Entries categorized under “SaaS”

Today EMC announced the availability of a new online file sharing (often referred to as 'sync and share') solution that is aimed at meeting the needs of enterprises. EMC is the first single vendor to offer a comprehensive, end-to-end solution in the file-sync-and-share marketplace. The new EMC solution provides an enterprise grade file-sync-and-share infrastructure from a single vendor. It combats enterprise data leakage risks while helping organizations realize the advantages of increased productivity and collaboration that sync and share enables. EMC backs the enterprise grade moniker with their professional services and 24x7 global support. The solution combines the simplicity and scalability of Isilon scale-out storage with Syncplicity's sync and share administrative and policy control tools. (read more)

Bring your own device (BYOD) file-sync-and-sharing has exploded in 2012. There are over forty (40) companies offering at least one product to organizations of all sizes. Over half of those companies offer a consumer grade version of their file-sync-and-share. With so many options, CIOs are unable to focus on choosing solutions to enable their organization's workforce while managing data leakage. CIOs can't choose products because the market hasn't been consistently defined. In an effort to define a Buyer's Guide, DCIG is conducting a survey for Mobile Device and Cloud File Sharing. (read more)

In this final installment of our interview series with GroupLogic we look at how mobilEcho enables organizations to wipe only company data off employees' mobile devices, leaving the employee's personal data untouched. We also hear how GroupLogic is helping telecommunications firms increase revenue by adding value to their customers' telecommunications experience, and we gain insight into the DNA of the company as a software provider for over 20 years. (read more)

Many businesses either rely on in-house custom software or purchase and customize commercial software packages to meet their mission critical business needs. Unfortunately these approaches are failing to meet the needs of enterprises as they demand faster development and deployment times for these apps. To address that challenge, a new group of vendors in the cloud promises to improve these mediocre mission critical business processes by speeding up development/deployment cycles while reducing the total cost of ownership of enterprise applications. (read more)

GroupLogic, a secure enterprise file sharing and syncing solutions provider, is all about responding quickly to customer demands for product features. On September 13th, Acronis announced it had acquired GroupLogic. In our previous installment of this interview series, we examined how GroupLogic engages in "customer development" in lieu of product development to integrate customer-driven innovations into its products. In part 4, we take a look at GroupLogic's strategic partnerships with other companies to create products that fulfill very specific needs for customers. (read more)

What happens when the market moves so fast that premeditated product development often can't keep up? When extensive planning can lead to products that are out of date or irrelevant as soon as they are released? This is the dilemma GroupLogic faces in the enterprise file share and sync marketplace, where many companies have been building their own solutions--including customizing free and freemium solutions--to handle needs that out-of-the-box products simply don't address. (read more)

In part 2, we continue our discussion with GroupLogic's Anders Lofgren, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management, by exploring licensing options and how the enterprise mobility space has opened up a new market for the company. As well, we dig deeper into activEcho and learn how it is designed to provide flexible and secure file-sync-and-sharing in the enterprise IT organization while being as simple and easy to use as one of the most popular--but unsecure--consumer grade file-sync-and-share cloud services today. (read more)

Today's quickly evolving cloud environment pushes employees to store sensitive information in a variety of public cloud file-sync-and-share solutions such as Box, iCloud, Google Drive and DropBox. This evolution of private and public file-sync-and-share solutions creates an environment where an organization's security and compliance goals are at risk. (read more)

Corporate data making its way to public clouds through the use of consumer-based or department selected tools, is a growing concern for many organizations. So is the cost of backup and storage of ever-increasing volumes of data. Cleversafe and Mezeo Software offer solutions to address these concerns, and the two companies recently partnered to provide information technology (IT) managers with an enterprise-class secure file-sync-and-share solution combined with a limitless-scale data storage solution. (read more)

Many organizations are discovering that their users, via a proliferation of wireless devices, and easy access to consumer-based storage clouds, are precariously storing corporate data on pubic clouds. Addressing this growing problem, Dell recently certified Mezeo Software, a provider of the storage services layer for cloud-scale applications, as a partner in the Dell DX Object Storage Technology Partner Program. (read more)

Earlier this year, DCIG interviewed the executive team at GroupLogic. GroupLogic shared with us how they approach the market for "enterprise file sharing" or what DCIG has been calling File-Sync-and-Share. In addition, we had the privilege of talking to Chris Broderick, CEO of GroupLogic who covered some of the company's history. (read more)

Organizations choosing file-sync-and-share solutions are presented with many options. Buyers and sellers are inquiring with DCIG about "Enterprise Dropbox" options. A popular request is what to look for when selecting a solution. Enterprises and consumers require enhanced features beyond the ease of use and standard consumer capabilities; they require something that these public cloud solutions cannot deliver - security and control. (read more)

Innovation in the file-sync-and-share market segment of cloud storage is being driven by consumer adoption of public cloud storage technologies. Consumers require enhanced features such as versioning, commenting and one-click file sharing with partners, customers and coworkers. Those features are often delivered without regard to enterprise security, storage and system requirements. (read more)

Managed File Transfer (MFT) companies are kicking off 2012 by positioning their products in the enterprise File Synchronization and Share (FSS) market. Their positioning is based on an organic growth and adoption trend of consumer-FSS by small, medium and large enterprises and organizations. (read more)

MetaFlows is a network security monitoring tool implementing some unique capabilities in today's ever-changing security environment. They are allowing security administrators access to not only aggregated threat information for their own network, but are also alerting them to potential global threats in their enterprise spaces. I am finishing up my interview today with MetaFlows CEO Livio Ricciulli, looking at how they are able to aggregate threat information while maintaining security in a cloud-based solution. (read more)

Network security monitoring is a constantly changing environment of both tools and methodologies. Most of them today, however, have used a lone "cowboy" mentality where datacenter solutions operate independently. MetaFlows is changing that. Today, I am continuing my interview with MetaFlows CEO Livio Ricciulli, discussing how their product is optimizing network security monitoring and performance. (read more)

Enterprise organizations face the daily challenge of ever-growing threats to their network and IT infrastructure. Not only are these threats growing, but they are constantly changing as well, forcing companies to adapt by changing not only their tools but also their training. Today, I'm talking with MetaFlows CEO Livio Ricciulli about how MetaFlows is addressing these problems by delivering network security monitoring using the "Software as a Service" model. (read more)

2012 ushers in the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) within the enterprise as the most strategic opportunity in IT infrastructure. CoIT is generally defined as consuming applications and content within your work life the same way you do it in your personal life. For enterprises to deliver equivalent applications they need more than an Enterprise App Store, they require a storage cloud supporting customers, partners and employees. (read more)

Being the last calendar day of 2008, I thought it only appropriate to take a moment and look back at the most viewed blog entries on the DCIG website for the past year. While some were topics that I expected to receive a lot of attention when the blog was posted, others were blog topics that essentially came out of nowhere to garner a large number of page views. To be honest, I never thought that entries on topics like cable management and cable labeling would resonate with readers but ended up capturing a couple of the top spots for 2008. Meanwhile topics like the FTC's Red Flag Rules were so popular on DCIG's web site that it led me to write columns that eventually were picked up by websites like Network World and BusinessWeek. (read more)

I just got back to Omaha after spending the last three days at Storage Networking World (SNW) and used the time on my flight home to reflect upon some of the conversations I had during my time there. While I still plan to do more blog entries in the coming days around the technologies that I reviewed at SNW, I first wanted to share some of the thoughts and feelings of those in attendance about how they think the economic crisis will affect tech in general and how companies should prepare to act in 2009. In particular, I wanted to share the thoughts of those who have weathered economic downturns in the past and how users have responded to them. (read more)

These are just some of the reasons that software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions have taken off in recent years. Organizations don't want to pay large up-front licensing costs for software they may never use. Instead they are opting to pay for solutions as they need them so they only incur costs as their organization grows. In so doing, they can easily obtain software and pay for it as their specific business needs change. (read more)

Overall, SMB's have a potential shortcut to 'Litigation Readiness' through SaaS outsourcing of the primary messaging and file storage systems. Legal definitely needs to be involved in the provider selection and RFP process, but IT should welcome another sponsor to the project. Legal should request documentation on system capabilities (search/culling for Rule 26 disclosures and Meet & Confer), Chain of Custody, exception reporting, deposition fees for authenticating evidence (Rule 30(b)(6)), SLA's for retrieval rates, physical/electronic security and the actual storage format of the ESI. The last is particularly important in case the requesting party makes arguments for using alternative search engines on the ESI. Governmental agencies are required to store records in an open format like MSG files for email, so any SaaS provider who has public sector clients should utilize an open format storage system. With a little research and diligence, SMB's can leverage SaaS to achieve litigation readiness in a cost effective manner. (read more)

Email and other electronic communications are defacto business records and public agencies must take steps to preserve and give access to government records or face the consequences. (read more)

Whether we are talking about email, IM, Text, VOIP or any other communication stream, recent cases have challenged the presumption of corporate privacy, privilege and ownership. Proper policy and training seem to be the answer for domestic corporations who use a SaaS email provider or other US based Text/SMS provider. When dealing with world-wide infrastructure, a corporation must engage specialized counsel and actively monitor cases and publications like those of The Sedona Conference Working Group 6: International Electronic Information Management, Discovery and Disclosure. Although the rules seem to be changing, companies can make informed risk vs. cost decisions to minimize their potential exposure if they are cognizant of the issues and do not just pretend that they do not exist. (read more)

The recent Quon v. Arch Wireless decision has raised many questions about a company's ability and right to monitor employee communications. Fortunately, a deeper read shows that the real issues centered around the employee's reasonable expectation of privacy, which a well documented and communicated policy solves handily. So an employee might ask, "I know that the company owns my email, but do they really read it?" (read more)