09 Sep 2008
North Wales Police has outsourced its email infrastructure to Unisys.
The agreement will see a migration of more than 2,500 email accounts from the current Exchange 2003 to an Exchange 2007 platform based at Unisys' HQ in Reston, Virginia.
The move is designed to free up IT staff to provide better support in other areas.
Robust email is increasingly important as police forces roll out mobile devices for frontline officers, according to Geoff Bradley, IT director at North Wales Police.
"Our officers are increasingly using BlackBerry devices to access line-of-business applications and email in the field, so we need to know we can rely on an effective and fully operational system around the clock," he said.
Unisys will also provide a disaster recovery facility for the force.
Have your say on this article
Newsletters
Latest stories from Public Sector
Latest videos
You may also like
Public Sector jobs
Technology Patent Wars
Case studies from large organisations across all sectors
... And rich media, and flexible working, and peaks in traffic ...
Upcoming Events
Join us for this Computing web seminar, in which the Head of BI at the Co-operative Group Nick Colebourn will be explaining just how he reigned in the Group’s sprawling database estate and how significant savings were realised and data quality improved as a result.
Date: 31 May 2012
Time: 11:00 AM
Live June 13th 11:00am: Register now. During this web seminar we will be looking at the sorts of incidents that can bring data centres grinding to a halt and what can be done about them.
Date: 13 Jun 2012
Time: 11:00 am
Receive the latest jobs direct to your inbox
Are you being paid what you are worth?
