Air Force poised to ramp up migration to Office 365, its deputy CIO says

Fedscoop: The path to migrating 550,000 Air Force users to Microsoft’s Office 365 has not been without its challenges, but the department’s deputy CIO says the department is at the cusp of full-velocity migration.

The Air Force is in the process of an initial 68,000-user rollout to Office 365, which includes SharePoint, Skype, email and storage, Bill Marion told FedScoop. That operation, which he says is poised to speed up in January, is one of many recent Air Force efforts to migrate legacy IT to the cloud.

“That’s the big next one that we have going because it’s a huge customer base that we’re transitioning,” Marion said.

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