December 2013

Partner Spotlight: Cloudbakers

By BetterCloud | December 30, 2013 |

Company: Cloudbakers Location: Chicago, IL Market Served: SMB Website: www.cloudbakers.com This week we heard from Mitch Greenwald, Founder at Cloudbakers, a North American reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? Cloudbakers: On July 1, 2010 Cloudbakers became a reality. In the first few months we were a company…

5 Predictions for Google Apps in 2014

By David Politis | December 19, 2013 |

2013 was an eventful year for Google Apps. A number of notable organizations moved to Google, including Whirlpool, the U.S. Army and the City of Boston, Google Hangouts were revamped and reintroduced as a unified communications system and, most recently, Google Sheets was rebuilt from the ground up. Google Apps has certainly seen tremendous growth…

Introducing Google+ Management

By BetterCloud | December 16, 2013 |

With more and more organizations rolling out Google+ and adding a social component to the Google Apps suite, understanding what users are posting and sharing is a growing need. Following suit with the auditing capability that FlashPanel offers around Drive, Sites, and Calendars, Google+ tools enable an admin to view, filter, and take action to…

FlashPanel’s New Google+ Security and Management Features

By BetterCloud | December 10, 2013 |

Just last week we announced a completely revamped shared contacts experience for FlashPanel users. And today, I’m very excited to share that we’re giving IT administrators even more functionality when it comes to managing and securing their Google Apps domains. Now with FlashPanel, IT administrators can manage, audit and secure Google+ posts made from employees’…

The Changing Value Proposition of the Modern Cloud

By David Politis | December 2, 2013 |

The following is a summary of a contributed article, which originally appeared on VentureBeat. Read the full article here. The cloud offers many benefits, but since 2000 there have been three predominant value propositions. In the early to mid 2000s, companies moved to the cloud for cost savings. Cloud software was cheaper to implement, upkeep…