What other schools are partnering with Google for email and document storage services?
Over 450 University and universities already have partnered with Google for email and document storage services, including Dartmouth, Arizona State University, Northwestern, and the University of Southern California. You can read an account of Google’s higher education program by visiting: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/11/27/email 2. Is Google’s email service reliable? The short answer is yes. Google has made a significant investment in its email and data infrastructure that guarantees a high level of redundancy and reliability. While WSC’s email system has been extremely reliable, its storage capacity is limited (Google offers 600x more data storage to each user than WSC). Additionally, Google’s data infrastructure is distributed over a large geographic region (WSC’s infrastructure is centralized on campus) to help minimize outages in the event of a regional disaster. 3. Will I see advertisements in my University email? No. As part of WSC’s agreement with Google, there will
