Now that we’re nearing the end of the year, there is one key takeaway from the cloud computing industry: enterprise use has finally arrived.
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Efficient Email - Here is an infographic which illustrates some of the key benefits to securing your email in the Cloud.
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Organising email has become a big chore but in the long run it is definitely worth it. This infographic deals with some tips for better email management. Delete the scoop?
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Unearth Gmail's best-kept secrets to work faster, plow through your inbox, and put more controls at your fingertips.
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With so many Lab features available, it is refreshing to see so many other add-ons available for what I consider the best cloud based email.
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Cloud computing relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. In cloud computing, the word cloud (also phrased as “the cloud”) is used as a metaphor for “the Internet,” so the phrase cloud computing actually means “a type of Internet-based computing,” where different services – such as servers, Delete the scoop?
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Cloud computing has nothing to do with the weather and while it’s not entirely safe from cyber attacks, the technology is creating IT jobs and millions of people are using the cloud. Delete the scoop?
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Freedom from the office and the promise of working from anywhere has been an illusion for many years. However, this illusion now seems to be closer to reality than ever before. Automattic, the hosting company for WordPress.com servers, knows the future is now. They have 123 people that operate like self-employed workers, taking advantage of cloud and mobile apps to communicate across 26 countries and 94 cities. Everyone works from home. Here are six trends driving us out of our offices and into the cloud. Delete the scoop?
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Microsoft is giving its 16-year-old Web-email service a total overhaul and a new name. And the results are impressive, says Katherine Boehret. Delete the scoop?
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Some of the other interesting facts about email say that in every 6 months around 17% of the Americans create a new mail address. Email address is changed by 30% of subscribers annually. Around 43% of the users check their mails for 4 or even more times in a day.
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Pretty interesting infographic.
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Online privacy advocate Kim Dotcom has plans to expand Mega, his new file-sharing site, to include secure email, chat, voice, video and mobile services.
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I tend to agree with Mr Dotcom. If there is one thing that bothers me about the internet, it is privacy. That said and done, it is not going to be an easy task to get people to change their present arrangements.
Take email as a prime example. Out of all the free cloud email services, I find that Gmail has been superior for years. Yahoo Mail and Hotmail (now Outlook) have only just became decent competition. Yet even during the heydays when the latter 2 services were poor in most departments including security, we did not see a huge migration to Gmail.
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Full Market Pulse Survey (based on interviews of 400 IT and business leaders at large companies in the US and UK) here: http://www.sailpoint.com/news/press/press-release.php?release=112 Delete the scoop?
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As Cloud computing continues to take the business world by storm, new research has found that the public’s understanding of ‘the Cloud’ is still poor, some five years after the term became widely used in the IT industry. Delete the scoop?
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Disruptions to Google's search and email services in China over the weekend underscore the uncertainty surrounding Beijing's effort to control the flow of information into the country. Delete the scoop?
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As higher learning institutions deal with the inevitable challenge of rising costs and therefore the need to cut budgets, a good number are thinking of cloud computing solutions as suitable long term remedies. Although cautious stakeholders in the education sector have raised concerns over security issues, just as any other business would, the potential benefits for higher learning seem to already outweigh the risks which are no doubt being addressed by leading players in the cloud computing industry. Delete the scoop?
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Once you address security and privacy concerns, there are a number of applications, regardless of your business, which you can comfortably and safely move to the public cloud. Delete the scoop?
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