Google Is Trying To Get Exchange Users Through Backdoor
One of the interesting acquisitions by Google, in my point of view, was their 2007 acquisition of Postini. In fact, it was the main driving force behind somewhat successful push of Google Apps into the enterprises. Today, Google is wearing the Postini mask again as it attempts a long term strategy to get more exchange [...]
VMware Has Plans For Zimbra
Ever since VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo in January of 2010, there were speculations about VMware plans up the stack. VMware hasn’t talked about their strategy at the application layer of the cloud stack yet but they are taking steps to integrate Zimbra with their platform and push it aggressively on the enterprise market. Yesterday, VMware [...]
Rackspace Gives Email Users Choice
I believe that all generic technology services should be outsourced. Anything that doesn’t provide a point of differentiation for your business is a candidate to move to the cloud. One of the first applications in this class is, I believe, email. Beyond security of your data, there is no compelling reason to keep your mail [...]
StorSimple Simplifies The Use Of Cloud Storage
Cloud based storage is very hot in the market right now. The highly scalable and elastic nature of the cloud storage makes it very attractive for businesses of all sizes and shapes. However, there are certain issues crucial to the large scale adoption of cloud based storage. They are Latency Issues Lower cost Better integration [...]
Cloud-Based Email – Bringing in the Savings, and the Value
Grab a cup of Tea – this is a long post I’m afraid… I posted awhile ago about Rackspace’s hosted email offering – a product review however tells only half the story. For this reason I wanted to follow up and look at the benefits the various cloud email providers can bring to their customers, [...]
Mohammed, the Mountain, Google and Zoho (Oh, and Microsoft Sharepoint, too)
If the mountain will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain. Legend says when the Founder of Islam was asked to give proof of his teaching, he ordered Mount Safa to come to him. When the mountain did not comply, Mohammed went to to the mountain, raised his hands and thanked God [...]
Rackspace shakes up hosted email
Image via CrunchBase I’ve just caught up with the Rackspace launch of their latest version of Rackspace Email the other day. Rackspace Email is an email hosting service that is firmly trying to provide an alternative to Microsoft exchange – and brings with it some inherent advantages of cloud computingIt can be thought of as [...]
