Federal Agencies Cautious Of Cloud Commitment
January 22, 2015
Grazed from HSToday. Author: Amanda Vicinanzo.
Although government agencies understand the benefits of migrating services to the cloud, nearly three quarters of federal cloud users remain wary of fully committing to cloud computing, according to MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT. Meritalk’s new report, Cloud without Commitment, underwritten by Red Hat and Cisco, examined federal barriers to cloud adoption including migration, data portability, integration and future agility.
Surveying 150 public sector IT professionals, Meritalk found most federal cloud users want to migrate more services to the cloud, with nearly one in five saying they deliver some of their agency’s IT services fully or partially via the cloud. However, security and control concerns are preventing them from fully embracing the cloud…
The surveyed IT professionals estimated that 32 percent of their data cannot be moved to the cloud due to security or data sovereignty issues. Moreover, while federal cloud users put Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification—a standardized set of security requirements for cloud—on their wish, almost a quarter of agencies are uncomfortable sharing sensitive data with FedRAMP-certified cloud providers…
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