Los Angeles, CA, March 25th, 2009 – DNAmail, an email solutions specialist for businesses of all sizes, has become a Google Apps Authorized Reseller™ for Google Apps™ Premier Edition. Premier Edition is Google’s hosted services for communication and collaboration designed to help companies reduce the costs and headaches of maintaining their own mail systems.

Google Apps™ offers simple to use messaging and collaboration applications for business and their employees – including Gmail™ professional email service, Google Calendar™ shared calendaring, Google Talk™ chat and instant messaging, Google Docs™ document, spreadsheet and presentation sharing and editing, Google Video™ for internal video sharing, and Google Sites™ intranet for knowledge sharing.

“Companies looking to significantly reduce costs for their email infrastructure will benefit from Google Apps”, says George Naspo, CEO of IKANO Communications, the parent company of DNAmail. “In today’s economy, why dedicate technology staff and other resources to maintaining mail servers and fighting spam when those resources could be utilized for revenue generating projects or go straight to the bottom line? DNAmail offers multiple solutions and Google Apps is a great choice for cost-conscious organizations who want a web-based application suite for their ‘always on’ workers to communicate effectively.”

Part of the Google Apps Solutions Marketplace™, DNAmail provides unique services to assist companies to migrate their existing email and employee accounts into Google Apps. DNAmail can also help companies who would like to manage of their user data through APIs for directory synchronization, reporting, and single sign-on.

Other benefits of Google Apps include 99.9% uptime guarantee, 25GB of email storage, mobile phone support (Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile and Android), Postini spam and filtering tools, SAS70 Type II compliance certification for security, custom branding in your company name, and future service upgrades at no additional cost.

“Google is able to scale to reach a wide network of businesses through our reseller program,” says Jack Weixel, Business Development Manager at Google. “Resellers like IKANO provide the hands-on assistance businesses need to migrate seamlessly onto Google Apps. Employees will enjoy the applications and ease-of-use, service managers will feel comfortable with the security and reliability, and executive and financial managers will love the cost savings.”

IKANO, parent company of DNAmail, began working with Google in 2008 as an aggregator of Google Apps Partner Edition (http://www.ikano.com/googleapps) for service providers (ISPs), broadband service companies, wireless service providers (WISPs), fiber to the premise providers (FTTP), cable companies, municipalities, and portal providers who offer email to their customers. Now companies who don’t qualify for Partner Edition can take full advantage of Premiere Edition through DNAmail.

About DNAmail
DNAmail, a division of IKANO Communications, is an email solutions provider serving businesses of all sizes. DNAmail specializes in Google Apps and Hosted Exchange services and offers complete solutions to meet the messaging and collaboration needs of businesses. For more information, visit www.dnamail.com.

About IKANO
IKANO Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of web-based communication solutions for business and residential customers in the US and Canada – including Internet access, email, hosting, portal, billing and support. IKANO’s services are offered both directly and through hundreds of Internet Service Providers and other partners on a wholesale and private label basis. IKANO makes it easy for service providers to maintain a unique brand while eliminating the hassle of network contracts, servers, and call centers. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, the company has offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.ikano.com. IKANO also owns DSLExtreme, the largest privately held DSL service provider in California. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Los Angeles, DSLExtreme offers a suite of superior quality online services for consumer and business customers throughout the United States. The DSLExtreme network serves tens of thousands of clients in over twenty-one major metropolitan areas across the country. For more information on small business solutions from DSLExtreme, visit www.dslextreme.com.