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Google Message Continuity, the Postini-powered, Gmail-leveraging message continuity service, now supports backing up Microsoft Exchange 2010. But despite the potential benefits, extending Google Message Continuity like this raises more questions than it answers. Here’s why.

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When MSPmentor reported that Google Postini was providing business continuity services for Microsoft Exchange, my inbox was filled with chatter on the subject of storing messages and keeping them highly available. Now Microsoft has shown its true feelings for the Postini option in a blog entry titled, “Email Availability Considerations,” which laid out Redmond’s own recommendations for backing up Exchange messages yourself — or picking a hosted provider. Microsoft even mentions Google Postini as a potential option. Here’s the scoop:

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Google vs. Microsoft? That’s so 2010. With the launch of Google Message Continuity, the search giant’s Postini message services arm ads “Gmail’s reliability” to on-premises Microsoft Exchange 2003 or 2007 deployments. With the two working in concert, Exchange messages are backed up to Google’s cloud and can be accessed in a Gmail-like interface that can be accessed from anywhere, Google asserts. Here’s the scoop.

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Thieves are pretty well-known for their craftiness. Case in point, the just-issued Websense 2010 Threat Report indicates that data thieves are getting more creative, deploying a combination of phishing, phony social networking messages, and compromised websites to make increasingly elaborate efforts to steal personal information. Here’s the scoop.

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Postini is the email security and archiving hosted services arm of Google, and they process billions of messages a day — looking for trends in virus and phishing scams alike. So when Google Postini reports that virus activity in Q3 2010 was up 10% year-over-year, it’s worth listening. Here are some details from the Postini report.

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Google has announced that it’s continuing its SaaS momentum in the education space by way of a deal with the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC). The deal potentially puts the Google Apps productivity suite into every public K-12 district, every library, and every college both public and private in the state of Maryland. Here’s the scoop.

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If you check in with enough sources close to Google, you start to get the feeling that the search giant is preparing to accelerate an enterprise-oriented SaaS (software as a service) push in Q4 2009 or early 2010. Here’s what apparently is coming — and the potential implications for managed service providers.

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Google continues to ramp up its SaaS (software as a service) partner programs. In this FastChat video, Stephen Cho, director of Google Apps Channels, hints that Google will connect the dots between the Google Apps Reseller and Google Postini partner programs.

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Apparently, a growing number of managed service providers (MSPs) are losing faith in Google Postini, a hosted email security and compliance solution. During the ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando, three separate MSPs told me they are moving away from Postini because of Google’s poor partner communications.

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