The Los Angeles Police may be looking for more security from their cloud-based email provider, and apparently Google's solution didn't quite meet that need. After months of talks, the L.A. City Council voted to exclude users from criminal justice organizations in the city from Google's revamped cloud computing-based email system.

"There was definitely a time when Google seemed positive they were going to meet the requirements," said Maggie Goodrich, the L.A. Police Department's chief information officer, according to the Los Angeles Times. "It will be difficult for law enforcement to move to a cloud solution until the [security requirements] and cloud are more in line with each other."

The city has a $7.2 million contract with Google and Computer Sciences Corporation. Tech Target quoted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group in San Jose, who said that delivering secured email can be done in the cloud today, but it can't be done in a cheap way and that is what Google tried to do.

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