Cloud industry needs to standardize, says fed CIO
September 12, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Patrick Thibodeau.
Frank Baitman, the CIO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was at the Amazon Web Services conference here praising the company’s services. His talk was on the verge of becoming a long infomercial, when he stepped back and changed direction. Baitman has reason to speak well of Amazon. As the big government system integrators slept, Amazon rushed in with its cloud model and began selling its services to federal agencies. The HHS and Amazon worked together in a real sense.
The agency helped Amazon get an all-important security certification best known by its acronym, FedRAMP, while Amazon moved the agency’s health data to the cloud. Amazon was the first large cloud vendor to get the FedRAMP security certification…
"[Amazon] gives us the scalability that we need for health data," said Baitman. But then he said that while it would "make things simpler and nicer" for the HHS to work solely with Amazon, since the agency did the groundwork to get Amazon federal authorizations, "we also believe that there are different reasons to go with different vendors."…
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