{"id":7183,"date":"2013-04-28T23:23:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T23:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/apr\/29\/what-government-is-teaching-us-about-cloud-email\/"},"modified":"2013-04-28T23:23:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T23:23:18","slug":"what-government-is-teaching-us-about-cloud-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-government-is-teaching-us-about-cloud-email\/","title":{"rendered":"What government is teaching us about cloud email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who said government is stodgy and wasteful?<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to cloud computing, government&rsquo;s on the forefront&mdash;particularly when it comes to cloud-based email.&nbsp;The US Army, EPA, GSA, Interior, Labor, the USDA&hellip; they are all among the government organizations moving email to the cloud under Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;cloud first&rdquo; policy.<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of&nbsp;Veterans Affairs&nbsp;is showing particular prudence by&nbsp;starting out with a relatively small, 15,000-mailbox pilot to make sure it&rsquo;s properly addressing all the security, compliance, governance and cost-savings concerns that are all part and parcel of the email-in-the-cloud package.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the VA will up the roll-out to 600,000 mailboxes to save what it hopes will amount to about $85 million in maintenance fees, support staff and aging hardware it will no longer need.<\/p>\n<p>I hope other organizations regardless of sector are paying close attention.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone wants to save a buck, of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who said government is stodgy and wasteful?<br \/>\nWhen it comes to cloud computing, government&rsquo;s on the forefront&mdash;particularly when it comes to cloud-based email.&nbsp;The US Army, EPA, GSA, Interior, Labor, the USDA&hellip; they are all among th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}