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Video: Google Apps Gets More Features, Administration
Posted on 18. Nov, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Google is counting on its Apps offering to be an integral revenue source for the company. It’s a solid strategy: offer cheap productivity webapps to businesses and organizations. Today, the company announced more services than ever before inside Google Apps accounts as well as a revamped administration console to offer deep integration.
Anyone can use Google Apps. Starting today, Google has simplified its structure for users. Here is how it breaks down.
- Google Apps: Free service geared towards families, entrepreneurs and other groups up to 50 users.
- Google Apps for Business: 25GB of email storage per user, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, data migration capabilities, advanced management tools, telephone support, added security features and more, all for $50 per user per year.
- Google Apps for Government: FISMA certified and designed with local, state and federal agencies in mind.
- Google Apps for Education: Offers many benefits of Google Apps for Business, but at no cost to schools, universities and qualifying non-profits.
Do you use Google Apps?
Will Chrome OS Have FISMA Certification?
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
In yesterday’s Technologizer post about Google Apps getting FISMA certification, Harry McCracken was at the press event for the government-clearing certification allowing the Google enterprise suite to be used for sensitive data. McCracken asked CEO Eric Schmidt about a version of Chrome OS that is FISMA certified.
“That’s like a ‘yes, absolutely,’” Schmidt said. “Let’s ship it first…All the apps we’re talking about will run incredibly well and incredibly securely on Chrome OS.”
That’s good to hear. But I think it goes without saying that apps should all run securely in Chrome OS, and they should be secure in whatever environment they are run in. While FISMA apparently doesn’t allow for classified information, it does allow for sensitive material. I would say that anything I deem private data would be “sensitive” as well, don’t you?
