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		<title>Google vs California &#8211; do we fear change or just like what we&#8217;ve got?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article in the LA Times talks about how Google is accusing the State of California of &#8216;rigging&#8217; the choice of a replacement email system for the State. In brief Arnie&#8217;s government is going to replace the hundreds of current email systems in use across the State with one, centralised system which everyone will use. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/general/google-vs-california-do-we-fear-change-or-just-like-what-weve-got/</link>
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		<title>Small Businesses are loving the Cloud &#8211; but is it ready for them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Small Businesses are very keen to move to the use of on-line services, &#8220;The Cloud&#8221;, to support their business. And it&#8217;s easy to understand why. There&#8217;s an overhead to running IT, even if you&#8217;re only a 5-man outfit. There are applications to be bought and updated, there&#8217;s an email system to be maintained, there&#8217;s file-servers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/cloud/small-businesses-are-loving-the-cloud-but-is-it-ready-for-them/</link>
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		<title>Office 2010 &#8211; When is a free cloud app not a free cloud app?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The web new sites and blogoshpere are full of it, the &#8220;titanic&#8221; battle between Microsoft and Google for the business Cloud. Google have recently ticked a security box by becoming FISMA approved for their Google Apps suite, but have struggled to meet timelines for implementation and adoption in LA. Microsoft are banging the BPOS / [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/general/office-2010-when-is-a-free-cloud-app-not-a-free-cloud-app/</link>
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		<title>Authentication Interoperability &#8211; don&#8217;t fear the outside world.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As hosters it&#8217;s very easy to be mildly (or even agressively) paranoid. Historically everyone out there was trying to take your customers away from you and it was important that you provided everything that they, your customers, needed so that their eyes didn&#8217;t stray. Today&#8217;s Internet / Web landscape is very different though. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/general/authentication-interoperability-dont-fear-the-outside-world/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Cloud&#8221; &#8211; Secure AND Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two articles caught my eye over the last couple of days, for different reasons. Cloud Is More Secure Denis Martin wrote a very good article about how it is possible, using layered techniques, to build an enviroment using Cloud technologies which is more secure that would be possible in-house. Here&#8217;s the summary: Cloud Is More [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/general/cloud-secure-and-green/</link>
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		<title>Ask, don&#8217;t tell &#8211; meeting customer needs.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It used to be the case that hosters and providers of online services provided their products in neatly defined buckets. They called them &#8220;Product options&#8221; but in reality it was simply a way of defining price points and keeping up with (or overtaking) the competition who were all doing the same thing. With &#8220;Cloud&#8221; or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/hosting/ask-dont-tell-meeting-customer-needs/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Developer seeks Cloud for application&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Must have good long term prospects, be flexible and able to cope with reasonable demands. Ability to to grow to suit demand is a must, as is a stable and reliable environment for my application. A solid SLA is a must&#8221; I&#8217;m not expecting to see ad&#8217;s in the dating pages just yet, but there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/general/developer-seeks-cloud-for-application/</link>
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		<title>The big numbers are starting to roll for On-line Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The reported &#8216;battle&#8217; between Microsoft and Google for the delivery of on-line services saw Microsoft chalk up another win this week, as the university of Arizona chose the Microsoft On-Line services solution for it&#8217;s 18,000 seats. This is a significant &#8216;win&#8217; and shows that when the decisions are made it&#8217;s not only about pricing &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/general/the-big-numbers-are-starting-to-roll-for-on-line-services/</link>
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		<title>IaaS &#8220;Clouds&#8221; are rolling in.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The momentum is growing and the technologies are becoming more and more abstracted. I love both of these things and I&#8217;m going to tell you why. The number of Service Providers offering &#8216;proper&#8217; services is growing, by proper services I mean those which offer a valuable use for the technologies underneath without selling those technologies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/general/iaas-clouds-are-rolling-in/</link>
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		<title>Hosting Summit 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw Microsoft&#8217;s annual get-together of hosters and partners from around the world in Bellevue, Washington. A move of venue up the road to the Hyatt Regency was, in my opinion, a good move as everything seemed a little more accessible and open than previously. I had been invited to take part in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hosting-thoughts.com/hosting/hosting-summit-2010/</link>
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