TrendSlate » cloud computing http://www.trendslate.com TrendSlate covers technology, business and venture capital in Southern California. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:10:01 +0000 en hourly 1 Los Angeles Plans To Move In-House Data to The Google Cloud http://www.trendslate.com/2009/08/11/los-angeles-plans-to-move-in-house-data-to-the-google-cloud/ http://www.trendslate.com/2009/08/11/los-angeles-plans-to-move-in-house-data-to-the-google-cloud/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:15:43 +0000 Tim Schulz http://www.trendslate.com/?p=194 googlela The City of Los Angeles is planning to join Washington DC, Motorola, and Genentech in using Google’s services to store their internal data & public records. The goals are to decrease costs and increase access speeds to the information via Google’s search technology.

Some groups are raising concerns about the move, especially after the recent Twittergate data-privacy scandal. But data services for large clients is a big and lucrative market for Google and they certainly have a financial interest in making sure there are no security issues.

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