Yale wants to know where their Apps are
And in one of those "Ripped from the headlines" moments, it looks like Yale is among the first (or at least among the most public of the first) organizations re-thinking their Apps conversio…
Why to consider where your Apps are
In the midst of the fallout over Google's break with China this week, the Internet company's enterprise-oriented Apps team hastened to put out an announcement reassuring customer's all o…
Open Source Captcha
Captcha is a helpful tool and is be used to protect websites from spam attacs. Even if it is not a 100% secure way of spam prevention, it helps webmasters a great deal and is indispensable for webpage…
Are Macs a no-brainer on TCO?
TCO case studies often cause me to break out in hives and although I recognize and even encourage the use of such metrics amongst clients, I have a lot of trouble crediting the generalizations that ar…
Microsoft teams with Citrix for strike at VMWare
Microsoft launched a new push on the virtualization front today, most significantly in announcing a new partnership with Citrix to enable XenDesktop top play more nicely with Microsoft RemoteFX plat…
Virtual Server Security
Gartner reports that 60% of virtual servers are less secure than their physical counter-parts. Refreshingly, instead of beating on the "virtual/cloud environments are not safe!" drum, their …
How well can Internet screening really work?
There are probably some Human Resources blogs somewhere where you can read the official view on the use of Internet-based background screening on new-hire candidates, but for the most part what I se…
Employees love to slack off
It's usually pretty easy to get to the "Duh" moment in reading any study commissioned by Microsoft. I get the impression that those released for public consumption are generally the ones…
Google Apps Marketplace
Google rolled out their Apps Marketplace yesterday at their Campfire One developer conference, unveiling an unexpectedly powerful way to leverage the Apps platform for other applications.
The Marke…
Docverse acquisition paves way for Google Docs in the enterprise
Google acquired document collaboration company Docverse last week, a move designed to shore up the capabilities of Google Apps to interoperate with desktop-created Microsoft Office documents. Such cap…