NASCIO 2013: How States Overcome Cloud Challenges

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<li>Ed Valencia of Minnesota</li>
<li>Mike Powell of Maryland</li>
<li>Samuel Nixon on Virginia</li>
<li>Stu Davis of Ohio</li>
<li>Bill Oates of Boston</li>
<li>Michael Cockrill of Washington.</li>
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<li>States should make sure their networks can support a move to the cloud.</li>
<li>IT officials must know the details of a cloud provider's data center and the workers who staff it.</li>
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