Google Postini

aix0 · 1 Aug 2009 at 07:15

Hi

Anybody using the Postini service for mail security? I had a demo of it and it seems really good. I like the idea of mail being filtered outside of the corporate network, also adds a layer of security as you only need to accept SMTP connections from Postini.

Anyone got any experieces / opinions?

Thanks

aix0 · 1 Aug 2009 at 18:40

Yeah, I read up on the spooling, could be quite a useful feature when disaster strikes!

I can't believe how competetive it is in terms of cost, it's like £7 per user! I don't think anything can touch it when it comes to value for money. I think it's quite probable that we'll be going down the Postini route, I'm really struggling to find a reason not to.

aix0 · 4 Aug 2009 at 20:44

MessageLabs, £4.75 per user, for web, and mail? Is that 'definate'?

Seems 'extremely' cheap to me!!

aix0 · 4 Aug 2009 at 20:51

Thanks for the replies guys. I think I'm definately going to go down the Postini route, I was very impressed with the demo.

The additional layer of security that it adds to an infrastructure is what I find most attractive, I suppose with any hosted solution it's the same. I like the fact that all my mail is clean before it even enters the network, no bandwidth wastage, no server overheads, nothing!

I'm also a fan of the DR functionailty, if the mail infrastructure is unavailable for whatever reason, it will spool my mail until it can deliver. Marvellous. I love good software, I love it even more when it's cheap!

:cool:

aix0 · 5 Aug 2009 at 13:15

Per annum - per user, I got it wrong, it's actually £6!!

aix0 · 5 Aug 2009 at 17:38

It does have an extremely low false-positive rate, indeed.

You don't have to mess about with releasing mail for customers though, it sends through a summary email of all quarantined mail to each user and they can release the mail for themselves.

aix0 · 6 Aug 2009 at 18:47

It's standard pricing with a small discount. They must give it away to educational and government orgranisations!