SaaS

Back in July, Google began testing a new look and feel for its excellent web-based email client, Gmail. And today, that new UI is live and available to all Gmail users. (I assume that in time it will simply become mandatory.) I'm still on the...

Recent cloud outages have piqued the public interest. What's the solution? Hybrid clouds and cloud bursting can prevent downtime. "There is a lot of interest in hybrid clouds," said Mike Crandell, CEO of Santa Barbara, Calif.-based RightScale.

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The 3rd Annual Cloud Computing and SaaS World Forum, which is Europe’s largest event on cloud and SaaS, will take place June 21-22 in London at Olympia Exhibition, Event and Conference Venue. Early registration ends May 20.

Salesforce.com is making plans to expand its colocation infrastructure to keep pace with its growth, and contemplating what its long-term growth will mean for its data center footprint.

According to a recentstudy by the Aberdeen Group, demand for business intelligence as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application has risen dramatically over the last few years, with Aberdeen reporting that 15% of businesses used SaaS BI solutions...

Enterprise SaaS specialist Salesforce.com (CRM) will expand its operations in Japan with a new data center in an NTT America facility in Tokyo, the two companies said today.

Fast-growing cloud management company RightScale has secured an additional $25 million in funding, which it will use to accelerate development of its cloud platform.

Cloud broker RightScale has launched more than 1 million servers on the cloud through its RightScale Cloud Management Platform, the company announced today.

The popularity of Amazon's cloud for running gaming apps for social networks has been a huge boost for RightScale, which helps social gaming companies Zynga, Crowdstar and Playfish manage their infrastructure on EC2. Eight of the 12 most popular...