CloudPro - How the public sector can learn to love the cloud. Despite the government's G-Cloud initiative, there is widespread confusion about the cloud strategy with many public sector IT staff unaware of the benefits of cloud. So says a new report which suggests that opportunities to exploit cloud computing are being missed because many public sector IT staff are still in the dark. The report, published by virtualisation software specialist VMware, paints a gloomy picture as it assesses the role the cloud has so far played in transforming public sector IT.
Despite the fact that IT transformation is a topic high on the agenda for IT leaders across the public sector, Andy Tait, head of public sector strategy at VMware and former deputy G-Cloud director says opportunities are being missed to kick start efficiencies. The pace of change and the adoption of cloud have been frustratingly slow. Cloud computing for administration. The emerging field of cloud computing is an interesting one, and not just for businesses. The field of public administration benefits from the technology as well. Fraunhofer Institutes are developing solutions to create such systems efficiently and to implement security concepts. Researchers will be presenting these and other solutions on "Computing in the Cloud" at CeBIT in Hanover from March 1-5, 2011. Cloud Computing is a tempting development for IT managers: with cloud computing, companies and organizations no longer have to acquire servers and software solutions themselves and instead rent the capacities they need for data, computing power and applications from professional providers.
You only pay for what you use. In Germany, primarily companies are turning to cloud computing, transferring their data, applications and networks to server farms at Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft or other IT service providers. A cockpit for security. Cloud Computing Security for Dod/governments. RAND Europe - Cloud Computing in the Public Sector. Iii Preface RAND Europe was commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Interior andKingdom Relations to undertake a rapid international stocktaking exercise of different national public sector strategies regarding cloud computing. This isthe first phase of an initiative commissioned by the Dutch Parliament toinvestigate the applicability of Cloud Computing for public administrations andexplore a national strategy.This report thus provides a snapshot of different national strategies regardingthe domains of interest and drivers for deployment of cloud computing across anumber of countries: Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, the United Kingdomand the United States.
We also reflect on other countries where there is lesspublicly available data or where implementations of cloud computing are lessmature. Cisco - Cloud Computing in the Public Sector:Public Manager’s Guide to Evaluating and AdoptingCloud Computing.