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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Google Introduces Apps For Government
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Google unveilled a new suite of Internet-hosted calendar,
email and other products that meets official US security
requirements.
The company announced a new edition of Google Apps.
Designed with guidance from customers like the federal
government, the City of Los Angeles and the City of Orlando,
Google Apps for Government includes the same Google
applications that people are familiar with plus specific
measures to address the policy and security needs of the
public sector.
Google also announced that Google Apps is the first suite of
cloud computing applications to receive Federal Information
Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and
accreditation from the U.S. government. The FISMA law
applies to all information systems in use by U.S. federal
government agencies to help ensure they?re secure. The
federal government?s General Services Administration has
reviewed the documentation of Google's security controls
and issued an authorization to operate, the official
confirmation of Google's FISMA certification and
accreditation. This review makes it easier for federal
agencies to compare Google's security features to those of
their existing systems.
Take Berkeley Lab, a member of the national laboratory
system supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. It?s
managed by the University of California and conducts
unclassified research across a wide range of scientific
disciplines. Berkeley researchers collaborate with
scientists around the world, so emailing version upon
version of documents among collaborators and trying to
juggle disparate files is difficult. Berkeley Lab
researchers have been using Google Apps to share documents
that live in the cloud, and can view and edit documents and
spreadsheets simultaneously knowing they are always working
from the latest information.
Google Apps for Government stores Gmail and Calendar data in
a segregated system located in the continental United
States, exclusively for Googler's government customers.
Other applications will follow in the near future. The suite
is a "community cloud"?as defined by the National Institute
for Science and Technology?to support the needs of Google's
government customers. Google Apps for Government is
available now to any federal, state or local government in
the United States.
Google claims that its cloud offers higher reliability,
best-in-class disaster recovery and access to a steady
stream of innovation?all of which can provide substantial
improvements over existing systems in addition to
significant cost savings. And with no hardware or software
to install and maintain, Google Apps for Government allows
agencies to redeploy resources to technology projects core
to their mission of serving the public. |
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