The Veterans Administration announced previously its plans to move 400K employees to cloud-based email, calendars and messaging on Microsoft Office 365 by 2014. The migration will begin with a first phase of 15,000 users within a separate community cloud in order to determine the most prudent approach for migrating the rest of the massive user base. The VA estimates that it will save $85 million with the full migration, much of which is by avoiding expensive internal hardware upgrades.