<p>The Atlanta-based integrator will use its new funding to keep up with what it calls accelerating demand for cloud applications and to keep serving existing Salesforce.com and Google Apps customers.</p><p>Remember when nobody thought anybody could make money on Google Apps? Cloud Sherpas' backers apparently don't agree. The Atlanta-based company which sells Google Apps and Salesforce.com and integrates them with other software, just netted $40 million in a Series B round, bringing total funding to about $80 million.</p><p>Cloud Sherpas CEO David Northington</p><p>Google reportedly earned $1 billion on Google Apps a number the company will not confirm. If accurate, that number pales compared to revenue from Google's gigantic search-and-advertising business, but it's not chump change either and indicates that Google Apps now constitutes a "real" business. Cloud Sherpas CEO David Northington told me many companies are opting for Google Apps instead of re-signing pricey enterprise licensing agreements for Microsoft Exchange and Office. (Let's stipulate that Microsoft would dispute that.)</p><p><a href="http://gigaom.com/cloud/cloud-sherpas-hauls-in-40m-to-sell-more-google-apps-and-salesforce/">Keep reading...</a></p>