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.
New York City was early on the cloud trend, making the move to use a plethora of Microsoft cloud tools in 2010.
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.
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.
For its private cloud, Miami was awarded the Public Technology Institute’s Annual Solutions Award in 2013. Miami has also been developing cloud apps to help with public inspections.
The city of Asheville won an award in 2015 for its cloud-based approach to data recovery.
Another city using Microsoft Office 365, Los Angeles moved 100,000 employees to the platform starting in 2014.
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.
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.
San Jose began the move to Microsoft’s cloud suite in 2013 to save money and increase efficiency.
Conner is a former Senior Editor for TechRepublic. He is now a Senior Research Analyst at 451 Research.
