December 5, 2011
Google enterprise VP: We will never compete with partners On Talkin’ Cloud, Matthew Weinberger interviews Amit Singh about the tech giant’s strategy. ” The first thing Singh wanted to mention was Google is expanding its channel presence far beyond the Google Apps Authorized Reseller Program — both the Google Cloud Transformation Program and Google App Engine Premier, amongst other offerings, are designed to help ISVs and cloud integrators build complete, profitable service provider businesses on top of Google’s infrastructure. And that’s only the start,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Leaked: Apple’s social media policies On ZDNet, Charlie Osborne reports on the company’s policies following a Facebook-related lawsuit. “Perhaps embarrassingly for Apple, the company’s policies on social networking and blogging were leaked during the week, which ironically state how its employees should conduct themselves as to not leak data,” he writes. What’s your opinion?
Insurance giant: U.K. IT dealers will survive the downturn On The Register, Paul Kunert reports on why one company argues this. “Many of the firms going under this year have included local PC builders, SME dealers and independent retailers: firms without requisite economies of scale, which are at the sharp end of slowing retail spend, or which have poor access to finance. However, Desnos points out that many resellers built experience of how to go about weathering financial storms during the post-millennium bust and again during the 2008 credit crunch,” he writes. What’s your opinion?