City of San Jose chooses Office 365, Windows Azure and StorSimple for its 5,000 employees

The City of San Jose and its more than 5,000 employees will now be using Microsoft Office 365, Windows Azure and StorSimple to expand productivity, reduce operational costs, and deliver improved services to more than 984,000 residents in the Silicon Valley.

?The combination of these services supports both our long-term technology strategy and the immediate needs of our employees and residents,? said Vijay Sammeta, San Jose?s chief information officer. ?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 city?s transition to Microsoft?s enterprise cloud platform will begin this summer, and cross-organization implementation will take about six months. For more on the benefits and reasons the ?capital of Silicon Valley? is moving to Office 365, Windows Azure, and StorSimple, check out the Microsoft press release, the Office 365 blog, the?Azure team blog,?or the Microsoft on Government blog.

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Jennifer Warnick
Microsoft News Center

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/firehose/archive/2013/07/15/city-of-san-jose-chooses-office-365-windows-azure-and-storsimple.aspx

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