Today Lockheed Martin joined Microsoft in announcing receipt of a $9.8 million
contract to migrate the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to
Microsoft Office 365 for Government, our new multi-tenant service
that stores U.S. government data in a segregated community cloud
and includes e-mail, calendars, scheduling and collaboration tools
for internal and external use.
While the move is expected to yield an estimated cost savings of
$12 million over the four year contract, we're also pleased that
the contract represents investment in a solution that echoes the
EPA's mission to protect the environment and promote energy
efficiency. In choosing Microsoft, the EPA will tap online
services delivered through our data centers that feature the latest
innovations in energy efficient design, and that offer the
potential to help customers reduce their energy consumption and
environmental impact.
Approximately 25,000 EPA employees will use Office 365 for
Government. The EPA will join other federal agencies-including the
Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of
Agriculture-in adopting Office 365 as a cloud-based solution.
We have a longstanding collaboration with the EPA, which
recently awarded Microsoft a Green Power Partner of the Year Award as the
third largest organizational purchaser of renewable energy-more
than 1 billion Kilowatt-hours last year. As the federal agency
responsible for protecting human health and enforcing environmental
regulations, the EPA has also played an important role in
encouraging the role of technology to achieve energy efficiency,
like its Apps for the Environment contest.
You can find more information about how Lockheed Martin and
Microsoft are taking the EPA to the cloud here.
More information is available
here on how our team is working to deliver more than 200 online
services from our global data centers that are consistently
increasing energy efficiency and taking advantage of sustainable
power resources. Our best practices for cloud data centers are
publicly available in the videos, whitepapers, and blogs that we
have been sharing since 2007 and you can access them on our web
site at www.globalfoundationservices.com
Read More >>
