Making the cloud more enterprise-friendly
Here are ways to make cloud computing enterprise friendly.
Postini technology to spread across Google Apps
The Postini technology that lets Google Apps Premier administrators control their e-mail environments by establishing and enforcing usage policies, rules and parameters will be extended to the other applications of the suite.
Microsoft questions Google Apps' momentum as it touts 1M online business suite customers
Microsoft Corp. is slashing the price of its Business Productivity Online Suite by a third as it debuts the service in 15 new countries. A Microsoft executive also touted its online business suite's momentum, while also questioning figures trumpeted by Google for its rival Google Apps.
10 great Google Apps add-ons for the enterprise
Over the past six months, dozens of developers have built apps to make Google's office wares (Apps, Docs, Gmail, Calendar) more appealing for the enterprise. The following is a selection of these apps. They range from the practical (backups) to the creative (a freebie VPN replacement based on Google Talk).
Google Apps Trump IBM / Lotus iNotes Lame Offering
Did you notice Google Apps has a new competitor? Didn't think so. You'd think IBM and Lotus could come up with 1) a better product to compete on Google's turf and 2) figure out a way to make a bigger splash. All we have here are lame offerings created by idiot vice presidents and marketed by other idiot vice presidents.
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Apple syncing patent can't come soon enough
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
Esther Schindler
Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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How to set up continuous podcast play on the new iTunes
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Five important Windows 7 mobility features
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Guard your Wi-Fi for your own sake
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Grepping on Whole Words
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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