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Wyoming Closing Data Centers, Shifting To The Cloud

The state of Wyoming is planning to discontinue most of its data center operations and move its physical equipment to commercial colocation facilities. It will continue to manage its own physical servers at these colocation centers, but this outsourcing step is part of a broader plan to move the state’s computing resources to cloud services.

State governments have been outsourcing various parts of their infrastructures for years, but how they outsource is changing. What’s now driving government IT decision-making in Wyoming and other states is a desire to move resources to dynamic cloud-based services, both public and private.

By Patrick Thibodeau

Full Story: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/wyoming-close-data-centers-in-cloud-shift-248368

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