Google adds Postini security into hosted apps offering

Move over Microsoft.

Google is beefing up its outsourced e-mail offering aimed at corporations and universities, adding security features that large companies demand.

Three weeks after closing its acquisition of Postini, Google has integrated the company's security and government regulation services into Google Apps Premier Edition. That suite includes hosted e-mail, calendar, instant messaging, Docs & Spreadsheets and Web page creation software.

Google also has increased the size of the storage to 25 gigabytes from 10 gigabytes and now allows customers to run Google Apps along with another e-mail program.

The Postini software enables companies to customize spam and virus filtering and restore messages that were inadvertently deleted in the last 90 days, among other things.

It's obviously too early to see what effect the security boost will have on sales of Google Apps Premier Edition. As many as 1,500 businesses have been signing up per day, according to Scott Petry, founder of Postini and a product management director at Google.

[szettervall]

Postini has had big big problems with this integration

Postini has experienced delays in email delivery and major problems with their management Interface. At one point we were unable to send email to some other Postini customers. I think someone got a little carried away with the integration and messed up, more than once.

[foxnet2]

Postini Integration

What you think you know is not that clear and not anything to do with the Google integration in my opinion. Postini is a stand alone software-as-a-service solution and the only integration is the customer adding their mail system to it.

Postini did have some problems though not as system wide as others may have been experiencing, as our system experienced very little performance issues. Our mail flow was not impacted and we only had some minor delays logging into the management interface.



Frank Muto
President
Secure EMail Plus
Postini Gold Partner