Shared Services Canada, the agency created last year to tame the federal government's chaotic IT infrastructure, has been given its first marching orders. Simplify the email!
It is a daunting task! There are 43 departments under the umbrella of Shared Services Canada. Between them they use 21 different email systems installed on over 1700 servers. There are over 640,000 email accounts holding over 950 Terabytes of data!
Wait, how much is that?
Well, if you consider a simple magazine with, say, 5000 characters per page, then just 1 terabyte would be the equivalent of a magazine about 220 million pages thick. The federal government -- well no, just the 43 departments in the project -- are currently storing 21 trillion pages of email. That's three times more than all the web data captured to date by the US Library of Congress.
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