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William Andes, Олег, Liz Vandendriessche and 4 more joined Hug the CloudJune 6

Liz Vandendriessche added an eventApril 23

The MeriTalk Federal IT on a Budget Forum at Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

May 21, 2009 from 8am to 3:45pm

The Federal IT on a Budget Forum will explore how to deploy new, innovative IT approaches - such as Open Source, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing/Software as a Service (SaaS) - to create new funding within existing budgets. Additionally, the fo...

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Doug Pollei added a blog postJanuary 30

Gmail is now Offline. Now you can work on your email without the Interwebs.

You are usually out of luck when your Internet is down when it comes to Gmail. Not anymore. The cloud can now be downloaded.

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Gmail is now Offline. Now you can work on your email without the Interwebs.

You are usually out of luck when your Internet is down when it comes to Gmail. Not anymore. The cloud can now be downloaded.

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Posted by Doug Pollei on January 30, 2009 at 1:24pm

AlwaysOn Discussions on Enterprise 2.0

Posted by Doug Pollei on December 4, 2008 at 10:01pm

Google Invests in Satellite Internet Service - $60M

One way to bring people to the cloud is to invest in two items, Internet connectivity and the browser. Google now has one in place and plans to enable the other through an investment into 03B Networks.

"Start-up Seeks to Link Three Billion to Net – Google and O… Continue

Posted by Doug Pollei on September 16, 2008 at 7:30pm

Bravo Google

Google had three outages on its Google Apps services earlier this month - ouch! As a Premier Edition user I only noticed one of these outages and it didn't last that long for me, I guess I got lucky. This didn't bother me too badly even though I work nearly completely in the cloud through Google Apps. Maybe my pain was weak compared to that felt by others but I like using Google and although it is not an inspiring thing to be shut down for an undetermined amount of time I looked forward to using… Continue

Posted by Vaughn Bangerter on August 28, 2008 at 8:41am

Virtualization is Growing

A few years ago I had the chance to research a company that specialized in virtualization servers. My market research indicated that the timing was right for this company to deploy its products. Through surveys, IT departments were reported as being ~70% likely to invest in virtual servers in the next few years. In other words, virtualization was the next big thing. Admittedly I hardly understood the concept at the time, but had a feeling that this was important.

I did not understand the scope… Continue

Posted by Vaughn Bangerter on August 26, 2008 at 10:30am