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1. Blowing Smoke? 3 Tests for the Cloud's Future
(Platform as a Service/The ITKO LISA Soapbox Blog)

We couldn't help but notice how fast Cloud Computing has gone to the top of the hype cycle over the last month. You could say the Cloud is "the internet" in general and it has been there all ...

2. What Do You Get When You Cross Salesforce.com and Amazon S3?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Narinder Singh You get Appirio Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com, a new SaaS offering from Appirio that taps Amazon S3 to extend the storage capabilities of Salesforce.com. (We ...

3. More on Cloud Computing from Dion Hinchcliffe
(Platform as a Service/The ITKO LISA Soapbox Blog)

Dion Hinchcliffe recently provide a comprehensive overview of the status of cloud computing for the enterprise in his post, Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam. It is a good article for spinning your ...

4. Google and salesforce.com - Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... few lines of code - six, to be precise - we were able to bring Google calendar data onto a custom Visualforce page (view demo). We're seeing lots of steps towards integrating the cloud. Salesforce orgs ...

5. Adobe Embraces the Cloud - Hazy Days Ahead for Microsoft?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... more options to meet varying business needs.   Overlap does not mean they are mutually exclusive either.  Cloud-based products are inherently more open and allow for deeper connections between solutions. ...

6. Appirio Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

Appirio today announced Appirio Cloud Storage for Salesforce.com, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that uses Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to extend the capabilities of salesforce.com. ...

7. Salesforce VP of Product Strategy Leaves for Cloud9 Analytics
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

Salesforce.com VP of product strategy, Per Brondum Jakobsen, has left the company for the on-demand sales analytics firm, Cloud9 Analytics, where he will be SVP of product management. Prior to salesforce.com, ...

8. Appirio backed by Sequoia Capital: What changes, what doesn’t.
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... offer the most compelling web platforms on the market. But there’s much more to cloud computing than web platforms, and we’re excited to be exploring application and technology partnerships with some ...

9. Back to school with more than 1 million users worldwide
(Platform as a Service/The Official Google Blog)

... joining the thousands of other schools that have already embraced cloud computing in education. Here are the new additions: Collin County Community College District Francis Marion University George Washington ...

10. Executives talk about the problems in Enterprise SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... Disappear in the Cloud?’ Both discussions were focused on the future of SaaS and where the industry is heading. The discussions surrounded the [...] There were 2 very interesting SaaS discussions organized ...

11. Insights and Observations from the Pacific Crest On-Demand Conference
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... like EMC, with established business units focused on driving demand for SaaS or cloud computing, will have a serious challenge with this. The most reliable solution is to completely separate the businesses ...

12. Salesforce.com Launches Salesforce Summer ‘08
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

Salesforce.com has announced that Salesforce Summer ’08 is live to all 43,600 salesforce.com customers. This solution represents the company’s 26th release in nine years and delivers the power of cloud ...

13. SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing, On-Demand - what do they all mean?
(Platform as a Service/Catalyst Resources)

Over the past few months,there has been a lot of news stories and articles about hosted services over the internet. The various terms that describes these offerings - SaaS, PaaS, Cloud Computing, On-Demand ...

14. Connecting the Cloud, One Contact at a Time
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Ryan Nichols Most businesses ultimately depend on personal connections. Business people would be lost if they couldn’t connect everyday with the contacts in their address book. And businesses wouldn’t ...

15. Can Google Bring Enterprises Together?
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... to create their own sites, and why Google's marketing is often aimed more at the users themselves than IT departments. The Cloud Inside the Silver Lining Google Sites is making a lot of progress ...

16. Now that’s a Big PaaS Market
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... part of a business solution. The recently announced integration points between salesforce.com and Google Apps are just the starting point-- we anticipate entirely new ways to "connect the cloud" by bringing ...

17. May the Force.com Be with You
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

... with a few clicks, and Force.com handles the provisioning details. Because the application is in the cloud and isn’t directly tied to the infrastructure, you don’t have to worry about breaking applications ...

18. Microsoft to Partners: We Still Don't Get SaaS
(Platform as a Service/Official Appirio Blog)

Chris Barbin The on-premise titans trying to transition to on-demand face considerable challenges, well-documented in this blog and elsewhere. One of the most significant mistakes companies make trying ...

19. Tour de Force Kicks Off Today; Developer Announcements include Utility Pricing
(Platform as a Service/Salesforce Watch Blog)

...  Force.com IDE Force.com Sandbox Force.com Code Share Utility Pricing for Force.com - "Force.com cloud (per login) pricing is now available. The list price is $5.00 per login with a maximum of 5 ...

20. Salesforce.com Further Integrates with Google Apps
(Platform as a Service/Thoughts On Salesforce)

... Those applications are made available on the company’s AppExchange. “Google and salesforce.com share a common vision for making the cloud accessible to all developers,” Vic Gundotra, vice president of ...