We entered 2009 with a vibe that the cloud was cool—but we enter 2010 with growing, mainstream acceptance that the cloud is both viable and necessary. The result will be a dramatic shift from conversation to action. What’s accelerating cloud timetables from indefinite to immediate
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One Hundred Per Cent Cloud Cover
As 2009 comes to a close, I find myself reminiscing of all the great things that occurred over the past year. So for your reading enjoyment, I present my “Top 10 Favorites” of 2009. 10.
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My "Top 10 Favorites" of 2009
Much has been recorded about the rise of Salesforce.com and how Marc Benioff’s clever marketing brought the company to the forefront. Today, with its stock reaching new highs, I wanted to pay tribute to a giant of cloud computing, Parker Harris, the technology magician behind the marketing who made Benioff’s story possible.
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Salesforce.com’s Wizard Was Parker Harris And Team
[Bernard Moon works for the Lunsford Group.] When I made my tech trend predictions for 2009 , we were in the middle of an economic meltdown. This year, I’m less focused on the recession and — thanks to my one-year old twin girls — am wading my way through a flood of information on baby products, toys and books.
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Tech trends for 2010 — a Netscape moment coming up
TriCipher , maker of the myOneLogin software for identity authentication on apps offered through the likes of SalesForce.com, Google and WebEx, has raised $3 million by issuing a new round of convertible promissory notes, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Los Gatos, Calif., the company is backed by ArrowPath Venture Capital, Intel Capital, Trident Capital, RBC Technology Ventures and Epic Ventures.
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TriCipher lands $3M to provide single sign-on for apps
RIM’s second BlackBerry network outage within a week is but the latest in a string of network service outages, including cloud computing service outages, that have plagued the industry and frustrated customers this year. Big names like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com have been among the companies scrambling to restore services in 2009.
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RIM BlackBerry Outage Latest on 2009’s Long List of Network Service SNAFUs
Applications have been a hot ticket to venture funding this week. Two directory-style startups landed cash to help users navigate the thousands of different apps for iPhone and Twitter. Not a new concept, we recently spotlighted several different companies that focused on leveraging social data to make recommendations for iPhone apps
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Good week for app directories: OneForty raising $2.4M
Chances are you’ve never heard of upstate New York startup Apprenda and their product, SaaSGrid .
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Salesforce.com investor backs a new startup that adds Silverlight to large-scale business apps
We’re down to the final day of voting for ReadWriteWeb’s reader-selected Top 10 Web Products of 2009 . You can vote for up to 10 products, from a list of 100 selected by the ReadWriteWeb authors over December. Make your picks in the poll embedded below
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Reader Poll: Top 10 Web Products of 2009 (Last Chance to Vote!)
Fujitsu announced that its application development and integration service offerings are now listed on the salesforce.com AppExchange. The Fujitsu offerings provide clients with a predictable experience with Salesforce CRM and large-scale cloud computing deployments by applying a proven methodology led by a Fujitsu team of certified consultants
