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Google will drop the "beta" label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk in one fell swoop on Tuesday to rid its Apps communication and collaboration suite of this problematic tag that spooks many IT managers and CIOs.
By Juan Carlos Perez
Another new feature to be delivered in a matter of weeks will be the ability for administrators to set up e-mail retention policies, which is important in particular for companies that need to comply with regulations regarding document storage and retention.
On the back end, Google is boosting the reliability of Apps, which is a hosted software suite. Google is implementing "live replication of data" among its data centers which will result in "near instant disaster recovery," according to a Google statement.
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