Cloud Computing: Terrible or Terribly Misunderstood?

The Government Business Council (GBC) recently asked federal managers to rank eight different areas of government spending, from most to least efficient. Spending on technology came in sixth, with only 56 percent of federal managers feeling tax dollars spent on technology were used wisely.

When GBC asked the managers to rate the quality of various technologies and how frequently they are used, the results revealed an interesting disparity.

For all the talk we hear about cloud computing, only 24 percent of the 548 respondents felt cloud computing was of high quality, and even fewer, just 15 percent, said they used it on a regular basis…


On the flip side, nearly 80 percent of federal managers felt that digital records and enterprise content management systems were high quality systems — though only 48 percent said they had access to the technology or used it on a regular basis.