Because CityTime worked out so well, our mayor has decided to try his hand at another massive attempt to streamline city infrastructure. IBM has just landed a $100 million, five-year NYC Citywide IT Infrastructure Services (CITIServ) contract . Meant to centralize and update data centers at 50 city agencies as well “provide better security and improve efficiency,” the contract should, in layman’s terms, take the city’s servers “to the cloud.” Just don’t let this cloud rain where it shouldn’t —OK Bloomberg? [ more › ]
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City Taps IBM To Take Servers To The Cloud