Manage Email Retention With or Without an Archive

With 25GB of inbox space for each user, managing space is rarely an issue. Company policies related to records retention, however, often create a need to enforce retention policies on email messages.

In Google Apps Premier Edition, you can not set a retention period for email. Once set, Gmail will automatically permanently delete all email messages older than the retention period.

If you want or need to limit user retention of emails, but need to retain corporate access to messages for legal or compliance reasons, we can add Google Message Discovery to your Google Apps service.

Google Message Discovery is an email archive/recovery/e-discovery service that offers secure, audited archives of all messages sent or delivered for up to 10 years. Message Discovery also works with most any in-house email system.

Click Here to learn more about Google Message Discovery or to view a product data sheet (PDF format).

Last Minute Invitation

If you are in the area and can leave work a little early, please join Horizon Info Services at the Corridor Nine Chamber's Open for Business Expo.

It is a great opportunity to see our Cloud Computing solutions first-hand, including Google Apps Premier Edition, Google Security and Compliance Solutions, and our industry-leading online backup and recovery solutions.

WHERE: Doubletree Westborough, MA
WHEN: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
COST: FREE

We hope to see you there.

Pundits Mix, Match, and Misunderstand Google's Enterprise Solutions

On February 11, Keith Ferrell posted a blog entry at bMighty.com entitled Google Apps: Right For The Small Business Buck? (And Does Google Even Want Your Bucks?). In the article, Mr. Ferrell confuses the market positioning of Google's Message Encryption Service, part of the Google Apps Security and Compliance Suite, with Google Apps Premier Edition as these services apply to small and mid-size businesses.

In my response, I clarify the differentiation between services targeting companies with internal messaging infrastructures and those for which Google Apps can provide the messaging services. I also point out that Google is not walking away from companies with fewer than 50, or even 250 users.