Editor’s note: Today’s guest blog comes from Ron Zalkind, co-founder and CTO of Waltham, Massachusetts-based CloudLock, a leading cloud security provider. The largest organizations in the world trust CloudLock to secure their data in the cloud, increase collaboration, and reduce their risk.



At a time when more and more organizations are moving their most sensitive data assets and applications to the cloud, security takes center stage, often at the price of user productivity. At CloudLock, we believe that each and every organization should work hard to protect their data and users in the cloud, not from it. With this philosophy in mind, CloudLock provides cloud security applications that help over 700 businesses using Google Apps and Salesforce to enforce regulatory, operational and security compliance.



We’ve been building enterprise products on top of Google Cloud Platform, specifically Google App Engine, for four years now. Collaborating with Google early on allowed us to leverage its best-of-class infrastructure security and scalability - both paramount for us as a security provider.



Our business must be as agile as our customers. Their accelerated SaaS platform adoption means that our business is data intensive, continuously processing changes in billions of objects and thousands of third-party applications connected to Google Apps user accounts. We’ve built a massive real-time data processing solution using App Engine, enabling us to focus on delivering core value for customers instead of focusing on infrastructure. App Engine’s auto-scaling capabilities provide our customers with a security solution that grows with their business, and its development features enable us to release code improvements frequently and seamlessly.



As a SaaS company, high-quality service is our bond. To keep delivering best-in-class service our team leverages central management features available through the admin panel such as Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage for advanced service analysis, monitoring and delivery. We have also been using Premiere Support since its launch, which boosts our ability to provide enterprise-level customer support.



As a premier Google Apps partner, we rely on Cloud Platform to provide enterprise-class cloud security to over five million users. It’s a beautiful synergy.



-Posted by Ron Zalkind, co-founder and CTO of CloudLock