Advantages and drawbacks of both ‘cloud-’ and ‘ground’ computing

Wednesday 15 April 2009 | 10:39 AM CET   UK cable and mobile operator Virgin Media said it will offer enhanced email services to its four million home broadband customers in partnership with Google. The operator’s new email service will offer customers over 7 GB of storage and @virginmedia.com email addresses for the first time. ..read more

Written by Richard MacManus / January 6, 2009 6:30 PM  A new report from Forrester presents a cost analysis of cloud-based email systems in enterprises, such as Google Apps or Yahoo!’s Zimbra. In the report, Forrester argues that cloud-based email services are cheaper than running email on-premise for all companies with less than 15,000 employees. [...]