As reported by ChannelWeb, Steve Ballmer touched on many issues at Microsoft’s Strategic Update Meeting in New York last week. Here is my take after reading the quotes: SEARCH: Microsoft is not making money from Search and may be slowing its rate of investment Microsoft is threatened by netbooks and is considering how to adjust […]
Summarizing a study by SIS International Research, ChannelWeb is reporting that the greatest communications pain point for SMBs is waiting for information. The study defined “waiting for information” as the time it takes to reach someone to pass along information or get an answer. More interesting facts from the study: On average, 70 percent of […]
PC Magazine is reporting that HP is discontinuing its online backup services, known as Upline. Without any public press release from HP, customers have received notice of the service termination and will be receiving full refunds.While generally regarded as a slick service, Upline had significant service quality issues.This announcement follows Yahoo’s announcement that the Yahoo […]
Google has release two nice improvements for attachments in Gmail. You can now: Select and attach multiple files from the same folder simultaneously See the upload progress of your files
Tuesday Morning, from about 4:00 am to 7:00 am EST, many users could not access Gmail through the web interface. For Google Apps Premier Edition users, the impact appears to have been only the web access — IMAP access was working from our iPhones and we could still generate calendar updates and invites, site invites […]
ZDnet is reporting a phishing scam targeting users of Gmail and Gtalk services. The scam provides an “account termination” warning and asks users to click a link to a fake site that asks for login credentials. What to do? NEVER give your login credentials to fix an “account problem” Run Google Apps Premier Edition and […]
When the mainstream media reports on a technology trend, is the trend over? Let’s hope not. In a stroke of industry insight, CNNMoney.com is reporting that “Web Conferencing Booms”. The article gives case studies and pricing for Citrx GoTo Meeting and GoTo Webinar services (both great services), while taking a few jabs at Cisco WebEx […]
As widely reported and covered in this ChannelWeb article, VMware is promoting a cloud computing strategy with the potential to integrate internal clouds and vendor clouds. A few thoughts: Is an “internal cloud” really a “cloud”, or just an traditional data center abstracted across virtual servers and resources? Are you getting full benefit from your […]
In a publication titled “Google Apps Reseller Channel Puts ‘Feet’ on the Street”, Gartner recommends companies purchase Google Apps through the reseller channel. “Procure GAPE via the reseller channel and drive toward acost plus price, which could potentially reduce the overall GAPE price byalmost 20%.” With bundled implementation, migration, and integration services, Gartner identifies qualified […]
“Cloud Computing”, as a term, is quickly becoming a catch-all term for any service available over the Internet. This post from the vendor Rightscale provides a great definition of the three basic levels of Cloud Computing.
