'GAFYD' Category
“The promise of Google Apps includes a shrinking IT staff”
ArsTechnica article on GAFYD implementations resulting in a loss of IT jobs in universities.
Comments section of the article worth a read, too. More positive GAFYD comments there than I usually see. Some cite corporations as the next target, but that will be more difficult (at least until the GAFYD-using college students graduate and move along [...]Google/Postini web filtering solution
Just learned about this Thursday evening. Apparently it is being announced as a solution for mobile users, and there has been a Postini-based web filtering solution for some time. Beats me. Isn’t part of GAFYD.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/web.html
I don’t care much about the mobile part for my environment, but I’ll try to learn more about it. I’m tempted [...]What is keeping me busy lately (library stuff)
Earlier this week, I particpated in a session about Google Apps for Your Domain at Ohio’s Tech Connections 2.0.0.8 with David Popeck (Lakewood Public Library) and Don Yarman (Delaware County District Library). We only had 45 minutes, and I wish we had it to do over again, but I hope the attendees got something from [...]
GAFYD - early notes from an administrator
My organization of approximately 13o users has been “live” on the Premium edition of Google Apps for Your Domain for several weeks now. Overall, I’m pleased with our transition from another hosted mail service. We moved with minimal disruption. Though we provided less hands-on training than I would have liked, staff seem to have taken [...]
A busy week: fiber, GYFYD
I haven’t written much lately, partly because I have been very busy with some exciting new initiatives at work, and partly because I’ve been lazy.
Today we lit a fiber optic connection between our Hamilton buildings (Hamilton Lane Library and our Admin Center.) A building formerly limited in bandwidth by a single T-1 line (1.54mb) [...]
