Posted by Patrick Ryan, Policy Counsel, Open Internet Last year, we were excited about the effort initiated by the U.S. government to promote cloud adoption through the Cloud First initiative. Through this initiative, the federal government declared that taxpayers' money should be used in a more productive way, and having the government run its own data centers )more than 2,000 of them( didn't make sense. They've targeted the shutdown of more than 1,

Posted by Lance Trebesch, CEO, Ticket River Editors note: Today's guest blogger is Lance Trebesch, CEO of Ticket River, an event e-commerce company with 5 business units in the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom. They offer services and products including online event management, ticket printing and design and customer-configured perforated paper. A PDF version of their case study is also available. At Ticket River , we've helped customers set-up,

Posted by Lena Furr, MIS Director, Mid-Atlantic Door Group. and Tom Ronayne, General Manager AIRO Tech. Editors note: Today's guest bloggers are Lena Furr, MIS Director for Mid-Atlantic Door Group and Tom Ronayne, General Manager of AIRO Tech, a technology services subsidiary of Mid-Atlantic Door Group, a 38-year-old specialty contracting company based in Washington, DC area. A PDF version of their case study is also available. At Mid-Atlantic Door Group,

Posted by Eran Feigenbaum, Director of Security, Google Enterprise Editors note: This post is part of a series that explores the top ten reasons why customers trust Google with their business data. A complete top ten list can be found here . In the previous post in this series, we described how Google's cloud data centers are designed and built to protect the data that customers store in Google Apps.

Posted by Jaideep Mirchandani, Google Apps Product Manager & Parag Samdadiya, Google Apps Engineer Editors note: This post is part of a series that explores the top ten reasons why customers trust Google with their business data. A complete top ten list can be found here . One of the myths surrounding cloud computing is that you lose control of your data when it's stored in the cloud. In fact, the opposite is true. When information is stored in Google Apps,

Posted by Adam Swidler, Sr. Manager, Google Apps Team Last week the Google Enterprise team participated in the 5th Annual Security Confab in Monterey, CA, from July 12-14. The Confab event brought together information security leaders from public and private sector organizations to discuss thought-provoking topics around information and cyber security issues. At the conference, John Collins, Google's Sr. Global Trust Product Manager,

Posted by Matt O'Connor, Product Manager, Google Postini Services Team We're constantly working to protect our users from email spam and phishing attempts. Some examples of these efforts include educating users about phishing and supporting open standards for email authentication such as DomainKeys Identified Mail )DKIM( in Google Apps - which can help reduce the risk of phishing attacks sent from spoofed domains.