Posted by Stephanie O'Neill on Wed, Nov 18, 2009 @ 11:39 AM
Have you ever moved only to discover that your current service providers don't serve your new neighborhood? (I have - more than once - and it's an extremely frustrating experience!) Instead of simply taking your services with you, you are forced to start from scratch, often foregoing features you once enjoyed, losing history with a provider, experiencing higher costs, etc. But you have no choice. It's all or nothing.
What I love about our recently announced archiving support for cloud email is the freedom of choice it offers our clients and potential clients. We don't believe in locking you into a solution without any flexibility if your circumstances change. As the old adage goes, change is constant.
But one thing is certain: if you archive your email with LiveOffice, it will still be there, safe and sound, if you need to switch email service providers or decide to move your email to the cloud, as many companies are doing in this day and age. Not only do we support on-premise solutions (Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes and Sendmail), but we are also the first email archiving provider to support all the major cloud-based email providers, including Microsoft Exchange Online, Cisco WebEx Mail, Google Apps and Intermedia. And if, for whatever reason, you need to move your email archive in house, we support that, too.
Ah, a collective sigh of relief ...
Posted by Joe Diamond on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 @ 07:32 PM
Giant Google Gallantly Gallops Gingerly Toward Ginormicism. Say that five times fast! (Patent pending on my fabricated word "ginormicism.")
Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware of Google's penetration into a market that has been historically dominated by the Microsoft Office suite. Google Apps, in general, has taken noticeable strides (see L.A. Times) in giving Microsoft a run for its money. While this isn't a proverbial David vs. Goliath tale (it's more like Goliath vs. Goliath), it'll sure be interesting to see whether or not Google will continue to trespass deeper into Bill Gates' enterprise territory.
As Google Apps' market share continues to expand (which includes web-based communication, collaboration and security), one thing is clear - there's room in the cloud for more than one hosted enterprise messaging vendor. Ultimately, and as Nick spoke of in a recent post, it all comes down to choice. That's why we've recently announced our hosted archiving technology which fully integrates with Google Apps.
Read more about our CloudMerge technology and our integration with Google Apps here.
Posted by Amy Dugdale on Wed, Oct 07, 2009 @ 12:51 PM
Once in awhile, a blog post rolls around that is so profound, you can't help but blog about it. Eric Knorr - you rock. The excerpt from your entry that follows below is simply poetic -
It's time for e-mail to go. Out of the datacenter, pronto. Get the hand trucks, hold the door, and roll those mail servers outta here. Email is a storage hog, a time-suck to manage, a compliance liability, and about the least strategic thing imaginable. It's one of the few "services" that seems absolutely perfect for the cloud: a commodity with a well-known, pedestrian set of expectations. Please, let somebody else handle it.
And, then there's this ...
I just want e-mail to be isolated as an enterprise-class cloud service, with all the modern archiving and anti-spam and compliance features you could ask for and a massively scalable underlying server infrastructure IT never has to worry about. Why is that so hard? Yes, I know some companies can't outsource messaging for compliance reasons. But for everyone else, the time has come to show e-mail the door.
This all sounds familiar ... we hear the same thing from many of our clients each day. They are done managing email and archiving on-premise. If there's one service they're willing to move into the cloud - it's email - and understandably so.
On a related note, we're excited to see IBM throwing their hat into the cloud email ring with the intro of their new Lotus Live iNotes offering. Dear Lotus Notes -- Welcome to the cloud! There's plenty of room and the view is good. -- Sincerely, Your Friends at LiveOffice