CASE STUDY © 2019 Zscaler, Inc. All rights reserved. The City of Boston moves securely to the cloud to modernize its services Like cities across the country, Boston’s IT team has worked to reduce its data center footprint and shift its infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud. Leading the effort is Greg McCarthy, the City of Boston’s Chief Information Security Officer. “Our goal is to provide responsive, modern citizen services,” he says. “We have taken steps to modernize our infrastructure and shift to a “cloud first” mindset—when and where it makes sense. Today we manage fewer on-premise servers, we can scale to meet new compute demand more quickly, and we’ve reduced costs and energy consumption.” The team made progress, but as the city relied more and more on web-based

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