The Google Cloud

"Cloud Sherpas was absolutely essential in helping us make the move to Google Apps. We’ve cut our IT budget in half over the past three years. We attribute much of that to using cloud-based applications to run our business, and using Cloud Sherpas and Okta for adoption and management."

Google Message Discovery

The Ultimate Hosted Spam-Protection and Archiving Service

Google Message Discovery, powered by Postini, is a secure, hosted service that provides enterprise-grade spam and virus protection as well as comprehensive email archiving for organizations looking for cost-effective email management and significant advantages over onsite server or media-based email archiving. Google Message Discovery lets you:

Create a centralized and searchable email repository for your organization
Quickly search across the archive to find emails and save result sets
Secure your email from spam, viruses, phishing, and other email-borne threats
Set central email policies to manage content and compliance requirements

We hosted a webinar with Google Message Discovery Product Manager Adam Swidler. Check out the webinar replay.

Message Discovery Flow

Key Features

Secure and redundant — Ensure availability and redundancy by leveraging Google’s network of secure, energy-efficient data centers. Minimize costly on-premise infrastructure and reduce IT maintenance.

Scalable — Unlimited capacity without additional administration and contracts

Easy access and findability — Quickly pinpoint specific email without having to search multiple data sources

Export result sets — Quickly export messages or message sets into PST and MBOX formats

Manage retention policies — Reduce risks by implementing auditable email retention policies and preserve message sets beyond the retention period when required

End user archive access — Allow end users to access their own personal archive through a web-based interface or an MS Outlook toolbar, without IT assistance

Archive activity reports — View log reports of all archive activity including searches and exports from the archive for compliance needs

Spam and virus protection — Provide market-leading email security including real-time spam and virus protection and content filtering for inbound and outbound email

Domain-to-domain encryption — Transmit secure messages with policy-based Transport Layer Security protocols

Intelligent routing — Easily route email traffic to de-centralized data center locations