While federal CIO Vivek Kundra was unveiling his high-profile cloud computing initiative, two of the nation’s most technologically sophisticated states were making cloud plans of their own.
The September launch of Kundra’s Apps.gov online storefront — which makes it easier for government agencies to acquire cloud-based services from private companies like Google and Salesforce.com — drew most of the attention. But state CIOs in Utah and Michigan are betting that some public-sector customers would rather get cloud services from another government instead of a commercial provider.
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/734128
For customers, emerging government clouds add another option to a growing menu of hosted infrastructure and application offerings — an option that doesn’t include turning over government data and applications to a private vendor.
While federal CIO Vivek Kundra was unveiling his high-profile cloud computing initiative, two of the nation’s most technologically sophisticated states were making cloud plans of their own.
The September launch of Kundra’s Apps.gov online storefront — which makes it easier for government agencies to acquire cloud-based services from private companies like Google and Salesforce.com — drew most of the attention. But state CIOs in Utah and Michigan are betting that some public-sector customers would rather get cloud services from another government instead of a commercial provider.
http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/734128
For customers, emerging government clouds add another option to a growing menu of hosted infrastructure and application offerings — an option that doesn’t include turning over government data and applications to a private vendor.