Communication is one of the pillars on which human society stands. Since the early 20th century, telegraph and postal services helped in mobilizing the workflow in an enterprise and helped to communicate between individuals of the same or different organizations.
Nowadays, any startup or an already well-established firm needs to communicate with its employees as well as with clients, vendors, and partners through emails to convey information faster. Since the later part of the 20th century, many corporations have been developing web-based applications/email clients to automate and standardize the workflow. Web-mail applications in the 1990s helped to send and receive information from around the world with very low latency. However, it lacked security and infrastructure for data loss prevention as for any organization, their data is the most important entity.
Since the early days of the 21st century, many establishments have invested heavily in cloud computing engines and Google is the goliath in that forefront. Cloud computing in recent years has developed extensively and is taking over the traditional web-based applications, the older companies are familiar with.
Here is a deep dive towards what you gain using G Suite over webmail:
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Point of Difference
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Web-Mail Server
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Google Suite
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Space Provided
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Depends on the service provider
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30 GB (Free) + Additional storage of up to 30 TB (Chargeable) for Business or Enterprise: Unlimited Storage for 5 users and Higher.
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Attachable File Space
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10-25 MB
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25 MB
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Real-Time Communication
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NA
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2000 Internal Recipient
500 External Recipient.
Hangout Chat.
Hangout Meet.
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MDM Service
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NA
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Yes
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Mobility and Sync
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NA
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Yes
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Uptime
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NA
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99.90%
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Admin Console + Security Features
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Master Control Panel to create/delete email ids
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Complete Control over the Domain and Users
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Disaster Recovery System
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No
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Yes
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Cloud Platform
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Yes
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Yes
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Socializing
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No
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Administrators can enable the Google+ feature to enhance the social connections between business professionals.
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Real-time Collaboration
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NA
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Docs, Sheet, Sites, Slides, and forms. (Pre Installed Apps)
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Availability Third-Party tools
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NA
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Many Tools
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Support Availability
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Telephonic and Email Support from the service provider
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From both Google Side as well as Partner Side
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SLA
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NA.
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Yes.
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Certifications
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NA.
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ISO 27001,FISMA,SSAE 16/SAE 3402 Type II,SAS 70.
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Flexibility
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Customizability
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Backup
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Yes, One can retrieve deleted messages for up to 14 days.
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Google Vault, Unlimited Storage + Indefinite RetentionTime
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Spam Filter
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Yes
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Domain Black Listing, Email Blacklisting
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Cloud Platform
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NA
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Google Cloud Platform
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Protocols Supported
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IMAP & POP Supported (SSL & TLS)
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IMAP & POP Supported (SSL & TLS)
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Smart Compose
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NA
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Yes
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Mailbox Delegation
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NA
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Yes
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API Integration
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NA
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Yes
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SSO for other Applications
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NA
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Yes
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SPF, DKIM & DMARC
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Yes
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Yes
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Data Center and Server Options
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Limited
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32 Data centers and above 2.5 million servers
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Drive for Teams
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NA
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Yes
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1 to 1 or Group Chats
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NA
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Yes
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Integration with Video Conferencing Tool
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NA
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Yes
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Calendar Delegation
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NA
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Yes
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Address Book
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NA
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Yes
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