Moving Forward with the Cloud
June 25, 2015
Grazed from GovLoop. Author: Olivia Jefferson.
Unless you’ve been pulling a Rip van Winkle in the woods for the past 20 years, you’ve probably heard of cloud computing by now. Many private sector companies have successfully integrated cloud services into their infrastructure; now government organizations are beginning to follow suit. At Govloop’s Evolution of the Cloud event, Deputy CIO of the FCC John Skudlarek discussed how his organization is leading the way in the public sector adoption of cloud computing.
Growing up, Skudlarek didn’t have much of an interest in computers; however, his brother worked at Princeton’s computer center. Seeing the massive IBM 360/91 computer with all of its tape drives whirring through racks of equipment fascinated him. Connected by large physical terminals, this massive computer had to be stored under the school’s parking lot…
Technology has changed a lot since then. But according to Skudlarek, cloud computing as a phenomenon has been around for almost as long as computers themselves have. “While it may seem revolutionary if I was Rip van Winkle…you can follow how these things have naturally progressed,” he said. Virtual machines, VPNs and other advances in digital technologies have allowed for more distributed computing. “At the end of the day…the commercial market and things like Google Docs have helped to drive the idea of cloud computing into people’s minds without them even knowing it,” he said…
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