Weekly Roundup Feb. 21st 2018
Thank you for your interest in Alpin. Here are this week’s top articles with practical tips on being a SaaS admin and keeping you in the know, as well as one of our features. If you have any questions about these or other SaaS apps, or any of these services, we would love to hear from you.
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2 min readFeb 21, 2018
SaaS Product Updates
- AWS: CloudStax FireCamp is an open-source platform for managing stateful services in containers in Deploy CloudStax FireCamp on the AWS Cloud with New Quick Start
- Azure: Setup DR for IaaS VMs using managed disks in Protect machines using managed disks between Azure regions using Azure Site Recovery
- DropBox: New Outlook add-in makes link sharing easier in Share files of any size with the Dropbox add-in for Microsoft Outlook
- G Suite: Menu changes in Improving the menus in Google Docs editors
- GitHub: There is something for everyone in these 2018 releases in Release Radar · January 2018
Tips and Tricks
- Great tips on how to handle personal information to achieve security and privacy in The Art of Restricting Your Personal Data
- These suggestions can help turn Gmail into an ultra-powerful service in The 25 Best Chrome Extensions for Gmail
- Tips for increasing your slack productivity — features, options, and shortcuts in 30 Incredibly Useful Things You Didn’t Know Slack Could Do
- 2018 Tax changes to entertainment expenses in Are You Prepared for New Taxes on Business Entertainment Expenses in 2018?
Security News
- Collaboration tools and freelance workers pose an increased security risk in Why Slack, Chatbots, And Freelance Workers Have Your IT Department Freaking Out
- How Box is helping customers prepare for GDPR compliance in The GDPR deadline is three months away…are you ready?
- Is the new video feature in Microsoft Word a phishing risk? in Cryptojacking Scripts Could Soon Invade Your Word Documents
- From Alpin, Are your SaaS vendors GDPR compliant? Get the help you need to find out!