Can Box.net Overtake Microsoft SharePoint? If Microsoft Windows is the dominant operating system in the world and Microsoft Office the most popular productivity suite, Microsoft SharePoint is the preeminent file sharing platform. However, after years of dominance, a new challenger has appeared in the form of Box.net. As things stand today, Box.net with 7 million [...]
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Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 1
Cloud Computing Startups Raise Big Money: UPDATE 1 Startups have always attracted pride of place on this website, and with many of them being created with astounding regularity and getting financing, this article is just the first of many updates that are sure to follow. You can read some other consolidated news articles on startups [...]
CSC Streamlines Insurance with Cloud Services
CSC Streamlines Insurance with Cloud Services CSC is enabling insurers to tap into offerings in a secure, highly scalable environment through the launch of its new offering called Breezeway. This collection of cloud-based, Web-subscription services can be used on multiple devices and platforms and have the ability to support a variety of multiline insurance agency [...]
Cloud Computing Goes Mainstream with University Certification Course
Cloud Computing Goes Mainstream with University Certification Course When does a technology actually become mainstream, an established part of our daily lives? Is it when it becomes part of the popular vocabulary, or when there’s an addition to the Oxford English Dictionary confirming its existence? Is it when companies make money selling that technology, or [...]
Eloqua Recognized for Innovation in Cloud Computing – Eloqua Selected as an OnDemand Top 100 Winner
Recognized for Innovation in Cloud Computing March 21, 2011 – Eloqua, the leading provider of Revenue Performance Management solutions, today announced the company was selected by AlwaysOn as an OnDemand Top 100 winner. The OnDemand 100 is made up of the top, private on-demand and SaaS companies that are shaking up the cloud computing industry [...]
Quotes About Cloud Computing (And Some Background Information On Them)
Quotes About Cloud Computing (And Some Background Information On Them) “Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.” When I decided to go for further studies after six years in the corporate world, two top US universities offered me a full scholarship. While I was contemplating which one to join, one of my future MBA [...]
Cloud Computing Enters Public Consciousness Through Super Bowl Commercials
Cloud Computing Enters Public Consciousness Through Super Bowl Commercials “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910), famous American author and humorist. Advertising is an integral part of our everyday lives, reflecting popular trends and shaping public opinion. From politics to economics, from sports to [...]
Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim – An Open Sourced Collaboration Service
Salesforce.com Acquires Dimdim Acquisition will extend salesforce.com’s Chatter collaboration platform with critical real-time communication technologies. Follows the proven Facebook model of combining real-time collaboration and communication into a single integrated service. Enables salesforce.com to build on momentum of 60,000 Chatter customers, accelerating the industry shift to Cloud 2 SAN FRANCISCO, – Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the [...]
CA Technologies CA Identity Manager Now Available on Salesforce.com AppExchange 2, Salesforce.com’s Marketplace for Business Apps
Customers can now deploy CA Identity Manager to Provision Employees and Partners to Cloud Applications Deployed on Force.com ISV momentum for Force.com builds as Dreamforce 2010 approaches Islandia, NY, Nov. 30, 2010 – CA Technologies today announced the availability of CA Identity Manager on AppExchange 2. With CA Identity Manager, organizations can automate identity management [...]
Cloudstock: The Woodstock for Cloud Developers – Hosted By Force.com
Cloudstock: The Woodstock for Cloud Developers Right now, top-flight developers are innovating at the leading edge of cloud computing using powerful platforms, APIs, and services that you may not even know exist. That’s because the next generation of cloud development is being invented fast and furiously by a slew of companies, big and small, delivering [...]
Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing: Google Apps Part II
Google Apps Part II Advantages of Google Apps:In September 2010, Google announced that over 30 million people are using Google Apps. The top ten advantages as listed by Google are: 1. Cloud computing is in Google’s DNA. 2. Faster access to innovation drives higher productivity. 3. Users adopt new functionality with less disruption. 4. Employees [...]
Salesforce.com and Veeva Systems Announce Expanded Alliance to Serve the Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry
Veeva Systems generating business success worldwide delivering Pharma CRM on Force.com SAN FRANCISCO & PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct 13, 2010 (SOURCE: BUSINESS WIRE) — Veeva Systems and salesforce.com, /quotes/comstock/13*!crm/quotes/nls/crm (CRM 107.50, +2.03, +1.93%) the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced an expanded alliance to accelerate the delivery of the market-leading Veeva CRM applications to the global [...]
Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing: Cloud Call Centers Part II
Practically Speaking About Cloud Computing: CLOUD CALL CENTERS Part II Cloud Call Centers Adoption Considerations: One of the cloud computing concepts is Elasticity and Dynamism. This is one of the key enablers for cloud based call center technology. In the case of In-bound Call Centers, the receipt of inbound calls will be essentially erratic in [...]
BigMachines and Salesforce.com Announce New BigMachines Configuration and Quoting Application
Cloudforce 2010 London SAN FRANCISCO & CHICAGO, Sep 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — –BigMachines Demonstrating New Solution at Cloudforce 2010 London BigMachines, the leading vendor in the configuration and quoting space, and salesforce.com, (CRM 119.00, -0.63, -0.53%) the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced BigMachines’ on-demand configuration, quoting and proposal application is now tightly integrated [...]
Microsoft and Salesforce Kiss and Make Up
SAN FRANCISCO – Software manufacturing leading corporation Microsoft has revealed it has reached a deal to resolve a patent duel with Salesforce.com – a cloud computing firm. Each had brought a lawsuit in the US court accusing the other to have violated its patented technology. Under the terms and conditions of the agreement, both companies [...]
Skytap Wins 2010 Red Herring 100 North America Award
Leading Provider of Self-Service Cloud Automation Solutions Recognized for Cloud Computing Innovation, Financial Health, Management Strength and Customer Acquisition SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwire – July 1, 2010) – Skytap, Inc., the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced that the company has been selected as a winner of Red Herring’s North America 100 award, a [...]
