Tag: Salesforce

Cloud 5: Microsoft beefs up its Middle Eastern presence, Salesforce returns to SMB roots

Cloud 5: Microsoft beefs up its Middle Eastern presence, Salesforce returns to SMB roots

Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. And without further delay, here we go with this week’s links:

/ March 16, 2018
Cloud 5: Pentagon’s cloud contract, Edge computing won’t kill cloud

Cloud 5: Pentagon’s cloud contract, Edge computing won’t kill cloud

Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

/ March 9, 2018
A mostly good week for SaaS

A mostly good week for SaaS

Software-as-a-Service — or perhaps we should be simply calling it software, because that’s the way it mostly gets delivered now — had a pretty good week last week. Whether it was Salesforce reporting yet another great quarter, Box moving past...

/ March 5, 2018
When cloud companies partner, customers usually win

When cloud companies partner, customers usually win

When cloud companies team up, good things tend to happen for customers. It provides a way to combine different kinds of enterprise information in a seamless way. Cloud partnerships happen so often and so easily, it’s easy to take them...

/ January 18, 2018
Cloud 5: Kubernetes future, AWS and Salesforce want to shed Oracle databases

Cloud 5: Kubernetes future, AWS and Salesforce want to shed Oracle databases

Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

/ January 5, 2018
The cloud surged in 2017

The cloud surged in 2017

As Frank Sinatra once crooned, it was a very good year. While he definitely wasn’t talking about cloud computing, 2017 was a year the cloud really became a standard way of computing — and it was a very good year....

/ December 20, 2017
Cloud 5: Will the edge kill the cloud, public cloud’s role in emerging tech

Cloud 5: Will the edge kill the cloud, public cloud’s role in emerging tech

Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

/ November 10, 2017
Cloud 5: Everyone loves Kubernetes, Cisco’s cloud pivot

Cloud 5: Everyone loves Kubernetes, Cisco’s cloud pivot

Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

/ September 15, 2017
Microsoft, not Salesforce owns SaaS marketshare lead says Synergy Research

Microsoft, not Salesforce owns SaaS marketshare lead says Synergy Research

When Synergy Research announced their Q2 SaaS marketshare results today, there was a bit of a surprise. Instead of Salesforce, leading the field, it was Microsoft. The shift actually happened a year ago, according to Synergy. Salesforce was of course born...

/ August 31, 2017
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Salesforce surpasses $10 billion run rate

Salesforce surpasses $10 billion run rate

Salesforce had another impressive earnings report yesterday, blowing past analyst expectations and putting them firmly on the road to surpass $10 billion in annual revenue. That’s a huge number and not one to be dismissed easily. In fact, Salesforce claims...

/ August 23, 2017