At TechCrunch Disrupt SF today, Mike Arrington talked to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff about the future going forward for Salesforce, and how the company is taking on Asana, Box and Okta, and why the company didn’t end up buying Yammer. The CEO also talked about how he thinks Google has “squandered its enterprise opportunity.” In […]
Posted on September 16th, 2012 by admin
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Google now lets companies rent Chromebooks for $30 per month and Chromeboxes for $25 per month. There are no long-term contracts to sign and rentals are always month-to-month (with the monthly price dropping steadily after the first twelve months). To offer this service, Google has partnered with CIT, a company that provides financing and leasing […]
Posted on September 10th, 2012 by admin
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Teambox is a collaboration platform that offers its own tools and integrations with third-party apps. Today it is offering the capability to integrate with Box, Dropbox and Google Docs. You hear this debate a lot about what services people prefer inside the enterprise world. Consumer services are competing with more enterprise focused apps. Dropbox is […]
Posted on August 7th, 2012 by admin
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AppFog is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider that wants to do for developer platforms what Google did for email. GMail launched in 2004 by giving its users a distributed service with 2 gigabytes (GB) of free disk space. Search made it possible. It disrupted competitors like Hotmail that provided a measly 2 mb […]
Posted on July 26th, 2012 by admin
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Google has a new cloud partner program that shows the company’s drive to go after old IT. In a blog post today, Google provided some details about it with a link to a list of the technology and service providers that are part of the program. It’s a short list but here’s what they are […]
Posted on July 25th, 2012 by admin
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Huddle, the cloud collaboration company that picked up $25 million in funding in May, today is launching a significant update to its platform: it’s adding in a social communication layer to its service, so that when people share and work together on documents online, they can also talk to each other about them. The move […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is aggressively offering a service called reserve instances. For a one-time fee, companies may have the option to launch an EC2 instance for one or three years. AWS maintains it lowers costs as you get a choice of the types of instances you buy. You can get discounts by buying on a […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Egnyte has raised $16 million from Google Ventures for its cloud file storage solution. Existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Polaris Ventures also participated in the Series C round. Egnyte provides a service that stores documents in a cloud environment with the file appearing on the desktop with shared and private folders. For instance, […]
Posted on July 17th, 2012 by admin
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British Airways is using Google Images to develop passenger dossiers for checking people out as they come through the gate. Now that’s what you call customer service. At least that’s British Airways spin. Privacy advocates have a different take. According to The Evening Standard, the airline is facing considerable backlash today after it announced a […]
Posted on July 6th, 2012 by admin
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It used to be that you could go to the Google Apps front page and easily sign up for a free account. But now it is a bit different. The Google Apps choice is not available anymore on the Google Apps home page. You can still get a free Google Apps account. But the only […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by admin
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