Category: Cloud applications
V3 is running an interview with Google director of security Eran Feigenbaum. Feigenbaum makes some interesting points about cloud security and the possibility that cloud solutions might actually be more secure than on-premise solutions. What do you think? Are these valid reasons to migrate to the cloud, or just marketing talking points?
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Google Apps has gained a foothold in many organizations: it’s an easy solution for managing email, calendars and documents. It can be rolled out in a matter of minutes and requires little training.Continue
The read/write enterprise isn't just about using social media in the enterprise - increasingly, it's about employees actively choosing the technologies they use to get their jobs done instead of relying on decrees from on high about what sorts of technology to use.Continue
Salesforce.com, the customer relationship management software company, today said it will release a mobile client for Chatter, its enterprise social networking service some time this fall. Chatter Mobile users will be able to monitor their Chatter feeds — including posts from colleagues and alerts from apps — as well as post status updates, upload documents and photos, and comment on relevant conversations using their mobile devices.Continue
Salesorce.com acquired Jigsaw earlier this year. This past week, Salesforce.com unveiled the integration.
The service integrates Chatter, the Salesforce.com microblogging platform. When a contact is updated through Jigsaw, the subscriber gets an update in their Chatter feed.Continue
When we wrote last week about "4 Tools for Assessing Cloud Performance," we asked for suggestions about other resources that can help companies monitor and evaluate cloud services. And we asked for suggestions as to what factors, in addition to cost and performance, might be important to weigh when making business decisions.Continue
Business Week published an article recently that talked about changes in outsourcing. They got the cloud part right - massive disruptions and changes in the IT infrastructure stack both in technology and company power positions. But they got the outsourcing part wrong. Continue
When Google offers a new service, it generally comes to Gmail first, and can take a while before it becomes available to Google Apps accounts. So when the new “make phone calls from Gmail” service was announced, I wasn’t expecting to see it any time soon in Google Apps.Continue
When any enterprise organization makes the move the cloud, it's a fairly elaborate process - the buy-in, the roll-out. "It's not as simple as turning on an account," says Jaime Casap. As Google Apps Education Manager, Casap would know. Google Apps for Education now boasts some 8 million users worldwide. And so while headlines may announce that states and school districts have turned on the account, so to speak, that news only tells a small part of the story.Continue
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