Gmail City

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Oct. 27, 2009

Will the City of LA award Google a $7.25 million contract to handle the City's email communication? Debate has been heated in Council with lingering concerns over security and budgetary numbers that paint a mixed picture of cost and savings. Would the move land LA on the avant garde of government cloud computing? Or could the Gmail plan compromise the confidentiality of sensitive information? Larry Mantle learns more.

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Mark
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Did you try to get Randi Levin, the CIO for LA, to join the call? It can be more informative to hear directly from the prospective customer in situations like this rather than from 3rd party observers.

david L.
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ha!

If they are going to use gmail, then they might as well just switch to texting and twitter so that everyone can read government business on twitter feed. It will be as likely, that someone will get in and propagate publicly or worse, give to abusers.

Google is NOT secure in the sense of firewall access to potentially ultra-secure data.

Have government network engineers forgot the reason for LAN and NOT WAN computing!!

The word "hopefully" as used to describe anywhere computing MAKES THIS POINT SO CLEARLY!

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