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Not the messiah - the Cloud gospel according to Lars Dalgaard

SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard emerged bullish and beaming from his keynote address at the SuccessConnect conference in San Francisco as well he might on the back of announcing the world's biggest Cloud applications deployment to date.

“We've demonstrated that we can scale,” says Dalgaard of the massive deal with German electronics giant Siemens AG, which sees 420,000 people across 80 countries, and speaking 20 languages, added to the global SuccessFactors user base.

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

View from the Cloud: is email dead for business?

Leading Cloud Computing industry figures offers their unique viewpoint on topical and strategic issues.

In this article Cameron  Nouri, Email & Apps Evangelist at Rackspace suggests that Cloud Computing alters the role of email in business.

"Email is clearly an important tool for communication, but it is just part of the infrastructure and not part of the company’s IP,  which drives market share and delivers competitive edge. This means email needs to adapt to businesses’ requirements, not  the other way around. As Cloud Computing become more widespread, we are already seeing a shift in how email is managed."   Read more.