According to a new report by Gartner, Software As A Service (SaaS) is proving popular in big enterprises, not just small and medium-sized ones. Read more at Cloud Ave.

The enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce has announced that it’s been chosen by Facebook to manage its fast-growing sales operations. Read more on PR Newswire

If you’ve moved your enterprise onto Google Apps, you’ve entrusted a single company with all your business-critical data: email, Office documents and contacts. To protect against online data loss you may want to consider independent back-up. One company that looks … Continued

eBay have announced that they will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. Read more at eBayInk

CouchDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) document-oriented open source database, has finally reached version 1.0. Claimed features for the first full release are: * Up to 300% faster than the pre-release version, * support for Microsoft Windows, * authentication system – until … Continued

SugarCRM is the major open source customer relationship management (CRM) platform; following the release of version 6, it is also certified for deployment on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform. Interestingly SugarCRM competes directly with Microsoft’s own CRM platform as well … Continued

Research commissioned by datacenter solution provider Brocade reveals that 60% of European enterprises believe that within the next two years they will have started planning and migration towards cloud clouding. Whilst cost reduction is seen as a major driver by … Continued

Microsoft’s free online version of its Office suite, Office Web Apps, is now available to users in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland. It needs a Windows Live ID to sign in.

In an interview, the president of Microsoft’s server and tools business talked about the shifts to the cloud, Google’s role in the enterprise and the future of Microsoft’s server products, including the next version of Windows Server. Read more on … Continued