Posted by Joe Kava, Senior Director, data center construction and operations )Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog and the Google Green Blog .( For the last year, our data center team has been working on a project to bring our facilities to even higher standards for environmental management and workforce safety. Recently we got the good news that our work paid off. All of our U.S. owned and operated data centers have received ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certification.

Posted by Jay DeCoons, COO of YogaWorks Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Jay DeCoons, COO of YogaWorks. Renowned for its excellence in classroom instruction and teacher training, YogaWorks delivers yoga training and classes in 60 cities around the world. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map . At YogaWorks , we first and foremost consider ourselves to be educators of yoga. Since opening our first location in 1987,

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,

Natasha Wyatt, Google Earth and Maps for Business Team Today we announced changes to the data that powers Google Maps API Premier , Google Earth Builder and Google Earth Pro in the UK, Germany, Sweden and Finland. Among other improvements, the updated maps will show more detailed bodies of water and local parks and will ultimately provide better, more accurate geospatial information for your employees and customers. As Google Maps and Google Earth for Business customers,

Posted by Immad Akhund, Co-Founder and CEO of HeyZap Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of HeyZap . HeyZap is a social network for mobile gamers and a platform for mobile and online games. See what other organizations that have gone Google have to say . Games are our business, but our business is certainly not a game. We take running our business seriously, and a key part of this is our IT. From day one,

Posted by Hong Zhang, Software Engineer These days it's commonplace for employees to bring personal mobile devices to work, expecting to get all kinds of business done on-the-go, and this can be both a blessing and a challenge to IT managers. The importance of keeping mobile devices and data secure is as essential as ever. Starting today, comprehensive mobile device management is available at no extra charge to Google Apps for Business, Government and Education users.

Posted by Darrell Benatar, Founder and CEO of UserTesting Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Darrell Benatar, founder and CEO of UserTesting. UserTesting provides fast and inexpensive website usability testing by giving website owners on-demand access to a large panel of users who will record their screen and voice as they use a specified website. See what other organizations that have gone Google have to say . Everyone talks about how important usability testing is,

Posted by Dylan Lorimer, Google Earth and Maps for Business Product Manager Since 2008, Google has worked with GeoEye to publish millions of square kilometers of satellite imagery to Google Earth and Maps users. In addition to the imagery the company shares with Google, GeoEye also collects satellite imagery for licensing by numerous governments and business customers around the world.

Posted by Coleman Rusnock and Dan Cohen, Google Earth Pro team We are pleased to announce the newest release of Google Earth Pro ! Version 6.1 focuses on user experience improvements that empower professionals to make faster geographic-related business decisions. Google Earth Pro is a simple yet powerful tool used by industry professionals all over the world. Businesses in retail, construction and insurance save travel time by inspecting,

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 Jacob Jaber, President, Philz Coffee E ditor's Note : To celebrate National Coffee Day , today's guest blogger is Jacob Jaber, President for Philz Coffee based in California. In the late 1970s, my father Phil experimented with coffee blending at a grocery store on the corner of Folsom and 24th in San Francisco's Mission district. He combined beans of multiple origins and brewed them one cup at a time. Since then,

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 David Jacobowitz, Program Manager, Green Engineering and Operations )Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog , the Gmail Blog , and the Google Green Blog .( Cloud computing is secure , simple , keeps you productive and saves you money. But the cloud can also save energy. A recent report by the Carbon Disclosure Project )CDP( and Verdantix estimates that cloud computing has the potential to reduce global carbon emissions by millions of metric tons.

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 Nishit Shah, Product Manager, Google Security )Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Online Security Blog ( Earlier this year, we introduced a security feature called 2-step verification that helps protect your Google Account from threats like password compromise and identity theft. By entering a one-time verification code from your phone after you type your password, you can make it much tougher for an unauthorized person to gain access to your account.

Posted by Nathanael Andrico, CIO of Cox Schepp Construction Editors note: Today's guest blogger is Nathanael Andrico, CIO for Cox Schepp Construction, a leading provider of construction services in the southeastern region of the United States. See what other organizations that have gone Google have to say . At Cox Schepp, we focus on completing our clients' construction projects in the most cost-effective way possible. We're based out of Charlotte,

Posted by Anna Mongayt, Google Apps Premium Services Lead Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day - a humble holiday for all the men and women who keep our IT systems churning and burning. At Google, we've had the opportunity over the years to work with many talented teams of SysAdmins, and across the board two things are true: these folks care deeply about technology and giving people the best tools to work together.

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 Seth Engler, EMEA Product Marketing Manager, Google Apps Imagination is a global communications agency whose roots lie in non-traditional, live, experience marketing. Headquartered in London, Imagination has fourteen offices in nine countries, employing around 550 permanent staff worldwide and a further 450 freelance or contract-based staff.

Posted by Wendy Wu, Google Enterprise Team A week ago the Google State and Local Government team and our partner SADA Systems were out in force at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference provided a platform for over 2,000 county leaders and industry experts from across the nation to discuss innovative programs and technologies impacting county governments.