Google And MediaAgility Host A Joint Conference To Talk About Cloud Computing And Google Apps

Online, May 23, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Google and MediaAgility Inc. jointly held an interactive conference on Friday, 20th May, to let the enterprises from different verticals understand the concept of the Cloud and how it could help them in the overall business development. The event, titled "Cloud Computing : The New Frame of Technology", saw a proactive participation of C-level executives from some of the top-notch brands in the industry. Cloud experts from both the organizations discussed the emerging technology at lengths, and thus helped the participants develop a more resolute and crystal-clear view of it.

Nirdesh Chahal, Director - Enterprise Deployments, MediaAgility, gave a keynote speech discussing the economics of the Cloud and gave a brief overview of MediaAgility Inc., its presence across the globe, as well as it's offerings. Mr Chahal handed the proceedings over to Rajesh Abhyankar, MediaAgility Co-Founder, who shared his views and experiences about the Cloud via video-conferencing feature embedded in GTalk. The event further went on with Josh Li, Google Enterprise Channels Head for the APAC Region, taking over the stage with a lucid presentation on "Why it's the high-time for the organizations to switch to a 100%Web". He briefed on the application aspect of the Cloud, and how it could enable businesses have better ROIs, and could be a useful tool for boosting efficiencies throughout the organization. He further discussed Google Apps for Business enterprises suite in detail. He explained the robust cloud-based enterprises suite, and elaborated its different components with utter ease and precision.

Mr. Li's presentation was instrumental in generating interest in the audience about Google Apps, which was further enhanced by Goldy Arora, India's First Google Apps Certified Deployment Specialist, sharing the stage with him. Goldy cleared off several misconceptions surrounding the Cloud, and took up the prime issues, like security, reliability, and data migration with commendable expertise. He shared his sound domain knowledge with the attendees, and explained the applicability of Google Apps in a simple and crisp manner. He addressed various key issues that keep the IT Heads in a dicey state over the adoption of the Cloud, and spelled out strategies that could come handy in their migration to it.

The event also marked the presence of Amit Jain, VP-IndiaMart, India's largest online B2B portal, who shared experiences about how Going Google has helped his company build efficiency and productivity. He shared some real-life experiences on how conventional computing methods have been finding it difficult to keep pace with the existing needs of the modern organizations. He was spot on when he spoke about the amount of benefits, such as real-time collaboration, anywhere and anytime accessibility, reduced IT investments, among other things that Google Apps could bring for the organization.

The event concluded with an interactive Question-Answer session which lasted for over an hour Having bred a fair idea about Google Apps for Business suite, the attendees posed interesting queries relating to the utility of the suite in their specific business domains. These queries ranged from concerns surrounding integration of process-critical applications with the Google Apps and data migration and syncing with the existing on-premises enterprises infrastructure, to issues pertaining to bandwidth and security. Cloud experts handled all these queries with adept expertise and rendered out some very useful solutions to the participants. The event was aired live for the global audience interested in comprehending the Cloud through a Live Webcast on google.mediaagility.com.

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