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The Latest Google Drive API is All About Collaboration

'Net Features : wm-software — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:00:00 GMT

Earlier this week, Google launched its Google Drive Realtime API to allow developers to utilize Google Drive’s real-time collaboration features in their own applications. According to Google, this API is meant to offer collaborative versions of...(read more)

Forget Docs - Zoho has Arrived on Google Drive

'Net Features : wm-software — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:27:00 GMT

When Google Drive was announced, it was clear that the company had every intention of keeping it closely aligned with its Google Docs office suite. Fortunately for those of you who aren’t too keen on Docs, Zoho is now offering an alternative. Thanks...(read more)

Gmail to Provide Backup for Microsoft Exchange Users

Linc Wonham — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:33:00 GMT

Just as Microsoft’s Bing has made the search environment a little too crowded for Google’s tastes, Google is doing the same thing to Microsoft with office productivity tools.

Thursday’s launch of Google Message Continuity reiterates a message that Google has been trying to send to businesses and IT managers for a few years now. That message being that Gmail is a reliable and valuable cloud-based alternative business email solution if your company’s on-premises email system such as Microsoft Exchange should ever fail.

Google Message Continuity is a cloud-based service that helps ensure that businesses will always have access to their email. It works by replicating email accounts hosted on Microsoft Exchange servers in the cloud, using Gmail, Calendar and Contacts. If the Microsoft Exchange server fails or requires scheduled maintenance or downtime, all users have to do is log into Gmail and continue regular, up-to-date email communications through Google.

Since Gmail and Microsoft Exchange are constantly synchronized with each other, employees can seamlessly switch from one email environment to the other.

The new service is one result of Google’s 2007 acquisition of Web-based communications provider Postini, and more information can be found on Google's Postini Web page.