Cross-ocean clouds gain despite millisecond delays

"The company undertook the project with the help of Appirio Inc., a San Francisco-based firm that helps businesses set up cloud platforms. Appirio helped architect and tune the system to provide "almost the same level of response time" as the conventional system, said Futami."

New App Deepens Salesforce-Facebook Possibilities

CIO.com
Software and services vendor Appirio is releasing the Referral Management Solution, a set of technologies that enable Salesforce customers to use Facebook for functions like viral marketing and employee recruitment.

Fighting Government Waste One Google App At a Time

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The Washington D.C. government is migrating its 38,000 employees over to Gmail and Google Apps, which it plans to use for document sharing, spreadsheets and as a wiki. Here's a look at how and why, from cost to continuity.

Google Eyes the Enterprise: Suite Smell of Success

CIO Magazine
"The search giant is showing signs of making progress in the enterprise as it targets Microsoft's cash cows of Office and Exchange"