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Google tool exposes your internal network to Google Apps

If you use things like the Start Page or Google App Engine with your Google Apps account, you might find it a bit limiting that you cannot create applications or gadgets that access that's behind your firewall on your internal network. You would have basically had to open up your internal network to the world to let you use your own data with your Google Apps account.
Written by Garett Rogers, Inactive

If you use things like the Start Page or Google App Engine with your Google Apps account, you might find it a bit limiting that you cannot create applications or gadgets that access that's behind your firewall on your internal network. You would have basically had to open up your internal network to the world to let you use your own data with your Google Apps account.

To solve that problem, Google released Google SDC -- a tool that you can install on a linux box in your organization that basically exposes internal URL's to things like Google Spreadsheets, Google Gadgets and Google App Engine applications. With access to these local URL's, you can basically create services that access any of the data that you want to expose.

This is a brilliant idea, and it definitely makes Google Apps more attractive to organizations that recognize the importance of internally sharing data and creating applications that can use it.

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