Salesforce.com has appointed Vivek Kundra as its executive vice president of emerging markets.

Salesforce.com is set to acquire web-based social performance management software provider Rypple and plans to relaunch its product as Successforce.

As part of our discussion with Entrust CTO, Jon Callas, iTWire was interested to know where the point of intersection between Clouds and Security lay.

  SafeNet's SafeWord 2008 now extends single sign-on to cloud applications such as Google Apps.  

Adobe has acquired EchoSign, an electronic signature provider.

Global cloud computing giant Salesforce.com has given Australian customers concerned about losing control of their data to other jurisdictions the first ray of hope in the past decade, confirming today it was evaluating the case for creating a local datacentre.

A billion-dollar Australian company has selected ComOps SAM salesforce automation software.

Hitachi Data Systems and Teradata have been listed as one of the 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. Several other players in the ICT industry also made the list.

Cloud computing consultancy PRM Australia has appointed Troy Westley as its director of sales and marketing.

The Australian division of software as a service giant Salesforce.com yesterday issued a tough statement in response to Microsoft's attempt to muscle in on its online CRM turf, describing Redmond's solutions as "a snapshot of history" rather than a modern application.