NIST lays out roadmap for cloud computing
October 28, 2014
Grazed from GCN. Author: Editorial Staff.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released the final version of its Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap Volumes I and II, the culmination of a three-year old effort to assess and set objectives for the accelerated adoption of cloud computing in government.
“Cloud computing is still in an early deployment stage, and standards are crucial to increased adoption,” the report adds. “The urgency is driven by rapid deployment of cloud computing in response to financial incentives.”…
The first volume, High-Priority Requirements to Further Cloud Computing Adoption, identifies 10 requirements NIST believes are necessary to maintain innovative cloud adoption across government. The requirements relate to interoperability, performance, portability and security, and are largely intact from the draft version of the roadmap, published in 2011…
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