2010 was a big year for Cloud Computing and as the year approaches to an end we take a look and the top Cloud Computing stories of the year that made headlines around the world. Oracle Moves To The Cloud Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp has not been a big supporter of Cloud Computing…
Rackspace announced today its first managed cloud offering, Cloud Servers with a managed service level. The San Antonio-based company says that this will give them an edge over commodity cloud players like Amazon Web Services. According to Rackspace, the Managed Cloud offering provides businesses with proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and advice on how to best leverage…
Dreamforce is always Silicon Valley’s liveliest event, but this year’s event was especially great, with lots of shocking announcements and plenty of entertainment. Bill Clinton, Stevie Wonder, Will.I.Am from the BlackEyesPeas, the Bush impersonator and the Microsoft’s customer who didn’t get forced were among the featured guests at the event. For a recap of last…
We met up with Demandbase at Dreamforce ’10 to talk about the company’s latest announcement regarding its Real-Time Identification Service, which the company says can now identify more than 1 billion IP addresses, matching them to over seven million businesses, representing more than 75 percent of all business web traffic across North America and Europe….
Earlier today, Salesforce.com announced it will buy Heroku, which develops and deploys web-based applications that rely on the programming language Ruby on Rails, for $212 million as part of its Cloud 2 suite of cloud applications. Benioff said Salesforce had made the purchase to open up its platform. “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2,”…
Salesforce.com Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Marc Benioff announced today at Dreamforce “Database.com”, a database-as-a-service product that he hopes will take business away from Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp., in a market Gartner estimates is worth $21.2 billion. Benioff announced Database.com to a crowd of 14,000 at the company’s annual customer meeting in San Francisco….
Below is an updated list of the latest announcements at Dreamforce: ServiceSource to Share Best Practices on Service Revenue Management at Dreamforce 2010 ServiceSource’s Executive Vice President of Products, Ganesh Bell, will present alongside an industry-leading technology company and ServiceSource customer: “Roadmap to 100% Recurring Revenue Performance”. This presentation will discuss the benefits of the…
Jitterbit’s First Turnkey Solution for Amazon EC2 Mirrors Salesforce CRM Data for Backup and Advanced Reporting. Jitterbit, a leading provider of simplified, powerful, and flexible application and data integration solutions, announced yesterday Jitterbit CloudReplicate(TM) for Salesforce. CloudReplicate is a turnkey solution that provides real-time synchronization of cloud application data to Amazon EC2 for retention, retrieval and…
Wikileaks, the site that has infuriated the US government by releasing thousands of US diplomatic cables, is using Amazon.com Inc. servers in the U.S. to help deliver its information. The site cablegate.wikileaks.org, which WikiLeaks is using for the diplomatic documents, is linked to servers run by Amazon Web Services in Seattle, as well as to…
Dreamforce is just one week away! It surely looks like it will be the industry’s largest cloud computing event of the year with over twenty thousand people expected to be at the Moscone Center from December 6-9th. So what’s new and exciting about this year’s event? Party Party Party! Did we mention the numerous parties?…