Google, Yahoo! add to business services

Stephen Withers
Thursday, 07 February 2008 00:56

Your IT - Home IT

Web rivals Google and Yahoo! have expanded the range of services they offer paying customers.

Following its acquisition of Postini, Google has added a set of low-cost email security services to Google Apps.

$US3 per user per year buys Google Message Filtering, which aims to block incoming spam and malware.

If you're looking for additional control over outgoing emails, Google Message Security adds outbound processing, content policy management, and "enhanced" virus detections (which leaves us wondering what's wrong the the basic service in that regard). It costs $US12 per user per year.

For businesses concerned with compliance and discovery issues, Google Message Discovery has all the features of the message security service, plus message archiving, retention and discovery. The price is $US25 per user per year for one year of archived data. Additional years of archiving are available at extra cost.

"As threats rise in volume and complexity, and compliance requirements pile up, IT is struggling to find the resources to keep up," said Scott Petry, director of product management at Google. "Now, Google can take care of this for you. Organisations of all shapes and sizes can get access to Google's industry leading security and compliance technologies."

The services are said to work with any email system, including those from IBM Lotus, Microsoft, and Novell.

That's Google's announcement - what's Yahoo! got to say?

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