The growth of tablets, especially iPad, is undisputedly on the rise. Researchers are predicting continuous growth of tablet adoption within the enterprise. Recent research is forecasting that there will be 760 million tablets worldwide by 2016 and a third of it will be in the enterprise. Even without these figures, you know you’re starting to see more and more users traveling with an iPad, using them in meetings on-the-road as oppose to lugging the good ol’ 15″ laptop around.
George Reese summed this all up really nicely in a recent tweet – “Once upon a time, desktop was for video & programming & laptop was for convenience. Today, no desktop. Laptop for heavy stuff, iPad for other.”
Yes! It’s just sooooo much easier to edit a document, update a spreadsheet, make changes to the sales presentation and even sign a PDF at your fingertips from the iPad. There are more and more mobile applications that can help you do these things from your smart devices so you wouldn’t need your laptop or desktop as often anymore.
The tablet is driving a “work anywhere” system in which mobile devices are connected to the cloud, according to Alan Masarek, CEO of Quickoffice who recently spoke at the TabTime Tablet Strategy Conference. But the problem of how to secure mobile access to company data continues to remain a challenge for enterprise IT to support BYOD movements. Many existing applications cater to consumer needs and cannot meet the level of control and security required for the enterprise.
This is one of the problems Oxygen solves very nicely with our Open Storage Grid. We are integrating with mobile application partners such as PDF Expert, Quickoffice, Notability and more to support a secure BYOD initiative for enterprise.
For many industries who have a large sales force working on-the-go with customers, such as insurance companies and their field agents, need an easy and secure way to fill out important forms from anywhere – and Oxygen’s integration with PDF Expert is the perfect solution. All sensitive corporate files can be stored on the company’s private storage leveraging Oxygen’s Open Storage Grid, but the files are also easily accessible by users from their iPads with PDF Expert! Just open up the document, sign it on PDF Expert and have that signed document synchronize back to the team without having to jump through hoops!
Just watch this quick video to see how easy it is to use Oxygen with PDF Expert:
We want to help your company kickstart your BYOD strategy. With the unique approach of our Open Storage Grid, your company can plug in your existing storage into the grid for anywhere, any device access to your own data safely secured behind corporate firewall. With Oxygen, IT can focus on providing a secure mobile productivity solution, enable remote users to access and work on files the way they want to without losing control over company data. With Oxygen, you can now Bring-Your-Own-Device to work freely and securely in the cloud.
So what is your company’s mobile strategy? Share your story and let us know how we can help!
Cheers,
Julia
@JuliaMak
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Filed under: Enterprise 2.0, enterprise adoption, Enterprise storage, iPad, iPhone, Mobility, Oxygen Cloud, Workflow | 2 Comments
Tags: enterprise-it, iWork, Mobile, Notability, Open Storage Grid, PDF Expert, Quickoffice
Good news Oxygeners – we recently gave the Oxygen Mobile for Android app a makeover! You can now access your Oxygen private storage cloud anywhere from your Android devices! We have made significant improvements for the app and hopefully you’ll enjoy them 
Key Features & Updates:
- Syncing files are now lightning fast… almost comparable to The Flash!
- Upload nearly any type of file directly from your Android (including memory cards) into Oxygen
- Edit files on-the-go with awesome productivity apps like Quickoffice
Upload nearly any kind of file:
Stay synchronized across all your devices and with all your team’s shared files with Oxygen. Download Oxygen for Mobile – Android (beta) on Google Play today and let us know how you like our revamped Android app!
- Julia
@JuliaMak
Filed under: Android, Mobility, Oxygen Beta, Workflow | Leave a Comment
Tags: PDF Expert, Quickoffice
Google finally launched Google Drive. Recently rumors are flying everywhere that the launch of Google Drive, or G Drive, is imminent. Analysts and bloggers are now predicting the downfall of popular cloud storage services, namely the boxes, as Google enters the market as the giant 800-pound gorilla.
These assumptions make sense. After all, Google can gain an upper hand in quite a few ways. Google has the resources to offer more storage and a lower cost – and not to mention the massive existing user base in other popular Google products such as Gmail and Google Apps.
It offers 5GB for free, and additional available for purchase. John Biggs from Techcrunch just tried it and you can get more details here. So the one thing with using Google Drive (or other consumer cloud storage applications) is that it means you have to upload your data into Google.
Now on to the million-dollar question: Will the enterprise really buy Google Drive?
No.
I mean, sure, they may purchase some storage and licenses for selected departments who are collaborating on Google Docs. However, Google Drive ultimately is not an enterprise ready cloud storage solution, but rather just another me-too service like the many existing consumer services, and maybe with a slightly cheaper subscription price tag.
Gartner just predicted tablet sales to go up to 119 million units this year. Mobile access to files has become a driving factor for the rise of cloud storage services everywhere. But such services face multiple adoption barriers in the enterprise. IT does not want to lose control over corporate data, and uploading terabytes and petabytes of your company’s data else where just seems impractical, insecure and costly.
Don’t be a sheep
We don’t want to be another sheep. This is why we decided to take the opposite approach with our Open Storage Grid, a platform that combines the control, performance and economics of private storage infrastructure with a cloud service that scales data access to millions of users and devices.
By plugging in your own storage and devices into the Open Storage Grid, your company can adopt a secure BYOD solution through Oxygen. Users get the benefits of mobile access to the files they need and IT maintains control over all corporate data behind the firewall. Oxygen allows companies to leverage the storage they already have by supporting a wide range of private storage from Windows and Linux servers to enterprise storage platforms like EMC’s Atmos, Isilon and VNX.
And the best part is, the Open Storage Grid is available for free. Just use the storage you already have at no cost. Google Drive may offer up to 100GB for free, but that isn’t nearly enough for a company. A monthly public cloud storage subscription for mass amount of data becomes extremely expensive over time.
Google Drive and the rest of the consumer services/boxes are offering a false tradeoff for mobile access to your own files. Your company shouldn’t have to surrender your data, compromise security compliance, or give up control and governance over your storage.
With Oxygen’s Open Storage Grid, you can now have your cake and eat it too.
We have been busy upgrading businesses all around world already. Check out Oxygen’s private cloud storage solution with Intel and EMC:
Don’t be a sheep! Try Oxygen yourself today and sign up for the Open Storage Grid for free at www.oxygencloud.com.
- Julia
@JuliaMak
Filed under: Cloud Storage, enterprise adoption, Enterprise storage, Market, Oxygen Cloud, Private Cloud, Private storage, Security | 2 Comments
Tags: Box, dontbeasheep, dropbox, Google Drive
You asked and we delivered. Oxygen’s Outlook Add-In is now available for Outlook 2010 Windows users! Say goodbye to uploading clunky attachments when you need to send files over email. Oxygen’s Outlook Add-in automatically creates a link to the file you want to attach and adds it to your email. It’s so seamless and easy that we guarantee you will love it!
You don’t have to do anything differently, just work and save files as you normally do into your Oxygen spaces. When you need to email the file, simply browse and select the file the same way you add an attachment. But let us handle the rest! A downloadable live link to that file is automatically generated and placed within the content of your email, and the recipient can easily click to download the file.
Oxygen links are living links – if you update the file after a shared link is created, the recipient will always get the most updated version of that file when the download takes place. You won’t have to worry about creating a new link. You can also set an expiration date for the shared link to control access just the same way you can do with any file on Oxygen.
Sounds good? Try it and let us know how much you love it! Download and start using Oxygen’s Outlook Add-In today!
Sorry attachments – you have now been replaced! Please don’t be sad it’s nothing personal after all 
- Julia
@JuliaMak
Filed under: Collaboration, file sharing, New Features, Workflow | Leave a Comment
Tags: Outlook Add-in, Outlook Plugin
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