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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0000

great article on massive cloud-based load testing http://bit.ly/9FcTa4 #soasta #cloud #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-07

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0000

great article on massive cloud-based load testing http://bit.ly/9FcTa4 #soasta #cloud #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-21

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Leverage the Cloud for High-Traffic, High-Profile Web Marketing Events – Join LTech for webinar on Feb. 23 http://bit.ly/dy1lMg #
getting ready to launch first #android app #
conga for salesforce is awesome #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-14

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:00:00 +0000

i need a new twitter background. any designer recommendations? volunteers? #
@david_grantz we are interested in reseller prog -can you dm your email? in reply to david_grantz #
favorite #gmail trick to dealing w/ lots of unread mail "in:inbox is:unread" in search box, use n/p and s to browse and star for later #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-24

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:00:00 +0000

Join us for a webinar on Tungle: Learn How to Extend the Scheduling Power of Google Calendar – http://ow.ly/YjZa #Tungle #GoogleApps #
J E T S #jets #jets #jets let's go!! #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:00:00 +0000

if anyone knows a great linux system administrator that wants to go "cloud" please let me know thanks! #
@foozed i want that can you mail it to me? in reply to foozed #
@asksalesforce how do we include "opportunity products" in an email template? #

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:00:00 +0000

if anyone knows a great linux system administrator that wants to go "cloud" please let me know thanks! #
@foozed i want that can you mail it to me? in reply to foozed #
@asksalesforce how do we include "opportunity products" in an email template? #

In a world run by lawyers, wither the cloud?

Ed Laczynski — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:45:41 +0000

It always cracks me up when I read what companies will and won’t do because of their legal team. We all know that IP and privacy law is immensely important, but I think we lose sight of the big picture when we presume that innovation can be stunted by legalese.

Case in point, Mike Vizard from IT Business Edge writes that the “Patriot Act May Hamper Cloud Adoption“:

But when it comes to actual corporate data, Massaro is betting that no matter what the economics are, corporate legal departments are going to direct their corporate officers to steer clear of any service that eliminates their ability to keep potential damaging information out of the hands of Federal prosecutors without so much as the nicety of being told what the government might actually be looking for.

The author also assumes that these sorts of National Security Letters are equivalent to someone sneaking in your backdoor, taking a sip of your milk from your kitchen, and not even leaving a thank you note. However, the NSL’s have been explicity prevented from maintain a gag order, so all a service provider needs to do is notify you of the letter in question and you have the same effective protection as you would if your data was under your mattress.

This would be concerning if it made a difference if your data was on the cloud or not. What company is going to be able to keep their data from the Federal government under subpoana or other legal device? I’m not a lawyer, but if I played one on TV I’d take a look at this gem from AIG:

“More love notes from Elias,” Cassano wrote to his subordinates as he forwarded another set of Habayeb questions. “Please go through the same drill of drafting answers . . .”

The Cassano-Habayeb correspondence, along with thousands of other e-mails obtained by The Washington Post, as well as supporting interviews, reveal a company wracked by more division, doubt and turmoil than anyone on the outside realized during those tense months in 2007, a full year before the federal government undertook one of the largest corporate bailouts in U.S. history to prevent AIG’s collapse.

Whoa. I’m reading AIG’s emails. But, I’m pretty sure they weren’t “on the cloud.” How on earth did the Washington Post get these emails if they weren’t on the cloud??

Major cloud utility providers need to continue to publish transparent policies that address specific concerns like this. However, the reality is that there are a dozen ways for the government, reporters, employees, hackers, and other malicious or benign agents to peruse and expose your data. The cloud doesn’t guarantee security, but the alternatives also do not. And as much as I love a good lawyer, they sadly can’t prevent de facto data leakage either. Only diligence, a sound security policy, and the right mix of vendors, services, and products, can give you the peace of mind that you are doing everything you can to protect your company information.

Email Service Guide Review: Power Panel Makes Google Apps More Complete

Ed Laczynski — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:47:55 +0000

Email Service Guide is an online guide to email service providers, including reviews, comparisons, and a database of available providers. ESG is also the premier source of news articles relating to the email field. Recently ESG published a review of LTech’s Power Panel for Google Apps. Here is an overview of the article: While Google Apps is a great application for most organizations, there are certain limitations that arise when performing more complex functions. Companies may avoid Google Apps because of the com plications when performing bulk administrative tasks or its lack of a usable shared address book. That’s where Power Panel comes in. Power Panel is an add-on product that increases the value of Google Apps with extended features like role-based security, shared contact search, user lifecycle management tools, and an integration framework for CRM data. New features are constantly being added and updated as LTech’s Google Apps Professional Services team continues to build out the platform. View the article: Power Panel Makes Google Apps More Complete.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13

Ed Laczynski — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Rock it #