In the Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO), a small group of agencies were allowed to choose a virtual private cloud-based infrastructure as a service from a marketplace of service providers made available by a cloud broker.

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Compared with those action-packed scenarios, a group of intelligence agents meeting in a virtual conference room seems rather tame, says Gartner Research's Carol Rozwell, an analyst focused on the use of virtual worlds in business.

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Also, the digital imaging group can access the main network, while using virtual LANs to segment large-file traffic and avoid causing bottlenecks.

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