U.S. federal private cloud spending to hit $1.7B in 2014; IaaS leading

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Zack Whittacker.

The cloud has suffered a bad rap as of late, with Brussels-based bureaucrats calling on a new European cloud away from the U.S. in efforts to avoid PRISM-related spying. But stateside, where U.S. law applies to U.S. clouds and nobody seems to care because "that’s just how it goes," everything is great — particularly for the U.S. federal government, which certainly doesn’t have to worry about spying on itself.

So says the latest research from IDC, which puts U.S. federal cloud spending in the "through the roof" category. According to the figures, private clouds are leading the way — away from existing networks and infrastructure in a bid to enhance security and wedge a divide between corporate data and government data…

And, while private cloud spending will reach a mere $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2014, by 2017 the figure is expected to rise by more than three-fold to $7.7 billion. Out of the 90 million or so taxpayers in the U.S., that’s quite a lot of cloud clout for their money. While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) leads the way in most sectors, over in the realm of government, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas) is leading the way, and set to grow to $5.4 billion in 2017…

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