IBM Creates Federal Cloud Innovation Center

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Elena Malykhina.

IBM has opened a Federal Cloud Innovation Center in Washington, D.C., with 500 employees on board to help government agencies adopt cloud services and open standards. The Federal Cloud Innovation Center will connect agencies with experts in cloud computing, including software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and business process as a service. The experts range from IBM researchers to IT infrastructure architects to software developers. Consultants with agency-specific expertise will also be part of the staff.

The center will be headed by Jane Snowdon, IBM’s chief innovation officer for U.S. Federal. Snowdon spent 17 years at IBM Research, and was appointed to the newly created position in June. She’s tasked with developing strategies for government clients in emerging areas, such as big data, cloud computing and mobile…

Expanding adoption of open standards for cloud computing across the federal government is one of the center’s main goals. IBM said it will use its knowledge of cloud standards and other open protocols to help agencies quickly and securely deploy open technologies in their cloud environments…

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