MailShadow - Use Google As Your Data Repository
When Cemaphore Systems launches its service MailShadowG later this week, it will be the first service that automatically brings together synchronization for mail, calendars and address books between Google’s Gmail (and soon MSN and Yahoo! as well) and Microsoft’s Outlook.
MailShadow for Google Apps, is being pitched as a “email continuity and disaster recovery solution.” In other words, it is intended to provide users of Outlook and Exchange, Microsoft’s mail server, with a secure backup. As such, it represents an interesting use of the Google computing “cloud” to provide a service for Microsoft users.
But the technology also would allow businesses to rip out their Exchange servers and run Outlook, which millions of users are familiar with, directly from the Google servers says the New York Times.
As the website puts it, “By using a Google as your data repository, you can eliminate the need for expensive infrastructure, hardware, & co-location facilities.”
Will this lead to more small people to forward their work e-mail to Gmail? A lot of companies are a little wary of putting their data on Gmail, would that be expected to change?
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