Over on the official Google Enterprise Blog, the search giant announced Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, a server-side tool that migrates contacts, messages, and calendars from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. The migration tool is similar to offerings from Open-Xchange, Zimbra and other email upstarts. What comes next for VARs and MSPs? Here are some thoughts.
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Google’s Microsoft Exchange Migration Tool: What Comes Next?
Posted March 18th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
The Cloud As Strategic Imperative
Posted March 14th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
When I wrote about the wait-and-see attitude managed Exchange provider Azaleos was taking to the cloud back in December 2009, I got a lot of feedback from MSPs on both sides of the argument. I recently caught up with Azaleos VP of Marketing and Product Management Scott Gode, and he says that while the company’s not giving up on on-premises messaging by a long shot, they’ve seen a rise in demand for their managed hybrid Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) services. Here’s why services providers should care.
RIM to Offer Free Version of BlackBerry Enterprise Server
Posted February 17th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
In March 2010, SMBs will be able to get in on the push-messaging action with BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express, a totally free offering that will help connect employees’ BlackBerries to Microsoft Exchange or Windows Small Business Server. Here’s what MSPs should know.
NaviSite Prepares Hosted Lotus Services
Posted January 18th, 2010 by Matthew Weinberger
As Microsoft and Lotus restart a 15-year-old turf war, the Lotusphere 2010 conference is in full swing. Among the first pieces of news: NaviSite, an enterprise hosting provider, plans to offer Lotus applications in their NaviCloud managed cloud application platform. Here’s the scoop.
New Mind Group: Why We Chose Google Apps
Posted December 28th, 2009 by Matthew Weinberger
It started in 2007: New Mind Group, purveyors of managed services to SMBs in the greater Kalamazoo, Mich. area, began to run into severe scalability issues with traditional Microsoft Exchange installations. As businesses grew, so did their computing needs, but they didn’t have the money or facilities to grow proportionately. That’s when New Mind Group decided to help blaze a trail now being followed by the city of Los Angeles and go to Google Apps.
Azaleos Expands to Managed SharePoint Services
Posted April 23rd, 2009 by John Moore
Azaleos made its name managing Microsoft Exchange environments. Now, the managed service provider is taking a similar path with Microsoft SharePoint. Here are the details.
Open-Xchange: Disrupting Hosted Microsoft Exchange?
Posted December 12th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
Open-Xchange, which makes open source groupware, is quietly gaining momentum with European managed service providers and solutions providers that are moving into the hosting market.
Ingram Micro Seismic Partner Conference: 3 Managed Services Trends
Posted August 11th, 2008 by Joe Panettieri
Roughly 175 solutions providers are gathering in Chicago this week for the Ingram Micro Seismic Partner Conference, which runs August 11 through 13.
Five Reasons Microsoft Will Get SaaS Right
Posted July 8th, 2008 by The VAR Guy
Is software as a service (SaaS) killing Microsoft? Hardly. Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division, is expected to discuss SaaS during his July 8 keynote at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. But even before Elop takes the stage, here are five reasons why Microsoft won’t lose the SaaS wars.
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