NEW! Google Apps Status Dashboard!

As a part of a commitment we made to increase transparency and communication with Google Apps admins, we've created a new dashboard, available at the link below:

http://www.google.com/appsstatus


The Google Apps status dashboard publishes the latest information on service performance. You can use this page any time to keep up to date on the status of your Google Apps services. If you need the latest information to share with your end users or your management team, Google employees will post the most updated status here. We hope you find this new page useful!

Google App Engine billing now available

Today the App Engine team announced formal pricing and the ability to pay for resources beyond the free quota.

The free quota is still there, but now your app can grow beyond it, and do so in a controlled manner. You can set a daily budget for your app that represents the maximum amount you're willing to pay for computing resources each day.

We think the price point of Google App Engine combined with the ability to integrate Google App Engine apps with Google Apps presents a good opportunity for solution providers to serve their customers in new ways.

Google Documents List Data API now supports downloads too

We have enabled programmatic document creation, upload, and search for Google Docs for some time, but had not provided an API to download these documents.

That common feature request is now closed -- check out the following blog post for more information on the new download API, which allows authenticated applications to download documents in a number of different formats, including pdf, doc, ppt, swf, and xls:

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/02/start-downloads.html

Calendar and Contact sync now available for iPhone and Windows Mobile

Today we announced two-way calendar and contacts sync for iPhones and Windows Mobile devices, and two-way contacts sync for mobile devices that support SyncML.

This builds on our Blackberry sync features announced last year.

See the Google blog post for more information: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/calendar-and-contact-syncing-for-iphone.html

New Forrester Reports on Email in the Cloud

Looking for analyst reports that help outline why your customers should think about cloud computing? Check out our two new reports from Forrester titled "Should your Email Live in the Cloud?" The first report looks at this from a cost perspective and the second analyzes the infrastructure and operations impact.

You can find both of these along with many tools for collateral and promotions in the Marketing section of our Solution Provider site. Just scroll down to view "3rd Party Reports" (you'll see the new Google Apps savings calculator too.)