While state and local government data management may have depended on servers and other onsite equipment in the past, a number of agencies are now embracing an infrastructure that combines private and public cloud capabilities.
Eighty-nine percent of state governments say a hybrid cloud system is their desired technical operating environment, according to a 2021 NASCIO report. A CompTIA survey found 44 percent of city and county IT executives have moved on-premises infrastructure to private clouds this year; 33 percent have integrated two or more cloud applications via application programming interfaces.
Through the use of tech solutions that offer communal oversight and access to hybrid elements, the structure can offer several key advantages, says Matthew Dietz, global government strategist at Cisco.
“A lot of state and local governments want to continue to house data on-prem but also store a lot of that in the cloud, be it at national or regional data centers,” Dietz says. “Forty percent of on-premises compute and storage is starting to be consumed as a service, which is 10 percent growth over last year. That’s something that is going to continue to increase.”