More on the New Email Archiving for Google Apps.

Google Apps Vault Brings Information Governance to Google Apps

Here's insightful information about the new Email archiving for Google Apps:

@Greg, @patto @Dean & @Argon0 - Google Apps Vault is a completely new archiving solution, built from the ground up and working natively with Apps. While there is some overlap with Postini/GMD functionality as they both archive email for the purposes of retention and eDiscovery, there are key differences including:

1) Google Apps Vault is built natively in Google Apps and provides a true manage-in-place capability

2) Vault can archive on-the-record chat messages

3) Vault plans to support additional data types in the future (stay tuned for more information). GMD only supports email.

4) There is no time limit on retention. GMD has a maximum retention period of 10 years 

5) Easy set-up through the Apps CPanel. GMD has a separate, non-integrated user interface

6) Vault supports archiving email and on-the-record chat messages in all languages that Google Apps supports. GMD does not support as many languages, particularly double-byte languages. 

7) Vault can leverage existing migration tools for Gmail which gives customers more flexibility and can lower costs.

8) Vault can be deployed “on-demand” and immediately begin applying information governance policies to the data that exists in your domain’s Gmail inboxes (legacy and newly created data). GMD starts capturing messages from the time that it is deployed and requires Historic Message Journaling to load historical email into the GMD archive.

@ el Baker - We are working to enable EDUs to purchase Google Apps Vault and expect to have it soon. Stay tuned...

@T Mullenaux - Currently, Google Apps Vault can only be used together with Google Apps.