The Georgia Deparmtent of Community Supervision saved millions of taxpayer money when it switched to Google Cloud service.

Phil Sellers, Georgia Department of Community Supervision CIO, shared the news himself in a blog post as he claimed that one of their prevailing problems was how to monitor 200,000 probationers and 25,000 parolees under their care.

Compounding the problem was the decision last year to merge three different departments which resulted to the number of offices ballooning to 150 from the original 50. Most of these offices have become virtual white elephants since personnel are out on the field anyway.

"We decided to try something that had never been done in Georgia state government history: eliminate the majority of our offices entirely and allow hundreds of our 2,100 staff members to work remotely instead," he wrote.

"Our existing desktop computers and office applications didn't have the features to support remote workers, so we started looking into alternatives," he added. "I was familiar with Google's cost-cutting, collaborative and mobile-friendly features, so my team led the switch to Google Apps for Work and Google Chromebooks."

Meanwhile, The Register shared the news about Google Cloud services hitting a major glitch in Asia on Sept. 20. The article quoted a statement from the search giant which said that the system was, "taking multiple minutes to create new VMs, restart existing VMs that terminated, or attaching disks to running VMs."

The glitch lasted for three hours before it was addressed.

Watch out for more Google Cloud news which will be published here when they come along.