International Fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi Goes Google
With almost 100,000 E-mail messages at risk on an aging server, AEPi went live with Google Apps today, unifying staff and volunteers while reducing their risk and budget
10/1/2012 Indianapolis, Indiana
by Douglas Baumwall
Certified Google Apps Reseller
EasygApps.com
Eric Farbman, Technology Chair of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity said “Everyone is happy or more accurately, they are all thrilled...” After almost 10 years of use, their legacy Microsoft Exchange email software, installed on their aging computer server, put most of the Fraternity’s data at risk if the server failed. Their solution? Migrate years of email messages and attachments to the cloud, outsourcing their email and server needs. They chose the best-in-class email solution (Gmail) which is hosted on a worldwide network of over 1,000,000 custom built servers in secure, green, geographically dispersed Google data centers, and they chose a Certified Google Apps Reseller for deployment. Total recurring cost to Alpha Epsilon Pi? $0.00, nada, free! AEPi.org is owned by a not-for-profit 501(c)(3), so it qualifies for Google Apps for Education (free up to 3,000 users).
Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) is the international Jewish fraternity, dedicated to combating Jewish assimilation and producing the Jewish leaders of the 21st Century. AEPi maintains chapters on 168 university and college campuses in the United States, Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom, and France, and is comprised of over 85,000 alumni members and more than 8,000 student members. Founded in 1913 at New York University, AEPi will celebrate its 100th anniversary at the Waldorf Astoria hotel on August 10, 2013.
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