Protect Your Data in the Cloud

When IT pros plan backup and recovery solutions for in-house systems, they start with the big events, such as server failures and disk crashes.  In reality, most restores are not as a result of a catastrophic loss.  Most restores are for individual files that were accidentally overwritten, deleted, or otherwise corrupted. How is this relevant […]

Horizon Info Services, LLC Becomes Cumulus Global

New Name and Brand Reflects Company’s Growth WESTBOROUGH, MA – June 13, 2011 – Horizon Info Services, LLC announced this morning that, effective immediately, the company is doing business as Cumulus Global. Allen Falcon, CEO, announced the change from the company’s booth at the Hartford Business Journal’s CT Business Expo.  With this new name, Falcon […]

Cumulus Global Backs New Tiers for Google Apps Authorized Resellers

Yesterday, Google announced the addition of “Premier” tiers for Google Apps Authorized Resellers, as well as for Google Earth, Enterprise Search, and Google Maps.  As reported by CRN, Cumulus Global supports Google’s efforts to differentiate among resellers. As Allen Falcon, CEO of Cumulus Global discussed in the article, not all resellers have the same skills […]

People Widget Gives Context to Email Senders

Email is not just a way to communicate … to send and receive messages.  Email can and should be a tool for collaborating.  A tool that places your communication within the context of your relationship with the senders and recipients.  A tool that makes it easier to move from sending/receiving to sharing. Over the next […]

Freshen Up Your Existing Google Sites

Google Sites now supports the ability to apply a site template’s theme to any existing site. This does not apply the entire template to your existing site, just the template’s theme.

The Impact of This Week’s Malware News

In today’s world, the best place for your computer to catch a virus or other malware is from web site visits and downloads. At the same time, many webmasters are unaware that hackers have compromised their sites.

Horizon offers Support for Chromebooks Now

While organizations must currently purchase Chromebooks directly from Google, Horizon’s professional services team can assist with the planning, deployment, and support efforts.

Iron Mountain Customers Stranded in the Wild?

customers can take the initiative and explore their options. With minimal overlap of services, customers can migrate to other online backup solutions that offer more features at a lower cost.

New Feature Thursday: Discussions in Google Docs

Looking beyond basic comments within documents, Google Docs now features the ability to use comments for discussions with email integration. Key aspects of this new feature include:

Google Apps Helpful Hint: 5 Things You Can Do With Attachments

With constant and continuous updates, it is easy to miss some of the ‘small’ enhancements that make using Google Apps easier. Our Google Apps Helpful Hints series features some of these new capabilities.

Today, we look at 5 new features around Gmail attachments.

Delegate Google Apps Administration

The impact of this change is significant. IT Departments can now segment administrative responsibilities by function, providing many organizations with the ability to segment responsibilities.

How Do You Know if You Are Cloud Ready?

Beyond the basics of email, calendar, and contacts, this means you should understand the following …

Is Cloud Connect Enough?

… you can integrate MS Office and Google Docs to create a collaborative file service. Google Cloud Connect, a free utility with Google Apps, is one such integration tool. But, is it enough?

Businesses Go from Ground to Cloud in 30 Days

Companies that complete the 12 minute assessment will receive a free analysis of their potential migration to Google Apps.

Horizon Info Services Expands Nationally

Horizon Info Services, LLC (“Horizon”) announced today the official opening of the company’s first remote office. Located near Austin, Texas, Horizon’s Mid-South office expands Horizon’s ability to reach and support small and mid-size businesses nationally.

Google Postini Service Update: 6:20 PM ET

For our customers, mail flow for Google Postini Services has been “normal” since about 3:25 this afternoon. A short while ago, the Message Center and System Administration consoles came back online. The Postini service will continue to add deferred messages to the stream of messages being process and delivered in real-time. While we have no […]

Share with Groups!

In a recent enhancement to sharing in Google Apps, you can now share documents for viewing or editing by Group. This feature makes sharing with project teams, customer teams, or large numbers of individuals faster and easier. Group sharing is works with: Docs (documents, spreadsheets, and presentations) Sites Video To learn how, Click Here. To […]

Google Postini Service Update: 3:00PM ET

Google Postini Services continue to experience mail flow problems. Mail flow rates continue to swing between Normal and Critical this afternoon. Horizon’s customers site on Postini’s “System 7”, which is now operating out of secondary data centers. This shift should improve mail flow as the systems forward deferred messages. A status update posted at 2:40 […]

Google Postini Service Update

12:45 PM ET Some users are still experiencing intermittent delays in email delivery through Google Postini Services. Currently, mail flow is at near normal levels. Emails will still be delayed as the service forwards queued and deferred messages. Given the “fast/slow” nature of this event, we expect that mail flow rates may continue to fluctuate […]

Manage Email Retention With or Without an Archive

With 25GB of inbox space for each user, managing space is rarely an issue. Company policies related to records retention, however, often create a need to enforce retention policies on email messages. In Google Apps Premier Edition, you can not set a retention period for email. Once set, Gmail will automatically permanently delete all email […]