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Google at SMB Nation Fall Conference
Monday, September 14, 2009
As part of our continued outreach to find leading
solution providers
and
MSPs
for our Google Apps Authorized Reseller program, the Google Apps Partner team will head to Las Vegas on October 2, 3, and 4 for "SMB Nation Fall 2009." This conference, focused on technologies for small and medium businesses, is designed for consultants, channel partners and VARs, and offers the community a chance to engage in conversations around hosted, cloud-based solutions. It's targeted at both technical and business audiences, with an emphasis on managed services.
Program managers from Google will speak about opportunities for Google Apps Authorized Resellers. They'll also be listening to feedback from the community on areas for further improvement to the program. Google's
partners often play a critical role in helping customers get the most out of Google Apps, and building a strong partner network will be key to keeping up with the accelerating adoption of Google Apps.
Learn more and register at
smbnation.com
, and be sure to find members of the Google team when you're there.
Posted by Jeff Ragusa, Google Apps Partner team
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Data portability and Google Apps
Monday, September 14, 2009
Earlier this morning, you may have seen Google's
Data Liberation announcement
, which stemmed from our core belief that it ought to be easy for users to move their data into or away from Google's cloud.
This principle not only applies to individual users, but also to businesses, schools and other organizations that choose
Google Apps
to provide better tools at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. It should be easy to bring legacy data into the cloud, share data between Google Apps and other IT infrastructure, and get data out of the cloud if it ever makes sense to stop using our service.
I invite you to read more about
Google Apps data portability
on the Data Liberation site.
And while we're on the topic of data portability, stay tuned here for information about moving content to and from Google Sites. We're looking forward to sharing more
about this
with you soon.
Posted by Brian "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager
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JohnsonDiversey goes greener with Google Apps
Friday, September 11, 2009
Editor’s note:
John Matthews is Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Director, Office of the President, for
JohnsonDiversey
. The company is a global provider of commercial cleaning, sanitation and hygiene solutions and serves customers in the lodging, food service, retail, health care, and food and beverage sectors. One of four companies founded by the Johnson Family, JohnsonDiversey is located in Located in Racine, Wisconsin and has a long-standing history of dedication to environmental, health, and safety leadership.
Our CEO, Ed Lonergan, has challenged all employees to live by strong sustainability principles in everything they do. Last spring, we migrated over 11,000 global employees to Google Apps from Lotus Notes/Domino and Microsoft Outlook, moving us 73 tons closer to our goal of achieving an 89,000-ton reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2013. When we achieve our 89,000-ton reduction in carbon emissions, it will place us back at where we were in 2003, even as we continue to grow our business and add additional resources.
In addition, optimizing our IT infrastructure by moving to Google Apps has allowed us to decommission eight servers and avoid buying four more. As we reduce this reliance on hardware, we also gain a better and easier messaging and collaboration platform.
Google’s
innovation in data center design
and maintenance means that Google achieves more energy efficiency than our company could on its own – and Google’s commitment to carbon neutrality also reinforces our goals as a member of the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program. The alternate IT solution would have increased our server count by 12, more than doubling our server count. This would have raised our CO
2
emissions by 111 metric tons.
Beyond helping JohnsonDiversey achieve sustainability goals, Google Apps also helps us better communicate and collaborate. Our employees and contractors speak more than 26 languages across approximately 170 locations in 70 countries. Now, we all have the ability to literally work off the same page – wherever we are – with tools like Google Docs and Google Sites.
We also avoided significant capital outlays in upgrading from our on-premise Lotus Notes/Domino solution while improving our internal service levels with Google's commitment to be up and running 99.9% of the time.
Environmental stewardship is not only the right thing to do. It also makes good business sense. Our choice of Google Apps is a case in point. It's helped us reduce costs and advance our IT efficiency. If your enterprise is striving to reduce its environmental footprint and streamline IT infrastructure, hear how we did it at a livewebcast featuring our IT team.
You can learn more about our company and our use of Google Apps here:
Our
IT team will host a live webcast
next week
on
Thursday, September 17, 2009, 2:00 p.m. EDT / 11:00 a.m. PDT on
how Google Apps is helping us meet both our sustainability and business goals.
We'll also share perspectives from our IT team on the deployment in a blog post we'll publish next week (
update:
now published
).
John Matthews, SVP, Corporate Affairs
Director, Office of the President, JohnsonDiversey
Posted by Serena Satyasai, Google Apps team
Find customer stories and product information on our resource sites for current users of
Microsoft Exchange
and
Lotus Notes/Domino
.
The movement continues: "Going Google" at school & with Postini
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
In the past month, many of you told us
how you've "gone Google"
with
Google Apps in your workplace
. We're excited that t
he #goneGoogle movement continues with the millions of students who have switched to Google Apps in schools, as well as growing adoption of our Postini email security and archiving services.
More than 5 million students in 145 countries around the world have gone Google at school with our Google Apps Education Edition. To celebrate this milestone, Google's "EDU" team has created a
new site
that highlights many of the schools that have gone Google, as well as tips for students and educators.
Schools as well as businesses of all sizes have also chosen to protect their on-premise email systems with our hosted email security and archiving services – more than 3 billion email messages are protected by Postini each day. Postini helps your organization keep email secure, spam-free and centrally archived, without the need for hardware or software installations and upgrades. If you're still dealing with tuning your spam appliance and searching your backup tape drives, now is a good time to
go Google with Postini
.
We've loved hearing your feedback and encourage you to continue the conversation with us
via Twitter
(hashtag #gonegoogle) as well as through our
Spread the Word
site. The billboards may be complete (you can check out the
recap video here
), but we're not finished yet. Look for more "gone Google" initiatives in the US and abroad in the next few months – and don't forget to sign up for
free Gone Google goodies
!
Posted by Vivian Leung, Google Apps Team
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Google Earth Pro and Google Maps API Premier increase imagery coverage
Thursday, September 3, 2009
This month,
Google Earth Pro
and
Google Maps API Premier
customers will see new aerial and satellite imagery updates across the world and through time.
Let's say you want to do
Real Estate
research in Portage, Michigan (image below) and you have Google Earth Pro 5.0 installed. You can use the
historical imagery feature
to research imagery dating back to the 1950's. For example,
Engineering
firms doing land surveys near
McMurdo Station
now have imagery updates on this point in Antarctica. This allows them to complete better land assessments.
Below is a list of all the imagery updates to Google Earth Pro and Google Maps API. To find out where the new aerial and satellite imagery might help your spatial business,
here is a KML
outlining all the areas receiving new data.
Americas
United States:
Alburqurque, Beaumont (Texas), part of the Mississippi River, Jefferson County (FL), Cass County (MO), Hamilton County (IA), Western Michigan, Portage (MI), Clinton County (MI), Eaton County (MI), Ingham County (MI), Greenville (SC), Baltimore (MD), Charles County (MD), Calvert County (MD), Dorchester County (MD), Carroll County (MD), Frederick County (MD).
Canada:
Surrey (BC)
Peru:
Talara
Argentina:
Salta, Santiago del Estero, Villa Mercedes, Bahia Blanca
Brazil:
Santa Maria, Joinville, Santos, Montes Claros, Petrolina, Araguaina, Parnaiba, Belem
Europe, Middle East, & Africa
France:
Manche, Mayenne, Maine-et-Loire, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-er-Mosselle, Lozere, Herault, Pau
Lithuania:
Vilnius
Poland:
Krakow, Lodz, Auschwitz
Slovakia:
Bratlsavia
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Sarajevo
Serbia:
Belgrade
Moldova:
Chisinau
Russia:
Perm, Chita, Avacha
Libya:
Benghazi
Syria:
Aleppo
Iran:
Mashad
Turkey:
Antalya
Pakistan:
Lahore
Guinea-Bissau:
Bissau
Guinea:
Conakry
Liberia:
Monrovia
Kenya:
Mombasa
Swaziland:
Mbabane
Asia & Oceania
China:
Nanchang, Yumen, Altay, Taizhou, Huaian, Chuzhou, Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, Leting, Baotou
New Zealand:
Christchurch, Wellington, Bay of Plenty, Waipa
Antarctica:
McMurdo Station
New 2.5m base imagery for:
Mexico, Argentina, and India
Posted by Natasha Wyatt, Google Earth and Maps Enterprise team
Today's Gmail problem
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Around 12:45 PM PDT, a majority of Gmail users began having trouble accessing their accounts. During this interruption, users were still able to connect to their accounts via IMAP and POP. At approximately 2:15 PM PDT, the issue was resolved and access was restored.
We use Google Apps here at Google, and our email accounts were among those that were impacted. I understand how disruptive this service interruption was for our users and customers, and I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.
The team is investigating the root cause so we can prevent this kind of situation in the future, and we will share a detailed incident report with our customers. The full incident report will be available on the
Google Apps Status Dashboard
within 48 hours.
Posted by Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director, Google Enterprise
UPDATE
(7:46 pm):
We've shared more information on today's issue on the Gmail blog,
here
. We'll also be proactively crediting affected Premier and EDU customers with three days of service, and posting a full incident report on the
Google Apps Status Dashboard
within 48 hours. Thank you again for your patience and understanding.
Waving hello to Google Apps
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Google
Wave
has been generating lots of interest among
Google Apps
users s
ince we unveiled it in May at
Google I/O
, our annual developer conference
. Today we're pleased to announce that we'll be opening up access to Google Wave for
some
schools and businesses as part of the
preview this fall
. And while we won't be able to open it up to all Google Apps users just yet
,
we hope to bring Google Wave to all Google Apps users next year.
If you're a Google Apps administrator and you're interested in testing Google Wave, you can
sign up here
.
O
ver the last couple of months, we've been very busy developing the product,
opening the protocol
and learning from the thousands of developers who are using and contributing to Google Wave.
While the product, platform and protocols are still being developed, we're extending access to some of the highly collaborative people and communities we hope to benefit in the future – businesses and schools. In turn, w
e look forward to learning from these Google Apps users, so we can continue to tweak and develop the product as we gain insight from their experiences.
A wave is equal parts conversation and document, where individuals communicate and work together in a multimedia environment
–
the wave itself. You can check out the video below (it's long
–
lots to see!) and it's easy to imagine its utility for groups within a business or academic environment. Whether there's a report to write, an event to plan, research to do or communications to conduct, we're building Google Wave so people can be more productive and collaborate more effectively in a real time environment. Users can insert text, photos, gadgets, maps, web feeds and edit instantaneously. Organizations can extend Google Wave using
APIs
to tightly integrate with existing tools and workflows. It's communication and collaboration, conversation and document, in one unified, cloud-based space.
To learn more about Google Wave check out
wave.google.com,
and to sign up for Google Apps so you're ready when Google Wave rolls into businesses in the future, visit
google.com/a
.
Posted by Matthew Glotzbach and Stephanie Hannon, Google Enterprise and Wave teams
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