
5 Key Essentials of Cloud Workloads Migration
The benefits of migrating workloads between different cloud providers or between private and public clouds can only truly be redeemed with an understanding of the cloud business model and cloud workload management. It seems that cloud adoption has reached the phase where advanced cloud users are creating their own hybrid solutions or migrating between clouds […]

Don’t Make Me Think – A User Centric Perspective on Google Apps
I was sitting down for a pleasant morning coffee with the boys from WaveAdept, a New Zealand based company that, among other things, is a reseller for Google apps. Our discussion got on to the barriers to adoption for Google apps and specifically what can be done to increase uptake among small businesses. It’s an […]

Gmail Migration Tools Attack Inertia
A few years ago a software recruiter told me how he deleted job applications sent from a Hotmail account: after all, how could an applicant claim to be technology-savvy and still be using hotmail? Seriously. While Yahoo was by far not as bad as Hotmail, there was a stigma attached to using the free webmail […]

Evernote Offers An Option To Import Google Notebook
Image by /Sizemore/ via Flickr We recently wrote about Zoho offering an option to import data from Google Notebook to Zoho Notebook. Even though it was a bit crude, it got the work done and gave peace of mind to many users of Google Notebook. Today, Evernote announced the availability of an option to import […]

Google Notebook – Help Is On The Way
Image via CrunchBase Google shocked the world by stopping the development of Google Notebook. Both Zoho and Evernote promised to offer a way to import Google Notebook to their products. Zoho delivered on their promise with an option to import from your Google Notebook. It is not a neat way but it gets the work […]

Updated Guide to Importing All Your Archive Email Into Gmail
This is now so simple, it shouldn’t even require any guidance, but I am still receiving inquiries, so I thought I’d reprint this guide, originally published on my personal blog. But first things first… Why would you want to import all your old email to Gmail? Because it gives you an All-In-One, searchable archive. I […]
The Question Is, Are We Left With Better Options In The Desktop World?
The Cloud vendor lock-in debate between Tim Bray and DeWitt Clinton picked up considerable steam few days after I posted it here at Cloud Avenue. Dare Obasanjo takes on the issue of vendor lock-in head on and nails the most important issue facing the cloud vendors. He asks a very pertinent question about the portability […]