Google Message Continuity

Google Message Continuity, service of ensuring fault tolerance of postal services, became available in the Russian market exclusively in "cloud" of Softline.

Google Message Continuity, service of ensuring fault tolerance of postal services, became available in the Russian market exclusively in "cloud" of Softline. Service is included into a line of solutions of security of Postini.

As Andrey Garkanov, the representative of Softline commented on TAdviser, the company is the only authorized partner of Google with the status Enterprise Reseller so it provides service in Russia exclusively. "We began to provide this service not so long ago, before concentrated on Google Apps for business. Now we expand our portfolio of Google services", - he added.

Google Message Continuity is the cloud service created for ensuring fault tolerance of postal services in the organizations using Microsoft Exchange Server as the main mail solution. Synchronizing mail between Gmail and MSExchange, Google Message Continuity increases availability of the corporate mail server and provides to clients a possibility of smooth operation at possible failures.

The solution Google Message Continuity helps to do the mail systems safe, reliable and productive. It is provided thanks to data backup on mail accounts during the periods of failure or planned prevention of the local mail server of the company and also blocking of spam and other threats even before their receipt in corporate network of the organization. Economy due to scaling, along with simplicity of implementation and lack of need for administration of the solution, provide to business low total cost of ownership with Google services.

The cloud service is easily administered via the web interface, his creators claim. So, thanks to configured to notifications and to settings of authentication responsibles of the company quickly learn about failures in operation of the local MSEcxhange server.

With the advent of a possibility of continuous synchronization of the entering, outgoing and intra domain messages between Exchange Server and Gmail users get access to the messages, contacts and calendars irrespective of, the primary server is available or not. Thus, failures in operation of the corporate mail server do not affect workflows in any way.

As specified in Softline, the cost of use of service is $29 (905 rubles) for one account a year. The price fixed irrespective of number of the purchased subscriptions to service.

The service uses security technologies from Postini company which Google purchased in 2007 for $625 million. Received the name Google Message Continuity it copies Microsoft Exchange accounts on servers of Google and constantly updates them. If the Exchange servers will fail, the staff of the companies will be able to open the web browser and to switch to Gmail, Google Calendar or Contacts and to continue work indifferently.

According to the research Osterman Research which gives Google, annual losses of firm with staff of 500 employees can reach $90 thousand as a result of failures in the system of corporate e-mail. For greater persuasiveness the company provides statistics of time of idle times in case of use by the companies of own servers and the Gmail servers. In the first case time of the planned idle time is from 36 to 90 minutes a month, plus from 30 to 60 minutes a month leave on unplanned idle times (data of Radicati Group).

Competition to Microsoft

The company does not hide, Cnews writes that Message Continuity is directed to customer acquisition of Microsoft to use of a packet of corporate tools from Google - Google Apps including applications for work with text documents, spreadsheets, contacts and mail. The cost of Message Continuity is $25 for one workplace a year or $13 if the company is a client of Postini (the prices are relevant for launch of service in 2010).

Creation of new service is the next step of Google on enticement of clients of the main competitor in the software market, Microsoft corporation. Earlier it released the beta of the tool for synchronization of the cloud service of Google Docs] and a packet of Microsoft Office. Before - service of migration with Microsoft Exchange.

"That Google aims in Exchange there is nothing surprising: Exchange - the recognized long-term market leader with the greatest market share (for example, according to the researches Gartner and Forrester), - the marketing manager of Microsoft Exchange in Russia Ivan Makarov commented. - These steps of Google show that fight for an e-mail client in corporate environment comes to an end: actually is recognized that Microsoft Outlook will remain the standard de facto for an e-mail client in the foreseeable future, and rivalry concentrated in the field of servers and services. At the same time, according to assessment of Gartner, Exchange remains the only product completely compatible to Outlook".

In response there is no need, consider in Microsoft because all these products and Google services do not contain anything of that kind that would not be in Exchange. "In particular, the service Exchange Hosted Continuity is available to ensuring reserve access to mailboxes within already several years, besides, it as an integral part is a part of Exchange Online, a cloud service of Microsoft. For customers there is no sense to do the mail infrastructure diverse, complicating that its operation", - Makarov added.

Functionality of service

Continuous access to mail. The entering and outgoing messages are delivered by replication both to the local server, and to the Gmail mail. Therefore in case of failure of the MS Exchange server your employees will not feel any changes and will continue to work in a former rhythm, using the functionality entering Message Continuity Google service: the mail Gmail, Google calendars and contacts – all data in mail are synchronized and are always relevant.

Continuous availability of users. Easy transition to Gmail during idle time of the MS Exchange server is provided – and users can continue to send and receive messages, having saved access to contacts and calendars. Synchronization with AD through Directory Sync allows to log in under a normal user name and gives an opportunity of fast troubleshooting.

Support of mobile users. Access to the mail Gmail, Google calendar and contacts is possible from your mobile device therefore, even being out of office, you will stay in touch. This rule extends also to users of tablets, Chrome-beeches and notebooks.

Automatic backup. Google Message Continuity automates backup of mail thanks to continuous synchronization of the accounts MS Exchange with corresponding to Gmail accounts. And from 25 GB of memory, available to each user, you will not worry about a mail quarantine or restrictions for storage time of data any more.

The guaranteed mail security. Routing of messages is performed via Google Message Security - service of filtering of contents of the entering and outgoing mail which provides the round-the-clock protection against threats, virus detection and observance the politician of enciphering of TSL.

The solution Google Message Continuity helps to do the mail systems safe, reliable and productive. It is provided thanks to data backup on mail accounts during the periods of failure or planned prevention of the local mail server and also blocking of spam and other threats even before their receipt in your corporate network. Worldwide the cloud model of Google company uses the so-called "scale effect" created by millions of daily communications by mail to detect and block threats in real time, without requiring local updates. Economy due to scaling, along with simplicity of implementation and lack of need for administration of the solution, provide to business low total cost of ownership with Google services.

System Requirements

Google Message Continuity supports the next versions of mail servers:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standart/Enterprise
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Standart/Enterprise
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Standart/Enterprise

Structure of service

Gmail, Calendar and Contacts. During idle times of the local Exchange server users can use full-fledged functionality of the Gmail mail: 25 GB of memory, possibility of mobile access and synchronization of calendars and also chat. After troubleshooting all messages and changes which happened in the Gmail mail received during this time are also synchronized with the Exchange server.

Google Message Security. This service makes filtering of the entering and outgoing messages and investments in them. It blocks spam, viruses and other external threats still before they reach corporate network. Thus, protection and confidentiality of corporate information is provided.

Google Sync Server. Provides synchronization between the Gmail mail and locally installed MS Exchange server.

Links

The page of service on the website of provider.