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Salesforce.com Summary

Written by David Chidester on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 in Software.
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Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com was the early leader in the Software as a Service arena back in 1999. The founders felt traditional software development would eventually be replaced with web based services.

Salesforce.com’s flagship product is a web-based CRM (Customer Relationship Management) solution. As of September 2007, they had over 900,000 subscribers and supported 100-million customer transactions in one day.

In 2007 Salesforce.com launched Force.com, a Platform-As-A-Service, as the a building block platform for additional web based software services.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace

Written by David Chidester on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 in Software.
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microsoftMicrosoft Office Live is Microsoft’s free online collaboration software service. The service gives users the ability to store information in their online account to access from any device anywhere in the world.

The service is marketed for Business, School and Home use. Key features include:

    • Access your documents from almost anywhere
      Save over 1,000 Microsoft Office documents in one online place
      Open and save directly from Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
      Control who sees and edits files; password-protected sharing

Cloud Computing Service: Remote structured document storage

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Google Apps

Written by David Chidester on Sunday, December 21st, 2008 in Software.
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googleGoogle Apps is a group of hosted applications from Google.

Currently there are two versions of the Apps software. The Free Standard Edition and the $50/User Premier Edition. The main difference between the two versions is security and support.

Google Apps includes the following software:

  • Gmail
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Chat
  • Google Docs – Word Processing
  • Google Docs – Spreadsheets
  • Google Docs – Presentations
  • Google Video
  • Google Sites

Each of these applications are hosted by Google and user access is maintained in a central web-based control admin.

Azure SQL Services

Written by David Chidester on Sunday, December 21st, 2008 in Storage.
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Azure SQL Services is a scalable data platform built on Microsoft SQL Server hosted on Microsoft’s infrastructure. These SQL Services allow remote storage of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

The Services are accessible through standard interfaces such as SOAP and REST. The service allows for on demand scaling for your data needs and can be accessed securely through HTTPS/SSL.

Unstructured data such as photos and documents can be stored and retrieved from anywhere/anytime.

Azure Live Services

Written by David Chidester on Sunday, December 21st, 2008 in Services.
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The Azure Live Services provide the services for handling user data. This includes authentication and profile information that is available for use in your applications.

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Azure .NET Services

Written by David Chidester on Sunday, December 21st, 2008 in Infrastructure.
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Mircrosoft Azure Cloud

The Microsoft Azure .NET Services is the developer oriented component of the Windows Azure Platform. This component allows developers to create applications that sit in the Microsoft Cloud.

The Components of the .NET Services are:

  • Access Control
  • Service Bus
  • Workflow Service

See how a simple application is created using Visual Web Developer and the Azure SDK.

Windows Azure Services Platform

Written by David Chidester on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 in Platform.
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azuresvcsplatThe Windows Azure Services Platform is Microsoft’s full force entrance into the Cloud Computing world.

The Azure Services Platform is currently made up of the following components:

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CloudComputingWatch.com Officially Launched

Written by David Chidester on Saturday, December 20th, 2008 in Housekeeping.

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Today we have official launched CloudComputingWatch.com.  Look for posts about everything related to Cloud Computing.  Please email news about Cloud Computing to david[at]cloudcomputingwatch.com


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