Forrester : Case Study: Learning From GlaxoSmithKline's Cloud-Based Email Decision Process

GlaxoSmithKline already in January announced they plan tp save up to 30% on their Communication and Collaboration infrastructure costs by moving from Lotus Notes/Domino to Microsoft Online Services.

Forrester created a research paper on this that provides more background. Very interesting read for this still on Lotus Notes :

Executive Summary

GlaxoSmithKline is moving approximately 90,000 email users to Microsoft's Exchange Online, a cloud-delivered service. To make the decision, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) went through a rigorous internal discovery process to calculate costs, find dependencies, and analyze its workforce. The result is that GSK is able to optimize its messaging and collaboration platform to meet the full range of its end users' requirements — while saving on its ongoing costs. To make your own cloud-based opportunity, learn from GSK's experience and: 1) analyze your workforce needs; 2) tier your workforce to optimize costs; and 3) calculate your own fully loaded costs.

Continue at source : Forrester.com

The Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging (MOSDAL) support toolkit

Yet another new acronym MOSDAL. But certainly one that can come in handy when you’re having issues with Microsoft Online Services :

The KB artcle explains it all and includes the download link to the tool as well ..

The MOSDAL support toolkit performs network diagnostics and collects system configuration, network configuration, and logging information for service-based products. The logs that the tool generates provide data that helps technical support professionals troubleshoot configuration, network, installation, and other service-related issues. MOSDAL collects log files, registry keys, and configuration settings that would otherwise require time-consuming and labor-intensive collection by using separate tools.
This article contains the following information about the MOSDAL support toolkit:

• Download location
• System requirements
• Installation use instructions
• Toolkit functionality

Source: Michttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/960625rosoft.com

Microsoft opens 'mega data centre' in Dublin

Yet another milestone in Microsoft’s rollout of Online Strategy. Microsoft will open a new data centre in Dublin tomorrow, the first one of its size outside the US, for its cloud computing and online services.

Microsoft is set to open its first “mega data centre” outside of the US in Dublin tomorrow to help support its Online Live and Cloud services.

The project was slowed down earlier this year due to financial constraints in the company, but recovery throughout the year has lead to the summer opening of this 303,000 square foot building.

It was announced by Arne Josefsberg, general manager of Infrastructure Services for the Global Foundation Services at Microsoft, via a blog.

He said: “We take great pride in the innovations [the data centres] deliver to move the data centre industry forward and to extend Microsoft’s online services to customers globally. As the company’s Software-plus-Services strategy progresses, these data centres will play a key supporting role.”

Josefsberg also said: “The facility makes extensive use of outside air economisation to cool the facility year round, resulting in greater power efficiency with a resultant reduction in carbon footprint.”

Later in July, the company will also be launching another mega data centre in Chicago.

Source: Microsoft opens 'mega data centre' in Dublin

Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools (32|64 bit)

The migrations tool to migrate Microsoft Exchange mailboxes onto Microsoft Online Services has been updated :

Use the Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools to forward copies of your Exchange Server mail to your Exchange Online mailboxes. You can also use the Migration Tools to copy content from your Exchange Server, POP3, or IMAP4 e-mail server mailboxes to your Exchange Online mailboxes. This product intended for use with Microsoft Online Services only.

Source: Migration Tools (32 bit) / Migration Tools (64 bit)

Comments on my blog require review (for now) due to spammers

For the second consequtive day a spammer has posted up to 30 comments promoting shoes of a certain brand ... Don't you just hate that ?

So for now I have turned the review feature for comments on .. ofcourse all normal comments will be published asap; unless you're selling shoes ...

‘Vertrek en Ontdek’ te gast bij Microsoft: Een reis naar je eigen online wereld en die van anderen

Leuk ! A.s. dinsdag is Sigrid van der Hoeven te gast bij ons met een nieuw inititiatief : ‘Vertrek en Ontdek’ Ik ga mee op ‘reis’ die dag, mijn koffer is al gepakt :-) …

In mijn rol als reisleider bij Vertrek&Ontdek organiseer ik dinsdag 30 juni mijn allereerste dagtrip, van 13.00 tot 17.00 uur in het Microsoft kantoor op Schiphol.

Deze dagtrip gaat in op diverse aspecten van het internet, handig om te weten voor iedere professional. Online netwerken, personal branding en online reputatiemanagement: internet als hulpmiddel.

De reis eindigt met een sightseeing door het innovatieve, inspirerende hoofdkantoor van Microsoft Nederland met spectaculair uitzicht op de vertrekkende en ontdekkende vliegtuigen.

Bron: Een reis naar je eigen online wereld en die van anderen

Radicati: EMEA Hosted Email Market projected to grow to 564M mailboxes by 2013

Impressive growth ahead in the coming years for Hosted Email in Emea :

… The Radicati Group, Inc.'s latest study, "EMEA Hosted Email Market, 2009-2013," provides an in-depth look at all segments of the European Hosted Email market, including: ISP/Webmail email, Hosted Business Email, and Managed Business Email.

According to the study, the installed base of hosted email mailboxes in EMEA is expected to grow from 398 M mailboxes in 2009, to 564M mailboxes by 2013. Growth is driven by increased broadband Internet availability across the region, lower prices and better bundling of premium services. Businesses, throughout EMEA, are also taking renewed interest in hosted business email solutions as a way to reduce costs in a tight economy. This is reinforced by the increased availability of low-cost, full-featured messaging and collaboration suites from Microsoft, Google and others.

The study provides an analysis of leading EMEA market players: 1&1/GMX, Arcor, Arsys, BT, Cobweb, Colt, Free, Global SP, Jazztel, Jet Multimedia, Mamut ASA/Active 24, Orange Business Services, Register.it, T-Home/T-Systems, Telecom Italia, Versatel, and others. …

Source: Radicati.com

New BPOS Whitepaper: Microsoft Online Services Business Value

This paper discusses how Microsoft® Online Services, subscription-based online communication and collaboration services, can free information technology resources and bring value to your business.

… Microsoft® Online Services provide businesses with subscription-based Microsoft-hosted online services that offer access to rich communication, collaboration, and productivity applications from anywhere. This hosted solution helps organizations reduce the costs of managing and maintaining business systems, which frees information technology resources and enables staff to focus on initiatives that can deliver competitive advantage to the business. This paper discusses the value that Online Services can bring to your business. …

Source and download: Microsoft Online Services Business Value

Microsoft Project Natal – sell your WII while you can :-)

… One of the biggest announcements at Microsoft's E3 keynote was Project Natal, an ambitious project using camera tech developed by 3DV. The keynote promo video shows off many planned uses for the new peripheral, running the gamut from something as simple as beating up an old, feeble man, to complex voice recognition and scanning features. It's ambitious, to say the least, and only time will tell if the company can pull it off …

Check out the video :

Source : joystiq.com

Frontier Technology and Binary Tree Collaborate to Offer Weekend Express Migrations to Microsoft Online to the European Market

Now also available in Europe: Weekend Express Migrations; migrating from Lotus Notes / Domino to Microsoft Online Services in a very fast way…

… Now European Organizations that are Running Lotus Notes Can Migrate Up To 5,000 Users to Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS Standard) In as Little as One Weekend

NEWARK, N.J., June 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Binary Tree announced today a collaborative partnership with Frontier Technology in the United Kingdom to offer Binary Tree's Weekend Express migration offering to the European market. Hosted at Frontier Technology's data center based in the UK, Weekend Express migrations will enable organizations in Europe that are running Lotus Notes to migrate up to 5,000 users to Microsoft Exchange Online and the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS Standard) in as little as one weekend.

"Our Weekend Express has been met with overwhelming demand," stated Steven Pivnik, Co-CEO at Binary Tree. "Establishing a partnership with a trusted and experienced provider of enterprise messaging solutions like Frontier Technology will help make this offer available to more customers in Europe."

Frontier Technology's Weekend Express data center team will perform a pre-weekend initial briefing, a pre-weekend environmental audit and the migration itself all the while guiding customers through every step of Binary Tree's proven, best-practices methodology for migrations from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange Online. Considering Frontier Technology's extensive knowledge of Symantec's Enterprise Vault offering, Frontier Technology will also provide customers with the option of archiving the portion of their mail store they elect not to migrate to Microsoft Exchange Online.

"We are very excited about collaborating with Binary Tree," stated Edwin Wong, Managing Director at Frontier Technology. "The Weekend Express offering is a perfect addition to our capabilities and will help our Lotus Notes customer base take advantage of Microsoft's Cloud Computing Offering." …

Source: PRNewswire.com

Microsoft Live@EDU : Vragen over Outlook Live? Hier zijn de antwoorden …

Een blogpost van Remco Ploeg die de moeite waard is om te herhalen .. Outlook Live is de nieuwste propssitie binnen de Microsoft Live@EDU familie; een gratis 10GB Microsoft Exchange mailbox voor elke student en/of medewerker van een educatie instelling .. Voor gebruikers / administrators is er nu een nieuwe resource : http://outlookliveanswers.com/

Dan heeft Microsoft een nieuwe website gelanceerd waar je als gebruiker vragen kan stellen over dit onderwerp.

http://outlookliveanswers.com/

Hieronder een stukje uit de bekendmaking.

We are pleased to announce the release of Outlook Live Answers.  This forum and blog site provides Live@edu Outlook Live administrators and end-users with a friendly “Q&A” forum to quickly find answers to their questions and for administrators to get dynamic information about their Outlook Live service.

The site complements our help.outlook.com product documentation and will extend and replace our chalktalk DL. Instead of dispersing information in DLs, use of the forum by you and your student, faculty, and alumni end users will enable us to build a knowledge base that is available 24 hours a day.  There is also an administrator section, so you can continue to connect with your peers on administrative issues just as you do today on chalktalk. 

One particular exciting feature is a new Status and Alert system used to notify Outlook Live customers of service issues.   This update, located at http://outlookliveanswers.com/servicestatus.aspx, replaces the manual external blog approach we have previously used and allows us deliver targeted service information about your specific account

Bron: Vragen over Outlook Live?

Security Features in Microsoft Online Services

New document on the security features of Microsoft Online Services:

… This white paper describes how the Microsoft concern for security, as defined in the Trustworthy Computing initiative, has driven key features in the design, deployment, and operation of the Microsoft Online Services environment.
The Business Productivity Online Suite is a set of subscription-based enterprise software services hosted by Microsoft and sold with partners. The services operate within a complete ecosystem of features and capabilities designed to meet and in many cases to exceed the security and availability goals that you have for your business applications. …

Download : Microsoft.com

Bing …

Radicati : Hosted UC market $5 Billion by 2013

Hosting / Online Services are certainly an accelerator for Unified Communications; According to Radicati Group the revenue size will double in the the coming 4 years ..

.. The latest study by The Radicati Group, Inc., "Hosted Unified Communications Market, 2009-2013," provides an in-depth analysis including installed base and revenue market share by vendor, four-year forecasts, and breakouts by region and business size.

The Hosted Unified Communications market is comprised of services that offer integrated voice, messaging, collaboration, and presence capabilities that can be easily accessed and managed through a single interface. This study looks at two key market segments: Hosted UC Providers, and Telecom UC Providers.

The study provides an analysis of a broad range of Hosted UC Providers, including: Apptix, AT&T, CallTower, Cypress Communications, Hutchinson 3G, Intelliverse, Intermedia, LightEdge Solutions, Microsoft, NTT DoCoMo, Onebox, Orange SA, Skype Technologies, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Telus, USA.NET, Verizon Communications, Vodafone and others.

The Hosted UC market is showing strong growth with revenues expected to reach $2.3 billion in 2009, and growing to nearly $5 billion by 2013. …

Source : http://www.radicati.com

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