Three years after US “Cloud First” mandate, federal agencies struggle with implementation
February 10, 2014
Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Author: Jonathan Brandon.
Three years after the US government implemented a ‘Cloud First’ mandate that would require federal agencies to consider cloud-based IT services for certain systems, the federal public service continues to struggle with cloud implementations according to recently published research from Accenture. Annette Rippert, managing director of technology solutions and Accenture’s lead on federal cloud work said a lack of critical skills is the leading factor at play here.
In early 2011 the then US chief information officer Vivek Kundra released the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, which became known as ‘Cloud First’ because it required agencies to evaluate cloud-based IT solutions in many cases before making any new IT investments…
But according to Accenture, which polled and interviewed 286 US federal government technology leaders, most agencies continue to struggle to develop and implement cloud strategies three years on. For instance, of the 20 cloud migration plans submitted to the Government Accountability Office for approval in 2012, only one has been completed. 11 of the projects failed to report performance metrics and seven did not include thorough enough cost estimates…
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