Recent research conducted by the Radicati Group suggests that users of Microsoft Exchange® face on average over five hours of downtime a month, which is a combination of both unplanned outages and regularly scheduled downtime1. Let’s compare this to Gmail. Google Apps offers a service level agreement of 99.9% for all of its services. However, as we noted back in January, our own measurements showed that Gmail only experienced on average seven minutes of downtime per month throughout 2010 – 46 times less than an Exchange-based environment – which represented a total uptime average of 99.984% for the entire year. Google Message Continuity works by leveraging this outstanding record of reliability and extending it to Microsoft Exchange® users, allowing them to benefit from the availability and redundancy of Google’s services.
For more information on Google Message Continuity and how a cloud-based continuity solution can help your email environment remain more secure, accessible, and reliable, stop by www.google.com/postini to learn more.
1. The Radicati Group, 2010. "Corporate IT Survey – Messaging & Collaboration, 2010-2011"
Posted by Adrian Soghoian, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Google Postini Services
2 comments:
Google offers little support and it is quite clear from the support forum that their Apps software is still quite buggy. I wouldn't use it for any serious business use.
I am in the middle of an implemnetion. The Syn Serrver you have to install is not very functional, and from what I have seen, it only syncs the last 60 days of mail. Ive had the sync server working for over 24 hours so maybe it just isnt finished. We have a 130GB mailbox store so thatc ould be the case.
I had to do some wierd things with my MX records for our second primary domain despite the fact they are all pointed to POSTINI!
I can tell you that if you are running multiple domains into one Exchange server, dont expect this to be an easy impemention. Google Apps doesnt like multiple domains but they are getting better.
If you are a straight up 1 primary domain shop with email 60 day retention polices, this is perfect for you. If you have a more complex environment, dont expect this to be anythiong other than "emergency mail"
Oh and contrary to what you may have read in early marketing articles...THIS DOES NOT SYNC CONTACT AND CALENDAR!!!
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