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Salesforce announces free access to force.com

TTB — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:42:58 +0000

Salesforce trying to entice ISVs and corporate developers to build applications on force.com providing free edition that allows users to develop one custom application that can be deployed to up to 100 users. The offer also includes online training, sample applications and a testing environment.

Salesforce link

Some highlights:

Customers who create sites under the Force.com Free Edition get up to 250,000 page views per month at no charge. Enterprise Edition users get 500,000 complimentary monthly views, and Unlimited Edition subscribers receive 1,000,000. Additional 1,000,000-page view blocks can be purchased for $1,000 per month.

Independent research firm (read Spnsrd) Nucleus Research claims their analysis of existing Force.com application deployments and found an average of 4.9 times faster development( let us round it off to 5 times) . End customers, developers, and ISVs experience more rapid time to value, lower cost, and greater ongoing flexibility. link

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Amazon reaching out to enterprise customers with its secured cloud computing strategy (WIP)

TTB — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:18:47 +0000

With all the opportunity and interest around SaaS, PaaS or IaaS architectures, enterprises have been very skeptical of cloud computing security.

Amazon recently announced a series of initiatives to make EC2, S3 and the other Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities more secure, and to clarify the level of security currently in place:

(from the press release)

Certifications and Accreditations
AWS is actively seeking the appropriate security certifications and accreditations in order to provide our customers with additional confidence in our infrastructure. In addition, we will continue to publish guidance on how AWS enables customers to build applications that are compliant with standards, such as HIPAA.

Physical Security
Amazon has many years of experience in designing, constructing, and operating large-scale data centers. AWS infrastructure is housed in Amazon-controlled data centers throughout the world. Only those within Amazon who have a legitimate business need to have such information know the actual location of these data centers, and the data centers themselves are secured with a variety of physical barriers to prevent unauthorized access.

Secure Services
Each of the services within the AWS cloud is architected to be secure and contains a number of capabilities that restrict unauthorized access or usage without sacrificing the flexibility that customers demand. For more information about the security capabilities of each service in the AWS cloud, consult the Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes whitepaper.

Data Privacy
AWS enables users to encrypt their personal or business data within the AWS cloud and publishes backup and redundancy procedures for services so that customers can gain greater understanding of how their data flows throughout AWS. For more information on the data privacy and backup procedures for each service in the AWS cloud, consult the Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes whitepaper.

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Gartner says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 22 Percent in 2009

TTB — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:51:43 +0000

Summary

The market for software as a service (SaaS) is forecast to reach $9.6 billion in 2009, a 21.9 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.6 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. The market will show consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS revenue will total $16 billion for the enterprise application markets.

Office suites and digital content creation (DCC) remain the fastest-growing markets for SaaS. Office suites are projected to total $512 million in 2009, up from $136 million in 2008, while DCC is forecast to total $126 million in 2009, up from $70 million in 2008. The content, communications and collaboration (CCC) market continues to show the widest disparity of SaaS revenue across market segments, generating $2.5 billion in 2009, up from $2.16 billion in 2008

full press release

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