The first 50 kinds of cloud services that employees use every day

Skyhigh NX is responsible for helping companies find out which cloud services their employees use every day, and the company has counted the cloud services used by its customers ' employees and summed up the top 50 cloud services. The most surprising thing is that employees are using a variety of services to store and share files, indicating a huge demand for these services, and there is no dominant service yet. Skyhigh currently has only 15 pilot customers, but includes large companies such as GE and Cisco, which estimate that they are monitoring the use of 500,000 end users.

The following are the top 10 cloud services most commonly used by end users:

1. Facebook (social networking)

2. Dropbox (file sharing)

3. Google Mail (e-mail)

4. Apple ICloud (file sharing)

5. LinkedIn (social networking and recruitment)

6. Disqus (Comments)

7. Salesforce (CRM)

8. Amazon Web Services (Managed computing platform for Web applications)

9. Hotmail (e-mail)

Box.net (file sharing)

Three of the top 10 services are online storage and file sharing, the top 50 in the list, indicating that employees are very keen to share files, whether they are shared with others or shared with other devices.

Some cloud storage companies even rarely hear us, such as 4 shared (17th in rank, after Office 365), Rackspace CloudFiles (in 39th place), and screencast (in 50th), This shows that there is a lot of new companies emerging in this popular market.

Among other popular services, the author was surprised to include Disqus (which allows people to comment online), Hotmail (Beyond Twitter, Top 10) and AOL (20th place).

Skyhigh also reminds customers to focus on certain applications, such as automatic synchronization in icloud and the lack of enterprise control that could cause users of the service to accidentally divulge data about the company.

Skyhigh stressed that the aim was not to limit the use of these services to improve the productivity of the cloud, the company wants employees to avoid using high-risk services, Skyhigh CEO Rajiv Gupta said: "We want it to promote the use of these services, not to prevent." ”

Most customers, he says, think that employees use about 40 applications, while in fact they use nearly 200 programs.

In addition to monitoring these services and informing users of the security risks of these services, Skyhigh also makes IT administrators enforce policies to limit end-user access to certain services.

Skyhigh also tries to troubleshoot application management issues. Employees are more likely to choose Easy-to-use Online Services to help them improve productivity, while some IT departments want to make sure that employees do not disclose sensitive data when using these tools.

Traditional mobile device management vendors, such as the Zenprise purchased by Citrix and AirWatch, are adding application management tools to their services to meet this need.

Here are the remaining 40:

Amazon S3 (managed data store for Web applications)

Google Apps (for production and file sharing)

Evernote (note)

Twitter (social networking)

15. Microsoft Office365 (for production and file sharing)

4shared (file sharing)

Oracle RightNow (Customer service)

EMC Mozy (Backup)

AOL (content and communication)

Sourceforge (Code Management)

NetSuite (Finance)

Marketo (Marketing Automation)

Flickr (photo sharing)

Verisign GeoTrust (SSL certificate)

Google Analytics (web analytics)

YouSendIt (file sharing)

New Relic (Web application performance management)

Oracle Taleo (Talent Management)

Slideshare (presentation)

Workday (Human and financial)

Carbonite (Backup)

DocuSign (document Signature)

Prezi (presentation)

Typekit (font embedding)

Skype (video conferencing)

Sliderocket (presentation)

Github (Code Management)

Rackspace cloudfiles (online storage and file sharing)

Sugarsync (file sharing)

Pagerduty (online it scheduling)

BitBucket (Code Management)

Intuit quickbase (Finance)

Constant Contact (mailing list management)

XOBNI (e-mail management)

Snapfish (Digital photo printing)

Spiceworks (It discussion and answer group)

Olark (live chat with customers)

Symantec brightmail (mail Filter)

AddThis (Social bookmarking)

Screencast (file sharing)