Archives Tag: Google Apps
Google Apps Marketplace
It was inevitable, it just had to happen. Google Apps for Business has opened their own marketplace to exchange apps. It basically just looks like a place for companies to pimp out their services to Google Apps Business users. I’ll keep poking around, but I have doubts I’ll find something actually useful.
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In a recent turn of events, Google is dropping support for IE6 among other browsers as well. Here is what Google Apps recently sent out: Dear Google Apps admin, In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser [...]
Full StoryGoogle Launches GoogleApps Admin Community
Google announced this morning on it’s enterprise blog a new community for admins of Google Apps. Here is what Monali Narayanaswami from the Google Apps team has to say about the new product offering, “We wanted to make the site relevant and easy for admins to use, and we also wanted to use Google Apps [...]
Full StoryMore Value to Education
Starting at the end of March 2009, Google Enterprise is offering the educational sector some free storage. 10 gigabytes of free storage for Education in Google Apps. As of March 31st, we will be offering 10GB of Google Video free to every Google Education Edition domain. This will give each school the ability to stream [...]
Full StoryIs Google Up? Down? Check the Status
Google has launched a status page that will let you see the status of various services they offer. If you click on the image, you will see a larger version of the status report. Then, where you see the little blue “i” you can click and get a more detailed report. This is a great [...]
Full StoryGoogle Webinar Recording – Genetech
I was supposed to attend this webinar, but something had some up. And for everyone else that wasn’t able to attend it, here are the recordings so you can still learn how to deploy Google Apps for an organization of 10,000+ employees. On December 4th, we had a webinar titled, “Enterprise-class Apps deployments: Leading Pharmaceutical [...]
Full StoryJoyent to Compete with Google Apps
Cloud computing is becoming a hotter and hotter topic everyday. Cloud computing, cloud hosting, and everything else in the cloud. This makes me really glad that I don’t live in Seattle because you’d always be in a cloud. Joyent Inc. has acquired a company called Reasonably Smart. Here is a blip of the announcement from [...]
Full StoryPC World Thinks Google Apps Will Never “Catch On”
After reading this article from PC World, written by Preston Gralla, I have to say they sound really stupid. Let’s take a look at a little excerpt from the article which is really the core of the accusasion. In fact, Google Apps isn’t even as popular as the free OpenOffice.org. In “Study: OpenOffice five times [...]
Full StoryThe Google Apps Team Breakfast
SADA Systems is hosting the Google Apps Team for a breakfast and you’re invited! Event Schedule September 9th, Tuesday, 8:30am – 11:00am 8:30 – 9:00am: Breakfast and Registration 9:00 – 9:30am: Google Presents – Google Apps for your Enterprise 9:30 – 10:15am: SADA Presents – Implementing Google Apps in your Organization 10:15 – 11:00am: Google [...]
Full StoryGoogle Sites Goes Live
Google acquired JotSpot well over a year ago, back in October 2006. Let’s recap real quickly why JotSpot decided to sell out to Google. Why did you decide to sell the company? We believe that joining Google will accelerate our team’s vision of offering users the best collaboration platform on the web. Google shares our [...]
Full StoryHow to Migrate Old Email to Google Apps
Late last week, the Google Data API team released an open source email migration tool which will allow users to more easily migrate old email to Google Apps. Basically, if you are currently using email servers such as Exchange, Zimbra, or Qmail. As we have previously seen, Google has already taken a number of steps [...]
Full StoryGoogle Apps Targets Domain Registrars + Web Hosting Biz
Late last year, we saw that Google Apps is already working with eNom.com for new domain registrations. Google has now announced new partnerships with Name.com and DomainSite.com for new domain registrations. Google Apps is providing these domain registrars a provisioning API which will allow them to co-brand the registration process and seamlessly integrate and setup the Google Apps Premiere accounts for businesses.
Full StoryGoogle Secures Postini Acquisition
Google’s Vice President of Google Enterprise has announced the secured acquisition of Postini, “…more than 100,000 businesses on Google Apps, 35,000 businesses and more than 10 million users of Postini…”
This acquisition is just another part of Google’s global strategy that we are seeing be formed to push office to the web. As previously seen already, Microsoft is becoming a little scared of what Google is trying to do.
Google Under Attack from Microsoft
Google has been getting a lot of heat from Microsoft lately. Here is the most recent development in the industry. “We believe competition is good for customers and the industry. That said, customers tell us that our solutions deliver the ease of use, reliability and security that enterprises need. This is validated in the strong reception we’ve seen to 2007 adoption and usage and by having achieved more
Full StoryGoogle Apps Downtime
This past Tuesday, Google Apps was down which affected many customers. Now that Google is offering a paid service compared to all of their free services, they do have a Service Level Agreement (SLA) to uphold and be responsible for. The downtime incurred effected e-mail as the majority of the service for some clients such as Prudential Preferred Properties in Chicago, says PC World. Following new products
Full StoryCommunication. Collaboration. No hassles.
I just received an e-mail about seminars for Google Apps to learn more about the product. I think it’s a great idea that Google is doing seminars for Google Apps, but they failed at one thing. Location, location, location. Why are they focusing all their efforts in San Francisco? It’s great that they are doing these seminars, but they need to be more geographically diverse with
Full StoryGoogle Apps Premier Edition
Google Apps Premier Edition has launched. It’s free? You bet, for another few months. What are some of the features? Gmail: 10gb of storage Gtalk: Free calling and texting around the world Extensible API access for easy integration 24/7 Phone Support and much, much more… So why is Google launching a Premier Edition of Google Apps? Of course, to make money. They’re offering it for free to create a buzz about it and then they will be able to sell it and start generating revenue from it. With the single largest server cluster in the world, Google has more processing power and more storage capability than any other company in the world. Here are some notable links to take a look at. Deskless Employees Next-Generation Communication
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