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Organisations strive for leverage to drive down costs, improve business agility and benefit from increased automation and efficiency. In order to deliver performance, organisations compete on how best to remove the barriers of virtualisation and migrate their applications, while managing the associated complexity and risk. Read more to find how a focus of reference architecture delivers your goals.

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Leading Canadian hotelier, Delta Hotels and Resorts, recently migrated from Microsoft Exchange 2007 to Google Apps. It gained significant cost savings but more importantly for Director of Digital Innovation, Michael Rodger, a platform for growth and continuous innovation. Four thousand of Delta's employees now use Google Apps to better communicate and collaborate across 44 hotel properties and corporate offices. Michael will discuss the decision to switch, the deployment and Delta's future with Google Apps. 

A mechanical contractor founded in 1901, Limbach Facility Services was using Lotus Notes/Domino for its 500 employees, and despite being a recent version, the Notes system was hampering the company’s innovation. When a new hire suggested moving to Google Apps, management initially scoffed. But after evaluating Google Apps against Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange, Limbach was convinced of its value. Google Apps has quickly become a platform for innovation: one employee used Google video chat to document how to safely helicopter an HVAC system onto a roof and Limbach added a cloud-based workflow tool from the Google Apps Marketplace. 

At LCC International, a global wireless engineering company with 1,200 employees, VP of IT, John Buckholz, has managed Lotus cc:Mail, IBM Notes/Domino, and Microsoft Exchange systems during his career. But his most recent choice for messaging and collaboration is Google Apps. Why? LCC International saved 60% over bare-bones alternatives, and he and his team no longer spend their weekends monitoring system uptime and addressing email issues for a workforce that operates 365 days a year. Most importantly, IT has been able to shift resources to more mission critical initiatives.