Los Angeles City Council Chooses Google Email Archiving
The City of Los Angeles unanimously approved Tuesday, Oct. 27, a plan to move the city's employees to Google's Gmail and productivity tools. This could signal a move for other government agencies that are considering cloud computing for enterprise IT services.
L.A. is thought widely considered as the first public-sector enterprise to choose Google's e-mail service Gmail. The City of Los Angeles had been using Novell GroupWise for the past 7 years. The 5-year contract with Google will cost L.A. $17.5 million.
The city estimates that moving its 30,000 employees to Gmail will save $5.5 million over five years, reduce the number of servers needed for e-mail from 90 to a few dozen, and cut 9 positions from the Los Angeles Information Technology Agency.
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