India’s First Full Fledged Cloud Infrastructure Offering
Tata Communications, India’s leading service provider, announced an expansion of their cloud offerings, making it the first comprehensive India based cloud solution available for customers. Today, they announced the addition of Instacompute and Instaoffice to their list of offerings. The launch marks the company’s expansion in the cloud space to deliver self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application [...]
NetSuite Fights Hairball Epidemic with New Release and Edgy Marketing Campaign
NetSuite’s marketing team has been known for their edginess, starting from pranks like the SAP for the Rest of Us Party during SAP’s annual conference to staging a shootout at the anti-SAP Conference or releasing edgy videos a’la Mac vs. Windows. Today they are doing it again, by establishing the Hairball Institute for Business: (The [...]
Increased Security for Google Apps But They Have Another Problem at Hand
Google today announced a two step verification process during Google Apps login which will help increase the security of organization’s data. Two-step verification is easy to set up, manage and use. When enabled by an administrator, it requires two means of identification to sign in to a Google Apps account, something you know: a password, [...]
What’s the Next Casualty After Google Wave?
When Google announced that it is going to kill Wave, my first reaction was – wait, what will happen to Google Wave in Google Apps? So I looked for a post on Google Enterprise Blog. The post basically echoed what was mentioned in their official blog post . It didn’t clearly say if it’ll discontinue [...]
I thought I Was So Cloud
Last Monday, the hard disk on my primary computer failed. A Western Digital 250GB 2.5 SATA drive in a 6 month old Lenovo ThinkPad. Losing a hard disk is a terribly disruptive event. But I was (rightly) more annoyed about the disruption than potential data loss. The data loss didn’t really concern me. After all, [...]
Google Apps Shapes Up Nicely In Spite Of Noise Around City Of LA Bungling
The noise surrounding Google App’s City of LA deployment doesn’t appear to be dying down anytime soon. Yesterday, another article highlighting Google’s failure came up on the basis of a leaked email from the City of Los Angeles. The April 13 letter, addressed to L.A.’s information technology and government affairs committee from City Administrative Officer Miguel [...]
Google Partners With Tata Communications To Take Google Apps To Indian Businesses
Google has been successful in pushing their hosted office suite with businesses in USA. Even though they are nowhere closer to dislodging Microsoft in this space, they are slowly but steadily eating away the Microsoft marketshare. I think their move to target the CIOs of the future by luring the educational institutions (which Microsoft did [...]
Linking Google Apps With Gmail – Initial Observations
For sometime now, we have been hearing about Google’s plans to let users link their Google Apps account with Gmail so that it can be used with other Google services that are not part of Google Apps. I know many people, including Cloud Ave’s own Zoli Erdos, who wanted such a tie-up. Luckily, Google invited [...]
Integration is Good… When You Actually Do It (Part Two)
A month or so ago I wrote a post critical of the integration one vendor had made with the Google apps marketplace. Yesterday I was perusing Twitter when I came across this tweet: I’m actually a user of Xero for three of my businesses, so I was looking forward to seeing what their inclusion on [...]
Cloud Sherpas – Raising Money and Enhancing GAPE Admin
I’ve written before about Cloud Sherpas, a cloud computing systems integrator and application developer. They’re a Google Apps reseller that also created SherpaTools for Google Apps, a free app that gives more administrator functionality to Google Apps users. Only a few days ago, Cloud Sherpas raised $1 million in funding from Hallett Capital and other [...]
Integration is Good… When You Actually Do It
Recently at the SuiteCloud event (see disclosure) I attended a presentation looking at the NetSuite integration with Google apps. At the session a development company, Daston, showed off its custom built functionality that allowed for a one way creation of calendar and mail events hin NetSuite, from within Google applications. I watched the demonstration and [...]
Gone Google or Google Gone?
Google launched their Google Apps campaign called Gone Google with so much fanfare. Now there seems to be some backlash against their offering. There were some rumors that Yale is delaying the switch to Google Apps due to security concerns and a Techcrunch post about concerns raised by City of Los Angeles bureaucrats about Google Apps deployment. [...]
Why Google Apps Marketplace Could Become A True and Vibrant Marketplace?
When Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace, I was pretty excited about the prospects of this marketplace. While Ben wrote about how it will positively impact the SMB segment, I was getting ecstatic about its potential on the enterprise side. I think few years from now, when we look back in this space, we may [...]
The Apps In The Google Apps Marketplace
Last evening Google unveiled Google Apps Marketplace, an one-stop shop for SaaS business applications that are tightly integrated with Google Apps. Zoli covered the launch from Google Event and Ben did some analysis from the SMB perspective. I am going to take a different approach and cover some of the launch partners from the cloud [...]
Google Launches Apps Marketplace
I’m at the Google Campfire One event where they’ve just announced the Google Apps Marketplace. The site is live now, feel free to browse. The speculation is now over, this is Google’s answer on whether they will enter the Business Applications market – they just did, with an entire ecosystem of Partners. The new Marketplace [...]
