Google broadens e-mail archiving service
Appealing to organizations burdened by federal rules requiring electronic message retention, Google is offering hosted e-mail archiving for up to 10 years for $45 per user per year. The service works with a company's existing e-mail infrastructure and has no storage limit.
That's a deal compared to the estimated $200 per user per year it can cost a company to archive e-mail on-site over seven years, Bill Kee of product marketing wrote in an entry Wednesday on the Official Google Enterprise blog.
The latest archiving offering is part of Google Message Discovery, which also includes spam and virus filtering.
Companies can still pay $25 per user per year to archive e-mails for one year or less, with the option of paying $10 per user for each additional year.
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor. 
- by BenjaminWright October 8, 2008 9:13 PM PDT
- Although the law is motivating enterprises to keep e-mail in reliable archival systems, confidentiality concerns suggest a preference for systems to be in-house rather than in the cloud. On the topic of enterprise confidentiality in the cloud, stay tuned. The topic merits careful review and more analysis. --Ben <a href="http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/collaboration-e-discovery-and-record.html">http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/collaboration-e-discovery-and-record.html</a>
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