SAN MATEO, USA: Cemaphore Systems Inc. has joined the Google Enterprise Partner program, which extends the power of Google across the enterprise and helps customers get more value out of their Google enterprise deployments.

Cemaphore’s MailShadow for Google Apps (MailShadowG) is a software solution that delivers “continuity in the cloud” and provides real-time, bi-directional synchronization of email, calendars and contacts between Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, and Gmail email services, contacts and Google Calendar shared calendaring.

To date, over 2,600 organizations from 83 countries around the world have signed up for Cemaphore’s MailShadow for Google Apps Beta program. The sign ups range from small to large organizations, including Global 500 companies that are evaluating MailShadowG.

“The Google Enterprise Partner program will help us meet customer demands for continuity, content management, and portability of data with our powerful MailShadowG solution,” said Tyrone Pike, President and CEO of Cemaphore Systems. “Google Apps Premier Edition offers a broad set of APIs that enables MailShadowG to deliver continuity in the cloud for consumers, small businesses and enterprises. Based on the resounding response to MailShadowG and the Google Enterprise Partner program, we look forward to continued collaboration with the Google Apps team and our customers.”

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can leverage tools such as Gmail, Google Talk for instant messaging, Google Calendar, and Google Docs for documents, spreadsheets and presentations, on their own domain to work together more effectively. Best of all, it’s all hosted by Google, so there’s no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.

“Google is excited to have Cemaphore Systems as a partner in the Google Enterprise Partner program,” said Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead. “We're looking forward to Cemaphore Systems extending Google Apps by providing real-time synchronization to customers.”

The Google Enterprise Partner program includes developers, consultants and independent software vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products.