It isn’t easy to look on the bright side of an economic crisis. The unstable stock market is provoking widespread talk of “belt-tightening,” and already thousands of people have lost their jobs. However, there is a silver lining for cloud-based services: companies looking to cut IT spending are starting to take notice of Google Apps [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Google Apps replaces Microsoft Office in Washington DC
October 13, 2008 – 5:54 pm
Washington DC has a big change in store - and its not just a new president.
The District’s 38,000 employees are making the switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps. This summer, DC’s Chief Technology Officer, Vivek Kundra, signed a deal with Google worth an estimated $500,000 per year. As part of the contract, the District [...]
Gartner positions Google in the leaders quadrant
October 1, 2008 – 7:41 pm
Gartner Inc., an information technology research company, recognized Google as a leading e-mail vendor in their 2008 report “Magic Quadrant for E-Mail Security Boundaries.”
With spam rates and security threats constantly increasing, e-mail providers must be able to define new strategies and invest in resources that will detect these issues. Gartner’s report evaluates multiple e-mail vendors [...]