Google Gears Up for Government Work Google has rolled out a government edition of its online application suite. Data for Gmail and Google Calendar produced in Google Apps for Government is stored in a segregated system that’s reserved exclusively for government agencies. Google Apps has also won FISMA certification, a standard for federal information security

Can Google Apps Supplant Microsoft Exchange? Google has made it one of its many missions to woo users away from Microsoft Exchange in favor of its Google Apps cloud computing offerings for communications like e-mail, messaging, calendar, contacts and collaboration.

I recently switched my email to Google Apps, which provides the benefits of Gmail while still letting you use your own domain name. I’m glad I did it, although I had to overlook privacy concerns and Google’s idiosyncratic technology choices.

Microsoft’s cloud-enabled Office 2010 set to join battle with Google Next month, Microsoft Corp. will release Office 2010 into an IT world that Google Inc. has been reshaping as use of its Google Apps services has spread to organizations like the Los Angeles city government and Genentech Inc

Global CIO: Google, At Last, Goes For Microsoft’s Throat I like Google so much better now that’s it’s going for the jugular. This week brings more proof that Google’s intent on grabbing from Microsoft some of the money companies will spend on collaboration software for their employees. Specifically, it has created a tool for migrating e-mail off Microsoft Exchange and onto Google Apps

Web Host News – SAN MATEO, CA — NetSuite Inc.(NYSE: N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced that it plans to make its cloud computing enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite available in the Google Apps Marketplace, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. NetSuite’s cloud-based ERP suite enables users to run their key back-office operations and financial business processes—including accounting, inventory and supply chain, order management and business intelligence—with a single, comprehensive SaaS application. “NetSuite is committed to bringing the power of cloud computing to businesses, so integrating with Google Apps is a logical choice for us,” says Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite.

Web Host News – SAN MATEO, CA — NetSuite Inc.(NYSE: N), a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced that it plans to make its cloud computing enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite available in the Google Apps Marketplace, Google’s recently launched online storefront for Google Apps™ products and services. NetSuite’s cloud-based ERP suite enables users to run their key back-office operations and financial business processes—including accounting, inventory and supply chain, order management and business intelligence—with a single, comprehensive SaaS application

For the last decade, the web hosting industry has evolved slowly. With the arrival of cloud hosting though, the last couple of years have changed that.

As a managed service provider with a hosting operation, how to you prepare for customers with unpredictable web site traffic surges? Here are some best practices from Voxel , the managed hosting and cloud provider.

No software company has been more threatened by the rapid growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) and the broader cloud computing phenomenon than Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT).

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