The demand for cloud-based collaborative security service is rising along with the tremendously increased popularity in cloud computing.

GoldMine, a customer relationship management (CRM) provider for small and medium businesses, recently announced that GoldMine users can now transform their instance of GoldMine into a secure cloud service with Cloud Workspace by EarthLink Business.

Cloud Workspace, a hosted desktop service, has become EarthLink’s latest virtualization service. The customized environment allows customers to control business applications like GoldMine and its data with secure access from anywhere or any device, and from any high-speed Internet or private MPLS connection.

GoldMine and EarthLink have also decided to show a special webinar s to display the Cloud Workspace and its benefits on Tuesday, June 25 at 10 a.m. PDT/1 p.m. EDT. 

Cloud Workspace reduces operating costs, eliminates capital expenditures and increases employee productivity with easy application access and reduced security challenges.

Cloud Workspace works as a virtual office, enabling employees access to GoldMine wherever they work. GoldMine users can now preserve their investment in windows-based applications and reduces the cost and distraction of infrastructure management for one low-monthly fee.

Cloud Workspace enables GoldMine users with many features to enable organizations of any size to have an IT experience previously only available to Fortune 500 companies. The customizable Cloud Workspace supports a mobile and telecommuting workforce.

Speaking about this collaboration, David Cottingham, senior vice president of products for EarthLink, said in a statement, “With our Cloud Workspace solution, we’ve taken the complexity out of application management and end-user accessibility while maximizing business benefits of the cloud,Cloud Workspace simplifies manageability, increases protection and delivers data and applications securely from the cloud, allowing GoldMine users the convenience of using any device to access and run all of their applications and data as if it were local to them, even while moving between devices.”