Government Networks Unprepared for Cloud, Big Data Transitions

Grazed from CFOWorld. Author: Kenneth Corbin.

As federal agencies gear up for a series of major IT transitions, a majority of government network managers say that their systems lack the capacity that will be required to meet the additional load that cloud computing, big data and other looming initiatives will entail.

In a new survey by the government IT group MeriTalk, underwritten by the networking vendor Brocade, 59 percent of the technology workers polled said that those initiatives, if deployed today, would reach or exceed their agency’s network capacity…

"Networks are the backbone of IT delivery in federal agencies, just as they are in the enterprise," Anthony Robbins, vice president of Brocade’s federal division, said in a statement. "As such, agencies need to take steps to prepare for increased network demands now — this includes ensuring networks are modernized to open standards and robust enough to handle the traffic."…

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