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The border between Salesforce’s and Google’s applications getting even less obvious with the announcement of the new Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs, which “makes it easy to develop Force.com applications that make the most of the capabilities of Google Data APIs, including read and write access to data and content in Google Apps.”
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According to the study firm Markess international, the SAAS market is performing very well and should reach, in France, €150 million by the end of this year. 52% of the companies, which were part of the study answered they are keen to adopt SAAS tools within 2010. The main advantages for SAAS tools reported by [...]

By now many of you are aware that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fully supported by Red Hat on Amazon EC2. You can read more about the offering at http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/. Jeff Barr blogged about this in November, 2007 (aws.typepad.com/aws/2007/11/red-hat-enterpr.html).
I’m posting this from Boston, where I am attending the Red Hat Global Summit — more specifically [...]

Early this morning, Ilya Grigorik, founder of AideRSS, sent me a short note via Twitter to tell me about his latest blog post.
In the post, he described his use of a single instance of Splunk to process application log files from several dozen Amazon EC2 instances. He also included a bit of Ruby code which [...]

As an echo to Don Dodge’ statement, it appears that Google App Engine experienced several outages recently, preventing users to benefit from applications hosted by the platform.
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Last week I came back from my India and Japan trip – one of my best trips till date. It was a complete round trip around the globe – I traveled from Seattle to Mumbai (via Atlantic Ocean), traveled within India (Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata), continued to Sapporo and Tokyo in Japan (via Indian Ocean) [...]

Greetings everybody, my name is Simone Brunozzi, and I'm thrilled to announce that I'm the new Amazon Web Services Evangelist for Europe!
After a training period in Seattle with my manager, Jeff Barr, and the AWS team, I'm now ready to get off the ground here in the old country.
You can find my schedule on our [...]

Innovation is what the industry is all about, and I am always amazed at the creative people I meet. Last November I spoke to Amazon Camp in Toronto, and after the presentation one developer stuck around for a few minutes. “I’d like to show you a site that I built”. He proceeded to show me [...]

Peter Laird from BEA has accomplihed a fantastic job by referencing and mapping the major players in the “cloud” industry. It is highly recommanded for anyone interested inthis field to take a look at this visual map and his blog post.

I’ve just returned from my fourth trip to Las Vegas in four months where I spent three days attending my second annual Symantec Vision user conference and worldwide industry analyst briefing. The event offered a number of important insights regarding the state of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), as well as the managed services market.
I’ve stated in [...]