Feds Aim To Speed Cloud Adoption With New Roadmap - Government - Interagency collaboration produces strategy that outlines requirements and standards.
Will it make it easier for agencies to buy into cloud? Slideshow: 14 Most Popular Government Mobile Apps (click image for larger view and for slideshow) The federal government Tuesday released a draft version of a roadmap that aims to accelerate federal agencies' adoption of cloud computing and support the tech industry's development of cloud services by defining and communicating standards and requirements, as well as action plans to meet those standards. The three volume draft, put together--with input from the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the Office of Management and Budget, and the interagency Federal Cloud Computing Standards and Technology Working Group--over a series of public workshops and other collaborative sessions, defines the government's top priorities for standards and requirements for cloud services. The draft roadmap will be open for comment for 30 days. I. US Gvt Cloud ComputingTechnology RoadmapVolume I. II. US Gvt Cloud ComputingTechnology RoadmapVolume II.
III. US Gvt Cloud ComputingTechnology Roadmap Volume III. NIST Releases Federal Cloud Guidelines - Government - Cloud/SaaS - Technology standards organization aims to be a comprehensive resource to help agencies comply with government's "cloud-first" mandate.
(click image for larger view) Slideshow: Top 20 Government Cloud Service Providers The federal technology standards organization has released its most comprehensive guide to date for how agencies should implement cloud computing, a move that should clear up myths about the technology and pave the way for more standard cloud implementations among agencies. The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has published an 84-page draft of its cloud computing guidelines, NIST Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations, or SP 800-146, and is seeking comment from federal agencies and the public on its recommendations. There are still many myths about cloud computing, even from technologists who are charged with implementing it. Last December U.S. Cloud Computing Synopsis andRecommendations. Cisco - Cloud Computing in the Public Sector:Public Manager’s Guide to Evaluating and AdoptingCloud Computing.
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.
Cloud Computing Security for Dod/governments. 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. "There are considerable reservations about cloud computing in the public-administration area. The study points out that cloud-specific security risks do in fact exist, but that these can be completely understood and analyzed. A cockpit for security. 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.