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        <title><![CDATA[Google Apps Mail]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Coming from Google Apps and transitioning to Office 365, our biggest motivator was the inability to effectively use Google Apps Mail (or GMail as many still refer to it as) for Business. For example, you need a connector to use Outlook and with that, you run into major synchornization issues. If you receive an attachment, expect to spend 30 minutes waiting to receive it and any mail that was sent afterwords (no matter the size of the attachment). Scheduling meetings from Outlook occassionally caused redudant meeting invitations and worse, sometimes didn't show meetings on the calendar in Outlook at all. After a year of support's inability to troubleshoot, we gave up. While we have no experience, they use a similar setup in Integration with BES so I'm sure there are issues there as well. Yet, with 365 you get a true BES server. Will it be there? I'm sure at some point they'll develop it to where the two are more on par, but Google is not ready for the demands of Business yet.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lilbubba]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:36:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google Apps for Business Security]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've noticed that a lot of people who commented on this article mentioned Gmail.  I am not suggesting you use Gmail for Business. I am suggesting you can trust your business data with Google Apps for Business.  This is a product specifically for businesses and includes a SLA and enterprise security. Security features include:-The controls, processes and policies that protect data in our systems have successfully completed a SAS 70 Type II audit.-Google Apps offers a 99.9% Service Level Agreement*, so you can be confident that employees will have access whenever they need it.-Google Apps is the first cloud based messaging and collaboration suite to achieve FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act) certification, indicating that the General Services Administration has reviewed and certified our security processes and documentation.- (source: google.com/a/]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[susancline]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:08:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Google Apps Mail, not Gmail]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wizard,I just want to clarify that I am NOT suggesting that people use Gmail accounts for business.  I am suggesting you use the Google Apps Mail for Business solution. There are no ads and your data is stored in a private cloud.  Using Postini Message and Security you also have powerful security controls.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[susancline]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:04:16 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[not just the younger crowd]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've seen some older ones too.  I think too many people don't really care.  They just want what they want, and they want it NOW.  I'm thinking we still have impending lessons from the School of Hard Knocks.Disclaimer: Impending lessons from the School of Hard Knocks are required.  Passing or failing are optional.  LOL]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[LocoLobo]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:41:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think businesses shoud have to disclose whether they are using cloud apps]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[like Google's offerings, especially for data which is minimally sensitive. Heck, if your primary business email is provided by GMail or another similar provider (Yahoo, Hotmail), I won't be doing business with you. If you are a one-person or very small outfit not handling anything sensitive, that's different. But don't do billing, etc., from the cloud.I don't care if Iron Mountain comes back with another cloud offering, I can't buy into it. Unfortunately, the younger crowd has learned that playing fast and loose on the net is a way of life, so I don't suspect any of this will be going away. All they have to do is point to big time in-house security failures (TJMaxx) and declare that Google isn't any worse. But business always finds a way to make things worse, just in new ways.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[seanferd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:46:36 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Benefit of the doubt?  That's not how one makes business decisions.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-350430-3520263]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[How about &quot;competitive advantage&quot;, where Google might have to demonstrate that they're better than the competition?Also, 2006.  In technology, and in terms of cloud services, 2006 is ancient history.  So, that can be tossed out the window.So, the question is, where is Google better than the competition?  That they're not that much worse than the competition is not a big selling point.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[adornoe]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:39:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hehehe.....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Most of the reasons are basically &quot;we are just as good as the competition&quot;. Doesn't mean Google Apps is better then.How about the outages Google Apps has had? Oh. That isn't a positive thing.Oh and how about compatibility? Can you tell me that Google Apps will have no problem opening up any Office document without an issue?[Not defending MS Office but] If Google does have an outage [and they will!] at least with Office 365 there is an option to have a local copy - of course on a Mac, Windows or Win Phone only.#9 has 5 year old data. Everyone knows that any data probably older than a year in technology is useless.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gisabun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:35:19 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Susan, sorry but you didn't convince me.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Using an excuse that Google is &quot;up to par&quot; or no worse than the other offeringsavailable just isn't a reason to jump into using Google for my business.  When the day comes that Google STOPS their infernal snooping into every database they can  get a spider into, then I might consider them.  My business is just that...MY BUSINESS...various state and federal regulations are also in play, namelyHIPPA, along with other confidentiality concerns...I cannot in the foreseeablefuture envision utilizing any &quot;cloud&quot; based service to host my needs.ps...I don't have or want a GMail account, and I rarely send sensitive documentsto recipients using GMail!  Just seems unnatural to allow a known snoop to haveaccess to personal information to the level Google wants.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[wizard57m-cnet]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:47:09 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Strange logic]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Number 2:  Privacy issues are no worse than other vendors.But you suggest that number 2 is one of ten reasons to &quot;trust Google in business&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Kassner]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:19:42 -0800</pubDate>
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