NIST tries to look to private sector to help with cloud standards
November 24, 2011
In growing the government’s cloud computing outreach, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is trying to help businesses and agencies alike make their way into the technology, according to a post on Federal News Radio’s website.
Dawn Leaf, the NIST’s cloud computing executive program manger, said the agency’s new goal is to figure out how private sector efforts to help standardize the cloud can be converged with the federal effort. Leaf told the news source that the institute will look to revise the plans for cloud guidance over the next two months…
"We will be rolling out our timeline for the next phase of the program and we will be explaining how the strategy and approach we have been using to date to focus on priority action plans, which are a way for us to leverage the work outside more explicitly so we are not duplicating effort," Leaf recently said at a cloud computing workshop, according to Federal News Radio.
The next two months of work for the NIST could go into their next installation of the roapmap into the cloud. NIST’s website said the roadmap is looking to create standards, guidelines and technology to be in place as well as requirements to push forward cloud computing’s adoption.