Marc Benioff unveiled Salesforce.com’s Chatter application on the opening day of the firm’s annual DreamForce conference in Moscone Center In San Francisco.
Salesforce Chatter is a secure, private social network intended for enterprise use. Chatter has social computing features along the lines of Facebook and Twitter and is composed of a Chatter App and a Chatter Social Development Platform.
The Chatter App includes standard social computing features like Profiles, Status Updates, Feeds and Content Sharing. Users of Twitter and Facebook will see familiar functionality and social media tools built into Chatter App.
The Chatter Social Platform; billed as the Collaboration Cloud, will include standard social media and collaboration components as well as Twitter, Google and Facebook developer toolkits. The Chatter Social Platform will also include API’s that will enable developers to integrate data from both cloud and on premise apps into Chatter.
Salesforce Chatter is scheduled to go live in 2010. Chatter will be included in all paid editions of SalesforceCRM and Force.com and a Chatter edition that includes Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce Content ad Force.com will be available for $50 per user per month.
Amazon Rolls Out Virtual Private Cloud
Amazon today introduced its Virtual Private Cloud Service. This service allows customers to connect resources within the AWS Cloud, to resources within their own your own datacenter using encrypted IPsec VPN connections
Help Shape Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco
The Enterprise 2.0 San Francisco Conference Organizers have set up a survey for the Enterprise 2.0 community to vote for sessions they would like to see at its inaugural west coast conference
Cloud Computing Budgets Approved at Most Large Firms(pdf)
F5 recently released a survey of 250 large enterprises that indicates that funding for Cloud Computing projects and trials is in place at over 85% of the surveyed firms.
Although Ed’s slideshare presentation does not follow Guy Kawasaki’s 10 20 30 rule (With the key difference being that Ed definitely knowswhat he is talking about) this is nonetheless an excellent “State of the Union” presentation on Enterprise 2.0.
To experience the full benefit of Ed’s presentation I would highly recommend downloading the actual Adobe .pdf that has extensive hyperlinks to topics Ed covers in the presentation.
Peter Fingar’s New Book; Dot.Cloud, looks at the current Cloud Computing landscape and and what it all means for business in the future.
Dot.Cloud is not a technical “how to” for companies interested in creating Cloud applications and solutions but is a business book that firms can utilize to make informed decisions about how best to approach using the Cloud and determining ROI for Cloud initiatives. Peter is a true believer of the transformational effect that Cloud Computing will have on business in the coming years and compares the current Cloud hype cycle with the advent of ubiquitous Internet usage by businesses in the 1990’s.
Peter details out his conviction that Cloud Computing is the natural evolution of the Internet as a source of “services” and that business users are truly only interested in those services and not the underlying technology and acronyms that underpin Cloud Computing. Peter also believes that the biggest benefactors of Cloud Computing will be small and midsize businesses that now have the ability to tap into computing infrastructure, software and platforms that until recently were the sole province of large enterprises.
Dot.Cloud wont neccassarily cover new ground or introduce new concepts to those already using the Cloud; but for business users who are new to cloud computing that need an introduction to the terminology and history of Cloud Computing and how it all will affect business, this book is a great read.
