Dublin Institute of Technology has moved all of its email and calendaring for 22,000 students to Google Apps for Education as part of new commitment to provide the latest technology experience for students. The move to Google Apps has enhanced collaboration and mobility for students, allowing them to engage with each other anytime, anywhere, from [...]
Baker Security & Networks have just released version 3.7 of the General Audit Tool for Google Apps. Using the General Audit Tool you have full visibility and control over all your Google Docs, Sites, Groups and Calenders, allowing you to quickly and easily see who has read or write access to each of your files. [...]
We got a call from one of our Customers today just to say thanks for helping them make the move to Cloud Computing. Their office and Car Park was flooded but it was business as usual. “The carpark in our Ballsbridge building was flooded (see pic) and we were without power. No problem, we use [...]
The amount of IT time and energy that goes into maintaining and supporting a desktop environment is immense. There are processes for creating machine images, distributing and updating applications, managing group policy, etc. And this is an ongoing process for each machine. Users get frustrated by the complexity of their desktops – patches, security systems, [...]
Will there be anyone who won’t have their head in the cloud? The answer to that question is ‘Yes’. As with so many other facets of life those who won’t adopt cloud in the next 10 years will fall into two categories, ‘those who can afford not to’ and ‘those who can’t afford to’. When [...]
Google’s enterprise Gmail is building momentum with commercial organisations, and it now presents a viable alternative to Microsoft Exchange Online and other cloud email services, according to Gartner, Inc. Gmail has only been in the market for five years. “The road to its enterprise enlightenment has been long and bumpy, but Gmail should now be [...]
Warwickshire County Council is to be the first major public sector organisation to provide e-mail services via the public cloud in a pilot scheme that has potential to change how local authorities use e-mail and ICT services. The county council is working with Cabinet Office to pilot the use of cloud-computing within Government to introduce [...]
Is my job screwed? Perhaps before you consider that question you have to ask yourself, do you think this ‘Cloud thing’ is really going to happen? Consider this, the company that controls, by its own estimate, 90% of the PC desktops in the world is Microsoft. They have about 50% of the server market These [...]
GORDON SMITH gives us an exclusive first look at the slim, instant-on laptop for working on the web powered by Google’s Chrome browser. Reviewing the Chromebook, Google’s long-promised laptop built for the web, the thought occurs that this is less a product and more a lifestyle. The premise is that to need one, [...]
Your WAN and the cloud Perhaps one of the more interesting and unintended consequences of ubiquitous cloud computing is that it is going to ultimately make corporate Wide Area Networks redundant. Surely not, you might think? What about those big corporates who opted to build part of their IT requirement in a private cloud? Surely [...]
