City of Los Angeles Is Now in Google’s Cloud

Back in October, the Los Angeles city council approved a $7.2 million deal to switch to hosted Google e-mail and application services.

Now, according to a blog post from Google, the deal is done , and the city of L.A. is now officially in the cloud, with 34,000 of the city’s employees switching to Google’s online services for e-mail and collaboration.

In the post, Google highlights the upsides of cloud computing:

“The...