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SOLICITATION # CHI rn'') to utilize vehicle. While the technical requirements of each solution vary, Carahsoft strives to consolidate these specifications and responses into a cohesive unit. For example: CA Technologies is a leader in IT Management Solutions in the industry. CA has be steadily moving its premier on premise management solutions to the cloud. CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) is one of the leading solutions used by state governments today. Google's SaaS offering, Google Apps, has been commercially available since 2006 and presently has —5.3 million paying customers covering 26m+ end user licenses. Google Apps represents a combination of the most popular consumer products that have been prepared for Enterprise use through the means of adding Administrative and Compliance Controls to the suite. Gmail is the anchor product in the SaaS offering. Google has over 1 B consumer users of Gmail and from that success designed a means by which customers could bring their own email -enabled domain name(s) into this managed service to replace legacy on -premises systems at a significantly reduced price. The straightforward means of migrating data as well as configuring the service and the knowledge that a majority of these business users may already be familiar with Gmail via personal use has made the adoption of Google Apps a logical choice. Examples of the evolution of this SaaS offering include: • Acquisition in 2007 of one of the leading email security and compliance vendors and the integration of those services to the Gmail Advanced Settings options. These features include the ability for customer System Administrators to set Spam, Content, Attachment and TLS policies to meet their specific requirements. • In 2011 Google launches the Google Apps Status Dashboard, a publicly accessible website with RSS feeds to keep the world apprise of current system status. • In 2012 Google increases the Gmail storage allocation from 10gb to 25gb, no change in price • In 2013 Google modifies the storage space to unify email and Drive storage and increase the allocation to 30Gb, no change in price • In 2014 Google offers a new premium SKU that offers unlimited unified Storage • In 2015 Google enhances the Gmail Advanced Settings features to include pre -defined lexicons to support Data Loss Prevention scanning in email. The above list is a short list of the variety of services, support offerings, features and best practices that Google has adopted into the service delivery of the SaaS offering. In addition to the wide use of GMail, Google has six other products with over a Billion active users. Those are Google Search, Chrome, Android, Google Maps, YouTube and Google Play. Chrome as a browser and an operating system are further evidence of strong usage and market acceptance. In a report released by Net Applications in April of 2015, Chrome browser held 25.68% market share while IE11 had 25.04, followed by IE8 at 16.0. The increase in adoption by Enterprise customers is attributed to the real time updates against emerging threats and the Chrome for Enterprise browser controls. Chromebooks, the laptops that run Google Chrome as the OS, are seeing a rapid increase in sales in the K-12 market worldwide. This is attributed to the low-cost and the easy -to -manage machines. carahsoft carahsoft