The City of San Jose has selected Microsoft Office 365, Windows Azure and StorSimple for more than 5,000 city employees, says Microsoft.
Vijay Sammeta (Chief information officer, San Jose): We turned to Office 365 for secured cloud productivity, which in turn will help us lower our total cost of ownership and support a more mobile and connected workforce of the future. The combination of Windows Azure and StorSimple will enable us to streamline storage infrastructure support, which enables our people to make the shift from basic backend operations to citizen engagement and service delivery.
The investment in new platforms was approved in the recent adoption of the annual city budget in June by the San Jose City Council.
The city’s transition to Microsoft’s enterprise cloud platform will begin this summer, and implementation throughout the organization is expected to take approximately six months.
[Image courtesy: City of San Jose]