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Photos: 10 major US cities that are embracing the cloud

By Conner Forrest November 17, 2015, 11:22 AM PST

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1. Boston, Massachusetts

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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.

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2. New York, New York

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.

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3. San Francisco, California

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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.

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4. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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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.

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5. Miami, Florida

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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 apps to help with public inspections.

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6. Asheville, North Carolina

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6. Asheville, North Carolina

The city of Asheville won an award in 2015 for its cloud-based approach to data recovery.

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7. Los Angeles, California

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7. Los Angeles, California

Another city using Microsoft Office 365, Los Angeles moved 100,000 employees to the platform starting in 2014.

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8. Louisville, Kentucky

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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.

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9. Phoenix, Arizona

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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.

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10. San Jose, California

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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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