Adobe and Salesforce in Close Race for Marketing Cloud
Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Adrea Tse.
Salesforce.com CFO Graham Smith couldn’t have picked a better time to leave the cloud computing giant, retiring at a time when a change of face at the CFO level probably wouldn’t make a major difference to investors. In its latest reported quarter, Adobe produced a large display of above-target financial numbers, demonstrated "stickiness" with all-time low attrition rates and soaring large enterprise deals, and continued to stoke interest in its new sales leadership and strategies with the recently-introduced Salesforce1 platform. Shares quickly rebounded from news of Smith’s retirement coupled with a wider GAAP loss.
The details of the earnings call last week once again underscored that it’s essentially been smooth sailing for Salesforce’s customer relationship management solutions business or sales cloud, by far the largest piece of its cloud solution. This business has basically been left unchallenged by competitors such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, with the first two still unable to catch up to Salesforce after their delayed entry into the sales cloud…
Parallels is a vendor of hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions for service providers. Established 14 years ago, Parallels offers a well-regarded software platform for its large service provider ecosystem and prides itself on its industry knowledge through Parallels Cloud University and consulting. The company’s annual Parallels Summit recently took place in New Orleans, ushering in the Mardi Gras season. No beads were thrown, but attendees were treated to a number of key messages. Here are some of the ones that stuck with me:
CipherPoint, the leader in data security solutions for structured and unstructured content in file sharing and collaboration platforms like Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft SharePoint Online, today announced its selection as the Most Innovative Cloud Security Solution of 2014 in Cyber Defense Magazine’s inaugural New InfoSec Technologies Awards.
CPLANE NETWORKS, the leader in high-performance software-defined networking (SDN), today announced the availability of a new network virtualization platform for enterprises and cloud service providers. Dynamic Virtual Networks (DVN) transforms static physical networks into virtualized resource pools that can be allocated on demand, significantly reducing the time and cost to deploy cloud applications.
Even as the cloud computing market accelerates, SolarWinds CEO Kevin Thompson says his company will never abandon on-premises IT professionals who manage servers, applications, databases, networks and more. In an exclusive interview with MSPmentor and Windows IT Pro, Thompson described how SolarWinds (SWI) will balance on-premises and cloud R&D to make sure IT pros enjoy job security for years to come. First, a little background: SolarWinds has rapidly expanded its IT management software portfolio — through acquisitions and organic software development. In its most recent quarterly results (disclosed in Feb. 2014), SolarWinds said Q4 2013 revenues jumped a strong 32 percent to $97.1 million.
With security threats multiplying daily, the need to provide clients with an arsenal of tools for protecting their data has never been greater. IPR International is pleased to announce a new partnership with leading cloud security and encryption management provider AFORE Solutions, Inc. that will give IPR’s clients the ability to add Encryption as a Service (EaaS) as an additional layer of security for their cloud environments.
GreenPages-LogicsOne, a leading systems integrator and cloud services company, today announced it has been named to Nine Lives Media’s MSPmentor 501 Global list and report identifying the world’s top 501 Managed Service Providers (MSPs). MSPmentor 501 rankings are based on a range of metrics, including annual managed services revenue growth, revenue per employee, managed services offered and customer devices managed. GreenPages-LogicsOne placed #79 globally.