Google is introducing on December nine a new cloud-email company that it is positioning as an perfect way for Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 customers to back again up their e-mail.Indeed,
Office 2010 Product Key, that;s not a typo. Google officials want the new Google Message Continuity support to serve like a back-up and disaster-recovery answer for Microsoft customers.Right here;s the proposition: Google Message Continuity will replicate Exchange 2003 and 2007 (although not Exchange 2010) consumers; mail,
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, calendar and contacts utilizing Google;s Gmail, Calendar and Contacts. The 2 e mail programs (on-premises Exchange as well as the small business version of Gmail) is going to be continuously synced making use of dual delivery. If and when a buyer;s Exchange Server fails or requires scheduled upkeep,
Microsoft Office 2007 Product Key, the person would log into Gmail utilizing their Exchange credentials to carry on to obtain their e-mail, meeting requests and also the like.Google is charging new consumers $25 per consumer annually for Google Message Continuity, and current Google Postini clients $13 per user each year.Why is Google performing this? It;s another method to try to win over Microsoft consumers to Google Apps, as Google;s execs acknowledge. If and when the Exchange user decides to move to Google Apps, their e-mail,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, calendar and contacts will currently be synced,
Office 2010 Professional, easing migration.I have to acknowledge, when Google;s Adam Swidler, Item Marketing Supervisor for Google;s Postini, created his pitch that moving to Google Message Continuity would “bring the reliability of Gmail to Microsoft users” I was not bowled over. I hear and read about even more Gmail outages than I do Exchange, Hotmail — or even BPOS — outages , I told him. Swidler noted that it isn;t the free, purchaser version of Gmail that is acting because the backup platform; it is the paid, Google Apps for Business edition, which Google says has 99.9 percent SLA-guaranteed availability.Google officials said Google Message Continuity, the newest member of Google;s Postini e-mail services family, is primarily a disaster recovery answer, but it also can be used to provide Exchange end users with access on a broader variety of devices. Swidler said Google anticipates the buyer sweet spot for the company to be the mid-market, but that enterprise end users also could find it a cost-effective method to do e-mail backup. Google plans to sell Google Message Continuity directly and through its reseller partners.I;m kind of surprised I haven;t heard Microsoft pitch the Microsoft-hosted Exchange Online being a way to back again up Exchange on-premises. There are a lot of Exchange back-up solutions on the market from a variety of Microsoft partners, including some who are positioning Exchange Hosted Solutions being a back-up remedy for Exchange. For mid-size and larger organization customers, Microsoft instead has been pitching its own System Center Data Protection Supervisor offering as a method to back again up on-premises Exchange.Anyone out there interested in giving Google Message Continuity a try?Update: I asked Microsoft for comment on Google;s Exchange back-up announcement. From a organization spokesperson:“Businesses rely on Exchange a lot more than any other messaging remedy because of its enterprise grade management and security. An incredible 73% of large organizations in the US use Exchange as their primary e-mail system with all the next closest e-mail platform at 2%. Our customers have and will proceed to benefit from the large ecosystem of hundreds of third party solutions that extend and complement Exchange. With their announcement, Google joins an current list of email continuity providers for Exchange.”