Study Finds Only 41 Percent Of Feds Consider Cloud Part Of Overall IT Strategy

April 10, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from BSMinfo. Author: Christine Kern.

A study by Meritalk finds, despite a majority (62 percent) of federal agencies in 2010 that reported they would move to cloud-based computing within five years, in a recent poll, just 41 percent of Feds see cloud as an integral component of their overall IT strategy. This latest study demonstrates that, despite the potential savings of $18.9 billion annually, federal agencies are dragging their feet in the migration to cloud services.

In the 2010 survey, just 5 percent stated that they did not intend to ever migrate to cloud services, while 19 percent predicted a shift within two years. Despite the best efforts of cloud vendors, 89 percent of federal agencies polled report being apprehensive about moving IT services and applications to the cloud, and only 51 percent have utilized cloud-only for a limited number of specific applications…

Meanwhile, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports the average amount of IT budgets dedicated specifically to cloud computing has risen just 1 percent between 2012 and 2014 (from 1 percent to 2 percent). It is estimated that federal agencies will spend approximately $2.9 billion on cloud services in 2015, rising to $7.7 billion in 2017…

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