Government cloud computing adoption

July 21, 2014 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from ITProPortal.

While the private sector is building on cloud computing’s various benefits, government organisations are also having a go at benefitting too. This HP whitepaper looks at how governments are trying to make a fist out of cloud computing and how they are overcoming the obstacles in doing so.

After having to face financial constraints over the last five years as a result of the economic meltdown, government agencies have been forced to seek optimised business models to deliver government services at reduced cost. Under the US Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, for instance, the US government instituted its CloudFirst policy to accelerate the pace of cloud adoption, and enjoy financial savings as soon as possible. Such a CloudFirst strategy has been followed by the UK government and various other countries…

The benefits

Those governments that quickly move to the cloud can benefit from IT consolidation, whereby they can benefit from consolidating their server footprints through virtualisation technology and the cloud. They can also push through data centre consolidation and benefit from further reduced hardware costs and slashed energy consumption…

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