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The Cloud Security Alliance
Google has joined the Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit organization of experts focused on best practices and education efforts around the security of cloud computing.
View the original post on the Google Enterprise blog.
Google Buzz
Google launched Google Buzz today. It’s a new way to start conversations, share updates, photos, videos and more. It’s built right into Gmail, so there’s nothing to set up if you have a gmail account.
View Google’s original posts here and here.
Spread some holiday cheer, one card at a time
Download and print your own Christmas Cards from Gmail here. The Free Cards Google were offering are now gone but you can still download a PDF and print your own from home.
Visit the Official Gmail blog for more information.
Free Internet from Google on Virgin America flights
Flying over holidays? Virgin America will provide Free Wifi on flights November 10th, 2009 thru January 15th, 2010.
Additional information at Official Google Blog
Virgin America Destinations with Gogo
Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Customers of Google Apps Premier and Education Editions can now give their users access to Google Apps email, calendar, and contacts from the built-in BlackBerry applications that many users are already accustomed to.
Choosing Google Apps over Microsoft Exchange
Duralee recently chose Google Apps as their email platform, and Bill Kelly, Chief Information Officer for Duralee, who led this decision shared his findings in a livewebcast. Kelly had previously been a Microsoft Exchange user and administrator for more than 10 years.
University of Notre Dame saved $1.5 million.
The University of Notre Dame has seen great results by “going Google” to help make on-campus communication and collaboration easier.
Read more at the Official Google Blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/fighting-irish-google-apps-education.html
And at the Official Google Enterprise Blog:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/08/university-of-notre-dame-saved-15.html
New Google Apps Directory Sync Enhancements
Yesterday Google released two enhancements to Google Apps Directory Sync which helps businesses synchronize the user and directory information in their LDAP systems with Google Apps.
Read more about this at the Official Google Enterprise Blog.
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/07/enhancements-to-google-apps-directory.html
Google Apps status updates now in RSS feeds
Starting today you can add an RSS feed for the Apps Status Dashboard, letting you receive performance status updates for Apps products in any of the 25 languages the Dashboard supports.
Visit the Apps Status Dashboard at http://www.google.com/appsstatus and click on the RSS icon at the bottom right to get the feed in the same language [...]
Google Apps is out of Beta
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk — both enterprise and consumer versions — are now out of beta.
For additional information, visit the Official Google Blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-apps-is-out-of-beta-yes-really.html
