Federal Agencies Shift Into Cloud Adoption

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Published: June 25, 2010Posted in: Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Intelligence, Cloud Services, Cloud Technologies, Clouds, G-Cloud, Government Cloud, Internet Security, Opinions & Explanations, SecurityTags:
Federal Agencies Shift Into Cloud Adoption
Technology leaders with the Department of Energy, the Defense Information Systems Agency, and GSA will outline their next steps in cloud computing on June 15 at InformationWeek’s Government IT Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. With new implementations of infrastructure as a service and software as a service, including hosted apps from Google and Microsoft, the feds appear to be shifting aggressively into full-scale adoption of the cloud services model.

As we’ve been documenting for the past year, Uncle Sam has been investigating the potential benefits of cloud computing and agencies have been planning their first steps into the cloud. As we approach mid 2010, the mood is shifting from discussion and pilot projects into actual deployment.

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/06/federal_agencie.html

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