Case Study

City of Bend, Oregon: Reliably connecting the city

City of Bend, Oregon: Reliably connecting the city

The Challenge From 2000 to 2009, the population in Bend, Oregon grew from nearly 52,000 residents to more than 80,000, an astounding increase of over 54 percent. To keep up, the city’s staff grew, as did the underlying IT infrastructure. The number of city servers multiplied and by 2011 had spilled out of their existing space. “When we ran out of room in the IT closet, we expanded into the office. We eventually converted two offices into serv

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