Google Apps Education Edition helps attract solution providers
Google … announced 13 new education customers yesterday, including George Washington University, the University of Virginia and Indiana University.
Great news from our friends at Google! Google Apps for Edu is really taking off. We’ve had a deluge of orders from customers in the education space, from public school [...]
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Google Apps is a big win for educational institutions
Google Search Appliance Cluster in the wild. GB-8008 x 2
We did an install at a customer last week of a very large Google Search Appliance cluster. The GB-8008 is the big fish in the pond of enterprise search appliances. Stacking in at 12 servers, plus switching and power, these beasts come with their own rack units.
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Google Docs - Now Offline!
Big news from Google today.
Google Docs now works offline! This means that you no longer have to export to another word processor before you get on that airplane.
Now there’s a better solution. With Google Docs offline (powered by Google Gears), I can take my little piece of the cloud with me wherever I go. [...]
Microsoft to takeover FAST - what does this mean for the enterprise search market?
From TechCrunch:
“Microsoft has offered 19.00 Norwegian Kroner ($3.56) per share. The offer represents a 42 percent premium to the closing share price for Fast as at January 4 and values FAST at 6.6 billion NOK ($1.2 billion U.S).”
This could heat things up in the space. Microsoft is already giving away a “free” (if you own [...]
Google launches Blackberry sync!
This is fantastic news for all of us Blackberry addicts out there. I was actually missing meetings for a while after I moved from Exchange to Google Apps because of the lack of sync functionality.
This is a huge feature everyone had been requesting; I had been beating the drum on this for months but I [...]
Understanding Google Apps migration issues - Sky moves 1 million users to Apps
Slashdot had an interesting feature today on Sky’s Botched Google Migration In the UK. There seems to be much consternation out there about this rather large (1 million user) migration. While LTech was not involved in any way on this project, we have been working with our customers on similar migration [...]