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• Small businesses are the vast majority of Google Apps early adopters

  While Google is pitching Google Apps as an ideal productivity solution for enterprises, a large majority of its early adopters are small businesses.

• How GSA is securing its cloud apps

  As the General Services Administration (GSA) migrates to a work-anywhere, work-anytime strategy, the real estate arm of the U.S. federal government is discovering that having an iron-clad security strategy is critical to its adoption of cloud-based applications.

• Web app lets enterprise set security, sharing for Google Apps users

  A new security tool lets enterprise IT groups set access and share policies for employees, including mobile users, who are working with the online Google Apps suite.

• 2011: When cloud computing shook the data center

  If I had to sum up in one word the most exciting thing that happened to cloud computing in 2011, I'd have to say it's OpenStack. This open source project, launched by Rackspace and NASA in late 2010, is assembling a private cloud "operating system" for the data center that promises vast increases in operational efficiency. The momentum behind it is phenomenal; at last count, 144 companies back the project, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, and Intel.

• Security roundup: Security concerns slam Google Apps rollout in LA; 760 companies and research institutions hacked?

  The Los Angeles City Council has voted to halt efforts to bring the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) into the Google Apps services used by 17,000 other Los Angeles employees.

• Feature: The right way to go Google

  It may be relatively painless when one or two employees embrace Google’s Gmail and related Docs applications, but transitioning an entire organisation to the online services is another thing entirely. Just ask Ben White, who has seen both highs and lows during his company’s shift from an aging Outlook and Exchange environment to the Cloud-hosted Google solutions.

• Mobile devices, social media in 2012 means more work “around the clock”: Gartner

  2012 will be the year when Google Apps will chip away at the Microsoft Office market, as the rise of mobile devices and social media could make managing a work-life balance impossible, Gartner has claimed.

• 7 software makers to bring integrated, cheaper add-ons to Google Apps

  Seven ISVs have formed a consortium to integrate their Google Apps add-on products and offer discounted bundles, outside of Google's control.

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  5 reasons not to move your company to Google

  They're being sold as the best thing since sliced bread, but in the name of fairness it's important to point out that Google's Gmail and Docs solutions aren't for everybody. Early adopters may be crowing about their benefits now, but the likelihood of painful migrations, mismatched expectations, functional gaps and major business change may be enough to keep you on the sidelines for now. Here are five reasons you may want to hold off on jumping to Google apps for a while.

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  5 reasons to move your company to Google

  So, you’re sick of trying to keep Microsoft Exchange running in your company. Or maybe you’ve switched to Gmail for private use and are deciding whether it would suit your whole business.

• Taken over by aliens? Don't worry; Google has it covered

  Imagine what would happen if all the Google engineers turned rogue and held the world’s Gmail accounts to ransom. Or if aliens attacked earth and wiped California off the map.

• Data stored in the Cloud safer than desktop: Google US

  More enterprises will shift data into the Cloud as the service becomes more secure and physical data continues to be compromised, according to Google Apps US director of security, Eran Feigenbaum.

• RMIT goes Google, says no to Microsoft's Cloud

  RMIT has moved its 74,000 students to Google as part of a long-term Cloud computing strategy.

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  Office 365: Microsoft's Google gamble in the Cloud

  In a challenge to Google Apps’ recent domination in the enterprise, Microsoft is banking on the devily-you-know attitude of many IT departments in launching its Microsoft Office 365 Cloud suite.

• Australian developers take advantage of Google's Cloud

  The Cloud has offered businesses of all types a chance to streamline IT and find new efficiencies, and now it has created a new channel for Australian developers to distribute their products. One Australian developer who has found this to be the case is Perth-based Anthony Smith, who has used Google's Apps Marketplace to distribute his hosted CRM solution, Insightly.