Hybrid cloud: The new normal for federal IT
May 12, 2014
Grazed from GCN. Author: Anne Altman.
Some might think we’re still in the early days of cloud adoption with agencies focused on simple application hosting – moving email to the cloud – to meet mandates. However, the numbers tell a different story. Recent projections from International Data Corp. predict that federal cloud services spending alone will reach $1.7 billion by fiscal year 2014. By 2017, the federal government will spend nearly $9 billion on cloud computing.
As cloud adoption increases and grows in complexity, agencies find that they will compile more and more IT resources — applications, data and services — that reside on different platforms. Whether by design or by accident, hybrid cloud is becoming the new normal for CIOs. It’s no longer an argument of cloud versus traditional IT, or public versus private. It’s all of the above…
On the surface, this kind of mixed IT environment may be viewed as a challenge. One could argue that more IT platforms can only lead to more complication, especially as CIOs continue to rely on older, more traditional IT systems to provide important citizen services via new systems of engagement. More significantly, a hybrid approach can serve as a transformational asset for CIOs…
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