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Marietta BLW IT highlights security upgrades, cloud and AI pilots
Summary
IT staff summarized 2024 projects and 2025 priorities including firewall replacement, cloud purchasing portal, drone management, meter communications migration to cellular, camera upgrades and AI pilots for customer and HR self-service.
Ronnie Barrett, identified in the meeting as an IT lead for the Board of Lights and Water, reviewed IT department activities for the previous year and described planned work for 2025, emphasizing security, resiliency, automation and cost control.
Barrett said the department completed an enterprise wireless upgrade, replaced perimeter firewalls (a multi-month project intended to last 7–10 years), launched a cloud-based purchasing platform to streamline vendor outreach, deployed a drone management…
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