Randy Levin (City of LA), Dave Girourd (Google), O’Reilly
- Going to cloud, saving $500M
- Novell currently for email.
- End of RFP process what would need is going to google and leapfrog
- Google – biggest cloud objectives
- who owns data
- how is it managed
- data distributed over massive computing infrastructure
Google: not trying to lock people in
O’R: do you feel locked in?
L: No more than SAP. More free that way.
O’R: What are some of the new parts of the Google toolset? e.g., Automatic translation (that have no obvious financial need)
G: When Google got into multilingual and taken things that are fanciful science project that are approachable (e.g., google earth). Thinking about speech recognition, translation – really only work on massive scale. Devices too: Chrome OS and Android will adapt to data stored in cloud and these things access the data.
O’R: Polyglot LA…issue of languages increasingly difficult to give services to all citizens.
L: Need to figure out how to embrace this. Really we’re only on email and calendaring. Current email wouldn’t work w/ Android, iPhone. Don’t want to worry about having standard device. Can let workforce use whatever they like.
O’R: One piece of advice to agency looking to cloud compute
L: Know your requirements. We thought we did, but didn’t. Elongated process.
G: Large org need to think of it as transformational change. Means to end. Signify that change is afoot. Need high-level push that times are changing and cloud is one way to do that.
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