Cloud Computing: Initiatives Could Save Federal Agencies Billions
June 10, 2014
Grazed from Baseline. Author: Maggie O’Neill.
Cloud computing, diversification and virtualization are among the initiatives that federal agencies could deploy to save billions, while increasing efficiency. A new report states that government agencies could save as much as $19.7 billion a year by improving their infrastructure and deploying five key initiatives that are based on consolidation, cloud computing, diversification, remote access and virtualization.
That represents more than double the $8.5 billion savings already reported by federal agencies that have partially or fully enacted these initiatives. The additional savings would be leveraged through improved operating efficiencies, processes and services, as well as reduced capital and operating expenditures, according to the report, which was issued by MeriTalk, a public-private partnership that focuses on improving government IT outcomes…
Because the U.S. government is home to hundreds of human resource systems, supply chains and data centers, cloud computing should be the most important of these five initiatives, according to Steve O’Keeffe, founder of MeriTalk. However, he added that all the initiatives have high relevancy…
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