Zephyr's New Version Brings Test Management To The Masses.

Zephyr announced the availability of Zephyr 2.0. Users can also purchase zephyr 2.0 as a SaaS solution in the Amazon cloud apart from the traditional on-premise model. "We are hearing from customers who need to manage testing more effectively without bringing on expensive, complex test management solutions," said Samir Shah, CEO and founder of Zephyr.

Persistent Teams With Rackspace to Serve Customer Ecosystem.

According to a recent solution partner agreement between Persistent Systems and Rackspace hosting, the two will be offering each other’s solution for building a total solution. "Rackspace had never worked with an offshore vendor before. We engaged Persistent in order to see how the model would work," said Tony Campbell, director, software development, Rackspace Hosting. "The advantages -- including faster time to market, faster ramp up of teams and cost savings -- were realized quickly and the Persistent team and resources are now key contributors to our development process."

Vendor Risk Management Enhanced in Vendormate VISION(TM) Application.

Vendormate VISION, the SaaS portal announced the release of set of new tools that can track and reduce risks from existing as well as potential vendors. It now includes the ability to check potential vendor’s financial help, as well as state and federal sanctions clearances, before adding them to the supply chain.

C-MAIL Launches 'Smart' Email Productivity Solution Designed To Help Business and Government Users Solve the Email Overload Problem and Speed Decision Making.

C-MAIL Corp, a provider enterprise email productivity software announced the launch of its flagship solution called C-MAIL On-Demand. This is a user-friendly SaaS add-in to Microsoft Outlook that automatically prioritizes e-mail messages. "Most email overload solutions available today rely on static rules-based technology and are limited to individual PC software that cannot effectively keep up with or adapt to the speed of business," said Manish Sood, CEO of C-MAIL Corp.

Salesforce.com Unveils Dreamforce 2008, the Cloud Computing Event of the Year.

Salesforce.com announced Dreamforce 2008, the cloud computing event of the year which will be held from Nov. 2-5, 2008 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Some of the guest speakers include Sheryl Sandberg, Faceboook and Dave Girouard, Google etc.

Rack-Soft Releases 4PSA VoipNow for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Rack-Soft announced the launch of 4PSA VoipNow for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The software maintained by Rack-Soft will allow companies to deploy VoipNow in minutes. "The great advantage of the Amazon cloud is that you will have your application available very fast, without sacrificing availability, security or performance. The running costs and the possibility of sharing information with other systems on the Amazon platform are also important for companies.” said Bogdan Carstoiu, Rack-Soft's General Manager.

Continuity Engine Is Firing on All Cylinders with Second Acquisition in a Month.

According to a recent news report, Continuity Engine announced the acquisition of Business IQ for its banking intelligence and profitability capabilities. "With Business IQ capabilities, we have the ability to look at business risk inside a bank's critical data," said Mr. Greenawalt, CEO of Continuity Engine.

Savvis Becomes an Authorized MySQL Hosting Partner.

The provider of IT infrastructure services for business applications, Savvis Inc announced that it has joined Sun Microsystem’s MySql Authorized Hosting partner program. These services have been designed specifically for SaaS vendors and managed hosting providers. "Savvis has always supported a managed service around MySQL for our customers," said Bill Fathers, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Savvis. "This new agreement now provides us with full access rights to use the enterprise version of MySQL enabling us to have end to end support from SUN developers.”

Wipro and Fortify Software Form Partnership to Assure the Security of Client Software Worldwide.

Wipro Technologies and Fortify Software Inc announced the launch of the industry's first joint center to assess and assure the security of client applications. “Wipro's Software Assurance Center (SAC) allows organizations to proactively detect and mitigate the risk from various threat sources, applying Fortify's industry-leading technology." states Vinod Muniyappa, Practice Head, Application Security.

GIS Planning, Inc. Ranked the 48th Fastest Growing Private Company by San Francisco Business Times.

GIS Planning Inc, the provider of online solutions for economic development announced that it was ranked 48th in the San Francisco Business Times "Fast 100". "We are honored to be named for the second year in a row to this prestigious list," said Co-Founder and Co-CEO Anatalio Ubalde.

Bridgeway Partners with Diligent to Release Bridgeway Diligent Boardbooks Integrated Solutions.

A partnership agremment between Bridgeway Software Inc. and Diligent Board Member Services Inc. was announced today. Bridgeway’s President Keith Okano says, “Diligent has successfully provided board management services to the boards of some of the world's most prestigious companies. We are pleased to provide our clients with access to proven board portal technology that helps them deal with an increased workload. “

GFI Software Selects Mailshell to Provide Advanced, Integrated Messaging Security.

Mailshell announced today that GFI Software, an international developer of network security, content security and messaging software, has selected and integrated it's software engines to provide reputation-based email security, anti-spam and anti-phishing protection to its anti-spam product GFI MailEssentials. "Mailshell LiveFeed offers broader global coverage, greater scoring granularity and higher detection rates than competing solutions." said David Vella, Director of Product Management at GFI.

Apprivo Delivers Three New Software-as-a-Service Offerings to Extend the Value of Salesforce Partner Networks.

Apprivo announced the launch of 3 new SaaS offerings that simplify how Named Accounts, Partner Scorecards and Special Pricing are managed in the channel. Aprivo is a provider of  value added products and services for Salesforce Partner Networks. "Apprivo revels in making complex channel processes more efficient," comments Apprivo founder and CEO, Andrew O'Driscoll. "The flexibility of the Force.com Platform-as-a-Service allows us to efficiently and cost-effectively develop the on-demand products our customers need to succeed with their channel."