New Cloud Computing Whitepapers for Your Customer Prospects

Share with your customers our 2 new whitepapers written with CNET and ZDNet and posted in the portal's Marketing section. These are especially useful for customers, particularly SMB, who are new to SaaS or cloud computing and who may be familiar with Google Apps but want to learn more.

1) Cloud Computing — Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future? This whitepaper provides an overview of Cloud Computing, emphasizing its game-changing capabilities and evolution.

2) Cloud Computing — What is Its Potential Value for Your Company? This whitepaper outlines many cloud computing benefits for businesses, and references four examples of organizations ranging from Telegraph Media to the City of Washington D.C.

Follow GoogleAtWork on Twitter for the freshest info

More and more people are using Twitter every day because it's a fast, informal way to connect with friends and colleagues on topics of interest.

We've got this same need here at Google Enterprise, so the team is now twittering too: http://twitter.com/GoogleAtWork

Follow us if you want to tune in to interesting tidbits relating to Google Apps, enterprise search, App Engine, or ANY other topic we think our users and partners will find valuable.

And if you're not using Twitter yet, here's a quick "Twitter In Plain English" overview on how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o

New Google Sites Features: Go Gadgets!

Today, we announced three new features in Google Sites that will make gadgets more useful for Google Apps Premier Edition customers:

1. Start Page template, so site owners can let users personalize areas of a site, such as an internal sales portal;
2. Private gadgets, which IT admins can upload and only domain members can see and add;
3. Encryption, whereby if a Google Site is encrypted, then your gadget data will be encrypted from the source code to the browser.

Developers can learn more about developing private gadgets here.

New Google Apps Premier Edition Video

Looking for a tool to guide your prospects through the features and benefits of Google Apps? Point them to our updated Google Apps Premier Edition video, linked from our Solution Provider portal. Recently delivered as a webinar, this comprehensive video includes a Q&A section with Google product reps along with demos of many Google Apps features. Then check out other videos on our YouTube Google Apps channel for how-to tips and customer testimonials.

Avago Successfully Deploys Google Apps

This morning we broadcast a webinar with Avago Technologies, who recently deployed Google Apps to their more than 4000 employees. Hear how Avago expects to save over $1M annually from its move to Google Apps from Microsoft Exchange 2003. Avago's Director of Enterprise Infrastructure also discusses the pilot criteria, cost savings metrics, deployment and migration plans, and lessons learned from Avago's project.

You can see more examples of success stories, 3rd party analyst reports on cloud computing, and Google Apps tips on our Solution Provider marketing section.