said James McQuivey, a media analyst at Forrester Research.
“The studios are very concerned that they’re going to get roped into somebody’s proprietary platform,” McQuivey said. “They want a world where consumers have a relationship with the content, and not with the device or the service. They are in a position to force Apple to go along and make sure that content bought [via] iTunes will play on a Nokia phone. That is very un-Apple-like.”
The upper hand in Hollywood
“Apple would prefer not to do this,” McQuivey continued. “But it just doesn’t have the leverage it once did. Apple can’t dictate terms or position itself as a digital savior.”
The reason that Apple doesn’t wield the same power over the film and TV industries that it did with music is that more players are willing to give the studios what they want.
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is a consortium of heavy-hitting media stakeholders lining up to create standards for file formats, digital rights management, and authentication technologies. The group includes Adobe Systems, Best Buy, Cisco Systems, Comcast, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Lions Gate Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film, Microsoft, Netflix, Panasonic, the four largest recording companies (Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, EMI Group, and Warner Music Group), Samsung, Sony, and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
DECE’s goal is to make sure that a movie or TV show bought from Comcast’s video service will play on Samsung devices or on Netflix’s service.
Not all the studios have joined. Walt Disney has create a DECE-like service called KeyChest, which is supposed to be DECE-compatible.
Applying more pressure on Apple is Google, one of its main rivals. Google, obviously, has YouTube. It’s also eyeing some start-ups with cloud technology to beef up its streaming services.
Two weeks ago, sources told CNET that Google had informal acquisition talks with Catch Media, a Los Angeles company that wants to become a clearinghouse of sorts, in which consumers move media around the Web, and Catch handles the permissions and licensing.
So what’s Apple’s answer to the Google threat? Apple is building a new data center in North Carolina that, according to reports, will be the backbone of its streaming offerings. In December, Apple bought Lala, a struggling music service with an expertise in cloud computing. Google was also trying to acquire the company, but Apple outbid Google.
The one thing that could help Apple pull away from Google, giving it more clout with the studios and TV networks, is if iPad catches on with consumers.
The Web-enabled computer tablet, which is due to hit store shelves later this month, features a 9.7-inch display screen and can play back video at up to 720p resolution, the sources said. If consumers start buying video to watch on the iPad, Hollywood could soften its stance on standards. But McQuivey says Apple can’t create any proprietary formats, at this point.
“Apple can’t suddenly make the iPad a closed environment,” he said. “Apple is not any position to refuse to limit its customers’ choices. By pioneering (the apps), Apple is stuck doing what’s right for consumers.”
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The Cloud – Cloud Recruitment Jumps by 233% in 2010
Feb 16th
New figures released today show that the demand for Cloud Computing specialists jumped by 233% in the first month of 2010.
Resource On Demand, a Cloud recruitment firm, has logged a record number of enquiries for salesforce.com and SaaS (Software as a Service) Specialists, jumping from 3 to 10 enquires per week. This is consistent with anecdotal evidence that shows increasing numbers of organisations placing their reliance in the Cloud, fuelling demand for Cloud specialists.
Lee Durrant, MD of Resource On Demand, believes that demand for Cloud Computing countered the downturn and gave way to a boom in cloud recruiting:
“Cloud computing is now more than a buzz word, organisations are seeing both economic and sound operational reasons to use Cloud technology. This appealed to organisations during the recession, due to value for money paired with an increased level of performance, and continues to appeal to them in the post-recession market place.”
Resource on Demand are aiding this rapid-growth market by offering a ‘pay as you go’ recruitment fee, which works hand in hand with SaaS models who also offer low monthly subscription fees.
Lee added: “With Resource On Demand, you pay a fixed, low monthly subscription fee, which starts when we find someone to fill the position and continues for the first 12 months in this position. If they leave, for whatever reason during the first 12 months, you simply stop paying the monthly fee. This means your costs remain unchanged and you can grow your business in this difficult environment.”
Resource on Demand began to see green shoots of recovery in the final quarter of 2009 and is now expanding to cope with the demand that they are facing.
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NOTES FOR EDITORS on Resource On Demand:
Resource On Demand offers recruitment services in the salesforce.com ecosystem on a subscription basis. This service is specifically designed for the Cloud Computing / SaaS industry.
By fully embracing the SaaS spirit of low cost and low risk, it allows Salesforce.com partners and consulting firms to scale up and down effectively. Built on a SaaS model, it offers the same benefits of scalability, flexibility and low risk, all delivered for a low monthly fee.
The salesforce.com industry is one of the fastest growing industries on the planet. Resource On Demand (ROD) was founded in Feb 2009 to assist the growth of this industry and the companies within it.
Having spent 20 years in the IT recruitment industry, our Founders have gained a solid reputation for honesty, openness and getting the job done in a notoriously fast-moving industry.
Resource On Demand is a natural progression for recruitment within the salesforce.com industry. We understand the salesforce.com industry because we’re part of it (we’re already wondering how we managed our CRM, database and accounting without it). More importantly, though, we understand how to get the right salesforce.com people into the right jobs.
With conventional recruitment, you generally pay 15-20% of the person’s base salary when they start working for you. This can be quite a large lump sum and makes the cost of recruitment difficult especially for SMEs looking to grow quickly. Often, there is no insurance against this fee either – meaning that if your new recruit doesn’t survive their probation period the fee can be lost and, worse still, a new fee required to fill the position again.
With Resource On Demand, you pay a fixed, low monthly subscription fee, which starts when we find someone to fill your position and continues for the first 12 months of their career with you. If they leave, for whatever reason during the first 12 months, you simply stop paying the monthly fee. This means your costs remain unchanged even if, as can often happen in a growing industry, you end up going through half a dozen people in a year.
What you have, in effect, is ‘pay-as-you-go’ recruitment: instead of a single up-front fee, which can vary according to the salary you’re offering and the percentage your recruiter charges, you make fixed, monthly payments for as long as the position exists. This gives you complete control over your budget and the flexibility you need to scale up or down as your business evolves.
What’s more, a large up-front placement fee means it usually takes some time for a new employee to generate enough revenue to cover their recruitment costs. With Resource On Demand, a single day’s consultancy fee will easily cover your monthly subscription, so your new hire is profitable virtually straight away.
The benefits at a glance:
• Save Money – Focus Budgets on Competitive Advantage rather than Recruitment
• Low risk – Able to recruit whole teams of salesforce.com people without huge costs
• Pay as you go, predictable costs
• Flexibility and Scalability
Lee Durrant, Director of Resource On Demand says: “We felt that the salesforce.com market in the UK would explode in 2010, and that the Consulting companies within this space would need to grow quickly to meet the demands of their customers. By using our subscription recruitment model they are able to spread the cost of recruiting for the country’s top salesforce.com talent.”
