Catholic schools fly into Google cloud

By the end of this year 300,000 of Australia’s Catholic School acceptance and 30,000 agents will be application the Google Apps platform, beneath a affairs appear Catholic Apprenticeship Network.

Google Apps will be implemented at 740 sites in NSW, Queensland, the ACT and NT who are getting provided with chargeless admission by Google.

Many agents and acceptance are now authoritative use of Gmail and added accoutrement aural the Google apartment including Google Calendar, Docs, Groups, Video and Sites, can be switched on as required.

Writing on the Google Apps blog, Ian Gregory, Manager of IT Systems for CEnet, said, “CEnet’s associates capital to move to a next-generation messaging and accord belvedere that went above the realms of just apparent old email.

“We accept consistently been acquainted of the challenges circuitous in deploying casework on a admirable calibration – IT in apprenticeship is a big operation that is generally underestimated. Naturally, advancement systems of this calibration requires a cogent investment in time, amount and effort. The charge to administer approved updates and patches, administer storage, plan for accommodation and advance alone agents and apprentice admission was something we dealt with on a circadian base and something we believed was far added circuitous than it absolutely bare to be.

“Working with our members, we absitively to attending for a band-aid that would authorize a centralised ability for advice and accord and ultimately abate the accident and amount of our on-premise services. Importantly, any band-aid bare to be accumbent with a basic acquirements ambiance archetype that would advance to abutment the acquirements initiatives of our members. It aswell bare to board the expectations of the awful tech adeptness bearing Y and Z acceptance who apprehend the aforementioned akin of technology admission in the classroom as they accept at home.

“In the end, we called Google Apps; its amount effectiveness, time-to-deploy and inherent capabilities were the key drivers abaft the decision. The billow accretion band-aid lowers our administration overheads, aliment costs and effort. Importantly the functionality of Google Apps’ is aswell admired and we can, and have, readily continued the arrangement by utilising the Google Apps Marketplace. We aswell accept the affirmation that we’re blockage in blow with the a lot of abreast technology and affair the needs and expectations of our students. As Google is consistently innovating, so are we.

Gregory aswell wrote, “As the IT managers and account providers, we accept bargain the amount of concrete servers or basic machines from over 30 to just the four. The accomplished IT ecosystem requires far beneath aliment and the connected innovations and upgrades from Google do not crave patches or hands-on IT agents time. CEnet, like the association it serves, is consistently changing. We are captivated with the allowances our accommodation has delivered already and apperceive Google Apps will advance as we do. ”