Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 3, 2010
Quest has just made available technical preview of it’s just-in-time access provisioning provider. The idea is that instead of granting cloud services accounts to all your users, you set up a framework for users to request access if they need it. The demo below shows how this works for Google Apps. User tries to access [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: August 27, 2009
An important milestone just got passed by Google – one of the big enterprise identity management vendors out there – Quest Software (full disclosure: I work for the company) – has added Google Apps as a directory to which they can provision identities and access. One might argue that this is a small thing considering [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 10, 2009
Google has finally made Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise their focus area – these are no longer just one of their experimental areas. Within just last couple of weeks there were a few significant updates to Gmail/Google Apps (probably more than we’ve seen for the whole year before that!): Offline support both for Gmail [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008
Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks. This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings. Here’s the key difference in what [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 22, 2008
Looks like my recent Google Apps customer base estimates need corrections and the current growth is far smaller than the one we were seeing earlier this year. What’s happening? Are they stuck getting all the technology enthusiasts and visionaries they could get, and having no way of attracting the bigger mainstream market? Let’s look at [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 17, 2008
Google Apps (including GMail) were out (again) for commercial customers this week. Considering the August outages not that long ago, this can be a significant PR blow for Google’s enterprise efforts. Or this could be a great opportunity for 3rd-parties to get in and make Google Apps enterprise-ready. Here’s a quick summary from Slashdot: “A [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 3, 2008
I’ve tried to search through all the public information out there to find out how many people are actually using Google’s productivity suite, how many of them are in businesses, and how many are actually paying for the service. Total number In August Eric Zeman from the InformationWeek reported the figure of 10 million users. [...]
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 2, 2008
Bloomberg is running an article on Kevin Turner (Microsoft’s COO), how he is re-organizing Microsoft sales, and fighting competition from Google. A few facts from the article caught my attention. First and foremost: Twenty-eight percent of technology buyers in a Goldman survey this month said they were trying Google applications or plan to in the [...]
Can I insure my Google Apps, please?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 11, 2009
Are online services ever going to be 100% secure? If not should the insurance industry kick in? A few days ago Google Apps had an issue with some Google Docs became accessible to other Google users beyond the security set on the docs. To quote from Google: As we noted in the Google Docs Help [...]