What is CDN- Content Delivery Network

Short for content delivery network, a network of servers that delivers a Web page to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the Web page and a content delivery server. A CDN copies the pages of a Web site to a network of servers that are dispersed at geographically different locations, caching the contents of the page. When a user requests a Web page that is part of a CDN, the CDN will redirect the request from the originating site’s server to a server in the CDN that is closest to the user and deliver the cached content. The CDN will also communicate with the originating server to deliver any content that has not been previously cached.
This service is effective in speeding the delivery of content of Web sites with high traffic and Web sites that have global reach. The closer the CDN server is to the user geographically, the faster the content will be delivered to the user. CDNs also provide protection from large surges in traffic.
The process of bouncing through a CDN is nearly transparent to the user. The only way a user would know if a CDN has been accessed is if the delivered URL is different than the URL that has been requested.

1. Faster download: Instead of going all the way to the source, visitors can download website contents stored in the nearest cache server. Cache servers replicate the exact content of the origin server, allowing visitors to download files from the nearest mirror.
2. Smoother data transmission: As data travels through a shorter distance, the chance of downloading a deteriorated audio or video file is reduced significantly. You can now provide visitors with high-quality downloadables without compromising speed.
3. Load balancing: Overcome network congestion by spreading the traffic over several mirrors. We regard constant website availability as one of the most crucial aspect of your operation. Hence, we will ensure that your website will be able to handle the traffic load at all times.
4. Content Redundancy: At times, the immediate server may not be able to function normally due to hardware malfunction or system failure. As CDN exercises content duplication, your website will continue to run smoothly even when our engineers are performing routine maintenance.
5. Constant uptime: We recognize the importance of increasing the number of unique visitors as well as encouraging repeated visits to your businesses. Make your website accessible 24/7 by having a backup server that can instantly take over the responsibilities of a faulty server.
6. Increased scalability: Expansion is simplified as modifications to website contents are made to only one server. We will gladly support the growth of your website by providing additional mirrors at the time and location of your choice.
7. Data integrity: When the source is updated, changes made to it will be copied by all of the cache servers. This enables you to guarantee the consistency of the files and information published.

Entities In Need Of CDN

Business firms, educational institutions and government bodies with offices operating in multiple countries will positively benefit from the implementation of the CDN technology. By reducing the load of the origin server, visitors from all over the world can enjoy the contents and services from your website hassle-free.


Website without Content Delivery Network (CDN)
 

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What is Google Apps?

This video explores how Google Apps increases user productivity by enabling users to quickly communicate and collaborate more efficiently and effectively.

Google Apps Email on SmartPhone

Operion's email is provided through Google's GMail.  GMail has IMAP instructions available for all users to help configure your email client.  Due to the popularity and convenience of smart phones we have put together some additional instructions and tips for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile. 

• iPhone or GMail Apps - iPhones

• Windows® Mobile

• BlackBerry®

• Android

Other Source:

• Gmail Apps: Delivered on Multiple Computers

• GMail Apps - Apple Mail 4.0 (Mail Client Setting - POP)

   

Access mail from Windows® Mobile

To take advantage of this feature, you must first enable Google Sync for your domain.

Once Google Sync is enabled for your domain, have each user follow these instructions on their Windows® Mobile device.

1. Important: Back up all contacts and calendars currently on your phone to your computer.
2. Open the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync application on your device's home screen.
3. Click set up your device to sync with it.
   
   
   
4. Enter m.google.com as the server address.
5. Ensure that the SSL option is selected.
   
   
   
6. Click Next.
7. Enter your full Google Apps email address as the User name, and then enter your password. (Leave the Domain field empty. If your device requires a domain name, enter google.)
   
   
   
8. Click Next.
9. Check Contacts, Calendar, or Email, depending on which you'd like to sync. (Tasks is not supported and will lead to an error if checked.)
10. Click Finish.
    
    
    
11. Press the Sync softkey on the left to synchronize.
    
    
    

That's it! You can now access Gmail from Windows Mobile.

Source: [Google]

Use Google Apps on an iPhone

Google Apps works great on iPhones and other iOS products, where you can access your email, contacts, and calendar using the device's built-in apps. This is easy to set up, using Google Sync.

Want quick access to your apps? Skip all this and access your apps in a moblie browser by visiting http://mail.google.com/a/operion.com.my on mobile Safari.

Step 1: Enable Google Sync for your domain

1. Go to the Settings tab above. Then select Mobile from the list of services at the left. Or just  click here.
2. Select the radio button next to Enable Google Sync.
3. Click Save changes.

Step 2: Sync an iPhone with Google Apps

After you enable Google Sync for your domain, have each user follow these instructions on their iPhone.

1. Open the Settings application on the iPhone's home screen.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account....
4. Select Microsoft Exchange.

     

5. In the Email field, enter your full Gmail address.
6. Leave the Domain field blank.
7. Enter your full Google Apps email address as the Username.
8. Enter your Google Apps password as the Password.
9. Tap Next at the top of your screen. (Choose Cancel if the Unable to Verify Certificate dialog appears.)
10. When the new Server field appears, enter m.google.com.
11. Press Next at the top of your screen again.

     

12. Select the Google Apps services (Mail, Calendar, and Contacts) you want to sync.
13. Unless you want to delete all the existing Contacts and Calendars on your phone, select the Keep on my iPhone option when prompted. This will also allow you to keep syncing with your computer via iTunes.

    To sync only the My Contacts group, you must choose to Delete Existing Contacts during the Google Sync install when prompted. If you choose to keep existing contacts, it will sync the contents of the "All Contacts" group instead. If there are no contacts on your phone, the latter will happen -- the contents of your All Contacts group will be synced.

     

That's it! You can now access Google Apps from your iPhone. If you have Push enabled on the phone, synchronization starts automatically. You can also just open the Mail, Calendar or Contacts app and wait a few seconds to start a sync.

Source: [Google]

Use Google Apps on a BlackBerry®

Use Google Apps on a BlackBerry®

You and your users have these options for accessing Google Apps from a BlackBerry®:

• BlackBerry® mail through IMAP. Use the BlackBerry's native mail application to access your Google Apps mail (requires using your BlackBerry carrier's Internet service).
• Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. Synchronize users' Google Apps mail, calendar, and contact data with your organization's existing Blackberry® Enterprise Server.

Set up BlackBerry® mail via IMAP

This method is no longer officially supported but we're happy to provide setup instructions, anyway.

You can access your mail from the native BlackBerry® mail application by setting it up as an IMAP client for your Gmail account. Using IMAP is nice in that doing something on the BlackBerry, such as reading or deleting a message, is also reflected in your Gmail interface on the web (and vice versa).

Note that with IMAP, incoming email can take up to 15 minutes to be delivered to the BlackBerry, Gmail labels don't appear on the BlackBerry®, and conversation threads appear as individual messages.

What each user should do

1. Make sure you've enabled IMAP in your Gmail account.
2. On your BlackBerry®, navigate to your home screen.
3. Select the icon that lets you set up email (this can be called Setup, Setup Wizard, Email Setup, BlackBerry® Set-up, E-mail settings, or Personal Email Set-up).
4. Follow the setup instructions provided on your device to create a new email account.
5. Be sure to enter the following:
   • Mail Server: imap.gmail.com
   • Username: [your full Gmail address (username@operion.com.my]
   • Password: [your Google Apps password]
   • IMAP Port: 993
6. Allow the system to add your account, but do not enter your Google Apps password into the utility boxes (this causes the system to default to POP3 instead of IMAP).
7. Select Next.
8. Select Next again (bypassing the Additional Information Required section).
9. Select your account type, and then select Next. You may encounter a "We were unable to configure..." error. If so, select I will provide the settings to continue.
10. Select the option that mentions IMAP/POP.
11. Select I will provide the settings..., and then select Next.
12. Select Set up existing email account...
13. Enter your Gmail account information here, with imap.gmail.com as your mail server.
14. Select Next.
15. Select Save.

When setup is successful, you receive a confirmation message, and a new mailbox icon (labeled with your Gmail address) appears on your BlackBerry®'s home screen.

Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server

Want this feature? Upgrade now to Google Apps for Business (free trial).

If you have a Blackberry® Enterprise Server at your organization and want to keep using it to manage users' BlackBerry® devices, no problem. Just use Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. With Google Apps Connector, people in your organization can keep using their built-in BlackBerry® apps to access their Google Apps email, calendar, and contacts. And administrators can keep using use your BlackBerry® Enterprise Server to manage these devices (doing remote wipes, policy management, and so on).
Learn more about Google Apps Connector for BlackBerry® Enterprise Server.

How to use Google Apps Connector for your domain

1. Download Google Apps Connector.
2. Install and set up Google Apps Connector on your BlackBerry® Enterprise Server.
3. Have each user follow these instructions to set up their BlackBerry® to connect to Google Apps.

When you're done, click Next and we'll move on to the next step.

Source: [Google]

Using Google Apps on your Android phone

Using Google Apps on an Android is really easy. Just add your Google Apps account to the phone, then select the services you want to use. Each user should follow these instructions on their own phone.

1. Open the Accounts & Sync Settings screen on your phone. You can do this in Contacts by pressing Menu and touching Accounts, or directly in the Settings application.
   
   
2. The Accounts & Sync Settings screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your current accounts.
3. Touch Add account.
4. Touch Google to add your Google Apps account.
5. Touch Sign in when prompted for your Google Account.
6. Enter your full Google Apps email address as your username, and then enter your password.
7. Select which services you'd like to sync between your phone and Google Apps.

That's it! You can now use Google Apps from your Android.

Source: [Google]

Gmail Apps: Delivered on Multiple Computers

Do you access Gmail messages on two or more computers via POP clients like Outlook or Thunderbird. The problem (or advantage) with POP access is that once an email message gets downloaded onto one computer, it is skipped by other email clients.

To explain that further – let’s say you have configured both your personal laptop and work computer to download emails from your Gmail account via POP access. Now if the emails are downloaded to the laptop first, they wont be available on your work computer (and vice-versa).

While this is a time-saving feature, your emails are split across different computers. To trick your POP client into downloading Gmail emails that are already fetched by other clients, just use the recent mode in Gmail.

Solution A:
Open your Outlook (or other POP client) and add the word “recent:” to your gmail username. That means if your gmail address is “john@gmail.com” replace that with “recent:john@gmail.com”

NOTE: This trick will also work on custom domains if you are using Google Apps with Gmail.

Solution B:

Use IMAP. POP3 isn't the only mail protocol in the world. If your mail service supports the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), you can set up your client to use that. Rather than simply downloading, IMAP syncs your local client inbox with the one on your email service's server. That way, every computer or phone you check your mail with, provided you set up IMAP on all of them, sees the same messages.

NOTE: This would requires you to recreate the account in IMAP

Preventing duplicate Gmail IMAP messages in Mail/Inbox

Click here: http://echeng.com/journal/2010/09/23/preventing-duplicate-gmail-imap-messages-in-mail-app/


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GMail Apps - iPhone Setting

The Quick Answer

• Follow the instructions below to set up POP1 access on the iPhone.
• Google Apps users, please use the instructions for software update 1.1.3. Follow the default instructions unless otherwise noted, replacing 'your_domain.com' with your actual domain2 name.

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If you're running software update 1.1.2, here's how to set up POP:

1. Tap Mail from your iPhone's Home screen.
2. Tap Gmail.
3. Enter your name, your Gmail address, and password in the appropriate fields.
4. Tap Save. Now you're done!

If you're running software update 1.1.3, please note that tapping the 'Gmail' button will automatically configure Gmail IMAP. Here's how to set up POP:

1. Tap Mail from your iPhone's Home screen.
2. Tap Other.
3. Select POP from the tab menu.
4. Enter your name, email address, and password in the appropriate fields. The Address field should be your full email address (username@gmail.com). Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format 'username@your_domain.com.'
5. Under Incoming Mail Server, fill in the Host Name field as 'pop.gmail.com.' Google Apps users, enter the server names provided, don't add your domain name in this step.
6. Under Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), fill in the Host Name field as 'smtp.gmail.com.'
7. Tap Save. Now you're done!

If you notice that POP access isn't working properly, please ensure that all your settings are correct by following these instructions:

1. From the Home menu, tap Settings.
2. Select your Gmail address.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and tap Advanced.
4. Ensure that your settings are as follows:
Incoming Uses SSL:ON
Outgoing Uses SSL:ON
Authentication:Password
If you're accessing your Gmail from multiple POP clients, we recommend setting Use Recent Mode to ON.

For any other iPhone related issues, please visit http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/

1. POP: POP (Post office protocol) is a one-way download of your messages that allows you to access your mail with a mail program like Outlook Express or Apple Mail. POP only offers one-way communication, which means that actions you take in the mail program (like marking a message as read) won’t be synced to Gmail.
2. domain: A domain is a name for an IP address and is more commonly recognized as a website or web address. For example, Google.com is a domain.

Source: [http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72454]

GMail Apps - Apple Mail 4.0 (Mail Client Setting - POP)

Please note that if you're adding your Gmail address to Apple Mail 4.0 for the first time with automatic configuration, your mail will be configured for IMAP1 access.
In order to configure POP2 Gmail account for the first time, please follow these steps carefully:

1. Enable POP. Don't forget to click Save Changes when you're done.
2. Open your Apple Mail client
3. Fill in the ‘Welcome to Mail’ window with the following information:
• Full Name: [your name]
• Email Address: your full email address [username@gmail.com, or username@your_domain.com for Google Apps users]
• Password: your Gmail password
• Important: Hold the option button down until ‘Create’ turns into ‘Continue’


4. Click Continue
5. Fill in the following Incoming Mail Server information:
• Account Type: Select POP
• Incoming Mail Server: Change this to pop.gmail.com
• User Name: your full email address [username@gmail.com, or username@your_domain.com for Google Apps users]
• Password: your Gmail password
• Important: Hold the option button down until ‘Create’ turns into ‘Continue’


6. Click Continue
7. Incoming Mail Security
• Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): selected
• Authentication: Password
• Important: Hold the option button down until ‘Create’ turns into ‘Continue’


8. Click Continue
9. Enter the following Outgoing Mail Server information:
• You can leave description blank - this field is optional
• Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com
• Use Authentication: selected
• User Name: your full Gmail address [username@gmail.com, or username@your_domain.com for Google Apps users]
• Password: your Gmail password
• Important: Hold the option button down until ‘Create’ turns into ‘Continue’


10. Click Continue.
11. Outgoing Mail Security
• Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): selected
• Authentication: Password
• Important: Hold the option button down until ‘Create’ turns into ‘Continue’


12. Click Continue
13. Review your Account Summary and uncheck Take account online as you will need to adjust your incoming port number
14. Click Create


15. Once your client opens, you’ll need to change your incoming port number to 995. To edit your incoming port number, please click Mail>Preferences... > Accounts tab > Advanced
    • Important: Your port number must be 995
    
    
16. After you’ve updated your port number, you can take your accounts online and download new messages by clicking Mailbox > Get All New Mail

If you have already configured Apple Mail 4 for POP and are trying to add an additional email, please start by following these steps:

1. Click Mail > Preferences....
2. On the Accounts tab, click the + button to add a new account.
3. You will then need to repeat the steps above.

1. IMAP: IMAP (Internet message access protocol) lets you download messages from Gmail so you can access your mail with a program like Outlook Express or Apple Mail. IMAP syncs the actions you take in Outlook Express or Apple Mail with Gmail so if you read a message in your mail client, it'll be marked as read in Gmail.
2. POP: POP (Post office protocol) is a one-way download of your messages that allows you to access your mail with a mail program like Outlook Express or Apple Mail. POP only offers one-way communication, which means that actions you take in the mail program (like marking a message as read) won’t be synced to Gmail.

Source: [http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=181714]

Businesses share their stories with using Google Apps

Google Apps has helped companies of all sizes, in every industry, in every corner of the world save time and money and improve how they work together securely.

HSR Property Group

Leading real estate company
Real estate, Asia Pacific, Singapore

Google Apps is scalable and easy to manage. There’s no doubt—the cloud with Google Apps is the way to go. – Patrick Liew – CEO, HSR Property Group

DOCOMO interTouch

Hospitality technology services
Professional Services, Asia Pacific

We estimated that Google Apps would save us between 50% and 60% of costs over a three-year period relative to the other solutions we evaluated. – Darren Murphy – Director of Internal Systems Development

New Media Group

Leading publishing agency
Publishing, Asia Pacific

Not only is Google Apps for Business cheaper than alternative solutions, it also gives you much better value for your IT spend. – Dominie Liang – Director of IT

Source: [Google.com]

Gmail Apps Setting (Microsoft Outlook 2007)

NOTE:
This is the sample screenshot for Microsoft Outlook 2007.
If you are using others version of Outlook, Express, or others mail client. The setting is about the same.