Cloud computing has the potential to transform how government agencies tap into IT services, and open source is an underlying technology in several of the early government clouds that have been developed.
We have yet to see the federal government issue a position on open source clouds, but it’s clear that agencies have a green light to move ahead with open source and cloud computing. It’s only a matter of time before these two trends come together in the form of open source clouds
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The U.S. government is an early adopter of cloud computing and a proponent of open source, two trends that are about to intersect.
Cloud computing has the potential to transform how government agencies tap into IT services, and open source is an underlying technology in several of the early government clouds that have been developed.
We have yet to see the federal government issue a position on open source clouds, but it’s clear that agencies have a green light to move ahead with open source and cloud computing. It’s only a matter of time before these two trends come together in the form of open source clouds
The U.S. government is an early adopter of cloud computing and a proponent of open source, two trends that are about to intersect.