Re-tooling for the cloud future

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I guess that just as other industries and trades grow up and evolve, so must the IT industry.  And it’s funny saying that because IT moves so fast and seems to be evolving all the time.  But in the time I have been living and working in IT, the shift to cloud style services is probably the biggest shift since the move to Domain servers and Active Directory.

For so long the big tech industry has been telling consumers what to use.  And instead of making things easier, engineers have created software and systems which are inelegant and clumsy. Things like Domain controllers, Active Directory and Visualisation are cool but they weren't created for the end user.

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Getting Started with Google Apps for your Domain

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Google Apps is one of those excellent services that Google offers, that tends to be overlooked.  The reason is that they replace something that can cost a lot of money, and is really overkill for the small operator - an Exchange server.

Here is a great series of video's on setting up and working with Google Apps for Domains.  These should help with de-mystifying the service and its uses.  Again - showing The Cloud is the future of the IT industry.

Jason

...if it ain't Broken, make the video and explain yourself.