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Posted by Dave Girouard, Vice President
& General Manager, Google Enterprise

We launched Google Apps so
that it would be easier for employees to communicate and share
information while reducing the hassles and costs associated with
enterprise software. Companies are responding: every day, more than
1,000 small businesses sign up for Google Apps.

Larger enterprises, however, face a challenge: though they want to
deliver simple, useful hosted applications to their employees,
they're also required to support complex business rules,
information security mandates, and an array of legal and corporate
compliance issues. In effect, many businesses use legacy systems
not because they are the best for their users, but because they are
able to support complex business rules. This isn't a tradeoff
that any business should have to make.

We realized that we needed a more complete way to address these
information security and compliance issues in order to better
support the enterprise community. That's why we're excited
to share the news that we've agreed to acquire href="http://www.postini.com/index.php" >Postini, a company that
offers security and corporate compliance solutions for email, IM,
and other web-based communications. Like Google Apps, Postini's
services are entirely hosted, eliminating the need to install any
hardware or software. A leader in its field, Postini serves more
than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users, and was one of our
first partners for Google Apps. Their email and IM management
services include inbound and outbound policy management, spam and
virus protection, content filtering, message archiving, encryption,
and more. We will continue to support Postini's customers and
we look forward to the possibilities ahead.

Here's the href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/postini_20070709.html" >
press release announcing the deal, and there's more detail
in our href="http://services.google.com/blog_resources/postini_faq.pdf" >FAQ
and on the href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2007/07/secure-innovation-postini-joins-google.html" >
Enterprise blog. height="1" width="1" />

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Posted by Dave Girouard, Vice President
& General Manager, Google Enterprise

As of today, Postini
becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, and we couldn’t be
happier about it. (Here's the href="http://services.google.com/blog_resources/FINAL_Google_Postini_acquisition_FAQ.pdf" >
FAQ.) Since July 9, when we announced the href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/postini_20070709.html" >
agreement to acquire Postini, plenty of businesses have told us
how much they respect Postini and how the acquisition makes sense
for customers of both companies.

We view this as welcome news, but also a sign of things to come.
With the more than 100,000 businesses on href="http://www.google.com/a/" >Google Apps, 35,000 businesses
and more than 10 million users of Postini products, we see great
potential on both sides. We're committed to continue to deliver
the type of innovative and useful business products our customers
have come to expect. And we plan to announce even more product
offerings in the very near future.

Separately, both companies shared a vision for what the world of
hosted applications can become for businesses of all sizes.
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Posted by Dave Girouard, VP,
Enterprise

We added href="http://www.google.com/help/interpret.html" >OneBox
functionality to our href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/index.html" >Google
Search Appliance today, which means you can now find just about
anything through your friendly Google search box. Lots of folks
have been asking us - is this going to kill the corporate portal
market? For the record, we have no desire or plans to kill
anything. But it's clear to us that people prefer search to
having every possible piece of information thrust at them
willy-nilly. And they like having search front and center on their
screens, not buried, as it is all too often inside company
intranets. As industry-watcher href="http://battellemedia.com/" >John Battelle explains, search
is so powerful because it responds to an expressed intent by the
user. Shouldn't corporate portals do the same?

Google
OneBox for Enterprise is cool because it takes a completely
understood and tested design metaphor and extends it to another
domain. Um, what I meant to say was, employees already know how to
get href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=v for vendetta dallas, tx&btnG=Search" >
movie listings, href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=weather omaha, ne&btnG=Search" >
weather forecasts, and href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=united 10&btnG=Search" >
flight information through simple Google queries. So it
won't surprise them (in fact it may delight them) to learn that
they can get real-time contact info, sales forecasts, and customer
information the very same way. We launched an initial set of OneBox
modules with Oracle, Cognos, SAS and Salesforce.com; some of these
partners talk about that href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/video.html" >here.

And there’s one more thing. We're also introducing an all-new
Mini
that's 25 times faster and half the size of its predecessor!

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Posted by Dave Girouard, General
Manager, Enterprise

We all get better with practice. And while our href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/" >enterprise search
business more than doubled last year, we're always looking
for ways to improve. So we're happy to href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2006/02/practice-makes-perfect.html" >
welcome BearingPoint, one of the largest IT and management
consulting firms on the planet, as a partner. They're putting
Google search into practice — a new href="http://www.bearingpoint.com/googlesearch" >Search Solutions
Practice group, that is. With more than 100 people already
trained on Google technology, we're confident BearingPoint will
demonstrate that practice makes perfect sense for business.

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