Google Apps For Education,

Google has announced that New York University is moving all of its enterprise functions onto Google Apps For Education, providing more than 60,000 students and faculty and all 18 NYU schools with cloud-based e-mail and collaboration tools like Gmail and Documents.

Google estimates that the project will save NYU roughly $400,000 a year by "eliminating the need to purchase, upgrade, and maintain in-house mail servers and software licenses," wrote Miriam Schneider with Apps for Education team, on the Official Google blog.

Marilyn McMillan, NYU's Chief Information Officer says the move is "a win-win: in one stroke, we are able to provide better e-mail services to members of the NYU community, offer a new set of tools for academic collaboration, and achieve savings for the University."

Currently NYU is hosted on SquirrelMail, an e-mail system with a 200MB limit.

The announcement comes just weeks after the New York State partnered with Google to bring Google Apps for Education to all its K-12 schools.

"With students and faculty across New York now using Google Apps, it looks like the Empire State has fully embraced the cloud," Schneider added.