Sync Google Apps user accounts with your LDAP system

As part of the team that joined Google when it acquired Postini in 2007, one of my responsibilities has been finding ways to weave Postini’s enterprise experience into Google’s business offerings. Today, I’m excited to tell you about Google Apps Directory Sync , the latest improvement to Google Apps brought over from Google’s Postini security and archiving services

Exciting, useful sessions at Google I/O…be there!

The Google I/O Developer Conference is coming up in just four weeks, on May 27 – 28, 2009 in San Francisco, California, so we thought now would be a good time to give you a sneak preview into some of the exciting Enterprise sessions we have planned.

What we talk about when we talk about cloud computing

Recently, McKinsey & Company published a study on cloud computing as part of a symposium for The Uptime Institute , an organization dedicated to supporting the enterprise data center industry. We share McKinsey’s interest in helping the IT industry better understand cloud computing, so we’d like to join the conversation Appirio and others have started about the role of cloud computing for large enterprises

Policy-enforced TLS in Google Apps

In the year and a half since we acquired Postini, we’ve integrated a number of their message security features into Google Apps Premier Edition, including additional spam and virus filtering, content policy management tools, and archiving. Today we’re pleased to announce the addition of another feature to Google Apps that many of you have been asking for: policy-enforced Transport Layer Security (TLS, RFC 2246) to help you secure the transport of messages between domains with a simple point-and-click interface. With policy-enforced TLS, IT administrators can set up policies for securely sending and receiving mail between specific domains.

Update from the Google Apps ecosystem: Ping Identity and PivotLink

A few weeks ago we hosted one of our Google Campfire One events to announce new developer tools that we think businesses will find pretty interesting.