The City of Los Angeles have decided to go Google

October 30, 2009 by Edwin Wang · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Deployment Overseas 

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve a $7.2 million deal with IT contractor Computer Sciences Corp. to replace the city’s existing Novell GroupWise e-mail system with Google Apps, Google’s suite of online communication and productivity programs. Microsoft Office licenses will be reduced but not eliminated, as select city workers will continue to use Microsoft’s software.

The hotly contested deal calls for shifting about 30,000 city workers over to Google Apps in the next year.

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Rentokil to use Google’s Apps cloud, 3,5000 Users.

October 14, 2009 by Edwin Wang · Leave a Comment
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Rentokil Initial has become one of the largest user of  Google Apps , rolling out the cloud-based office suite to 35,000 users globally by the end of 2010.

Rentokill plans to use Google to consolidate 40 email systems including open source products and Microsoft Exchange, into a single email system. The complex setup prevented staff from sending email across the group.

“The company has evolved with each business buying its own systems. We also acquired a number of companies. We had difficulty in sending email across the company,” said Bryan Kinsella, chief information officer.

Kinsella has now mandated the use of Google Apps across the group for email, collaboration and video conferencing.

Rentokil selected Google Apps after a 100-day pilot within its Ambius division, with 800 users in different countries, which demonstrated the system’s suitability for the group as a whole.

Check the whole news out at ComputerWeekly.com

Check out the Press Release of this from Rentokil website.

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