Cloud Consistency: The U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap
November 15, 2014
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Michael Brown.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its final version of the US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Volumes I and II recently. The roadmap provides international guidelines, objectives and “Priority Action Plans” for cloud computing, with the hope of improving cybersecurity for the United States’ critical infrastructure and individual organizations.
Taking into consideration over 200 comments from other nations worldwide, this document covers a wide range of relevant ideas, challenges and recommendations related to cloud management and deployment. But is there really a point in trying to impose standards and define a technology that is still at the very beginning stages of its evolution?…
Some argue no – a shifting market of which vendors have invested more than $15 billion in will define what cloud computing is to become more so than a roadmap. But nevertheless, the issues raised in it are worth discussing and in the meantime, MSPs can help mitigate some cloud concerns…
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