Webcloud World

Presented during Demo 09, Appzero is an innovative solution enabling online services’ developers to easily deploy their software into the cloud (or any new environment) by packing a server application and all its components together. Once created, the “package” can be moved from one environement to another, by a simple drag and drop as shown [...]

One day before Apple’s keynote at Macworld (the latest), a rumor has spread over several blogs : capitalizing on the work made around MobileMe, Apple would announce an online version of iWork.

Salesforce extends its offer by allowing its users to create and host public websites based on data and tools formerly avaible only in Salesforce’s cloud.
Force.com Sites enable Salesforce’s users to :

Publish Public websites
Publish Public web applications
Create public interfaces to existing applications

With the following advantages :

Branded domain names
Visualforce site pages
Profile-driven access
Syndication feeds
Performance caching

“The Azure™ Services Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. The Azure Services Platform provides a range of functionality to build applications that span from consumer web to enterprise scenarios and includes a cloud operating system and a set of developer services. Fully interoperable through the support of [...]

In a recent post, Marc Benioff shares his vision about Web 3.0 and what it means for the industry.
By making the “cloud” even more accessible, companies such as Google or Amazon, and of course Salesforce ( strangely, the recent Yahoo/Intel/HP initiative is not mentioned in his post), give the power to individuals to innovate, whereas [...]

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.

Launching MobileMe, Apple has decided that , along with your mobile life through the iPhone, your data have to be stored in a cloud and synchronized, no matter the device you use. It works with native applications, on both Mac and PC, and stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on a secure online server, [...]

Microsoft Emerging Business Team’s Manager proposes an interesting view, beyond the classical “everything on-demand” in its blog.
A must read!