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November 16th, 2007

Google launches universal email migration API

Posted by Dan Farber @ 2:31 pm

Categories: Enterprise 2.0, Google

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, API, Migration, E-mail, Online Communications, Dan Farber

A few weeks ago Google announced IMAP support, allowing adminstrators to move external email system to Google Apps, and today extended the invitation to any email system with the Google Apps Email Migration API, which is based on Gdata. Third parties are using the API to build migration tools, such as LimitNone’s gMOVE for moving Outlook email, contacts and calendars to Google Apps, according to a post on Google’s Enterprise blog.

Google is getting serious about going beyond search appliances for enterprises, with the improvements to gMail, including a 99.9-percent guaranteed uptime, support for mixed messaging environments and policy-based management, security and compliance via its Postini acquisition.

Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of CNET News.com, has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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  • Most Recent of 11 Talkback(s)
No, Google will let YOU comply with the law and turn over the email. The
Postini tools have been incorporated, and gives you what you need.

And, if Google were asked to turn over your email, they would fight it, just like they were the ONLY ones that fought the requ... (Read the rest)
Posted by: DonnieBoy Posted on: 11/19/07 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
I don't get it...  D. T. Schmitz | 11/16/07
I think it just makes it easy for people to transition to GMail. You could  DonnieBoy | 11/16/07
good thing?  dbfarber | 11/16/07
Sure, this will not convince anybody that cloud email is safe, but, it will  DonnieBoy | 11/16/07
Llegions of enterprise to migrate any time soon?  Jeremy W | 11/17/07
Who wrote the song 20 ways to leave your lover??? This is just google  DonnieBoy | 11/16/07
Google  cynthia.joffrion@... | 11/16/07
It just takes some of the friction out of switching to gmail.  DonnieBoy | 11/17/07
Cuts the ground out from underneath the Bloatfarm  Jeremy W | 11/17/07
Exec Communication  THEE WOLF | 11/18/07
No, Google will let YOU comply with the law and turn over the email. The  DonnieBoy | 11/19/07

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