Gmail Delegation provides users the ability to delegate access to their Gmail account to someone else in their organization so they can read, send and delete messages. With this added feature, a delegate will have the ability to access the other person’s contacts by clicking the Contacts link.You cannot give anyone permission to change your account password or settings, or chat on your behalf. Also, you can specify up to 10 users.

Available in Premier Edition and in all languages supports by Gmail.

Please see below for more detail:

http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2010/03/contact-delegation-available-in-gmail.html

“LTech is committed to bringing the power of enterpise cloud computing to a broader range of customers,” said Ed Laczynski, founder and CTO of LTech. “By adding Power Panel and Google Docs Backup to the Google Apps Marketplace we have made it extremely easy for organizations to purchase and integrate our products into the Google Apps platform.”

LTech Power Panel for Google Apps is a suite of tools and most-often-requested utilities that provide security, simplify management tasks and allow business users to access data more efficiently. Features of Power Panel include role-based security, Shared Contacts Search, user life cycle management and an integration framework for CRM and enterprise data. LTech Google Docs Backup tool provides additional backup capabilities for Google Docs users by facilitating the download of documents to a local directory, network drive or Amazon S3 for a single user or entire Google Apps domain.

“We are very excited to bring Power Panel and Google Docs Backup into the Google Apps Marketplace,” said Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise. “Through the Google Apps Marketplace, software vendors like LTech are helping us build a rich ecosystem of integrated apps that work seamlessly with Google Apps, allowing IT administrators to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and extend Google Apps to meet more of their business needs. We are happy to offer Power Panel and Google Docs Backup to the millions of Google Apps users who have embraced the cloud.:

The Google Apps Marketplace makes it easy for more than 2 million Google Apps customers to discover, purchase and deploy integrated business applications and related professional services. By integrating with user account and application data stored in Google Apps, these cloud applications provide a simpler user experience, increase business efficiency, and reduce administrative overhead. To learn more, visit (www.google.com/appsmarketplace).

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as Gmail™ webmail service, Google Talk™ instant messaging service, Google Calendar™ calendaring service, Google Docs™ program, Google Sites™ web application, and Google Video™ for business on their own domain to work together more effectively.  Best of all, it’s all hosted by Google, so there’s no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.

About LTech

Founded in 2001, LTech is a leading provider of products and services for enterprise cloud computing. Its cloud enablement products include LTech Google Docs Backup, LTech Power Panel for Google Apps and LTech Single Sign-On for Google Apps. LTech also helps enterprises leverage the cloud by providing implementation, configuration and support services. As an early Google Enterprise Partner™, LTech has successfully completed dozens of Google Apps deployments and helped develop best-practices for adopting and successfully scaling cloud computing programs for large-scale customers in business, government and education. LTech merged with The Matlen Silver Group Inc., one of the leading IT solutions companies for the Fortune 500, in January of 2009. For more information on LTech and its services please visit www.ltech.com, or call 866-583-2473.

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Google, Google Apps Marketplace, Google Apps, Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Video are trademarks of Google Inc.

LTech Press Contact:

Christie Denniston

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Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13

Users can still use tools such as LTech’s Google Docs tool to backup on Amazon S3 or local file system to ensure access regardless of internet connectivity. Follow the link to the tool here: http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/google-docs-backup

Read the full announcement on the Official Google Enterprise Blog. http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/03/disaster-recovery-by-google.html

For additional information, please visit the below link: http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2010/03/two-way-calendar-sync-in-google-apps.html

Join us for a webinar entitled “Scaling Brands in the Cloud” hosted by LTech, RightScale, and Amazon Web Services. You’ll discover how to protect your brand and marketing spend by ensuring your website or promotional site is running at optimal performance. We will demonstrate how deploying and managing on the cloud provides the infrastructure to handle massive and unpredictable traffic delivered by successful marketing campaigns.

Topic: Scaling Brands in the Cloud
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time: 11 AM PT / 2 PM ET / 7 PM UK (London) / 20:00 CET

Attend this webinar to:

• Discover how to ensure your successful marketing campaigns don’t have a negative impact on user experience.
• Find out about LTech’s fully managed service called Brandscale, built to support your brand’s major marketing events.

Sign Up for this Webinar

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For nearly two decades, The Var Guy has been tracking news and innovations in the IT world.

Read the full article here.

LTECH’S NEW CLOUDMOVE HELPS MIGRATE

SHAREPOINT® DOCUMENTS TO GOOGLE APPS

Latest LTech product helps automate moving of files from SharePoint® to Google Apps

BRIDGEWATER, NJ – Jan. 27, 2010 – LTech (www.ltech.com), a leader in enterprise cloud computing products and services, today announced the availability of LTech CloudMove, a new tool that automates the migration of documents from SharePoint to Google Sites. The new software is the latest addition to LTech’s Cloud Enablement family of products that help IT departments successfully migrate, integrate and operate cloud computing programs as a means of achieving strategic business goals.

“LTech CloudMove saves IT organizations time and money by allowing for automated uploads of vast amount of files to Google Sites for organizations that are migrating from the Sharepoint platform to Google Apps.  It is also useful for organizations that are implementing mixed portal solutions on both the Google and Microsoft platforms,” said Ed Laczynski, founder and CTO of LTech. “Through our experience helping large organizations transition to cloud computing, we continue to develop tools like LTech CloudMove that help IT enable cloud computing in their organizations.”

LTech CloudMove is an application allowing organizations to migrate existing documents from Microsoft SharePoint to Google Apps. It removes the time and effort it takes to manually upload large numbers of files, enabling administrators to quickly transfer files and documents to Google Apps Sites, the content collaboration platform for Google Apps. LTech CloudMove includes a powerful and easy-to-use graphical user interface, the ability to save configures and detailed reporting and logging capabilities.

Availability

LTech CloudMove for use with SharePoint® is available immediately and pricing starts at $10 per user, per year for Premier and Education Editions of Google Apps. Free trials are available today. For more information please visit http://www.ltech.com/google-apps/products/cloudmove.

About LTech

Founded in 2001, LTech is a leading provider of products and services for enterprise cloud computing. Its cloud enablement products include LTech Google Docs Backup, LTech Power Panel for Google Apps and LTech Single Sign-On for Google Apps. LTech also helps enterprises leverage the cloud by providing implementation, configuration and support services. As an early Google Enterprise Partner™, LTech has successfully completed dozens of Google Apps deployments and helped develop best-practices for adopting and successfully scaling cloud computing programs for large-scale customers in business, government and education. LTech is a subsidiary of the The Matlen Silver Group Inc. For more information on LTech and its services please visit www.ltech.com, or call 866-583-2473

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The Cloud Computing Brokers Resource Guide is an aggregation of established Cloud Brokers, including LTech. The list includes a description of each company’s offerings to help enterprise cloud customers find the broker that can meet their needs.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

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As a Google Apps user, you can now extend the scheduling power of your Google Calendar to be more connected and productive.

Please join us for a webinar where you will see how Google Calendar can now be used to make meetings happen quickly and easily.

Join this live Webcast to learn how to:

• Put an end to the endless back and forth of scheduling, frustrating time zone mishaps and costly double bookings.
• Create your personal scheduling page to publish available times and invite others to schedule meetings with you.
• Send dynamic calendar invitations that propose multiple times to one or many people.
• Easily share your Google Calendar with non-Google Calendar users.

Sign up for this webinar: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/484991450

View LTech’s schedule of upcoming and past webinars here: LTech Webianr Schedule

Learn about some of the features of Power Panel for Google Apps including role based security, delegated administration and shared contacts search.

Management & IT Features

Administrators can create templates for user management and leverage powerful tools to simplify complex tasks.

End User Features

Learn how Power Panel for Google Apps provides enhanced features for end-users and serves as an integration framework for CRM data.

Shared Contacts Search

Administrators can retrieve and edit contacts’ phone numbers, email addresses, and other information through the search bar, located within the Shared Contacts module in Power Panel.