Cities, like other large organizations, will move increasingly toward virtualization and the cloud in order to save money on infrastructure. In fact, many city governments have already implemented Google Enterprise. When problems occur in cities with automated programs, who’s responsible? The city administrators who approved the systems or the vendors who created them? How will a city’s residents be compensated for the impact these problems have on their lives? Who will compensate them?
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Cities of the Future, Part 3: Cloud Quandaries
Posted by: Richard Adhikari April 6, 2010 05:00 AMCities, like other large organizations, will move increasingly toward virtualization and the cloud in order to save money on infrastructure. In fact, many city governments have already implemented Google Enterprise. When problems occur in cities with automated programs, who’s responsible? The city administrators who approved the systems or the vendors who created them? How will a city’s residents be compensated for the impact these problems have on their lives? Who will compensate them?