Google Apps for Business

The future of Google Apps looks rosy with more and more businesses migrating to the cloud. The recent news about that Spanish banking giant BBVA is to roll out Google Apps for Business is a great boost to the future of cloud computing and sets a clear precedent for other large organisations considering whether or not to adopt Google Apps. The UK government is another big player joining the cloud. This January the Government expects to open the G-Cloud "app store" and have 50 accredited products in place by the end of this year. The G-Cloud is the government's formal channel for procuring cloud services. With this kind of endorsement from security experts, we expect the general level of confidence in the security of cloud solutions to increase significantly during 2012.
The launch of the Chromebook will only accelerate the adoption of web-based applications such as Google Apps for Business. Chromebook promises a more secure environment than the traditional PC and represents the next stage in Googles enterprise collaboration. The unique feature of the Chromebook is that they operate entirely in the cloud and therefore do not contain an internal hard drive. With all information stored directly in the cloud it takes universal access to the next level. A great security feature of the Chromebook is that if the Chromebook happens to fall into the wrong hands, the data is safe and secure on the cloud. Other features which set it apart from others counterparts are that it is very lightweight and portable; it has a very impressive eight-second start up and an instant resume feature, and a battery that will last throughout an entire workday.