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Petition for Google to offer a Google Apps Appliance





To: Google, Inc.





Google has a hardware product called the Google Search Appliance (http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa), a search engine that stores all its data on hardware the purchaser owns and controls.





Google also markets Google Apps (http://www.google.com/a), a suite of web-based applications that store all their data on Google's servers. Businesses are encouraged to subscribe to Google Apps to provide their employees with email, IM, calendaring, word-processing and other office applications, accessed over the web and without any investment in IT or server hardware. This also means that all email, instant messaging logs, calendars, documents, and other information is stored on hardware owned and controlled by Google.





We the undersigned ask Google to offer what might be called a Google Apps Appliance, a hardware product that will host Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Docs (including spreadsheets and presentations), and Google Sites. The Google Apps Appliance should store all data on hardware controlled by the purchaser of the product rather than on Google's servers.





We request this because we wish our employers to use the applications in the Google Apps suite, but they are unwilling or unable to store business secrets and other confidential information on Google servers.





59 Signatures

  • Mark Nahabedian
  • Gordon Sims
  • Duncan Brown
  • Mike Schroll
  • Dan Burkhard
    • Comments
    • Do it!
  • Tyler Prete
  • Alan Sutherland
  • manuel lara
  • Marcel Wiedemeier
  • Dave Dumaresq
  • Braeg Heneffe
    • Comments
    • http://www.internetkitchenappliances.co.uk/
  • Vincent Saulnier
  • Chris Crocker-White
  • Phil Roberts
  • Al Dean
    • Comments
    • Please do this! Love Google Apps!
  • Anthony Whitlock
    • Comments
    • only you can save us from the horror that is Zimbra
  • Laurent
  • AK Thakore
  • Stephen Leary
  • Dan Walters
  • Steve Tulk
  • Mike Baroukh
  • Rob O'Connell
  • Darren Bennett
  • alex rodich
    • Comments
    • My web develpment business craves the productivity tools that google offers in it's app suite but is unable to use their services due to client security and liability concerns
  • Philip Clarke
  • matt
  • Julien Blanc
  • Stephen O'Callaghan
    • Comments
    • Having control of hardware is still a major obstacle to embracing cloud computing.
  • Carlo Ferroni
  • Linda Ruiz
    • Comments
    • I am proposing our group buy Google Apps premium. The downside for us is that we can't use it for customer data, the bread and butter of our work. An appliance with encrypted backup to the Google cloud would meet our needs.
  • Justin Akehurst
    • Comments
    • Please!
  • Dupuy
    • Comments
    • Please hurry up :)
  • Anne
    • Comments
    • Unfortunately, it is probably too late - we'll be getting Exchange because of our fear of hosted data.
  • Steve Hulbert
    • Comments
    • This looks like the only way we can get an ITAR-compliant Google solution. And we're desparate for such a solution.
  • Tom Gignac
    • Comments
    • Currently the Patriot Act makes it impossible for us to use Apps as a Hosted Service. I would buy an appliance in a second.
  • Patrick Shields
    • Comments
    • Combining Google Apps & Search would be even better!
  • Jason Pyeron
    • Comments
    • CEO - www.PDInc.us
  • Aaron Sonntag
  • Karl Browning
  • Johnathon Dupuis
  • Steven Sarver
  • Merlin McCarthy
    • Comments
    • GO TO .... http://www.WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.com
  • Marco Brambilla
  • Sean Walsh
  • Michael Vogt
  • Marcel Bennett
    • Comments
    • I love Google apps but my company wont consider a hosted service so we get stuck with MicroCrap
  • Donaubauer Bernhard
  • Jorgen Smith
    • Comments
    • This appliance would potentially carry some serious weight in the medium / large enterprise market
  • Gary Hartwell
    • Comments
    • My employer requires positive control over all sensative data. I would really love to use google docs in a local appliance to replace all MS products