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Atos (EPA:ATO) is banning email, because it's like ''industrial pollution.'' Yes, it's this crazy idea again. The large French company wants to move communication onto other media. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers scratch their heads.

Atos (formerly Atos Origin) has announced that it's abandoning its use of email. Seriously? A $13 billion company that operates in 42 countries is going to stop using email? That's the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard. I'll tell you why, in The Long View...
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Not so very long ago, there was a lot of talk in the market about Exchange alternatives -- software products that worked in a similar way to Microsoft Exchange. I was reminded of this by some news that crossed my desk yesterday. Is this still an interesting market, or is the battle long lost? Let's see, in The Long View...
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Salesforce.com is readying a mobile app version of its business social networking and collaboration tool, Chatter. It'll soon be available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and RIM BlackBerry devices. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder "Facebook for the enterprise". Not to mention a BSOD rhyme...
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Google has waved goodbye to Wave, its all-in-one collaboration tool. It turns out that few people were using it -- what a shocker. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wave goodbye (so insecure, you see). Not to mention the dangers of pre-release placeholders...
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This is a followup post to last week's series about how Microsoft IT built an unusual Exchange message store architecture. Some folks are assuming that the SAS -- serial attached SCSI -- drives referred to in the first post are the relatively expensive, 2.5" 15K RPM type. They're not...

Got Microsoft Exchange? Earlier, I started talking about how, at its Tech-Ed IT-fest, Microsoft last week offered some fascinating insights into its internal use of Exchange. Today, I'll talk about how Microsoft IT has ditched traditional tape-based backup, in favor of cheap disk arrays. Read on to learn more...

Got Microsoft Exchange? Earlier, I started talking about how, at its Tech-Ed IT-fest, Microsoft last week offered some fascinating insights into its internal use of Exchange. Today, I'll talk about how Microsoft IT has ditched traditional high availability: using no RAID or clustering. Read on to learn more...

Got Microsoft Exchange Server in your shop? Well listen up: last week, at its Tech-Ed IT fest, Microsoft offered some fascinating insights into its internal use of Exchange. Notably, from a storage and high-availability perspective. Microsoft IT's 'dogfood' projects often have important lessons for other users of the company's products, and Exchange is no exception. Read on to learn more...

The long-awaited Google Wave collaboration tool is open for 100,000 invited beta -- sorry: preview -- users. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers hope they get their invitations to the party, but will they waive their rights to privacy? Not to mention Carl Sagan sings...
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What the heck is Google Wave and what are people saying about it? In this IT Blogwatch Extra, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch the Wave wow-fest. Not to mention a live demo of an antique modem from 1964...
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Google has taken the best features of all its most notable online apps and rolled them all into one new collaboration and communication tool called Wave. It's under a spotlight -- and microscope -- this week at Google's I/O developer conference but the rest of us will have to cool our heels for a few months before it's released into the wild to be poked and prodded by the public.

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