City of Ann Arbor’s IT head named a Premier 100 Leader
In its Class of 2011 Yearbook, the city of Ann Arbor’s Director of IT, Dan Rainey, was listed as a ComputerWorld “Honoree” in its list of Premier 100 IT Leaders. Excerpt: Coolest current project: “Getting iPads to work as Windows thin clients. We are using the Wyse PocketCloud remote desktop system.” Boldest IT prediction for the next 5 years: The cloud computing environment for government will be provided by state and large local governments, with agencies becoming expert providers of some services and consumers of others. Data centers will be on the way out for most local governments, and interagency collaboration will be the new way of doing business. Read the rest of the story here.
In its Class of 2011 Yearbook, the city of Ann Arbor’s Director of IT, Dan Rainey, was listed as a ComputerWorld “Honoree” in its list of Premier 100 IT Leaders.
Excerpt:
Coolest current project: “Getting iPads to work as Windows thin clients. We are using the Wyse PocketCloud remote desktop system.”
Boldest IT prediction for the next 5 years: The cloud computing environment for government will be provided by state and large local governments, with agencies becoming expert providers of some services and consumers of others. Data centers will be on the way out for most local governments, and interagency collaboration will be the new way of doing business.
Read the rest of the story here.
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