Thursday, 4 October 2007

Postini Added To Google Apps

After presenting Google docs to take on Microsoft Office, Google has now taken a serious thought at corporate messaging space with the announcement that Google Apps Premier Addition was integrating security, storage and compliance services from Postini.

Google bought Postini, an email service provider with 35,000 business customers and 10 million users globally, on July 19. "With Postini, we saw the potential to deliver a more complete hosted solution for businesses of all sizes," Dave Girouard, vice president and general manager of Google Enterprise, said.

This is the latest move that Google has made in the enterprise space. Earlier Google launched Google Apps Premier Addition competing against enterprise messaging services such as Lotus Notes from IBM and Microsoft Exchange. Google Apps includes services such as GMail, Docs, Calendar and GTalk, which are available for business use. However, with Postini, Google Apps Premier Edition will now have a large customer.

The new features allow customers to configure spam and virus filtering, customised to each business user. Customers can centrally manage content policy based on business policy rules, and they can also create and manage user group policies.