T
he COVID-19 lockdown quickly led James Nestico to appreciate the value of having access to data housed at the Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda Union Free School District
transportation department in Buffalo, New York. The routing and planning software used by the op-
eration, which Nestico is the transportation supervisor of, sits on a district office server. Nestico encoun- tered challenges trying to get through a firewall when logging into the network from home and had to enlist help from the software company. “It was like watching paint dry,” he recalled of the process. “It moved so slow. It was extremely frustrating.” That led Nestico to explore options with two other
routing companies, both of which have provided him demonstrations.
Cloud services are hosted services in which col-
laboration and interconnectivity play a key role. Web-enabled cloud applications are based in a shared virtual environment managed by a hosting provider. “The future is going that way,” noted Nestico. “I can
hop on my phone and look up something if I need to.” Charles Sellers can too appreciate that value. He’s the
bus route supervisor for the Calcasieu Parish School Board, encompassing the fifth largest school board in Louisiana, a state where natural disasters are also commonplace. The district’s data has long resided in the cloud, enabling transportation officials to work remotely and attain the benefits from automatic updates and tech support. “We were in the cloud from the start using Versa-
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