Cloud brokers: Stretching the benefits beyond IT
February 13, 2014
Grazed from FCW. Author: Editorial Staff.
As government agencies work to become more agile, efficient and cost-effective, cloud adoption has become an increasingly important part of the federal IT agenda — and rightfully so. Cloud computing has the power to transform the way the government does business and the way it delivers services to the American people despite resource constraints.
In fact, research by IDC Government Insights shows that by 2018, the government will decrease traditional IT spending by 15 percent and redirect spending to the cloud. Despite the need to rapidly provision cloud service technologies, the public sector’s adoption of cloud computing has been slowed by questions about acquisition policy, financial management, service-level agreements (SLAs) and IT sprawl…
Cloud brokers, which act as intermediaries between the buyers of a cloud computing service and the sellers of that service, are emerging as the key to delivering secure, efficient, cost-effective cloud and IT services to the U.S. public sector…
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