Government Shows Slow Progress In Cloud Adoption
October 6, 2014
Grazed from HSToday. Author: Amada Vicinanzo.
Although federal agencies continue to increase the percentage of their IT budgets allocated to cloud services, only 2 percent of government agency IT budgets go to cloud spending, resulting in agencies capturing only a fraction of potential cost savings. A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of seven government agencies indicated the total number of cloud computing services implemented increased by 80 services, from 21 to 101, a 1 percent overall increase in cloud investments since 2012.
GAO found that the relatively small increase in cloud spending arose, in part, because the agencies had not considered cloud computing services for about 67 percent of IT investments. Most agencies said they only consider cloud options at times when the legacy technology needs to be modernized or replaced—a decision that is inconsistent with the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) “Cloud First” policy…
In 2011, the OMB issued the “Cloud First policy” to help government agencies transition to cloud computing. The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy identified nearly $20 billion in potential savings—nearly one quarter of the approximate $80 billion the US government spends on IT annually—by migrating to the cloud…
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