SalesForce.com is another company in cloud computing service that has a service report like amazon.com’s.

SalesForce.com’s policies are here.

Trust.salesforce.com

Success is built on trust. And trust starts with transparency.
Trust.salesforce.com is the salesforce.com community’s home for real-time information on system performance and security. On this site you’ll find:

• Live data on system performance
• Up-to-the minute information on planned maintenance
• Historical information on transaction volume and speed
• Current and recent phishing and malware attempts
• Information on new security technologies
• Best security practices for your organization

Our trusted, secure, reliable infrastructure is the foundation of our Force.com platform as a service. No other application or platform—on-demand or on-premise—offers a comparable level of transparency.
Trust.salesforce.com was inspired by conversations with our customers. Let’s continue that conversation. What would you like to see here? Post your suggestions on ideas.salesforce.com today.

WSJ has a blog post about Avatars being able to move from Second Life to IBM’s Green Island in a virtual world.

Avatars Teleport Away From Second Life

A small step for an avatar could turn out to be a giant leap for avatar-kind.

In Second Life

Linden Lab, creator of animated world Second Life, which people explore using simulated figures, is announcing Tuesday that some of those avatars have successfully been transferred—or “teleported,” in the jargon of virtual-world fans—to a separate world operated by International Business Machines Corp.

Why would anyone in the real world care? One of the raps on Second Life and its competitors is that they are essentially walled gardens. Each service is managed using proprietary software and viewed through unique programs.

Ultimately, expanding this medium beyond a tiny niche—and making three-dimensional simulations a standard feature of any Web site—will require breaking down these technical barriers.

In this experiment, the avatars are transferred, but they leave their clothes behind.

One quirk: The avatars can move among worlds, but their clothes can’t. In a video documenting the transfer, the characters pop up in the new environment in the gray, nude-looking form that is the default for new Second Life figures. And it’s not such a bad image for a kind of rebirth in cyberspace—dust to dust, ashes to ashes, pixels to pixels.

Second Life is looking for its second life after the hype for its virtual world has faded. But, with the slow economy and focus on reducing costs it is hard to imagine people are spending money on virtual clothes and real estate. So, maybe the avatars should be nude to reduce costs.

After prodding VMware’s Guy Brunsdon, Director of Network Marketing, he has started his own blog on networking on VMware blogs http://blogs.vmware.com/networking/. His first entry is:

Anyway, so what better time is there to announce the publication of an in-depth deployment paper jointly authored by Cisco and VMware. We posted this paper about a week ago on the vmware.com/go/networking site. It's around 90 pages, so no short read; but it delves into many of the considerations, architectures, etc in deploying VI with Cisco switches.

As Guy mentions the paper is 90 pages, but here is the about to see if it is right for you if you have are using VMware in a Cisco networking environment. But, even if you are using XenSource or somebody else’s switches this document is probably useful.

This document is a collaboration between Cisco and VMware. It documents a set of suggested best practices for deploying VMware Infrastructure (VI) 3.x and VMware ESX Server 3.x in a Cisco network environment. The document provides details regarding the internal constructs of the ESX Server and their relation to external Cisco network devices are discussed.

This document is intended for network architects, network engineers, and server administrators interested in understanding and deploying VMware ESX Server 3.x hosts in a Cisco data center environment.

The XenSource guys have this small wiki page. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenNetworking

I looked on the Microsoft Virtualization blog, but found networking entries which were years old.  And, when searching for VLAN, found nothing.

GoodMail has a certified email paper suppression solution.

CertifiedEmail Paper Suppression (CertifiedEmail PS) is the first application designed to provide legal proof that a specific email message was sent and received at the server-level email inbox. Built on the CertifiedEmail platform, CertifiedEmail PS enables a business to prove that a given message was sent and delivered on a specified day, to a specific recipient. A digital signature technology validates the exact contents of the message. This nonrepudiation capability provides a means for companies to meet regulatory compliance while doing so with electronic means instead of paper notifications, saving money while compressing the consumer notice period.

CertifiedEmail PS may meet regulatory compliance obligations, including Regulation Z, Sarbanes-Oxley and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

The product has the following green benefits.

Cut costs of paper processing & postal delivery of certain customer communications with regulatory compliance or other special needs

Paper based notices cost between $0.35 and $1.50 to process, vs. $0.03 for CertifiedEmail PS

Consumer notifications arrive faster, contracting the timeline for regulated consumer processes such as collections, service actions, etc.

Reduce waste.  1 ream of paper (500 sheets) costs $0.80, 5 lbs. of CO2 and 6% of a tree.  (Source: www.whatsyourwedge.com)

I am going to spend more time thinking about this product and researching the issues.

The company just got a new CEO hire, Peter Horan from InterActive Media who is going to address advertising scenarios.

Media and Advertising Veteran Peter Horan Joins Goodmail as Chief Executive Officer

New CEO Will Spearhead First Advertising Platform for the Inbox

• For Marketers: What is CertifiedEmail?
• Who accepts CertifiedEmail?
• CertifiedEmail service providers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 19, 2008 - Goodmail Systems, creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry’s standard for trusted email, today announced Peter Horan as its new chief executive officer.  With over two decades of media and advertising industry leadership, Horan comes to Goodmail from IAC Media and Advertising, where as CEO he oversaw more than $250 million in advertising and commerce revenue from Evite, Pronto, IAC Mobile and Ask Sponsored Listings.  He will bring to the company a level of unmatched experience and vision as Goodmail extends the CertifiedEmail platform for trusted consumer email to offer true “Email 2.0” advertising solutions for top brands and direct marketers.

“CertifiedEmail is quickly becoming a best practice for top email marketers. Goodmail sent more than 1.6 billion CertifiedEmail messages in the month of April alone,” said Horan. “The ability to deliver safe and legitimate email messages to consumers not only provides immediate return for senders today, it creates a platform upon which exciting new inbox-based advertising products can be introduced. Most importantly, CertifiedEmail actually improves consumers’ trust in email right now and makes it easier for them to spot messages they want.”

Horan has experience in both startups and large companies. He served as the CEO of Allbusiness.com (now part of Dun & Bradstreet), About.com (now part of the New York Times) and DevX.com (now part of Jupitermedia).  Previously he spent 10 years in publishing at International Data Group, serving as SVP and Publisher of Computerworld, and also worked for 15 years in senior account management roles at Ogilvy & Mather and BBDO.

“Peter has a proven track record pioneering new advertising platforms and creating innovative ways of driving online consumer engagement,” said Daniel Dreymann, president and co-founder of Goodmail. “His leadership, ambition and creative instincts make him the perfect person to lead Goodmail’s management team and build out the capabilities of the CertifiedEmail platform.”   

Horan will lead the introduction of Goodmail’s new advertising platform for the inbox, leveraging the company’s unique CertifiedEmail service, which has been adopted by seven of the nation’s top 10 email mailbox providers, and is in use by over 500 commercial brands and 200 government agencies and nonprofits.  He will work closely with Dreymann who had previously served as CEO.