Callidus Software Inc., the leader in Sales Performance Management (SPM), announced today that it opened a new state-of-the-art Class A Tier III data center in Ashburn, Virginia. The data center became operational in the fourth quarter of 2010.

"Callidus' award winning SPM solutions are fueling growth in our on demand business across the globe," said Leslie Stretch, president and CEO at Callidus Software. "Callidus On Demand leads the SPM market with its unbeatable combination of ease of use, out-of-the-box best practices, and mobile support -- delivered as a 100% multi-tenant SaaS solution. This new facility, with its strategic location on the eastern seaboard of the US, will enable us to effectively serve our on demand customers around the world, from North America to EMEA to the Asia-Pacific regions."

The rise of cloud computing technology in the desktop computer space--for both consumers and businesses--has been slow and gradual as users grow accustomed to saving and manipulating data stored in a nameless location by a faceless company. But on the mobile side of things, the transition from local computing and storage to cloud computing and storage is happening so quickly it's almost easy to miss.

Despite being among the first to successfully and profitably implement cloud computing solutions, AWS officials said the company still has to constantly deal with questions about the reliability, security, cost, elasticity and other features of the cloud. In short, there are myths about cloud computing that persist despite increased industry adoption and thousands of successful cloud deployments. However, in an exclusive interview with eWEEK at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle, Adam Selipsky, vice president of AWS, set out to shoot down some of the myths of the cloud. Specifically, Selipsky debunked five cloud myths.

We all know about hosting, you sign up for server space, upload your files to the server, connect that with the domain name, maybe setup a database and BOOM you have a website! For years this was called hosting, most people now call it the cloud.

Operations in Amazon's Northern Virginia cloud computing data center were disrupted during a five-hour period Wednesday.

Now that sensitive data no longer resides on dedicated hardware , how can enterprises protect their data in the rapidly-evolving world of shared computing resources? In this article from CloudSwitch we learn how their developing security model addresses three areas of protection required to make cloud computing secure for the enterprise: