Posted by Anna Mongayt, Google Apps Premium Services Lead Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day - a humble holiday for all the men and women who keep our IT systems churning and burning. At Google, we've had the opportunity over the years to work with many talented teams of SysAdmins, and across the board two things are true: these folks care deeply about technology and giving people the best tools to work together.

Editor's Note: Recently we announced the winners of our global Gone Google ad contest. Today's featured winner is Sharon Delia, Communications Director, South Carolina REALTORS® South Carolina REALTORS® )SCR( is the largest non-profit trade association in the state of South Carolina. With 14,000 professional REALTOR® members, and a staff of only eleven employees, our association depends on fast, efficient and reliable means of communication.

Editor's Note: We're pleased to welcome guest blogger, Joe Fuller, CIO of Dominion Enterprises. Dominion Enterprises is a leading marketing services company serving many industries including real estate, apartments, specialty vehicles, employment, automotive and travel. Dominion is one of the largest providers of targeted classified advertising reaching over 34 million consumers monthly.

Editor's Note: We're pleased to welcome guest blogger Scot Adams, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Cadillac Fairview . With 40 offices throughout Canada and North America, Cadillac Fairview is one of the largest investors, owners and managers of commercial real estate in North America. With a portfolio valued at $19 billion,

Editor's Note: Since today is one of the more popular days for wining and dining, we invited Jeff Munsey, co-owner and Vice President of Pithy Little Wine Co., to tell us about his company's move to Google Apps . Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map or test drive life in the cloud with the Go Google Cloud Calculator . Together with my wife, Felicia, we started Pithy Little Wine Co.

The speed of innovation on the web is amazing, and Google's Chrome and Apps products capitalize on this speed to bring new productivity and security benefits to businesses. Join us for a live webcast where you'll hear directly from Google's Chrome Product Managers Glenn Wilson and Cyrus Mistry on how Chrome and Chrome OS are innovating for Apps for Business. You'll learn about the latest features and business customer experiences. Plus,

Editor's note: Over 3 million businesses have adopted Google Apps . Today we'll hear from Carol Dewitt, CIO of BI-LO . To learn more about other organizations that have gone Google and share your story, visit our community map or test drive life in the cloud with the Go Google cloud calculator. BI-LO is coming up on its 50th anniversary. We are a grocery retail chain with over 200 stores in the Southeast and have more than 4,

Google's Deployment Lead, Alex Diacre, will be hosting a live webcast this Thursday, November 4th at 11:00 AM PT. Alex has been at Google since 2007 and has been leading the Enterprise Deployment Team in deploying Google Apps at businesses all over the world. Join us to hear from Alex and his team about exactly what you need to do to deploy Google Apps in your organization.

Join us tomorrow for a live webcast with Mark Steward, IT Director at Baird & Warner, the oldest residential real estate brokerage in the nation. With 26 branch offices servicing more than 300 communities throughout northeastern Illinois, Baird & Warner provides a full range of services for consumers including residential sales, financial services, title services and home services.

Editor's note: Over the past couple months, thousands of businesses have added their Gone Google story to our community map and even more have used the Go Google cloud calculator to test drive life in the cloud. To highlight some of these companies' Gone Google stories, we decided to talk to Google Apps customers across the United States. Check back each week to see which state we visit next.

Editors note: As part of our Going Google Everywhere series, today's guest blogger is Jen Grant, VP of Marketing at Box.net, a Palo Alto-based start-up that helps businesses collaborate, share, and manage all their content online. Learn more about other organizations that have gone Google on our community map . When I joined Box.net a few years ago, we weren't using a web-based email and calendaring solution, despite being "born in the cloud.

Editor's Note: We invited Kyle Swafford, Director of IT Services for Bergelectric, to share the story of Bergelectric's evaluation of Google Apps and Microsoft BPOS-S and their subsequent migration from Novell Groupwise to Google Apps using Google Apps Authorized Reseller SADA Systems, Inc. Since our founding in 1946, Bergelectric Corporation has provided electrical contracting on thousands of construction projects for clients such as Phoenix International Raceway,

Most every business, including ours, starts small . These days, technology is giving businesses even more ways to grow bigger... faster. In our recent Small Business series on the Official Google Blog, a handful of real-life entrepreneurs have shared their experiences building companies from scratch and embracing Internet tools that have taken their businesses to the next level. We've received fantastic feedback about these posts,