Localities move data to ‘cloud’ despite security concerns

Published June 25, 2011 4:00am ET



Alexandria and Arlington are going “into the cloud.” Arlington is in the midst of moving its employees’ email accounts to “cloud computing,” the newest wave of information technology that allows data to be stored in bulk at far-away servers, rather than stored locally, and accessed through the Internet.

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