Editor’s note: Over 3 million businesses have adopted Google Apps. Today we’ll hear from Ali Ball, CIO of Broadway Malyan. To learn more about other organizations that have gone Google and share your story, visit our community map or test drive life in the cloud with the Go Google cloud calculator. Broadway Malyan is an award-winning international practice [...]

A new study of North American and European IT professionals has been conducted by Management Insight on behalf of CA Technologies. The group surveyed IT professionals in organisations with 1,000 to more than 10,000 employees, revealing that enterprises are active in the cloud, and their virtualisation efforts are contributing to broader interest in cloud computing. [...]

This year cloud computing went mainstream, and the conversations moved beyond “this is a way to cut costs” to “this is a better way to run my business.” While many IT vendors have now adopted (or co-opted) the term “cloud computing” to describe a wide variety of technologies, most don’t deliver on the true promise [...]

100% web technologies have many advantages for customers over legacy software and server technologies, but the ability to access improvements without doing any work is particularly important. By simply refreshing the browser, new features just show up without any complex software patching or hardware upgrades. This is how software should “just work”, and the power [...]

Research by the Centre of Economics and Business Research (CEBR) reports that the widespread adoption of cloud computing could give the top five EU economies a 763bn euro boost over five years and create up to 2.4m jobs. The report suggests that Cloud costs will come down as the rapid uptake of Cloud computing service [...]

Our customers expect Google Apps to be available all the time, from anywhere, and we’re passionately committed to proving them right. We measure the success of every server request, every moment of every day, and the numbers support our belief that the cloud can be more reliable than on-premises software. We’ve seen in the past that [...]

Chrome notebooks check-in to the world’s largest hotel chain Editor’s note: Bryson Koehler is Senior Vice President for Global Revenue & Guest Technology at InterContinental Hotels, the world’s largest hotel group. IHG owns a portfolio of well recognized and respected hotel brands including InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo, Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn [...]

Google wins contract to provide email to federal agency * Google poses threat to rival Microsoft’s pricing-analyst By Jasmin Melvin WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Google Inc (GOOG.O) won a federal government contract last week that the company hopes will give it a boost over rival Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) as they race to convert government agencies [...]

The Chrome Web Store was announced at the Chrome event in San Francisco today, giving Chrome users an easy way to discover a broad range of amazing web apps. You can install our Google Docs web app by clicking Install on our store landing page. This will add a handy shortcut to your favorite web productivity app. In addition, at [...]

Millions of people around the world use Google Groups to power discussions with the groups and communities they care about. We have been working hard to improve this experience, and today we are happy to announce a sneak preview of the brand new Google Groups. The new Google Groups lets you quickly find and browse [...]