2010 Industry News Archive

• Dell to Acquire Insite One  Adds Leading Healthcare Industry Cloud-Based Medical Archiving, Storage and Disaster-Recovery Capabilities, 12/22/10 
• Teradata to Acquire Aprimo Cloud-Based Integrated Marketing Software Provider, 12/22/10 
• Lawson Software to Acquire SaaS Human Capital Management (HCM) Provider Enwisen, 12/20/10 
• Citrix To Acquire Netviewer AG, German Based SaaS Collaboration and IT Services Provider, 12/17/10 
• Rackspace Acquires Cloudkick to Provide Powerful Server Management Tools for the Cloud Computing Era, 12/16/10 
• OpSource Removes Barriers to Public Cloud Adoption by Moving Managed Services to the Cloud, 12/14/10 
• Rackspace Expands Fanatical Support, Brings its Legendary Service Levels to the Cloud Managed Cloud, 12/14/10 
• IBM's New Cloud Offering Helps Companies Improve IT Service Desk Operations, 12/08/10 

• Salesforce.com Introduces Force.com 2, the Cloud 2 Platform, With Five New Services for Building Cloud 2 Apps, 12/08/10

• Informatica Announces Latest In Cloud Data Integration - Informatica Cloud Express, 12/06/10   

• Rearden Commerce Announces Acquisition of Ketera Technologies, 12/01/10 

• Dun & Bradstreet and Informatica Announce Joint Technology Relationship to Power Data-as-a-Service Solutions, 12/01/10 

• Informatica Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 11/22/10 

• Cloud Security Alliance Unveils Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Stack, 11/17/10 

• Datapipe Launches Managed Cloud for Amazon Web Services, 11/17/10 

• SAP-BusinessObjects BI OnDemand Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 11/15/10   

• GoodData Powers Dashboards Across SaaS and Cloud Ecosystem, 11/10/10 

• Ingram Micro Takes Cloud Computing Strategy Online, 11/08/10 

• Bill.com Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 11/08/10 

• Dell to Acquire Boomi, 11/02/10 

• ManageEngine Delivers Hosted, ITIL-Ready Help Desk, Asset Management Suite in SaaS Model, 11/02/10 

• IBM Launches Federal Community Cloud for Government Organizations, 11/01/10 

• Mimecast Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 10/25/10 

• Amazon Web Services to Launch Free Usage Tier, 10/21/10

• U.S. General Services Administration Taps Verizon Business for Cloud Computing Services, 10/21/10 

• Microsoft Announces Office 360 Cloud Service Brings Together Office, SharePoint, Exchange and Lync, 10/19/10

• CollabNet Acquires Codesion, 10/19/10 

• Mirapoint and Critical Path to Merge, 10/19/10

• Accept Corporation Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 10/18/10 

• SuccessFactors Launches First Ever Calculator in the Cloud to Solve Business Challenges, 10/18/10

• IBM Enables Communications Service Providers To Capture New Cloud Services Market Opportunity, 10/14/10 

• ReactorNet Wins Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award, 10/06/10 

• planetRE Announces Launch of Real Estate Industry's first Integrated CRM and Social Media Platform, 10/05/10

• SumTotal Systems Acquires Softscape, 09/21/10

• Earth Class Mail Wins Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award, 09/20/10 

• Oracle Announces Oracle Fusion Applications, Saas-Ready Enterprise Applications, 09/20/10

• Informatica Delivers Cloud Data Integration You Can Trust, 09/15/10 

• Appirio Introduces Cloud Broker Technology to Power Cross-Cloud Solutions, 09/15/10 

• Verizon Introduces New Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Computing for Small, Medium Business Markets, 09/14/10 

• Kenexa Announces Agreement to Acquire Salary.com, 09/01/10 

• NetSuite Unveils New Program to Help Accountants Tap the Power of Cloud Financials and ERP, 08/31/10

• Verizon and VMware to Launch Enterprise-Class Hybrid Cloud Solution, 08/31/10 

• Aria Systems and VMware Collaborate to Redefine Cloud Services Monetization, 08/31/10

• CA Technologies Plans to Acquire Arcot Systems, Extends Market Opportunity for Leading On-Demand Identity and Access Management Offerings, 08/30/10 

• Self-Service Private and Hybrid Clouds Come to the Enterprise Courtesy of newScale, rPath, Eucalyptus Systems, 08/24/10

• Dell Agrees To Acquire 3PAR For Virtualization-Optimized Storage, 08/16/10  

• IBM to Acquire Unica Corporation, 08/13/10

• SAP Releases New Version of SAP Business ByDesign, 08/02/10 

• Right90 Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 07/26/10 

• Rackspace Open Sources Cloud Platform; Announces Plans to Collaborate with NASA and Other Industry Leaders on OpenStack Project, 07/19/10 

• Post Vision Technology's Project Portfolio Office (PPO) Is First Best of SaaS Showplace Award Based in Africa, 07/12/10 

• Webroot Acquires BrightCloud, Innovator in Web Site Classification and Reputation Services, 07/07/10 

• NetSuite and Zuora Partner to Deliver Best-of-Breed Solution for Subscription-based Businesses, 07/07/10 

• Hitachi Data Systems to Help Customers Deploy Low Risk Cloud with Storage-as-a-Service Solutions, 06/29/10

• EasyVista Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 06/28/10 

• Trend Micro Launches Hybrid SaaS Email Security Solution, 06/21/10

• GoodData Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 06/21/10 

• Verizon Business Introduces Cloud-based Storage-as-a-Service, 06/15/10  

• IBM Advances Analytics With Acquisition of Coremetrics, 06/15/10 

• Security On-Demand Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 06/14/10 

• Service-Now Adds Service Portfolio and IT Cost Management Capabilities, 06/08/10

• FPX, Inc. Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 06/07/10 

• HP Delivers New Collaboration and Consolidation Solutions for SMBs, 06/02/10 

• Savvis to Acquire Canadian-Based Fusepoint, 06/01/10 

• Financial Transmission Network Inc. (FTNI) Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 06/01/10 

• IBM Agrees to Acquire Sterling Commerce from AT&T for $1.4 Billion, 05/24/10

• Constant Contact Acquires Nutshellmail; Adds New Social Media Tool, 05/24/10 

• WaveMaker Wins THINKstrategies' Second Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Award, 05/24/10 

• update CRM Inc. Brings a Revolution in Cloud-based CRM Solutions to North America, 05/19/10

• Aprigo Announces the SaaS Application to Deliver Simple, Affordable Unstructured Data Governance Compliance, 05/18/10

• Microsoft Files Patent Infringement Action Against Salesforce.com, 05/18/10 

• The Sant Corporation and Kadient Announce Merger, 05/11/10 

• Epicor Announces On-Demand Cloud Computing Solution, 05/11/10

• PowerSteering Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 05/10/10 

• SuccessFactors Acquires CubeTree, 05/03/10 

• IBM Acquires Cast Iron Systems, 05/03/10 

• New Relic Wins Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) Award, 05/03/10 

• Verizon and Novell Unveil Cloud-Based Security Solution, 04/28/10

• Salesforce.com and VMware Form Strategic Alliance to Launch VMforce, 04/27/10 

• Lionbridge Announces Availability of Translation Workspace Global-Scale SaaS-Based Translation Productivity Platform, 04/26/10

• Spiceworks Integrates Rackspace Cloud Email Services, 04/26/10

• BMC Remedy OnDemand and BMC ServiceDesk on Force.com Available Worldwide, 04/26/10

• AccelOps Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 04/26/10 

• Salesforce.com to Acquire Jigsaw, 04/21/10 

• Cloud Communications Alliance Brings Voice Communications to the Cloud, 04/20/10 

• Descartes Acquires Imanet, 04/20/10

• Vivantio Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 04/19/10

• Oracle Buys Phase Forward, 04/16/10

• Caspio Wins First THINKstrategies Cloud Computing Business Value (CCBV) Award, 04/12/10

• Sage SalesLogix E-Marketing Cloud Service Provides Email Campaign Capabilities for Small and Mid-Sized Business CRM Suite Users, 04/12/10 

• NetSuite SuiteFlow Delivers Graphical Business Process Customization for Cloud Computing ERP Suites, 04/09/10

• LogicMonitor Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 4/05/10 

• Lawson Announces Full-Function ERP on Amazon Web Services Infrastructure, 03/31/10

• Jigsaw Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 3/29/10

• ISI and Cadence Pharmaceuticals Collaborate to Leverage SaaS Technology, 3/22/10

• Deposco Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 3/22/10 

• Navajo Systems Offers VPS for the IBM Cloud, 3/16/10  

• McAfee Launches Innovative Program for Added Security in the Cloud, 3/16/10 

• Rosslyn Analytics Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 3/15/10 

• CA to Acquire Nimsoft, 03/10/10 

• RightNow Reinvents Cloud Vendor-Client Engagements with Cloud Services Agreement, 03/04/10

• THINKstrategies and Datamation Conducting Joint SaaS Survey, 03/03/10

• Cloud9 Analytics Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 3/01/10

• Citrix Enters SaaS-based IT Management with GoToManage, 2/24/10 

• CDC Software Acquires computility, 2/24/10 

• CA To Acquire Cloud Computing Solution Provider 3Tera, 2/24/10 

• Coupa Software Launches Cloud Spend Management Platform with New Expense Reporting and Auditing Capabilities, 2/22/10

• TeamSupport.com Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 2/16/10 

• IBM Acquires Intelliden, 2/16/10

• Kaseya Meets Growing Demand for Remote Access and IT Troubleshooting Tools with SaaS Solutions, 2/09/10

• InteQ InfraDesk Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 2/08/10

• SuccessFactors to Acquire Inform, 2/04/10 

• ActiveConversion Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 1/25/10 

• ADP Closes Acquisition of DO2 Technologies, Enters Procure-to-Pay Market, 1/20/10 

• Intuit and Microsoft Join Forces to Deliver Web Applications to Millions of Small Businesses, 1/20/10 

• Ping Identity Offers SaaS Single Sign-On Certification, 1/20/10 

• BMC Software Reshapes Enterprise IT Service Management with Launch of Remedy ITSM On Demand, 1/19/10 

• HP and Microsoft Commit $250 Million to Joint Cloud Development, 1/13/10 

• ATG Acquires InstantService, 1/12/10

• Thrive Technologies Wins Best of SaaS Showplace Award, 1/11/10 

• Authoria and Peopleclick Combine in $100 Million Transaction to Create Largest Private Company in the Talent Management Arena, 1/5/10 

• EMC to Acquire Archer Technologies, Leading Provider of IT Governance Risk and Compliance Software , 1/4/10