Sequestration and the Cloud
June 5, 2013
Grazed from Gravitant. Author: Samantha Jackson.
Sequestration burst out of obscurity and entered our household vocabulary in 2013. It got our attention because the impact of it is $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts from the Federal budget over the next ten years. About $85B of these cuts will occur by September of 2013 — and these cuts are being disproportionately applied: Once you exempt the sacred programs, what’s less sacred (like Federal IT spending) is going to get hit hard. Forrester Research analyst Andrew Bartels expects that the Federal budget cuts will shave at least $12B out of 2013 U.S. tech spending.
So what’s to be done? Computerworld points out that “Dale Luddeke, chair of the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), an IT industry group expects to see a shift in government to things with cost savings attributes, such as open source, and agile development and cloud technology.”…
Federal agency CIOs are already there: At this year’s Cloud Computing for DoD and Government Summit in Washington D.C. on Feb 26, Richard Spires, CIO of the Dept of Homeland Security, said in a keynote that he was looking to take out $500M of IT spend from his $5B IT budget and was looking to cloud computing as a primary vehicle to accomplish this…
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