Posted by Philippe Creytens at 14:00
In the telco world the standard for uptime is ‘five nines‘ or 99.999% uptime per month. This means that your phone may not be available for less than 25.9 seconds over a period of 30 days. Google said that last year they achieved an uptime of 99.984%. An unavailability of Gmail that is roughly less than 7 minutes per month.
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 22:30
With the release of the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 developers can shift their efforts towards support of HTML5 into higher gears. Others browsers such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox, partially, already support the HTML 5 standard.
Using the new standard allows web designers to provide more features without relying on plug-ins in the browser.
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 23:06
I recently had a discussion about the best approach for going to the cloud. Is the best approach doing a pilot or a Big Bang?
I keep repeating myself over and over: people don’t like change. Even if it turns out to be a positive experience over time.
Michael Sampson, Sharepoint specialist, summarizes this as follows: what is the biggest complaint about collaborative solutions? No one uses them!
Does doing a pilot prevent this, or not?
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 11:30
Almost all our clients migrating from Outlook to Google Apps ask us how to add graphics images –typically company logos– to their email signatures in Google Apps.
Earlier we already posted a blog post on our simple answer: you CANNOT!
But as is often the case with Google Apps, now the answer is: pretty SIMPLE.
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 15:21
Is Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) a pain for companies that migrate their mail to the cloud? In many cases it is.
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Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:56
Adding a user to Microsoft BPOS is pretty simple: as an administrator you login into http://admin.emea.microsoftonline.com (if you’re using the European datacenters) and select ‘Add a User’ from the right sidebar under the Users tab.
However, there are some gotchas that you had better remember.
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 21:07
The past months Insight and Romneya worked hard to prepare a number of activities on the Belgian market to initiate conversations with customers about cloud solutions.
This afternoon marked the launch of the campaign with a seminar on cloud computing where Microsoft, Google and Messagelabs gave their vision. Of course we were present.
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 15:05
Together with Insight we are organizing today an event on cloud computing.
Speakers from Microsoft, Google and Messagelabs will be giving their vision on cloud computing. This promises to be exciting and interesting, mainly because of the differences in vision of some of the speakers.
According to Simon Wardley, one of the people behind the Ubuntu Linux distro, cloud computing has nothing to do with products, but everything with a transition phase.
Posted by Philippe Creytens at 13:10
In a previous blog post I already mentioned Jason Fried’s opinions on cloud computing. In another part of the same interview Jason shares some interesting thoughts on the modern work place.
Modern offices are optimized for interruptions… not for working.
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Posted by Philippe Creytens at 12:18
Jason Fried is one of the co-founders 37signals, a company active in web development with a more than an impressive track record. Applications such as Basecamp and Highrise with millions of users were developed by them. Keep Reading…
