The recent spate of natural disasters here in Australia has had many of my clients talking to me (and in general) about Disaster Recovery in the cloud for their IT Infrastructure. DR to the cloud is an ideal first step for many businesses considering cloud computing, it allows for a inexpensive, scalable, offsite infrastructure that can be called upon to in the event of a disaster scenario arising.

With impeccable timing for those of us in Australia, Google has just introduced Google Message Continuity, a hosted DR solution for on-premise Microsoft Exchange mailservers.

Google Message Continuity is a robust, easy to implement Disaster Recovery Solution using their leading cloud computing infrastructure to compliment an existing Microsoft Exchange environment. Google Message Continuity provides dual delivery and message state synchronisation between users Outlook clients and Gmail, allowing users to continue to work in Gmail in the event of an outage / disaster scenario affecting the on-premise Microsoft Exchange environment.

Here is a short video overview of how GMC works:

If you’re interested in learning more about how GMC can be used in your organisation, please send me an email