Google Exclusively Introducing Google Apps for Government

Google held a special press event at its Mountain View headquarters to introduce its new edition of Google Apps exclusively for governments. According to The Official Google Blog, the new Google Apps for Government was designed and created with the help of the federal government, the City of Los Angeles, and the City of Orlando to include the necessary measures to address the policy and security needs of the public sector.

Google goes on to explain that its new Google Apps for Government is the “first suite of cloud computing applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation from the U.S. government.” This should make it easier for federal agencies across the country to compare their security settings with those of their existing systems.

The Mountain View-based company also explains that “Google Apps for Government stores Gmail and Calendar data in a segregated system located in the continental United States.” Google states that other applications will follow suit in the near future. As you can imagine, Google Apps for Government is exclusively and only available to any federal, state, or local government in the United States now.