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Salesforce dropping support for IE6

kmccoll — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:36:52 +0000

We know this is tricky for our clients in financial services (a third of the visitors to this site are on IE, and a third of those are on version 6), but this is going to make our lives so much easier. Thank you Salesforce – now how about adding support for Chrome!

Salesforce Chatter

kmccoll — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:37:11 +0000

So seems that Chatter was the big news at Dreamforce this year. While it looks quite impressive, we’re disappointed that they missed the opportunity to name it ForceFeed!

We had a great time out in San Francisco and if we spoke to you, drop us a line.

Redkite @ Dreamforce ‘09

kmccoll — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:46:08 +0000

Drop us a line if you’re heading to Dreamforce – there are a lot of people we’re looking forward to meeting in person.

Red kite numbers hit record high

kmccoll — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:48:48 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8315942.stm

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Makes Amazon Services Enterprise Friendly

kmccoll — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:43:37 +0000

Amazon have announced Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), making it easier for enterprises to integrate Amazon EC2 services into their own infrastructure. It’s limited to the EC2 service for now, but Amazon say they plan to extend it to their other services in time.

This is another important step in the maturing of the cloud technology market-place for large enterprises.

[via TechCrunch]

Salesforce Winter 10 Release

kmccoll — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:52:25 +0000

This is the new logo, and here’s what you can expect

How Clouds Can Complement Consolidation

kmccoll — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:31:03 +0000

Just like banks are more secure than homes — because they must be to remain in business — cloud services either are or will be more secure than enterprise data centers

Nice article by Joe Weinman over at GigaOM (via Salon). Read the rest here ».

Salesforce Singapore Data Center Goes Live

kmccoll — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:56:03 +0000

Big news for customers looking to get performance (or privacy/legal) benefits from an Asia-Pacific Salesforce.com data center: the Singapore infrastructure is now live.