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By Stephanie Kanowitz
Mar 08, 2021
Pittsburgh announced today a $4 million pilot partnership with Google Cloud to migrate its legacy IT infrastructure to the cloud.
The migration work is expected to take about a year of the four-year agreement, said Heidi Norman, acting director of the city’s Department of Innovation and Performance. The move will happen in three phases. The first will involve moving IT tools and applications that the department uses to monitor and manage the infrastructure. After that will be compute and storage capacity, followed by lifting and shifting other on-premises applications to the cloud. The migration will help the Department of Innovation and Performance support the city s 19 departments with creating and scaling citizen-facing services for mobility, transportation, infrastructure, public safety and more.
What you need to know
The city of Pittsburgh has signed a four-year deal with Google to migrate its IT infrastructure to the cloud.
Pittsburgh currently uses on-premise data centers, which are neither scalable nor flexible.
In addition to reducing its IT costs, the deal will also allow the city to provide new digital services for residents.
In what comes as a big boost for Google cloud, the city of Pittsburgh has announced a four-year deal with the search giant to migrate its IT infrastructure to the cloud. Currently, the city uses on-premise data centers that provide a fairly brittle environment that isn t scalable or flexible.
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The Google headquarters in California.
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Pittsburgh officials say they will save money and better service employees and residents by using cloud-based technology from Google for its computer programs.
The city announced a new four-year deal with Google Cloud to power its information technology platforms for about $4 million. The deal was approved in December by City Council. On Monday, the city said it was in the process of migrating from in-house servers to the Google Cloud network.
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The move is a big win for Google LLC, enabling it to highlight the strength of its public sector cloud offerings. For their part, Pittsburgh officials said that once the migration to Google is complete, they will be able to build new data analytics tools that can enable new “smart city” initiatives. The city said it will also be able to create entirely new consumer-facing applications that will deliver new digital services for residents.
Heidi Norman, acting director of Pittsburgh’s Department of Innovation and Performance, told SiliconANGLE in an interview that the city began its relationship with Google last year when it had an urgent need for more storage that its on-premises servers were unable to handle.