Pittsburgh heads for the cloud to speed up smart city drive

The City of Pittsburgh has entered into a four-year agreement to migrate its legacy IT infrastructure to Google Cloud.

The initiative aims to help the city reduce costs, move off its  "brittle" older IT systems and create a platform for smart city projects and digital services.

Heidi Norman, Director of the Department of Innovation and Performance, City of Pittsburgh, told Cities Today: “City departments will have access to work with easy-to-use query tools to analyse data in our cloud-based data lake – which in Pittsburgh we call our Data Rivers – to build needed dashboards and reporting for improved data-driven decision-making and management of city services.”

The move to the clou...