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February 18, 2010 By Matt Williams
The city of Los Angeles' plan to move all its 30,000 employees to Gmail and Google Apps is on schedule for a mid-June rollout. But first the city is partnering with system integrator CSC on a 60-day pilot that began in January with 3,000 participants.
Watch Video: Los Angeles CTO Randi Levin is spearheading a first-of-its kind implementation of Gmail that's under way and set for a summer rollout.
After the e-mail deployment is done, the Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA) will focus on rolling out and utilizing Google Apps; in the meantime all employees will be trained on Google's video and chat features.
Watch Video: Los Angeles CTO Randi Levin reviews the decisions and considerations for implementing Google's Gmail citywide.
Los Angeles CTO Randi Levin and the ITA's Kevin Crawford, who's in charge of the implementation, sat down with Government Technology to talk about how using Gmail will save money and bring more functionality and better security to Los Angeles' departments and agencies.
Watch Video: Kevin Crawford, the Assistant General Manager of Los Angeles' Information Technology Agency, discusses technical considerations of the Google Gmail implementation.
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As a Manufacturer and Provider of SaaS and Embedded IP Access Control and Video solutions to the GSA and Security Industry I am extremely interested in staying current with the progress of this deployment. I applaud the courage of the LA IT Team to do the research needed to make this decision. As a tax payer in California I am even more encouraged than ever to see smart credentialed individuals make decisions that will help California and it's employees Work Smarter not Harder. Ms. Levin is 100% correct in her and her teams assessments of how to move forward and save California Millions of Dollars with secure technology. Anyone who sees the research and the security that went into this will understand how great a decision it was. The fact that LA City will now have DR (as a result of the SaaS Model) is AWESOME. It is my hope that Randi and her team are also open to additional SaaS and Embedded solutions from others like Brivo that can save the City even more funds on the same large scale.
As a Manufacturer and Provider of SaaS and Embedded IP Access Control and Video solutions to the GSA and Security Industry I am extremely interested in staying current with the progress of this deployment. I applaud the courage of the LA IT Team to do the research needed to make this decision. As a tax payer in California I am even more encouraged than ever to see smart credentialed individuals make decisions that will help California and it's employees Work Smarter not Harder. Ms. Levin is 100% correct in her and her teams assessments of how to move forward and save California Millions of Dollars with secure technology. Anyone who sees the research and the security that went into this will understand how great a decision it was. The fact that LA City will now have DR (as a result of the SaaS Model) is AWESOME. It is my hope that Randi and her team are also open to additional SaaS and Embedded solutions from others like Brivo that can save the City even more funds on the same large scale.
As a Manufacturer and Provider of SaaS and Embedded IP Access Control and Video solutions to the GSA and Security Industry I am extremely interested in staying current with the progress of this deployment. I applaud the courage of the LA IT Team to do the research needed to make this decision. As a tax payer in California I am even more encouraged than ever to see smart credentialed individuals make decisions that will help California and it's employees Work Smarter not Harder. Ms. Levin is 100% correct in her and her teams assessments of how to move forward and save California Millions of Dollars with secure technology. Anyone who sees the research and the security that went into this will understand how great a decision it was. The fact that LA City will now have DR (as a result of the SaaS Model) is AWESOME. It is my hope that Randi and her team are also open to additional SaaS and Embedded solutions from others like Brivo that can save the City even more funds on the same large scale.
As a Manufacturer and Provider of SaaS and Embedded IP Access Control and Video solutions to the GSA and Security Industry I am extremely interested in staying current with the progress of this deployment. I applaud the courage of the LA IT Team to do the research needed to make this decision. As a tax payer in California I am even more encouraged than ever to see smart credentialed individuals make decisions that will help California and it's employees Work Smarter not Harder. Ms. Levin is 100% correct in her and her teams assessments of how to move forward and save California Millions of Dollars with secure technology. Anyone who sees the research and the security that went into this will understand how great a decision it was. The fact that LA City will now have DR (as a result of the SaaS Model) is AWESOME. It is my hope that Randi and her team are also open to additional SaaS and Embedded solutions from others like Brivo that can save the City even more funds on the same large scale.