Cloud & Enterprise IT for Cities & Towns
Cloud and Enterprise IT for Cities and Towns
Getting city systems out of the basement, modernizing networks across facilities, and keeping cloud costs predictable.
Many cities still run servers in a closet at city hall, cooled by a window unit, backed up to a drive someone swaps weekly. Moving those workloads is rarely the hard part. The hard part is doing it without interrupting utility billing, police records, or the payroll run, and leaving the city able to operate what replaces it.
What municipal environments look like
- A server room in city hall or a public works yard, with equipment past its support life
- Network connections to fire stations, libraries, parks, yards, and treatment facilities over a mix of fiber, leased circuits, and cellular
- Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace already adopted, with on-premises systems still tied to a local directory
- Line-of-business platforms moving to vendor-hosted software as a service on their own schedules
- Staff who support everything, from a council chamber's audiovisual system to a SCADA workstation
Where HQT helps
- An inventory and disposition plan: what moves to the cloud, what moves to a vendor's hosted service, what stays, and what gets retired
- Cloud landing zones with identity, networking, logging, and guardrails set up before the first workload arrives
- Migration in waves with tested cutovers and rollback plans, scheduled around billing cycles and council meetings
- Network modernization and segmentation across city facilities
- Identity consolidation, single sign-on, and device management for office and field staff
- Cost controls, budgets, and monthly reporting that fit an annual appropriation rather than a variable bill
How an engagement usually starts
Often when equipment reaches end of support, a facility is being renovated, or a ransomware scare prompts a hard look at backups. We scope an assessment first so that the migration proposal is based on what is actually running.