SlideRocket by VMware has integrated its online presentation tools with Google’s cloud storage and collaboration service, Google Drive to help people create, collaborate and share presentations from their Google Drive.
SlideRocket is a set of content authoring tools and it will enable users to collaborate for creating and delivering dynamic presentations to any type of audience.
Incorporating real-time data from sources, SlideRocket presentations update automatically with the most current information coming straight from the original sources.
Google Drive users can now have direct access to all SlideRocket features and applications as well as they can share presentations with other Google Drive users and any audience at any time.
The users users can also initiate presentation creation with SlideRocket through Google Drive and are automatically provisioned to use SlideRocket whenever they are invited to collaborate on a presentation.
From within a SlideRocket presentation, users can collaborate with Google Drive users and manage presentations and applications from a single location to access documents and materials, including presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, photos, videos and presentation resources on the web.
According to the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF) 55% of businesses say privacy is a major concern with cloud deployments. Simon Bain CTO of Simplexo, says that those in the cloud storage market like Google do not put customers first, which can add risks to a person’s privacy and security.
"Google has followed its competitors in using a clause which shows total disregard for its customers," says Bain."It is about time that service companies such as Google and Dropbox started to respect their users and not treat them with such a cavalier attitude."
Google terms state: "When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with)a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."
"As an individual there is not too much to worry about, in most cases there is no problem with one of these companies creating a derivative work from your own, says Bain."However, as corporate life becomes much more complicated and people access and share documents in a more distributed and mobile manner, this is simply not an option."
Bain also says that users should be cautious and aware of all the terms and conditions when storing their files.
"Cloud storage services have a real part to play in today’s working environment," Bain says. "However users need to be aware of all of the terms and conditions and also the security aspect of where they are housing their files. This clause is used, not because Google or Dropbox want to copy the files – although they can – but because they cannot be sued if they have a data breach and your files are stolen."
