With over 750 customers in 2 years and average revenue of about $30k per transaction, Marketo (a SaaS-based lead management, sales insight and revenue performance management (RPM) company) has won the coveted inaugural UP 2010 Cloud Award in the “Fastest Growing Cloud Computing Company” category. There were over 230 nominations. Other finalists in this category were FreedomOSS (which ...

Speaking on “Using Enterprise/Private Cloud Capabilities in the US Intelligence” at the 7th Cloud Expo in Santa Clara (1-4 Nov, 2010), Ira A. (Gus) Hunt, Chief Technology Officer for the Chief Information Officer in CIA, revealed how cloud computing has brought the agency unprecedented "peta-scale capabilities for peta-scale problems". He shares the agency's current successes ...