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  • Google Apps Vault Gets New Privacy, Security Feature

    Google launched Apps Vault for Apps for Business customers about two years ago. It’s aimed at helping businesses reduce costs of litigation, regulatory investigation, and compliance.

    It’s not a product that gets a lot of headline-grabbing updates, but Google has been making some necessary changes to the offering.

    For one, the company just announced that Google Apps Vault-using businesses can now assign privileges based on organization units. In other words, you can limit specific admins to search and export only specific organization units.

    This is an effort to address privacy and security concerns, so not all admins have access to all Vault users in a domain.

    “Google Apps Vault helps businesses, schools, and governments of all sizes archive, retain and manage business business-critical information,” says product manager Deborah Hsieh. “Vault also helps with continuity, compliance, and regulatory purposes. Last January, the introduction of targeted legal holds gave our customers even more control over the emails they retain by restricting holds to searchable criteria.”

    “Last month, we launched OU-based search, which lets Vault administrators search for data within a specific OU,” she says. “Vault’s OU-based search and OU-restricted search reduce the number of irrelevant search results that a domain-wide search can produce, and eliminates the need to specify individual accounts. For example, if your OUs are structured by geography, you can restrict your administrator based in London to only search your users in Europe.”

    More on Apps Vault here.

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  • Google Apps Vault Now Available For New Customers

    Google announced today that Google Apps Vault is now available online to new customers. The product was launched earlier this year as a new governance solution for Google Apps for businesses of all sizes, but certainly for businesses at the enterprise level.

    Google says it can reduce costs of litigation, regulatory investigation and compliance.

    “Until now, many small and medium-size businesses were unable to deploy solutions like Vault due to cost and complexity,” explains Google. “But starting today, Apps customers can purchase Google Apps Vault online directly from the Control Panel.”

    “Businesses of all sizes need to be prepared for the unexpected,” said Google’s Jack Halprin upon the product’s launch. “In today’s environment, using Vault to manage, archive and preserve your data can help protect your business. Litigation costs can really take a toll on a business when minor lawsuits can run up to many thousands of dollars, and larger lawsuits can cost even more. Significant litigation costs come from having to search and find relevant data, which is also known as electronic discovery (eDiscovery).”

    “E-discovery can be part of virtually any litigation and requires you to search, find and preserve your electronic information such as email,” he addd. “Vault helps protect your business with easy-to-use search so you can quickly find and preserve data to respond to unexpected customer claims, lawsuits or investigations. With an instant-on functionality and availability of your data a few clicks away, Vault provides access to all of your Gmail and on-the-record chats and can provide significant savings to your business over the traditional costs of litigation and eDiscovery.”

    Here’s Google’s intro video about it:

    Google Apps Vault can be added to users’ Google Apps accounts for an additional $5 per user per month. Not too much of an added cost for this kind of resource planning.

  • Google Apps Vault Launched For Business Customers

    Google announced the launch of information governance solution Google Apps Vault for Google Apps For Business customers, which Google says can reduce costs of litigation, regulatory investigation and compliance.

    It costs $5 a month, and lets businesses archive and manage Gmail and on-the-record chat messages in place, so the data doesn’t need to be duplicated in separate archives. Likewise, it lets businesses retain documents and define retention policies based on content, labels and metadata.

    It also has feature that let authorized users search across the domain for data that may be relevant to specific matters/investigations.

    “Businesses of all sizes need to be prepared for the unexpected,” says Google’s Jack Halprin. “In today’s environment, using Vault to manage, archive and preserve your data can help protect your business. Litigation costs can really take a toll on a business when minor lawsuits can run up to many thousands of dollars, and larger lawsuits can cost even more. Significant litigation costs come from having to search and find relevant data, which is also known as electronic discovery (eDiscovery).”

    “E-discovery can be part of virtually any litigation and requires you to search, find and preserve your electronic information such as email,” he adds. “Vault helps protect your business with easy-to-use search so you can quickly find and preserve data to respond to unexpected customer claims, lawsuits or investigations. With an instant-on functionality and availability of your data a few clicks away, Vault provides access to all of your Gmail and on-the-record chats and can provide significant savings to your business over the traditional costs of litigation and eDiscovery.”

    Businesses who wish to set up Google Apps Vault are directed to contact Google’s sales team or a Google Apps reseller.