Oracle Government Cloud Brings Enterprise Credentials To The Public Sector
September 17, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: John Foley.
The market for government clouds is rapidly advancing. I recently highlighted 10 game-changing developments in government clouds, and now there’s another: Oracle ORCL +1.57% has unveiled Oracle Government Cloud, a new offering for federal, state, and local government agencies.
Oracle Government Cloud is an enterprise-class cloud environment and family of cloud services designed specifically for the needs and requirements of government organizations. It gives CIOs in federal government a new and better way to meet Uncle Sam’s Cloud First policy, which requires agencies to use cloud computing where it makes sense in lieu of dedicated, do-it-yourself systems. “A quick look at what Oracle is offering shows that it dovetails nicely with the US federal government’s 2010 Cloud First policy,” writes CMSWire…
Cloud First has long-term potential as a way of bringing greater efficiency to government IT and service delivery, but only if government clouds are implemented using best-in-class technologies with uncompromising scalability and security, and—this is key—an ability to integrate with other cloud services and private clouds…
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