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Salesforce.com Posts Quarter Profit But Forecast Disappoints
By Jim Finkle SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 (Reuters) – Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM) issued a full-year profit outlook at the low end of Wall Street projections as the Web-based software maker plans to increase spending to fuel sales growth. Salesforce, whose shares fell 5.6 percent in after-hours trading, said profit will also be hurt by costs…
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Google, VMware Partner for Cloud Development, Portability
Google is partnering with VMware on what the companies are calling cloud portability – technologies that make it easy for Java developers to use their standard tools to develop web applications. The partnership falls under the Google App Engine for Business, a set of technologies that enable companies to create and deploy their own applications…
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Amazon S3 Offers Value Option for Online Backup
Amazon Web Services, perhaps feeling pressure from a spate of competing services from conventional storage companies as well as startups, came out May 19 with what amounts to a price cut option for its Simple Storage Service cloud backup service. Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is designed to store noncritical, reproducible data and files at…
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CA Touts Cloud, Virtualization Management Technology
CA Technologies is expanding its cloud computing and virtualization management capabilities through a host of new and enhanced products, as well as an expanded partnership with Cisco Systems. At CA World 2010 in Las Vegas May 17, CA Technologies officials unveiled new and enhanced management software offerings that give IT administrators robust capabilities to manage…
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Cloud Computing Services and IT Budgets on the Rise
A report from IT management specialist Spiceworks found small to medium-size business IT professionals expect this year to be better than last, with business IT budgets up in 2010 as the economy seems to be stabilizing. However, the last six months of 2009 proved to be much harder on midmarket IT departments than IT professionals…
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ParaScale Cloud Storage Software Adds More Data Security
Just a year after it first introduced its Cloud Storage Software, ParaScale has announced it is offering the Beta 2.5 version of the technology. The announcement comes as the industry is seeing more momentum behind cloud computing. Based on its first cloud computing survey focused exclusively on servers, IDC predicted that server revenue in the…