Ricoh's DocumentMall Solution Provides Document Security and Organization for Salesforce.com Users.

Ricoh Americas Corp announced the internal deployment of their SaaS document storage and management solution called DocumentMall with Salesforce.com. Ricoh will showcase the DocumentMall for saleforce.com solution at salesforce.com's user and developer conference, Dreamforce, on November 2 - 5, 2008 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA.

CollaborateMD Founder Wins Orlando Business Journal Award.

The Orlando Business Journal Award was presented to CollaborateMD’s company president and CEO, Douglas Kegler. Earlier this year, company was also awarded the prestigious INC 5000 award for its three years sales growth of over 300%.

Become Vitally Important to Your Customers with JobBlogs' Social CRM.

JobBlogs, a SaaS provider has announced its first product that will blend CRM and project management with the concepts of social business into a single integrated application. "The current global economic malaise is forcing companies to hunker down and get back to the basics of business. Success is no longer measured in the number of calls your team makes.” said Steve Ireland, President of Norada Corporation.

OKI Networks Launches IPstage® Series Release 6.

OKI Networks Co. Ltd announced two products in its IPstage Series. The company is a subsidiary of OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd. “OKI Networks has been offering products to enable unified communication for companies. We believe the new ’IPstage EX100 Release 6’ and ‘IPstage MX/SX Release 6’ will advance unified communications for SMBs,” said Masasuke Kishi, President of OKI Networks.

Appirio Helps Business people Connect the Facebook(R) Platform to Salesforce CRM.

According to a news released today, a Facebook application will allow business people to use their social network to get their job done. The news was released by Appirio whose new product, MyFriends@Work will connect sophisticated CRM capabilities of Salesforce.com with viral social networking capabilities on Facebook’s platform.

Plexus Systems, Inc. to Exhibit at Metalform Mexico, Nov. 11-13.

The provider of Plexus Online Software, Plexus Systems Inc, will be exhibiting at Metalform Mexico. This is an industry tradeshow to be held between Nov. 11-13 at Centro Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico. "Metalform Mexico is a prime opportunity to demonstrate Plexus Online's capability to transform the metalforming industry and help manufacturers work more efficiently and become more competitive and successful," said Plexus Systems vice president of Marketing, Patrick Fetterman.

Funnelback Signs Search Deal With Bank of Queensland.

Funnelback is proud to announce a four year deal with Bank of Queensland for providing its fully hosted SaaS search service. Mr Stuart Beil, Funnelback's General Manager says, "Bank of Queensland liked the Funnelback hosted search solution because Funnelback manages all of the technical and support aspects of search and this frees up Bank staff to focus on the business aspects of their website as a delivery channel."

IDS Resolves Complex Customer Inquiries With Ease Using Neocase CS On-Demand.

NeoCase Software a provider of customer service solutions for shared service centers and customer support operations announced the successful implementation of NeoCase CS. The customer service solution’s implementation took place at International Decision System. "IDS needed a solution that could quickly replace our legacy system while at the same time provide the flexibility and scalability to grow with our global business. Neocase CS offered by far the best price-to-value ratio as well the industry's superior case management, knowledge base and self-service solutions for us to operate productively around the world." said Doug Schick, Director of Global Support at IDS.

PEER 1 Expands SAN-Based Backup.

PEER 1 Network Enterprises announced on Tuesday the expanding of its storage area network based backup capability to collocation and serverbeach dedicated hosting customers. The new backup service uses IBN’s Tivoli technology to bring SAN based backup.

Microsoft To Unveil Windows 7, Cloud Computing Efforts Next Week.

Microsoft’s long awaited cloud computing strategy and the future of Windows and .Net will be launched next week during its Professional Developers Conference. "The idea of a distributed operating system is something that has merit," Zane Adam, Microsoft's senior director of virtualization strategy, said in an interview this week.

Customers Deploy Arista Networks' Cloud Networking Platform.

Arista Networks, formerly known as Arastra, announced the deployment of its Cloud Networking (TM) Platform for scalable datacenter and computing environments. "In the upcoming era of cloud computing, the web will be much more thanjust a means of delivering content -- it will be a platform in its own right, requiring an extremely scalable cloud networking infrastructure," said Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO of Arista.

Amazon's Linux cloud computing out of beta, joined by Windows.

The Elastic Compute Cloud has taken the responsibility of BETA testing a collection of online options collectively called Amazon Web Services. The EC2 is a service that gives customers on demand access to Linux servers. "Amazon EC2 is now in full production," Barr said in a blog post Wednesday. And as promised, EC2 now offers Windows in a beta test, joining Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris and Solaris Express Community Edition.

Cirrhus9 Announces Innovation in Cloud Computing.

According to a recent news, Cirrus9 has configured a suite of open-source products which will provide low-cost pre-packaged solutions that include e-mail, document sharing, learning management and others. The new low cost cloud-computing infrastructure is powered in part by 3Tera’s award winning AppLogic cloud computing platform. "Cloud Computing has the ability to significantly reduce these costs not only by reducing server count, power consumption and data center real estate but more importantly by providing a robust, secure and scalable infrastructure environment. We've chosen 3tera's cloud computing platform as a solution that we can provide to our clients." said Mike Michalik, CEO, Cirrhus9.

Sun Co-Founder Quits Sun (Again) To Head Up Cloud Computing Start-Up.

Sun Co-Founder Andy Bechtolsheim is leaving Sun for the second time in his career. Having already co-founded Arista Networks with David Sheraton, a tenured professor of engineering at Stanford University who has devised some "very capable, very fast cloud networking software" according to Forbes.com, Bechtolsheim is now going to start working for Arista full-time, as Chief Development Officer.

Rackspace Buys Cloud Computing Firms For Up To $28 Million (RAX).

According to a recent news, Rackspace has picked up Slicehost ad Jungle Disk for $11.5 million in cash and stock and up to $16.5 million in earnout to give compeition to take on Amazon in the fastest growing cloud computing industry.