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    Google Postini (Corporate Email, Web Filtering and Archiving)

    Has anyone had any experience with this? Coincidentally we're just looking at switching ISP and that would mean switching our corporate mail filtering system.

    Having received quotes from our old ISP to continue using their filtering outside of a connection contract, our new ISP and Message Labs the Google solution is almost 75% cheaper at approximately £6 per user, per year (for Email Filtering only)...

    Has anyone got any thoughts, suggestions or alternatives to consider? From what I've seen, for an externally hosted solution, the Google one is on par with the rest, but ridiculously cheap!

    I was quoted £13 for Filtering and 1 years archiving, and £23 for Filtering and 10 years archiving. Again, both prices seem ridiculous.

    Obviously, it's just one more step closer to Google domination. But as they already know when we're breathing, where's the problem?

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    Re: Google Postini (Corporate Email, Web Filtering and Archiving)

    Postini is a very very good service

    We use it for somewhere in the region of 160,000 mailboxes.

    Zak can talk about it untill the cows come home too

    it makes messagelabs look like it was runnign on a ZX spectrum
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    Re: Google Postini (Corporate Email, Web Filtering and Archiving)

    So Google buy up a company, let it sit doing not much for a year or two, then decide they're sitting on dead money and knock it out dirt cheap, to make all the others scared?

    It'll do me (the customer) fine!

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    Re: Google Postini (Corporate Email, Web Filtering and Archiving)

    Postini was a great mail filtering outfit long before google bought them
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    Re: Google Postini (Corporate Email, Web Filtering and Archiving)

    No doubt, but was it as cheap back in the day?

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    Re: Google Postini (Corporate Email, Web Filtering and Archiving)

    considerably cheaper than messagelabs - faster too due to their memory caching.
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    Re: Google Postini (Corporate Email, Web Filtering and Archiving)

    POSTINI for the ULTIMATE win

    Message Labs, as young Moby says, are still in the habit of getting swamped under sheer volume, and then end up delivering that mail very late. Postini wont do that. Their infrastructure is mammoth.

    Moving servers with them is a doddle too... you just switch on Message Spooling, and Postini holds it all until you unspool it.

    Good virus protection, massive ability to spot and trap spam, and give you back your bandwidth.

    Grab it while it's cheap

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