Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript environment that allows you to write powerful applications and workflows around Google Apps such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets. The development is entirely within a browser and it’s free and easy to get started.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Arun Nagarajan, Senior Developer Advocate at Google, will demonstrate all the capabilities of Google Apps Script. Delegates will walk away being able to write their first script.
Addressing the GRC Market
Startup Convercent builds tools to fill void in GRC market by implementing and measuring compliance to corporate values and culture.
GRC has traditionally provided companies with tools to help customers meet government and industry regulations, enforce corporate policies and better deal with risk. Yet the areas of corporate culture and values — which are becoming increasing important in today’s business climate — were rarely addressed.
“Our platform allows companies to take the fuzzy-wuzzy of ethics –- to take the sign off the wall — and turn it into structured data to measure employee actions against the organization’s stated values and culture,” said Patrick Quinlan, Convercent’s CEO.
PEER 1 Hosting to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York
SYS-CON Events announced today that PEER 1 Hosting, the global IT hosting provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-in-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10Gbps FastFiber Network™ and 25K miles of fiber, we’re connected by 19 state-of-the-art datacenters, 21 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities in 14 cities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support™.
Help Define a Standardized Cloud Provider Profile
As discussed on this thread in one of our Linkedin groups, we are starting the process of building a directory of Cloud Providers and also facilitating competitive assessment of the services they offer. Here’s a quick draft to get the dialogue started, that we`d like to refine with crowd inputs.. Cloud Provider Profile Data Centres […]
SaaS Creating Eventually Consistent Business Model
The success of SOA, which grew out of the popular Object Oriented development paradigm, was greatly hampered by the inability of architects to enforce its central premise of reuse. But it wasn’t just the lack of reusing services that caused it to fail to achieve the greatness predicted, it was the lack of adopting the idea of an authoritative source for business critical objects, i.e. data.
A customer, an order, a lead, a prospect, a service call. These “business objects” within SOA were intended to represented by a single, authoritative source as a means to ultimately provide a more holistic view of a customer that could be then be used by various business applications to ensure more quality service.
It didn’t turn out that way, mores the pity, and while organizations adopted the protocols and programmatic methods associated with SOA, they never really got down to the business of implementing authoritative sources for business critical “objects”. As organizations increasingly turn to SaaS solutions, particularly for CRM and SFA solutions (Gartner’s Market Trends: SaaS’s Varied Levels of Cannibalization to On-Premises Applications published: 29 October 2012) the ability to enforce a single, authoritative source becomes even more unpossible. What’s perhaps even more disturbing is the potential inability to generate that holistic view of a customer that’s so important to managing customer relationships and business processes.
Is "Little data" Big Data’s new battleground?
Mark Little, Principal Analyst, Consumer, Ovum
“You have zero privacy anyway, get over it,” Sun Microsystems chief executive Scott McNealy is quoted as saying at a product launch back in 1999. McNealy will surely have grown almost as tired of hearing his famous quote as consumers appear to be of being tracked on the Internet, and Ovum’s latest Consumer Insights survey suggests that two-thirds of the Internet population is very tired indeed.
Internet players and data collectors of every type are at risk of taking the consumer’s personal data, their “little data,” for granted, turning the Big Data value system into a battleground.
Regulation and hardening attitudes are squeezing the supply of personal data
Since Scott McNealy made his famous quote there have been many privacy infringements and policy errors. These have mostly involved major players, and notable examples include Google Street View’s covert collection of consumers …
Cloud Migration Is Not Enough
Cloud migration has become known as a critical solution for public cloud deployment. Yet cloud migration is not sufficient for hybrid cloud and enterprise cloud requirements. Enterprises will require cloud integration.
Mobile Development & Testing Integrated
Appcelerator, who’s got a mobile development platform called Titanium
3.0, and SOASTA, who does cloud and mobile testing and has a mobile test
automation solution called TouchTest, have integrated their widgetry to
make things easier for developers.
It’s said to be the first integrated test automation solution.
Are cloud contracts driving away business?
Cloud computing providers are increasingly falling for bad habits – they are offering customers “standard form” contracts whereby they set the provider lays out the terms, very much like insurance companies do with their policies.
These contracts are somewhat problematic, as they levy all responsibility and liability onto the client making use of the cloud service. Whilst many small businesses may accept these contracts due to not having sufficient legal resources, large businesses have means and are extremely unlikely to take up a one-sided contract.
This contractual quandary could well hinder the process of cloud adoption, unless the providers address the matter, and soon. Large businesses have already taken the lead in rejecting cloud providers with such contracts.
Many of the standard form contracts are extremely basic and presented very much like software contracts whereby you must simply accept the terms in order to proceed, or else don’t accept – “take …
Interoute claims CloudStore is “game changer” for cloud computing
Cloud service provider Interoute has announced the launch of CloudStore, an enterprise app store which doubles up as a compute and storage facility, hosting OS and databases, as well as business apps.
Interoute, known for its virtual data centre and owning Europe’s largest cloud platform, is further focusing its efforts on the enterprise – understandable, given that’s where most of its client base lies – but featuring a much more rounded product than just hosting apps.
Counting Microsoft, RedHat and Ubuntu among its cast list, the Interoute CloudStore integrates several assets, with its integrated network, compute storage platform underneath a layer of appliances, from which secure platforms can be built.
The store also comes with an online knowledge centre, designed to help enterprises choose a bespoke model to suit their business needs.
In a press release, Interoute calls the solution a “game changer” and “the next generation of cloud computing …