Cloud Computing on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Posted on July 10, 2009 by Michael Cohn
PBS recently aired a special segment on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on cloud computing. It’s a great segment that highlights the basics of the cloud and why businesses are considering it. Take a look: Click here to catch the full interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.
The Redmond Tea Party
Posted on July 2, 2009 by Michael Cohn
What IT Revolutionaries Are Throwing Overboard As we as Americans prepare to celebrate and commemorate our freedom, let us call to mind that which makes us free. Let us also call to mind that to which we still remain chained, as some of you may feel towards, say, your IT systems. If you are reading [...]
Coming July 2009: Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server
Posted on May 6, 2009 by Michael Cohn
Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server will allow users to access Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts using built-in BlackBerry® applications. Google Apps Connector installs on BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, connecting it to the Google Apps servers and synchronizes email, calendar and contacts for BlackBerry® users. This functionality will be generally available in July 2009. Download [...]
Google chat now does video!
Posted on November 15, 2008 by David Hoff
The pace of Google’s innovation sometimes makes my head spin. In the course of 24 hours, they released a major upgrade to Gtalk (instant messaging) to over 35+ million users. I don’t think I’d even call it an upgrade – the difference between a chat program and full audio/video conference application doesn’t really fit my definition of an “upgrade”. For those that haven’t started using it already, here’s the place to start.
Google and uptime
Posted on November 4, 2008 by David Hoff
For a relatively small outage that Google had a few months ago, they sure did get a lot of press. As Google responded, “Over 1 million business customers” have come to expect 100% up-time and flawless service from Google, so guess it shouldn’t have been a surprise that blogosphere lit up during this interruption. It certainly set the stage to for a great discussion around up-time and reliability.
Security in the Cloud
Posted on October 8, 2008 by David Hoff
Customers are sometimes apprehesive about moving Cloud Computing, and they often express this hesitation as being “concerned about security” or “worried about data privacy”. Oddly enough, if you ask, most of them will also to tell you how great online banking is and how they couldn’t live without it.
How much is your “my documents” folder worth?
Posted on September 26, 2008 by David Hoff
Personal computing definitely changed the way we all use technology, and a by-product of this revolution has been that we all keep our stuff locally on our computers. That’s the “personal” in PC, after all.
Searching in Google Chrome
Posted on September 18, 2008 by David Hoff
Tips on how to maximize searching in Google Chrome by Cloud Sherpas.
Google Apps newest member?
Posted on September 9, 2008 by David Hoff
With all the excitement around the release of my new favorite browser, Chrome, Google also managed to expand the growing suite of Apps last week to include Video. The primary use cases are still developing, however, product training seems to be an obvious fit. Google suggest the following examples, and I’m sure everyone will find their own niche for its use.
Google releases ‘Chrome’ browser
Posted on September 2, 2008 by David Hoff
Web 2.0, refined. As it turns out, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and even Mozilla’s Firefox were never built to be traditional application platforms. They have provided a useful way to surf links and store bookmarks, but that’s about it. Think about the last great or even signifiant innovation to come from either; tabbed browsing? plugin [...]