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Forget Web 2.0 and anything else 2.0. Zmanda, the open source backup specialist, is pitching Zmanda Cloud Backup (ZCB) 3.0. Zmanda certainly has plenty of competition when it comes to online backup. But the company says ZCB 3.0 includes enhanced geography control across datacenters on three continents, optimized Microsoft Exchange data backup, bandwidth management, and cloud-based disaster recovery. And it drops the overall price, too. Here’s the scoop.

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ManageEngine has launched Exchange Reporter Plus, a tool that apparently makes it easier for Exchange administrators to plan, control and manage email resources. Here are some quick details.

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A tipster sent a link to Watercooler Suite our way. It’s an intriguing offering that potentially shows peer MSPs how to price, brand and market their managed services to small businesses. The pitch: for as little as $129 per per month, Watercooler Suite will deliver managed Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, cloud storage, antivirus, spam filtering, mobile device support, and a laundry list of other common business needs, all through the cloud. Here’s the scoop.

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Hosted services provider Rackspace Hosting is updating its Hybrid Email solution, a self-described “custom mix of Hosted Microsoft Exchange and the business-focused Rackspace Email platform on a single domain. The goal is to enhance the calendar view across the two component parts. The update also strives to speed up the Rackspace webmail client. Here’s the scoop.

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The timing is a little suspect in the wake of the Monday’s Apple iPhone 4 presentation, but Microsoft has laid out the business case for Windows Phone 7, the latest version of their mobile operating system, in a blog entry that touts its integration with, what else, Microsoft products and services. Here’s the lowdown.

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Google continues its merciless PR campaign against Microsoft as it announces that two billion e-mail messages have been migrated from other platforms onto Google Apps by way of their bevy of tools designed to do just that. Given that Google’s the source of that impressive statistic, it’s important to keep things in perspective. But here’s why services providers should pay attention anyway.

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Managed messaging and collaboration provider Azaleos Corporation dropped MSPmentor a line to let us know that they’ve recently closed a deal with the US Government to provide managed Microsoft Exchange 2010 services for 20,000 seats at the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Here’s the scoop.

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While Google already offered tools to help administrators migrate Exchange and Lotus Notes data to the Google Apps platform, there wasn’t much for end-users do the same. Until now, that is, with the launch of Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Outlook, designed to help users get their stuff from Microsoft’s mail client onto Google’s cloud quickly and painlessly. Here are the details.

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Hosted email specialist Intermedia says it has experienced explosive growth in its Exchange 2010 customer base — and a spokesperson says that these numbers represent proof that Intermedia is leading Exchange’s charge against Google Apps. Here’s the scoop.

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Some chatter from the managed messaging and collaboration market: Azaleos is updating their managed Microsoft SharePoint services next week to include the 2010 version of the popular collaboration platform — and they’re launching alongside a new managed file transfer (MFT) service that reduces bandwidth and storage burdens on large Microsoft Exchange attachments. Here’s the scoop.

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Azaleos Corp., the managed messaging and collaboration provider, has released the results of a study that finds that 44% of companies with 1,000 seats or more plan a move to Microsoft Exchange 2010 in the next 18 months. Here’s what Azaleos has to say about the stats.

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Back in February, I wrote on our sister site The VAR Guy that unified communications (UC) provider Alteva was going to release an integrated solution that combined their hosted VoIP products with the Microsoft Communications Services suite. Well, now that product’s a reality, and they’re aiming it at enterprises with less than 25 seats. Here’s an overview.

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As if RIM didn’t already have enough to worry about, Apple has unveiled the iPhone OS 4.0 — and it’s adding enough new features for enterprise users, including mobile device management and SSL VPN support, that BlackBerry doesn’t seem like the only game in town anymore. Here’s what MSPs should know.

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Datacastle and FiberCloud are partnering to promote cloud backup, recovery and data protection offerings. The move leverage’s Datacastle’s RED business resiliency solution and FiberCloud’s data center services. Here are more details.

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It’s common knowledge that managed service providers can leverage multiple tools during a Google Apps migration. But now, we’re starting to spot quite a few upstarts that are betting their businesses on Google Apps migrations and Google Apps-to-Microsoft Office integrations. Here’s a quick look at Cloud Technology Solutions and OffiSync, two companies with very different approaches to helping MSPs go Google.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Roughly 175 solutions providers are gathering in Chicago this week for the Ingram Micro Seismic Partner Conference, which runs August 11 through 13.

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