Friday, June 20, 2008

Re: Google/Postini SPAM and Archiving

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:23:43 -0400, Caballero, John
<caballeroj2@heathwood.org> wrote:

>Is anyone using Google's message and Discovery service? Google bought a
>company, Postini, and has products that move SPAM filtering, AV
>filtering, as well as Archiving off your network to Google's servers.
>The cost of doing this is very reasonable and seems to be the easiest
>and cheapest way of meeting compliance related to E-discovery. I love
>the idea of keeping all of the SPAM and AV email from ever reaching my
>network and putting the users in charge of their own quarantine.
>
>If anyone is using all or part of this service please let me know how it
>has worked, how hard it is to setup/configure/maintain. Any feedback or
>thoughts are appreciated.

We're migrating to Google Apps and just signed up for the Postini solution
with 3 years of retention. Everything I've seen and heard so far looks great
but since we haven't actually deployed yet I have to reserve judgment.

We are currently an MX Logic customer and really like their anti-spam
solution so Google/Postini has some big shoes to fill. Nonetheless, because
of the ability to kill two birds with one reasonably priced stone (anti-spam
and e-discovery) and the tight integration with Google Apps we've chosen to
switch to Google/Postini.

--
Tom Phelan
Director of Technology
Peddie School

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