4 obstacles to federal cloud adoption
January 5, 2015
Grazed from FederalTimes. Author: Kirk Kern.
Cloud deployments by federal agencies have been accelerating, albeit slowly. IDC Government Insights forecasts that US agencies will spend approximately $3 billion on cloud projects in FY2014, a healthy $800 million jump from what had been predicted in 2013. There are several reasons that agencies are turning to cloud deployments, including improved agility, reduced IT complexity and IT spend, and greater collaboration.
Yet it is increasingly clear that obstacles are capping broader adoption of cloud services. federal budget officials predict federal cloud spending for FY2015 will come in at $2.9 billion, indicating that cloud migrations will continue to move forward, but that agencies are gently pumping the brakes as opposed to gunning the engine…
A 2014 MeriTalk survey of 153 federal IT executives closely involved in their agencies’ cloud deployments delved into cloud adoption obstacles front-of-mind for decision makers. The survey found that agencies want to double their cloud use, but 89 percentof IT pros feel some apprehension about migrating IT services/apps to the cloud. This article examines four key obstacles slowing federal agency cloud adoption, and strategies for agency decision makers to overcome them…
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