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03 Oct 08

"That was my introduction to public service," he says. "In Arlington, what we realized after those attacks, was that if we had our one main data center shut down, we wouldn't be able to support government."

Vivek Kundra, chief technology officer of the D.C. government.

So when he took over as the district's CTO in 2007, he decided that "moving to the cloud" would have its merits, because a company such as Google has so many data centers that it would ensure better business continuity and security.
"Their data centers are geographically dispersed," he says. "That was attractive to me from a security perspective."
"The average cost of [enterprise] email is 8 dollars per month [per user]," he says. "For half that, we can get more value beyond just e-mail. We're getting Google apps and video for the enterprise. We're getting the ability to share spreadsheets and documents."

Taylor Woodrow, a construction firm in the U.K., implemented the enterprise version of Gmail (e-mail by Google). The company's IT director has already seen a cost savings of nearly $2 million by ditching on premise e-mail.

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