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Did you know moving to Google Apps can save your company money over having your own internal server? Using the Google can save your company money on its IT infrastructure. Want to know how...ask the city of Los Angeles. LA has moved 34,000 e-mail accounts to Google Apps. The cost savings they see over all with a 5 year contract is 5.5 minion dollars. 

Proven cost savings

Google's web-based messaging and collaboration apps require no hardware or software and need minimal administration, creating tremendous time and cost savings for businesses. End users can use the familiar Microsoft Outlook interface for email, contacts and calendar as they transition to Gmail and Google Calendar. A leading research firm found that Google Apps is as little as 1/3 the total cost of competing solutions.

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50 times more storage than the industry average

Each employee gets 25 GB for email storage, so they can keep important messages and find them instantly with built-in Google search.

Gmail is designed so employees can spend less time managing their inboxes, and more time being productive. Time-saving features like message threading, message labels, fast message search and powerful spam filtering help employees work efficiently with high volumes of email.

Mobile email, calendar and IM access

With several options for accessing their information while on the go, employees can be productive with Google Apps even when they're not at their desks.

At no extra charge, Google Apps supports over-the-air mobile access on BlackBerry devices, the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android and many less powerful phones. Learn more

99.9% uptime reliability guarantee with synchronous replication 

We guarantee that Google Apps will be available at least 99.9% of the time, so your employees are more productive and so you can worry less about system downtime. (Google Apps Premier Edition only)

With synchronous replication, your data and activity in Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Sites is simultaneously preserved in multiple secure data centers. If one data center is unable to serve your requests, the system is designed to instantly fall back to another data center that can serve your account with no interruption in service.

The Radicati Group found that Microsoft Exchange typically has 60 minutes of unplanned downtime per month. Google Apps customers typically experience less than 15 minutes of downtime per month. Read more

Information security and compliance

When you trust your company's information to Google, you can be confident that your critical information is safe and secure.

Google's information security team, including some of the world’s foremost experts in information, application and network security, are focused on keeping your information safe. Google and many other customers trust this system with highly sensitive corporate data. Learn more

Businesses get these customizable security features with Google Apps:

• Custom spam and inbound mail filtering tools, powered by Postini, to complement powerful spam filters that automatically work with no up-front configuration.
• Custom outbound mail filtering tools to prevent sensitive information from being distributed, powered by Postini.
• Custom information sharing rules to determine how broadly employees are allowed to share with Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Sites.
• Custom password length requirements and visual strength indicators to help employees pick secure passwords.
• Enforced SSL connections with Google Apps to ensure secure HTTPS access.
• Optional email archiving, up to 10 years of retention.

Ever wonder why your computer is running slower than it did when your first got it from the store? 99% of the time this is caused by programs starting up and running in the background. These programs are installed when you install new applications.  Below we will show you the best methods for removing unwanted startup programs.

One of the first steps to speeding up your computer is to remove those programs. You can do this easily with a program built into Windows called "MSConfig" MSConfig is a utility that allows you to remove startup programs from your computer.

Step 1. Login with your administrative account on Windows XP, VISTA, 7.

Step 2. Press the Windows Key + R (Windows Key can be found between the CTRL and ALT keys on your keyboard)

You will see a box simular to the one below.

Step 3. Type in msconfig in the space next to "Open" and press OK.

After you press OK the System Configuration Utility will open.

Select the Startup Tab

Uncheck the programs you do not want to startup. (Do not worry if you turn off a program you need. You can always turn it back on by going to MSConfig again)

After you hit Apply and OK it will ask for you to restart. You can select exit without start until you're ready to restart.

Once your computer comes back on you will see a box saying changes have been made to your system. Check do not show this message again and press OK. It might open the MSConfig Utility. Press the X at the top of the box to close.

Laris Technologies is not liable for issues caused by this tutorial. Use at your own risk