- George S. Rice Jr., APCO Executive Director
- Public Safety Communications Volume 76 Issue 3
- 2010 Feb 24
Flash back a few decades to the time when mainframe systems occupied vast areas in almost every major company and sizeable public agency. Users were hardwired to the main hub and drew information from databases to their workstations based solely on capacities available on site. If the need for greater capacity arose, the acquisition, installation and maintenance of additional network components -- and sometimes desktops -- had to follow, fostering ever-larger data centers requiring more staff, hardware and software. More: http://www.lawofficer.com/public-safety-communications/over_the_horizon_cloud_computing.html