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City staff urges cautious move to cloud, flags need for specialized IT support
Summary
City IT staff briefed the council on recent hardware purchases, ongoing moves of police systems to cloud services, and recommended accelerating cloud migration while noting a continuing need for specialized staff to support records and CAD/RMS systems.
City IT staff told the Gardner City Council at a work session that the city has begun migrating some systems to cloud services but still needs specialized local support for police records and computer-aided dispatch systems.
IT staff said the Axon system used by the police department is being moved to the cloud, and that the city has started migrating some Office 365 services. Staff recounted a 2017 refresh of an on-site architecture and said new hardware purchased for the city's local datacenter entered the budget in 2023 and is expected to have a six- to eight-year life cycle. City IT staff recommended exploring further migration of rack-mounted systems to…
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