At last week's RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, RSA president Art Coviello made it clear to the cloud computing community that security must be its primary focus to move the global IT industry forward.
Salesforce.com, a customer relationship management solution provider and leader in cloud computing, offers its customers a flat fee per user per month, according to the Seattle Times. Meanwhile Microsoft offers an option that allows users to pay depending on how frequently they use their new cloud computing system and how much they store in the cloud.
Salesforce.com was recently named the sixth-most innovative web company by Fast Company for its enterprise cloud computing and overall SaaS innovation. As a provider of customer relationship management software, Salesforce.com is one of the leading companies in the industry. However, the company has also received great praise and benefit for its willingness to take full advantage of all cloud computing can offer.
United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano spoke at the ongoing RSA Conference in San Francisco, California to a group of cloud computing specialists and web security professionals about the need for increased vigilance in protecting the cloud.
The increased use of ecommerce in China has led certain political leaders to consider implementing taxes on the companies who start businesses and sell items online, according to People's Daily Online.
Forrester Research, an independent research company, expects ecommerce sales in the United States to compound annually by 10 percent until 2014. At that point, sales will likely reach $250 billion spent per year.
Citing unprecedented losses in 2009, the United States Postal Service has considered reducing its delivery to a five-day week, eliminating its Saturday service. The potential redaction of Saturday service would extend delivery periods by one full day, which is likely to prevent consumers from making certain purchases, according to AuctionBytes.com.
Though Facebook began as a free social network, but since becoming profitable in 2009 due to advertising revenue, the site has begun a slow trajectory toward ecommerce. Advertising Age recently reported on Facebook's sales-oriented updates.
For the average computer user, typing in usernames and passwords is a familiar - and sometimes frustrating - activity. For companies that require employees to use multiple applications, the repeated activity of entering this information can be time consuming, particularly in light of forgetfulness and error.
Midwestern financial services provider INTRUST Bank announced that it will use Ultimate Software's UltiPro SaaS solution to manage enterprise computing functions.
Open source enterprise collaboration developer MindTouch launched a SaaS version of its platform Thursday designed to help non-programmer business users combine data from various enterprise systems into reports, graphs, charts and tables.
