Hosted apps war heats up: Google adds security to Google Apps

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 04 October 2007 07:43

Business IT - Technology

Google has also added a new email routing feature to Google Apps Premier Edition and Education Edition that allows organisations to run Google Apps alongside another email system. It enables administrators to run a pilot program of Google Apps without turning off the existing email system, migrate a subset of users to Google Apps, or segregate groups of users onto a separate email solution, such as the legal department, which may be subject to different policies.


Google has also increased storage to 25Gbytes per user (from 10Gbytes and is offering a free extended trial of Google Apps Premier Edition to all new and existing Postini customers. Customers who sign up for Postini services prior to December 31, 2007 will be able to use Google Apps Premier Edition at no cost until June 30, 2008. Google claims that Postini information security and compliance products are used by more than 36,000 businesses and 11 million users. Google intends to continue offering and expanding Postini's messaging security and compliance products on a stand-alone basis.

The Postini security and compliance capabilities are available immediately at no additional cost in the English-language version of Google Apps and will be available in the international version of Google Apps, available in 27 languages,  from November.