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gmail and picasa storage limits

Posted by John on November 13th, 2009

An alternative to moving from Google Apps Standard edition up to Google Apps Premier edition :

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/more-extra-storage-for-less.html

This makes great financial sense for personal / family use, if you don’t need some of the extras from Premier. Case in point personally, as a family who uses Standard :

You have one person who may go significantly over their 7+ gig allotment : easy, add 20 gigs of space to that (for 27+g total; it’s in addition to the current level of “free” storage) for USD $5 per year (currently), for that user only. Problem solved, pretty cheaply :)

google gmail space diagram

This is significantly different cost-wise than moving the entire family / organization to 25 gig total space per year at a cost of $50 per user, and with the requirement of moving all users to this Premier plan. The math is fairly compelling, if you don’t need the service level agreement of 99.9% guaranteed uptime, and the Postini services, etc.

Happy gmailing, etc. and keep it secure!

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