Le Leader du CRM et du Cloud Computing - salesforce.com France. Microsoft Office 365 Profiled at Gartner Conference - Cloud Computing. ORLANDO, Fla. -Microsoft offered a glimpse of its cloud-based Office 365 during this week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2010 here, suggesting to the assembled IT pros that the platform will allow their organizations to stay up-to-date with the latest versions of Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online. "With Office 365, we're delivering everything we know about productivity as a subscription service," John Betz, Microsoft's director of product management for Business Online Services, told an audience during a conference session Oct. 20. "We're also updating the back ends of Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online to the 2010 version.
" Microsoft released Office 365 in limited beta launch Oct. 19. General availability is expected in 2011. It is essentially a rebranding of the company's BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite), which bundled products such as SharePoint Online. What Cloud Computing Means For Small Businesses. Cloud computing has been a buzzworthy topic for some time, as more and more enterprises move their computing infrastructure and software to cloud-based solutions.
While the cloud continues to be a smart option for them, it's also arguably even more beneficial for small businesses, whose resources can be miniscule. First of all, what exactly is cloud computing? To take a broad definition, Focus Research describes it as "the ability for organizations to share critical computing infrastructure (e.g. servers, storage, etc.) and related services over the internet. " This can include IT infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or software (SaaS). This series is supported by Dell The Power To Do More, where you'll find perspectives, trends and stories that inspire Dell to create technology solutions that work harder for its customers so they can do and achieve more. Needless to say, it's a huge deal. For small businesses, the significance of this primarily comes down to cost. Salesforce.com (CRM) Grows its Cloud by Acquiring Heroku, and Launching Database.com. This week, leading enterprise cloud computing application developer Salesforce ( CRM : Charts , News , Offers ) acquired cloud application platform Heroku, to further expand its lead in cloud computing.
This latest deal is forecast to give the cloud computing giant a definitive edge against SAP AG ( SAP : Charts , News , Offers ), Microsoft ( MSFT : Charts , News , Offers ), Oracle ( ORCL : Charts , News , Offers ) and NetSuite ( N : Charts , News , Offers ) in the battle for the cloud. Salesforce is currently allied with Google, and now through its acquisition of Heroku, with Facebook, Twitter and myriad of popular sites. Moving forward, what does the future hold for Salesforce? Heroku is an online Rack, or adaptable interface, for running Ruby programming language applications, and is categorized as a platform-as-a-service ( PaaS ).
Heroku’s Ruby language is currently used to power 105,000 web applications on sites such as Groupon, Hulu, Twitter and Facebook. How To Survive a Layoff. Salesforce. Salesforce.com (CRM) Grows its Cloud by Acquiring Heroku, and Launching Database.com. Salesforce's Database.com as a game changer now they've acquired Heroku? Yesterday, Salesforce.com pre-announced a cloud based database. On its face this sounds exciting. Or at least you'd think that from the drooling Tweets I saw. As Marc Benioff, CEO Salesforce bounced around on stage extolling the 'amazingness' of Database.com I just could not get excited about what to me seems like a breaking down of the Force.com platform into bite sized pieces for individual consumption. If that's what you want to do. For me, the more pressing problem comes in figuring out what does a 'record' or 'transaction' mean in Mr Benioff's cloudy world?
Especially when the hook sounds like a generous free for three users plus up to 100,000 records and 50,000 transactions per month. More to the point, when does a user hit the trigger point for pay to use? Bob Warfield has a partial answer: Who will be the first to put up a service on Amazon AWS that delivers exactly the same function using MySQL and for a lot less money? I was more blunt about it: It won't fly. See also: