Why the Cloud Is Complicated: No Two Migrations Are Alike
February 4, 2014
Grazed from FedTechMagazine. Author: Jimmy Daly.
Cloud computing is no longer an option for federal agencies — it’s a must. Many agencies have moved their core IT to the cloud, and the rest are either in progress or in search of the right solution. Cloud computing is one of just a few technologies that is so powerful and beneficial that the government has no choice but to adopt it.
Like email and mobility before it, cloud computing is forcing government IT leaders to make hard choices about the future of their agencies. According to IDC, the government will be spending $7.7 billion on cloud computing by 2017. MeriTalk’s Cloud Computing Exchange recently released the Cloud First Consumer Guide, the result of interviews with 15 federal IT leaders and several years of monitoring cloud-computing trends…
The report, which can be downloaded here, offers exciting insight into the government’s cloud efforts, with hard numbers on savings and direct quotes from some of the most influential voices in the federal IT community. Here are some of the most interesting numbers from the report:…
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