Redux: Will Google Enter the Business Applications Market?
If you think I am here to spill the beans, you’re wrong. On a purely speculative level, if there is some news to come, and if there is an embargo related to it, then here @ CloudAve we respect that. And it’s all a big IF. So no, I am simply dusting off an old [...]
SherpaTools, Channel Strategies and Google Apps Management
Cloud Sherpas is a systems integrator and application developer that almost exclusively deals with Google Apps (they’re a high performing Google Apps Partner having moved over 80000 users to Google Apps to date). I spent a bit of time talking to Cloud Sherpas CEO Michael Cohn about life as a reseller in a cloudy world. [...]
Living In The Clouds: Socialwok
In this edition of Living In The Cloud Series, I am going to talk about Socialwok, a social networking layer on top of Google Apps for your domains. For someone like me who loves Google Apps because of my love for Gmail, I always wanted a social networking layer on top of Google Apps to [...]
Google Integrates Google Groups Into Google Apps
Google Groups, Google’s answer to discussion forums, has been around helping users discuss about various topics of interests. Even though it was available for users of Gmail, it was not part of the Google Apps offerings. Many users, including myself, have long felt the need for having Google Groups as a part of Google Apps [...]
Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps
I was sitting down for a pleasant morning coffee with the boys from WaveAdept, a New Zealand based company that, among other things, is a reseller for Google apps. Our discussion got on to the barriers to adoption for Google apps and specifically what can be done to increase uptake among small businesses. It’s an [...]
Zoho Ramps Up SaaS Integration Dance With Google
It is my strongest belief that interoperability is the key to the success of Cloud Computing. I have never hesitated to discuss interoperability news in this space irrespective of whether it is cloud applications or platform or infrastructure. As a strong supporter of a federated cloud ecosystem, I feel that every cloud vendor should have [...]
Don Dodge Dumps Microsoft After it Dumps Him
It’s less than two weeks ago that Microsoft let Don Dodge go, along with 5,000 other employees. He parted gracefully, then soon posted: Getting dumped by Microsoft was a life changing event…for the better. The future is very bright. The opportunities are amazing. Don probably set a World Record in the speed of getting a [...]
LTech – Holding Hands in the Move to SaaS
LTech is a company that has a long partnership with Google – originally they were a systems integrator helping organizations deploy Google search appliances. They now focus more on easing the deployment of Google apps into enterprise customers – they’ve been a Google Enterprise Partners since the program was launched. There 20 staff have helped [...]
Why I Cancelled My Google Apps Premier Account
Few days back, I upgraded my Google Apps Standard account to Google Apps Premier account because I needed more space and I thought it will be nice to pay for a cloud service and, in the process, get rid of the annoying ads. I was also very keen on using their Postini services and wanted [...]
Keep your Executive Assistant happy if moving to the Cloud
Google held a small event in London late last month, at which senior executives from a wide range of organisations gathered to discuss the impact of the Cloud. Presenters included luminaries such as Marc Benioff, Werner Vogels, Geoffrey Moore and Nick Carr, as well as CIOs at the coalface in adopting various Cloud (mainly SaaS) [...]
Google’s Disruption Leads to Commoditization
Bill Gurly wrote up a great piece on Google’s disruption in the navigation market. It is a great read to understand the impact Google’s new navigation ‘feature’ will have in that market. That’s right; Google will pay you to use their mobile OS. I like to call this the “less than free” business model. This [...]
Zoho Project Integrates With Google Apps – A Smart Move?
When I wrote about Manymoon few months back in my Living in the Clouds Series, I mentioned Google is not offering a Project Management App along with their Google Apps Office Productivity Suite. Many Google App users were handicapped by the absence of a Project Management app that is integrated with Google Apps. This is [...]
Dear Google: Act Like A Cloud
Last week Google had an outage that made pundits talk about unreliability of the cloud (again). I have written several times in this blog about how stupid it is to blame cloud computing for such outages. Most recently, Dan Morrill wrote a post arguing the same. There are some people in the clouderati who had [...]
Please Don’t Gild the Lily
I wrote the other day about the adoption of cloud based email services and the recent decision by one of the New Zealand Post business units to move to Google for their email provision. I think it’s a great move, positive for the business and positive for cloud computing, but a post I came across [...]
Cloud-Based Email – Bringing in the Savings, and the Value
Grab a cup of Tea – this is a long post I’m afraid… I posted awhile ago about Rackspace’s hosted email offering – a product review however tells only half the story. For this reason I wanted to follow up and look at the benefits the various cloud email providers can bring to their customers, [...]
