Sydney’s Macquarie University is to dump Google’s Gmail as the preferred e-mail and calendaring system for staff, following a decision by Google to move the university’s stored data from Europe to the USA.
Macquarie will move its e-mail system to Microsoft’s Office 365 service, MacUni CIO Mary Davies has said.
Microsoft has been hosting Australian operations of its cloud product suite in two datacentres in Melbourne and Sydney since last October.
“The new offering will include greater security and data privacy, as well as improved data access speeds, global e-mail access, and collaboration with other Australian universities,” Davies told online service ZDNet.
Davies said staff will retain access to Google Apps for the time being, but will no longer use Google for e-mail and calendars. And she said Google Apps will be reviewed separately in 2016.