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Google's Enterprise Communications Play
August 27, 2010 10:30 AM
Enterprise IT professionals have reputations as curmudgeons who can cite 32 reasons why deploying a particular codec won't work on a particular link, or why choosing that particular application isn't the smartest thing to do (aka a really dumb thing to do). But have we missed the mark by being skeptical of Google's communication revolution? Surely you've had to field questions like "Why can't we just use Google Docs?" or "Can't I just run GTalk inside the firewall?" But there's good reason for the IT curmudgeon to hold off on adopting Google as a Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC) provider, at least for now.Net Neutrality: Where The Money Goes
August 12, 2010 08:00 AM
As we all know, Google and Verizon have reached a private agreement to for Google to pay for priority shipping of its bits over Verizon's networks. Both companies are getting beat up for that agreement. Google is getting beat up because they have long been proponents for net neutrality and have turned their back on the wireless side. Verizon is getting beat up because they are Verizon. But the pernicious FUD that is spread about Net Neutrality is appalling. It started long before October 2009, when the FCC rules were proposed, and hasn't stopped since. Net Neutrality doesn't stop providers from doing business. It does attempt to stop them from doing business unfairly.Google Wave Washed Out
August 05, 2010 10:18 AM
As recently as last week, Google was promoting a variety of time-related extensions for Google Wave, its real-time communication platform, on its Wave blog. Had these timers, stopwatches, and countdown meters been clocking Wave's lifespan, the alarms would have gone off and the counters would have reached 00:00:00. On Wednesday, Wave's time ran out. That's when Google announced it has decided to stop development on Google Wave, a scant three months after making Wave available to the public.Aprigo Turns GoogleDocs Into An Enterprise Application
July 30, 2010 12:00 PM
The great thing about GoogleDocs is that it's free. The even better thing about GoogleDocs is that storage is also free. The bad thing about GoogleDocs is that it lacks all of the controls IT demands, such as security, backup and recovery, at least until now. Aprigo, Inc. introduced Aprigo NINJA for Google Docs. The tool enables IT to provide data governance for unstructured data in the company's Google Apps domain. With Aprigo Ninja, IT managers can view and approve permissions, as well as define how unstructured data, such as e-mail, messages, presentations, text documents, images, audio and video files are stored and shared.Microsoft Details Azure Cloud Development
May 13, 2010 01:40 PM
Microsoft is plunging into cloud services to give its customers a range of choices in public and private cloud computing, said Doug Hauger, general manager of Windows Azure, at the All About the Cloud show in San Francisco Tuesday.Google & Amazon Propose Metric-Based Efficiency
April 16, 2010 09:41 AM
A group of data center operators and technology providers is asking the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) to reconsider recommendations for cooling data centers that could become part of ASHRAE Standard 90.1 as an addendum. Standard 90.1 is a building efficiency standard that is often incorporated into building codes across the country.Best And Worst Of Times For Enterprise Search
January 06, 2010 08:00 AM
The enterprise search market has reached a critical point. While the need for search capabilities has grown in a widening array of applications, the market for these tools is reaching a saturation point, with revenue decreasing and pressure on suppliers' bottom lines rising. The end result is companies now find more enterprise search systems available at reasonable prices than ever before, but the number of vendors offering these products may soon dwindle. Companies can find a wide range of possible solutions and chances are good that one will mesh with their business requirements, but the long term future for many of the suppliers is unclear. Consequently, a business could make a purchasing decision and find its vendor acquired or perhaps out of business in a few years. In sum, for buyers, it is the best of times, but it is also the worst of times to be on the looking for an enterprise search system.Google's Nexus One Smart Phone Improvements Are Incremental
January 05, 2010 05:13 PM
Google just announced their new phone, the Nexus One. Google is claiming that the NexusOne is a new class of smart phone called a "superphone." Well, I'm not sure it is overly super, if super denotes a move from a smart phone with fairly limited computing power like a Treo or BlackBerry. In that case, the iPhone was the first phone that was super. Eye candy aside (and there is a lot of eye candy), the Nexus One is phone that has incremental processing power over the Motorola Droid, the other new Android phone.NORAD Deploys Network For Watching Santa
December 24, 2009 12:00 PM
Each December, NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command conduct a special mission, detecting, tracking and assuring the safe completion of an international flight that covers tens of thousands of miles in a 24-hour period. NORAD, you see, takes seriously the assignment of tracking Santa Claus. According to Army Major Mike Humphreys, of NORAD and US Northern Command Public Affairs, the annual project to track St. Nick falls naturally within the mission of NORAD. "We are constantly tracking the skies for man-made objects to defend and protect North America," he says, adding, "This is a bi-national command shared between US and Canada. The missions are aerospace warning and defense, and maritime warning. Obviously, tracking Santa falls within the aerospace warning space because [the sleigh is] a man-made object."What Goes Around Comes Around: Google's Recursive DNS
December 05, 2009 10:35 AM
Google's announcement about their DNS service is naturally making waves among the Interneterati. Some think it's risky (no, encryption won't help). Some think it's good for DNS in general. It's neither of these things. It's a DNS service that Google thinks will make browsing better and a potential research tool.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next Page »
