The Verge | Microsoft Viva is Microsoft’s new push for helping businesses with remote work and a big bet on this new way of life becoming the norm. It’s designed to act as a portal for both employees and businesses to navigate the complexities of working from home. Microsoft is launching Viva today, with parts of the platform rolling out throughout 2021.
BetterCloud Monitor | As SaaS adoption accelerates, there’s an urgent need for a consistent set of operational practices to manage your best-of-breed SaaS environment. For IT teams looking to discover, manage, and secure their SaaS applications, this new study proves the value of the highly automated and iterative tooling that BetterCloud offers.
TechCrunch | Google today announced the launch of Apigee X, the next major release of the Apgiee API management platform it acquired back in 2016. At the core of the updates are deeper integrations with Google Cloud’s AI, security and networking tools. In practice, this means Apigee users can now deploy their APIs across 24 Google Cloud regions, for example, and use Google’s caching services in more than 100 edge locations.
ZDNet | On Thursday, Cisco said that the "AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application" will "drastically simplify vulnerability management, defend against attacks, and protect applications." While APM solutions usually focus on scrutinizing the performance of applications, the new offering has been designed to bring cybersecurity into the mix.
MakeUseOf | When sharing a PDF file via email or keeping it in cloud storage, it makes sense to keep the file as small as possible so you don't waste space. On a Mac, you can use the built-in Preview app to resize PDFs, which is convenient. However, this process isn't perfect as it drops the file quality significantly. We'll show you how to reduce a PDF's file size without losing quality on a Mac.
Lifehacker | Even though we’ve all had several months of practice working from home, some people still fiddle with their volume, lighting, and other technical settings before every video meeting. There’s nothing wrong with that; in fact, Google is leaning into this pre-call “testing” by offering up a new feature in Google Meet: Green Room.
SaaSOps Community | Nobody likes spam. Dealing with a user who's mass mailing folks from Gmail? What a mess! The SaaSOps Community is chatting away about how many strikes a user gets before he or she gets locked out for-ev-er. Check it out by clicking the link above.
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Google Workspace Updates | Google is launching a Postmaster Tools API, allowing programmatic access to the email data found in the Postmaster Tools user interface. You can use the API to gather metrics on bulk emails sent to Gmail users—such as delivery errors, spam reports, feedback loop performance, and more.
Google Workspace Updates | Google is making some changes to the solutions it offers to access Google Drive files and keep them in sync on your desktop. Some Google Workspace customers have deployed both sync solutions, which can be confusing for end users and challenging for IT departments to manage. It's planning to unify these sync clients later in 2021, bringing the most used features from both Drive File Stream and Backup and Sync to all users.
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