Cemaphore Systems has introduced MailShadow for Google (News - Alert), dubbed MailShadowG, which synchronizes email, calendars and contacts between Outlook, Exchange and Gmail.

 

MailShadowG is the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) email continuity and disaster recovery solution that utilizes the Google Apps cloud-based services. According to Cemaphore’s officials, MailShadowG provides a unified view of e-mail, calendars, and contacts for enterprises, SMBs, and consumers that use Microsoft (News - Alert) Outlook and Exchange.

 

Officials explained that leveraging the functionality of the enterprise version of MailShadow, MailShadowG provides any e-mail user with continuity, content management, and portability of their rich email.

 

MailShadow’s transaction-based architecture synchronizes all content bi-directionally, and the content is protected and can be viewed transparently from Outlook or through Google’s web interfaces for Gmail, Calendar and Contacts.

 

“Our industry leading transaction-based architecture, coupled with our deep expertise in Microsoft Outlook, Exchange, MAPI, and Active Directory make this solution possible,” Tyrone Pike, president and CEO at Cemaphore, said.

 

He expects that this development will have a significant impact on the implementation, management, and archiving of e-mail content in the future, and also indicated that Cemaphore is planning to work with other rich email providers to offer similar SaaS services as MailShadow for Google.

 

Noting that the ability to integrate Outlook and Gmail will be extremely useful for a large number of users, Michael Osterman, founder of Osterman Research said that according to their research, Outlook is the “most widely used messaging client in the workplace” and “Gmail is widely used for both work and personal email, and also calendaring and contact information.”