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Los Angeles Axes Plans to Add Police Email to Google Cloud

By Staff Writers , GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY

16. December 2011

The issues surrounding the Google Apps deal with Los Angeles came to a head in October, when Santa Monica, Calif.-based Consumer Watchdog released on its website a letter from Los Angeles CTO Randi Levin to systems integrator CSC that formally requested that CSC refund to Los Angeles money spent on seat licenses and migration costs associated with moving its law enforcement and criminal justice personnel to Google’s cloud product.

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Consumer Watchdog Lambasts Los Angeles Over Google Apps

By Iain Thomson , THE REGISTER UK

27. October 2011

Consumer Watchdog president Jamie Court has given Los Angeles city council members an impassioned speech about the failings of its Google Apps contract, even though the meeting to discuss the issue has been moved to next week.

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Los Angeles CTO Defends Embattled Google Apps Deal

By Matt Williams , GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY

20. October 2011

Los Angeles CTO Randi Levin said Thursday that Google Apps is “working fine” for the majority of city employees, and that the city’s desire to cancel the cloud-based e-mail suite in the Los Angeles Police…

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Los Angeles Wants Refund for Google Apps

By Ed Oswald , BETANEWS

20. October 2011

Google may need to act quickly to salvage its $7.25 million deal to migrate the city of Los Angeles to its Google Apps platform, following news that the delayed rollout is still not completed. The city approved the deal two years ago, but in July 2010 it was disclosed that delays had prevented full implementation.

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Google Apps Hasn’t Met LAPD’s Security Requirements, City Demands Refund

By Jon Brodkin , ARS TECHNICA.COM

20. October 2011

Two years after the City of Los Angeles approved a $7.25 million deal to move its e-mail and productivity infrastructure to Google Apps, the migration has still not been completed because the Los Angeles Police Department and other agencies are unsatisfied with Google’s security related to the handling of criminal history data.

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Google Suffers Cloud Setback in L.A.

By David Saleh Rauf , POLITICO PRO

19. October 2011

Los Angeles is delaying until 2012 the migration of email to Google’s cloud computing suite for thousands of law enforcement officials because the system doesn’t currently meet security requirements — a blow for the tech titan as it battles rivals for government cloud supremacy.

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Google struggles to defend Apps security

Posted by Margot Williams

10. June 2010

Google’s recent release of a white paper on its security policies and technologies for Google Apps is notable for its effort to assure users and potential customers that the information stored by Google is safe. And perceptions about the Internet giant’s security are key to its future.

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