The Cloudforce event which starts this week on March 3 in New York, is expected to receive more than 4,000 attendees. Cloudforce, salesforce.com’s second biggest event after Dreamforce, is a free one day event with 18 role-based breakout sessions for sales, customer service, developers, and IT. Salesforce.com’s CEO Marc Benioff will deliver the keynote focused…
At the RSA conference 2011 opening Keynote on February 15th, Art Coviello, Executive Vice President of EMC and Executive Chairman of RSA, presented the essential strategy on how to get organizations to trust the cloud for deploying mission-critical applications. He stressed that the cloud can meet all business processes security and compliance requirements, even the…
Animetrics, the developer of cloud-based web service facial biometrics, announced on February 11, 2011 the release of two new application offerings, the FaceR CredentialME™ AppLock for iPhones and FaceR CredentialME AppLock for Androids. Both application offerings are based on Animetrics patented 2D-3D FACEngine® facial recognition technology, a precise technology similar to the technology used by…
The Cloud Security Alliance Summit will kick off tomorrow at 9am, with an opening keynote by salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff. Industry leaders including Christofer Hoff, Liam Lynch, Chief Security Strategist from eBay, and Philippe Courtot, CEO of Qualys, will also deliver an exciting lineup of presentations and panels on the future outlook for…
Mobile phone manufacturer, INQ Mobile UK, in collaboration with Facebook engineers, rolled out last week a new generation of Android mobile phones loaded with a Facebook functionality for a whole new Facebook mobile experience. The new devices will enable savvy Facebook users to connect, chat and message their friends on Facebook right from these mobile…
Independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. has declared in their Forrester Wave research that Teradata has the top-rated Enterprise Data Warehouse strategy. Forrester Wave is used by many companies to compare vendor offerings and create a custom vendor shortlist. “Teradata provides the most scalable, flexible, cloud-capable EDW solution in today’s market.” – Forrester Research, Inc….
rollApp Inc. released today a free beta service that provides users with online editions of Open Office, integrated with GoogleDocs and DropBox. It provides SMBs with a solution that combines all the rich functionality of traditional office suites with all the benefits of cutting-edge cloud platforms: on-demand scalability, anywhere access, no install/support pain, and reduced…
On Tuesday Salesforce.com acquired Manymoon, a company co-founded in 2008 by Amit Kulkarni and Manav Mongawhich and makes social productivity apps built on Google Apps, LinkedIn and the Google Chrome Web Store. According to Manymoon, more than 50,000 businesses have adopted the tool. Manymoon said in a blog post, its work activity tracking software will…
Time Warner Cable Inc.and NaviSite, Inc. announced today that they have entered into an agreement under which Time Warner Cable will acquire NaviSite for approximately $230 million. The deal follows Verizon’s agreement to buy Terremark for $1.4 billion last week. The acquisition of NaviSite, a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, messaging and cloud…
Salesforce.com announced this morning the public release of the new Chatter.com platform and made it available for companies around the world. Any company with a salesforce.com subscription can now sign up their employees to Chatter.com. “Now with Chatter.com, any company can do impossible things as a team,” said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. Chatter.com…