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Cloud Services Brokerages: Leading the Move to the Cloud
As Google Apps and other cloud services have evolved so to have Google Apps resellers. These resellers have transformed their businesses to align with new challenges companies moving to the cloud or seeking to implement a full cloud strategy encounter. Only a few years ago Google Apps resellers seldom did…
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Partner Spotlight: Avanxo
Company: Avanxo Location: Latin America Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.avanxo.com This week we heard from Patricia Sema, Infrastructure Solutions Manager at Avanxo, a leading Latin American reseller, to find out more about her organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? Avanxo: We started in 2003 focused on cloud computing…
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BetterCloud Raises $6 Million to Bring IT Management and Security Suite to the Cloud Stack
After nearly two years of focusing solely on Google Apps, we’ve decided to expand our vision beyond Apps and to the cloud at large. While organizations initially migrate to the cloud to gain collaboration, cost savings and scalability, once there they often find a lack of management and security capabilities….
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Introducing Access Control by OU for FlashPanel
As many of you probably know, last week marked a huge milestone for BetterCloud – FlashPanel graduated from beta. This was an event 14 months in the making and it took some serious effort from our team and support from our customers, partners and the community to get here. Last…
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FlashPanel Graduates From Beta (Email to the BetterCloud Team)
Today marks a major milestone in BetterCloud’s history – we’ve taken the beta tag off of FlashPanel. Earlier this morning I wrote an email to the team here to reflect a little (or a lot) on what the last two years have been like and what we can look forward…
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Partner Spotlight: Cloud Sherpas
Company: Cloud Sherpas Location: Atlanta, Georgia Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.cloudsherpas.com This week we heard from David Hoff, CTO at Cloud Sherpas, a leading North American reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? Cloud Sherpas: Cloud Sherpas started in 2008 as one of…
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Partner Spotlight: DoIT
Company: DoIT Location: Tel Aviv and Athens Market Served: Israel and Greece Website: www.doit-intl.com This week we heard from Vadim Solovey, CEO of DoIT, a leading Israeli reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? DoIT: DoIT was founded a little over 3 years ago…
Read moreNevada System of Higher Education – A BetterCloud Case Study
Employees: 300 Founded: 1968 Industry: Education Website: system.nevada.edu/Nshe The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) was formed in 1968 to oversee all state-supported higher education in the state of Nevada, including two doctoral-granting research universities, one state college, four community colleges and one research institute. Approximately 98,000 students attend degree-granting…
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Announcing New Management Tools for Google Apps Resellers
Prior to founding BetterCloud, a number of team members were working at a large Google Apps reseller. It was there that we learned the specific needs of each party in the Google Apps ecosystem: end users, admins and resellers. Once we founded BetterCloud, we initially set out to meet the…
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Partner Spotlight: Master Concept
Company: Master Concept Location: Hong Kong, Macau, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan Market Served: Enterprise, SMB Website: www.hkmci.com This week I heard from Derek Chan, Co-Founder and Director of Master Concept, a leading Asian reseller, to find out more about his organization. BetterCloud: When was your organization founded? Master Concept:…
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Google Calendar Management and Visibility Now Available in FlashPanel
Just over a month ago we announced the addition of Google Sites Management and Visibility to FlashPanel and over the past few weeks, we’ve expanded FlashPanel to cover another area of the Google Apps suite: Google Calendar. Our new Google Calendar functionality gives Google Apps admins the ability to alter…
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Google Gooru Grows Up
18 months ago googlegooru.com was little more than an idea and a tiny site. Originally inspired by Khan Academy, which started as an educational YouTube channel, we hoped Gooru would become the go to source for everything Google Apps related. Unsure if the site would gain broad adoption, Gooru started…
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