Empowering, educating, celebrating, and delighting the modern IT professional.
Featured article
The hidden costs of insecure file sharing: A horror story
IT horror stories happen year-round. Protect your organization from data breaches with smart file sharing security.
Happy Holidays
As 2012, our first year, draws to a close, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank our customers around the globe. Since launching FlashPanel this July, we’ve seen huge product adoption with over 5 million end users and 13,000 organizations using the product to manage and secure their Google…
Read moreIICD – A BetterCloud Case Study
IICD is our 28th customer. The organization has not only been using FlashPanel since its Alpha launch, but their Community Relations Services Officer, Andrei Barburas, who manages IICD’s Google Apps domain, has provided invaluable feedback and support since installing the product. For more on how IICD and Andrei make use…
Read more
FlashPanel Wins the 4th Annual API Mashup Contest
Yesterday BetterCloud’s cloud management tool, FlashPanel, was declared the winner of the 4th annual API Mashup Contest. This award is not only a huge honor for the entire BetterCloud team, but is a testament to the hard work our developers put in day in and day out to bring such…
Read moreFlashPanel Gains Google Drive Compliance
We are pleased to announce the release of FlashPanel Version 1.8, which includes granular updates to security features as well as a new user provisioning workflow. This latest release significantly bolsters FlashPanel’s existing set of security tools by providing Google Drive sharing black and whitelists and auto compliance. We’re confident…
Read moreFig & Olive – A BetterCloud Case Study
Since they first installed FlashPanel this summer, Fig & Olive has been one of our most involved customers – providing product feedback, participating in UX calls and helping out whenever we needed a customer’s opinion. We’re extremely proud to be working with Fig & Olive and the restaurant’s IT Director,…
Read more
Google Ends Free Google Apps Accounts – Why It’s a Good Thing
Yesterday, Google discontinued the free version of Google Apps for businesses with ten or less users, however preexisting free accounts will not be impacted. The change in pricing structure should come as no surprise as Google has continually lowered user limits for these free accounts – first making Google Apps…
Read more
My Top 5 Google Chrome Extensions
1. Pocket (formerly Read it Later) It’s almost impossible to read every article I’m interested throughout the day, work related or otherwise. With the Pocket Chrome extension, I’m able to save these articles in one place and read them later either on my computer, mobile or tablet device. After installing Pocket…
Read more
BetterCloud’s Top 5 Google Chat Tips
At BetterCloud, we spend the majority of our workdays inside Gmail, so naturally we’ve developed some helpful tips that save us time each and everyday. These 5 tips will help you get the most out of Google Chat (sometimes called Talk), and will hopefully allow you to better communicate with…
Read more
3 Ways FlashPanel Helps You Prepare Your Company for Thanksgiving
As an IT admin, covering all the bases when many employees are out of the office over holidays can be tricky. But if your company uses Google Apps, there are some crucial steps you can take in FlashPanel to ensure client interactions and inbound emails don’t fall through the cracks….
Read more
Google Apps: The Numbers You Need to Know
When we started BetterCloud we made it company policy to stay in touch with our customers. As a part of this relationship, we recently surveyed our customers to find out more about their use of FlashPanel, our Google Apps security and management tool. Based on the data we collected, we’ve…
Read more
BetterCloud’s Top 5 Gmail Hacks
At BetterCloud, we spend the majority of our workday inside Gmail, so over the months, we’ve developed some handy hacks that help save time each and everyday. Our top 5 Gmail hacks will shave minutes off your day and hopefully leave you with a more organized and easier to navigate…
Read more
Why Half of Our Company is Using Chromebooks, Full-time
Being a Gmail and Google Apps fanatic, I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of Chromebooks and Chrome OS in general. And with every 3 minute reboot of my aging Windows laptop this past spring, I became more tempted to take the plunge and go 100% web with a Chromebook, at least for…
Read more