The State of Wyoming is dropping data centers in favor of the cloud

The State of Wyoming is closing its data centers and moving all of its data to the cloud, according to a report, in one of the biggest shifts by a state to offload its computing resources. According to the report, from InfoWorld, Wyoming has begun shifting all of its data to the cloud, to things like Google Apps, as well as commercial colocation centers, in what will mean the discontinuation of most of the state’s data center operations.