Cloud Migration: The Path Forward

April 19, 2016 Off By David
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Grazed from FederalNewsRadio. Author: Jason Miller.

Ever since the Office of Management and Budget’s cloud-first mandate in 2011, there’s been a gold rush of sorts. Like the 49ers of yesteryear, agencies and vendors alike saw the potential in this sparkling new, game-changing substance. But after that initial rush, agency chief information officers and cloud service providers saw there was a lot more work to strike it rich with the cloud than just a few apps like email or storage.

Now five years later, the cloud is everywhere. As of September 2014, the last time the GAO reported on cloud usage across government, agencies said they were using 101 instances of cloud and spending rising to more than $529 million. In 2016, the number of cloud instances and the amount of money spent on platform, infrastructure and software-as-a-service undoubtedly is ever-increasing…

The market research firm Deltek said agencies were expected to spend more than $2 billion on cloud computing in 2015, up from $1.58 billion in 2014…

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