enterprise cloud computing

Salesforce.com continued developing as "the enterprise cloud computing company" Monday with announcements that it is extending its Force.com platform to Facebook and Amazon Web Services.

The announcements are part of a series of recent moves that include the unveiling this week of Force.com Sites, enabling businesses to utilize the Force.com platform and applications in the creation of public Web sites.

'Social Meet CRM'

VMware this week announced a string of new products with a single goal in mind: to expand its flagship virtual-infrastructure suite into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS).

VDC-OS aims to help businesses pool hardware resources -- servers, storage and network -- into an aggregated on-premises cloud, and to move workloads to external clouds for additional computing capacity when needed.