Changes to Google storage plans - 100 GB for $1.99 USD per month
Just receivedChanges to your Google storage plan We're contacting you because you currently pay for additional storage across Google Drive, Gmail and Google+ photos, and we wanted to let you know that...
View ArticleGoogle Groups access on Google Apps for Business
Someone invited my parents-in-law to a Google group. The problem is that their email address is a Google Apps for Business account and as soon as they try to access the group they get a message "You...
View ArticleGoogle password hijack spam warning
A large number of password hijack spam got through the gmail spam filter this morning. All from known addresses. It is a mail with one or two random words and 'I've sent you a message' and a 'view...
View ArticleCreative cloud for teams and discount for CS3 upgrade
Has anyone bought an old copy of CS3 to get the cheaper price for 2 years?Will be having to get several new staff at work using it, so the current single person on 2 computers plan isnt suitable.So if...
View ArticleHow accepting are you with cloud services?
I am using a few cloud services on top of my 2 internal HDDs and a external HDD but I only store meaningless emails, insurance policies,various excel files like electricity cost comparisons, our power...
View ArticleWindows Azure - Can I sign up for a Small Windows server but put SQL express...
As the topic says I want to run a single hosted Application that uses SQL for its database. Sql express would be fine. The cost for a small windows box is about $85-90 a month depending on how much...
View ArticleCDN with a node in New Zealand?
My manager has asked me to look into CDNs, with one of the requirements being that there should be a New Zealand nodeIs webdrive the only option?I've done a quick search and it looks like Akamai might,...
View ArticleEmail Hosting in NZ
Can anyone recommend a local email host with a good web frontend? This would be an alternative to Google Apps, something along the lines of Zarafa
View ArticleCloud Storage for Small Businesses
Can anyone recommend a cloud storage provider for a small business... mainly for backing up CAD data?
View ArticleSugarsync users out there?
Does anyone use sugarsync at all?I'm particularlly interested in using them just as a backup for our photos.Their gallery works well, which means you can view all your photos on the web as well as on...
View ArticleNo more custom domains on Windows Live / Outlook.com
For those that don't already know Microsoft has stopped accepting new registrations for custom domains on their Windows Live / Outlook.com service.According to Mike Schackwitz, Principal Group Program...
View ArticleCloud Storage
Hi there,I have a few private cloud storage servers installed for a networking project and i was wonder how you would go about performance testing it. how would i simulate enough users connecting to...
View ArticleGoogle sms verification codes - why/how?
I signed into an account with google docs and was prompted to send a verification code to my mobile. I did this time. But also there is a 'skip' function which I often use, and I can access the account...
View ArticleCloud Back - Incremental Control
Hi All,I have been using Carbonite for a number of people - and its quite nice.I however now have a user that needs to have regular incremental backups (versioning if you like) of files, maybe every 1...
View ArticleNeed Advice: Outlook 2007 Problem
Hello, I am quite new to the cloud...I have looked around many google articles but have not found what I am looking forI have several PC's that I need to setup for people to use. Each PC uses the same...
View Articleallblacks.com down
Isn't it supposed to be hosted on azure so it can meet large traffic spikes for events like when the team lineup is released....
View ArticleIaaS, Who's doing it, looking at it? Why/Why Not?
Just wanted to kick off a discussion on IaaS. Our organisation is about to start looking at migrating an old server room which is at capacity to an IaaS provider. We've got ~250 VMs which we'll be...
View ArticleCloud does not cure all evils.
I have a client who moved one of their Line Of Business (LOB) applications to the Cloud in April after hosting it on an in-house server that we managed for 3 years. In that 3 years they had less than...
View ArticleOneDrive For business issue
Have spent approx 4.5hrs trying to get a friend/client up and running on Office 365.... and all I can say is what a nightmare.Backed up his entire system, reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch (inc all...
View ArticleList of Low End VPSs
Found this brilliant site yesterday which has a list of low end VPSs you can purchase on an annual basis including ones for $4US per year or 3Euro.http://list.lowendserv.net/index.php?reload=1Useful...
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