Cloud Computing: Google Apps Wins 76K Email Migrations from City of Boston
January 7, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.
The City of Boston publicly showed its support for Google (GOOG) by sharing the city’s experience with the company in a Google blog post this morning. Bill Oates, CIO for the city of Boston, said in the post that the city is continuing to "engage and connect with constituents using mobile technology and social media.
"As a tech-savvy city, we’re always looking for the best IT tools to help our government run smarter, innovate more effectively and provide better services for our citizens," he added. Oates said the city recently migrated 76,000 email accounts "from a collection of our premise-based systems, mostly Microsoft Exchange, to Google Apps."…
The migration stretches from city departments to the police department to the school district, he said. "Not only are all city departments, including the Boston Police Department, now on Google Apps, but every teacher and more than 50,000 public school students each has an individual Google Apps account," he said…
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