Who’s Moving To Google Mail?

Every so often we get asked, “Who is moving their email to Googles hosted services?” Located on the right is a featured video of the Chief Information Technology Officer for ASU talking about their efforts to move all of their email services to Google Apps Hosted EMail. The complete and full article of ASU’s story can be found here. ASU’s announcement was as follows,

“Oct. 10, 2006 Arizona State University (ASU) makes Google Apps Education Edition available to 65,000 students. ASU configured and deployed Google Apps for Education, Google’s hosted email, IM and calendaring solution, in under two weeks, including integrating it with home-grown single sign-on and user provisioning systems.”  

What is particularly interesting is the speed by which they were able to make the conversion and move; it was done in two weeks. In edition to everything else, there are a host of additional benefits that occurred as a result of the Move To Google Mail. The least of which was the enormous cost savings to the university.

The story is very compelling and is clearly one of the success stories of an incredibly large ogranization making the decision to move their mail infrastructure to the Internet. The point being, if Google is good enough for 65 thousand users at ASU, why would it not be good enough for you!

Make sure to watch the featured video, it is not particularly long. In addition it is much more interesting to hear the full details of why ASU Moved To Google Mail from a production IT perspective!