Vorari vs Gmail

Plenty of customers come to us and ask the question, so here is a brief comparison. One huge benefit many of our customers choose us for is security and data protection. Unlike Google, we don't read your emails!
 
Support & Migration
We offer dedicated phone and email support, on site where necessary.  Google claims this but doesn't offer it in practice for accounts less than 500+ users. Our support response times are controlled by strict SLA adherence and most support requests are dealt with within an hour. We offer a comprehensive migration strategy to enable a smooth transition to our services. This includes a whole host of platforms such as Microsoft Exchange, older or equivalent Zimbra setups or generic IMAP servers. 
 
Anti-virus & Anti-spam
Google has removed dedicated anti-virus & anti-spam for their premium offering and uses their default basic one. With our Mailguard service we offer a more robust anti-spam and anti-virus service with fine-grained control over filters and security. What's more our Mailguard service serves as a backup mail queue in the event of any single software service failure. This means you have multiple systems to safegaurd inbound and outbound email rather than relying on one code-base. We also offer a completely customisable solution to suit your needs.
 
Control of data, code-base and infrastructure
We have complete control over the code base in cloud infrastructure for our services. This means we are able to achieve a high level of options and customisation possibilities for our customers. What's more we can tailor and integrate our solutions to fit in with your existing infrastructure. Google cannot offer this level of integration since they must please the masses. Our infrastructure is secure, and deployed across multiple datacentres with regular synchronisation and backup.
 
Addons & Plugins
A whole host of addons are available to offer extra fucntionality.. for example there are a huge amount of Zimlets available for Zimbra. Vorari offers dedicated plugins (e.g. Outlook connector for Zimbra) and we also offer native Outlook/Exchange integration through our SOGo offering - a wordwide first for Vorari.
 
Privacy & Security
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/14/us-google-email-idUSBREA3D1RT20140414
“When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.”
so in short..Google will take your email, contacts and or private info and will sell for their personal profit.
 
SLA
We offer a 100% SLA for cloud services including Zimbra, SOGo and Mailguard.