1.- Boston, Massachusetts
Despite being known as a sector slow to adopt new tech,
many city governments are embracing the cloud. Here are 10 of the most
cloud-friendly cities.
In 2014, the city of Boston moved almost 80,000 employees the cloud.
The city relies on Google Apps to support everyone from police officers to
public school teachers.
2. New York,
New York
New
York City was early on the cloud trend, making the move to use a plethora of
Microsoft cloud tools in 2010.
3. San
Francisco, California
A
city known for its willingness to embrace new technology, San Francisco began
moving many of its employees to the Office 365 platform in early 2014.
4.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
has a cloud-based 311 phone service for municipal services for residents, and
its chief innovation officer eventually wants to move 50% of its IT assets to the cloud.
5. Miami,
Florida
For
its private cloud, Miami was awarded the Public Technology Institute’s Annual Solutions Award in 2013. Miami has also been developing cloud appsto help with public
inspections.
6. Asheville,
North Carolina
The
city of Asheville won an award in 2015 for its cloud-based approach to data recovery.
7. Los Angeles,
California
Another
city using Microsoft Office 365, Los Angeles moved 100,000 employees to the platform starting in 2014.
8. Louisville,
Kentucky
In
addition to being named one of the top digital cities in the US,
Louisville was also one of the winners of Amazon's City on a Cloud challenge for its work building open data sites
on AWS.
9. Phoenix,
Arizona
Phoenix
not only uses a host of cloud tools, but it has also takes a comprehensive
approach to the cloud as evidenced by its cloud computing audit report
10. San Jose,
California
San
Jose began the move to Microsoft's cloud suite in 2013 to save money and
increase efficiency.
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