Hashmi: Private clouds aren’t really ‘cloud’
February 12, 2015
Grazed from FederalTimes. Author: Aaron Boyd.
Federal agencies are under presidential order to consider cloud-first policies when developing IT projects, however the type of cloud environment they use is left up to the discretion of agency officials. During a cloud panel hosted by Red Hat on Feb. 12, several agency CIOs debated the virtues of public and private clouds, with one suggesting private clouds don’t really fit the as-a-service model.
"The private cloud concept is a little bit of a transitional concept between where we were and where we need to be," GSA CIO Sonny Hashmi said. "Are we at the point in the industry where full public cloud can meet all of our challenges in terms of security, control, compliance, auditability?…
No … So we’ve kind of invented this intermediate model that we call private cloud." However, in Hashmi’s assessment, private environments miss the key factors that make cloud migration attractive…
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