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Email overload? Yeah, us too. Perhaps Google’s new ‘priority inbox’ for Gmail might help some?
Priority Inbox is Google’s attempt to solve the e-mail woes of Gmail power users. At its core, the feature is an algorithm; Priority Inbox uses information such as keywords, the people you e-mail the most and your e-mail habits to select the [...]
Salesforce just released Q2 financial results today, posting record revenue of $394 million, an increase of 25% on a year-over-year basis. Q2 GAAP diluted earnings per share decreased 35% year-over-year to $0.11, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was flat year-over-year at $0.29.
Net Income came in at $14.7 million, down from $21.1 million in the same [...]
Microsoft today announced the Windows Azure platform appliance—a Windows Azure cloud-in-a-box system enabling the creation of private Windows Azure systems.
The platform appliance will be an all-in-one combination of server hardware, networking infrastructure, storage, and software. Whilst the exact form of the appliance is still to be determined, the scale will be large: hundreds or thousands [...]
iTNews has posted an interesting interview with Nick Holdsworth, Comm Bank’s EGM of Service Support. In it, Holdsworth talks about the bank’s approach to Cloud Computing and how they deal with the sheer scale of such a challenge – covering multiple data centres, geographies, systems and an extensive user base.
The bank has settled on a [...]
Salesforce’s foray into injecting social features into the enterprise world,Chatter, is finally open to the public after four months in private beta.
Announced last November, Chatter leverages what Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff calls the Cloud 2, delivering realtime access to data and information, using social sources, such as YouTube and Twitter.
In Feburary, Chatter was launched in private beta [...]
Google may currently be up to their what-nots in a wi-fi sniffing drama, but that’s not the only security related topic the company is being forced to address.
With a big push to get enterprises to adopt Google’s Enterprise Apps suite, questions have been raised regarding security of the data, being in the ‘cloud’ as it [...]
Google has launched a new cloud storage service competing directly with Amazon’s S3. Google Storage for Developers offers scalable, high-bandwidth storage, with an easy-to-use RESTful API.
Google Storage will cost 17¢ per gigabyte per month, with uploads costing 10¢ per gigabyte and 15-30¢ per gigabyte for downloads. Initially, Google Storage will only be available to a limited [...]
With Google’s I/O 2010 event currently underway, there have been a slew of new announcements from the big G (with more to come, no doubt).
So far these have included: a further opening up of Google Wave, a new app store for Chrome, developer APIs for location and storage and a version of Google App Engine, targeted [...]
IDG News Service — BMC Software is planning to offer more versions of its software as a SaaS (software as a service) model in the next 12 months as it is seeing growing customer demand for these services, an executive of the company said on Friday.
In January, BMC said that its Remedy IT Service Management [...]
Network World — CA is expanding its partnership with Cisco and unveiling several new management products to improve cloud computing and virtualization deployments, the company said in a series of announcements Monday at CA World in Las Vegas. The new products are based partly on technology acquired in CA’s recent buying spree, in which the company purchased [...]
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