Jo Maitland, the executive editor for SearchCloudComputing.com, posted a great video that explains the differences between the three major types of cloud computing models: public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. Click here to view Cloud computing models: Public vs. private vs. hybrid
JESS3, a creative company that specializes in data virtualization, launched today “The State of Cloud Computing” microsite showing the history of cloud computing and the growing sector. Amongst the Cloud-based brands mentioned: Skype, Dropbox, YouTube, Wikipedia, Yahoo, MSN, Gmail, Farmville and Twitter. The three-minute video is funded by Salesforce.com; a company which specializes in enterprise…
Yesterday, at the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Conference, PwC US and Cloudcor, Inc. announced the four winners of the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Awards. Out of more than 150 submissions and 25 finalists, four companies were selected as the winners of the UP 2010 Cloud Computing Awards: Fastest Growing Cloud Provider Award Audience Choice Award:…
A new report from the 451 Market Monitor forecasts that the cloud computing marketplace will reach $16.7 billion in revenue by 2013. The 415 Market Monitor is a market-sizing and forecasting service from The 451 Group, a leading independent IT research and analyst organization. According to the report “Including the large and well-established software-as-a-service (SaaS)…
iContact announced yesterday the availability of iContact for Salesforce on AppExchange 2. iContact for Salesforce is tightly integrated with the Salesforce Campaigns tab and allows users to create, send and track relevant and targeted e-mail marketing without the need to learn a new application. Users can see how each contact or lead responds to e-mails…
On Thursday, Google introduced a new type of ad to all advertisers, called Product Listing Ads, which includes a small thumbnail image of the product directly next to the Adwords listing. The Adwords listing can already be beefed up by providing prices, product ratings, and more, but this final addition makes Google’s search results look…
Below is a list of the most useful free Salesforce apps for marketing users. Whether you’re in charge of generating leads, proving ROI, managing trade shows and events, Public Relations or just plain marketing analytics; these apps will improve your efficiency and give you access to new marketing sources. Salesforce Marketing Calendar: The benefit of…
Microsoft announced Hyper-V Cloud on Monday at Tech•Ed Europe. Hyper-V Cloud is a set of programs and offerings that makes it easier for businesses to build their own private cloud infrastructures using the Windows Server platform. Dell Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), HP, IBM Corp. and NEC Corp. have already signed…
Salesforce.com recently redesigned the application’s report and dashboard builder with new functionality including drag and drop fields, report preview and much more. For many years Salesforce’s reporting and dashboard builder received a lot of criticism and complaints from users for being below standard, especially compared to other CRM solutions like Netsuite and Siebel on-demand. Over…
According to PR Newswire, Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, announced today that President Bill Clinton will be the Special guest at Dreamforce 2010, the cloud computing event of the year. President Clinton will join salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff at the 8th annual salesforce.com user and developer conference. Grammy winner Stevie Wonder is…