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Google I/O: A VAR’s Eye View
Wondering what to expect from Google I/O this week (besides the rumored demo of a Samsung Chrome Netbook)? Google Apps channel partners can expect to hear from the tech giant’s channel chief Jeff Ragusa about some of the more innovative ways Google Apps reseller partners have created solutions that work to enhance customer productivity. Ragusa…
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Did Amazon Outage Kill the Cloud?
A partial outage of Amazon’s cloud-based hosting services in April prompted some high-tech pundits to make dire predictions. They called the outage a major setback with consequences for years to come. It’s as if Amazon had all but extinguished the cloud. Was the failure damaging? Yes, but to the point of significantly slowing what is…
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Google Apps Reseller, Cloud Sherpas, Improves Flagship Offering, SherpaTools
Google Apps’ largest reseller, Cloud Sherpas, has a few announcements of its own on the eve of Google’s I/O 2001 conference this week – enhancements to its SherpaTools Collaboration Pack that enables more granular granting of various administrative rights to help those internal IT administrators delegate more without giving away too much control. Cloud Sherpas…
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HTG Peer Groups Launch ‘Hands That Give’
Image via Wikipedia HTG Peer Groups members are accustomed to sharing their business, life and legacy plans with each other, and helping each other out in times of need. But now HTG Peer Groups have actually formalized the process with Hands That Give, called the IT industry’s first member-led emergency response system modeled after the…
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Network Anomoly Sparks Password Concerns for LastPass Users
An “anomaly” in the network traffic has prompted online password manager LastPass to notify its customers of a potential security breach that requires them to immediately change their master passwords. Administrators noticed a “network traffic anomaly” that lasted a few minutes from a “non-critical” machine on May 3, LastPass wrote on its blog on May…
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Security Index Shows Americans Growing More Anxious
Americans are more concerned than ever about all aspects of their personal security, online and offline, but it’s not entirely clear why, according to a recent survey from Unisys. Approximately half of the respondents polled were seriously concerned about viruses, spam and the safety of online shopping, according the latest Unisys Security Index survey. The…
