Houston plans cloud site migration to Acquia, says platform will aid accessibility

Sep 17, 2026

Deputy CIO Kalpana Pillai told the committee the city will move from three on‑premises servers to a cloud CMS (Acquia) to improve speed, disaster resilience, built‑in accessibility monitoring and reduce long‑term costs; rollout and staff training are planned this year.

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Kalpana Pillai, deputy chief information officer for IT applications at Houston Information Technology Services, described a planned infrastructure upgrade that she said will move the city’s websites from an on‑premises three‑server setup to a cloud content management environment.

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