Compuware to acquire privately-held Gomez for $295m.

Compuware, the application performance management company has agreed to acquire privately-held web application management vendor Gomez for $295m. Addition of Gomez will strengthen Compuware’s position in the SaaS infrastructure management market as they’d allow users to test and measure web applications from the ‘outside-in’ across all users, browsers, devices and geographies. “For business and IT executives who are moving more business-critical applications onto the internet, Compuware can now offer unified visibility, isolation and resolution of application performance problems from the data centre to the customer,” said Bob Paul, president and chief operating officer of Compuware.

Websense Leads Web Security Market, Achieves Rapid Growth in SaaS Security.

In the recent report released by IDC, World leaders in research have named Websense the leader in the overall Web security market, which comprises software, appliance and SaaS Web security to protect against both inbound threats. "Websense continues to develop its core strength in discovering and classifying content across all its product offerings and provides its customers visibility and management over their information in a Web 2.0 world to control where users and data can go online." said Brian Burke, security program director, IDC.

A.D.A.M., Inc. Launches Advisor Tools 2.0.

The Employer and Broker Solutions Group of A.D.A.M., Inc., announced the launch of Advisor Tools 2.0, A.D.A.M.’s comprehensive suite of applications for brokers that includes proprietary benchmark reporting, research and regulatory information, and other valuable HR tools. “With comparative state-by-state benefits cost information pulled from the thousands of benefit plans managed through A.D.A.M.’s Benergy® communication platform and made available through the Advisor Tools 2.0 application, we help brokers and employers make good decisions based on real, relevant, and timely data.” said Kevin Noland, A.D.A.M.’s president and chief executive officer.

Pi2 Square Technologies becomes Google Apps Reseller.

In recent announcement, Pi2 Square Technologies has become official reseller for Google Apps program. The company states that it foresees business in all verticals, adopting the SaaS in ever increasing numbers. The economic, security, reliability and delivery of SaaS can ensure companies the real competitive advantages compared to any SaaS from other competitors.

Symantec unveils FileStore cloud storage tool.

Symantec Corp, World leader in security systems has announced the release of FileStore software that allows companies to create a file-based cloud storage infrastructures capable of serving up petabytes of data from a single domain name space, and from commodity x86 hardware."We've designed this to support diverse workloads -- applications that have requirements for hundreds of millions of really tiny files like ringtones or tens of millions of larger files, like online auction sites," said Sean Derrington, director of storage management and high availability services at Symantec.

PivotLink and Boomi Expand SaaS Business Analytics to Over 70 Enterprise Applications.

PivotLink, the leading provider of business intelligence solutions delivered via SaaS, and Boomi today announced a strategic partnership to deliver integration between PivotLink Solutions and packaged applications using Boomi AtomSphere. "This partnership is evidence that the Cloud universe is maturing rapidly as point solutions give way to end-to-end analytic platforms that provide universal access to all the data needed for decisions," said Quentin Gallivan, CEO of PivotLink.

SMBs in India to Spend $48.8 Million on Unified Communications in 2009.

According to the new study released by Access Markets International (AMI) Partners Inc, small and medium businesses in Indian sub-continent are likely to spend $48.4 Million on Unified Communications in 2009. "India SMBs are looking at UC as a low-cost tool to communicate effectively with customers and suppliers, as well as facilitate communication across multiple branch locations," says Sumeeta Misra, AMI's Bangalore-based Research Associate.