A new U.S. Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap draft sets out action items that government IT authorities say will speed the adoption of safe and secure cloud implementations suitable for their use but is cloud computing ready?
While popular among consumers who love their Google Apps, Facebook, and Dropbox, cloud computing still gets a bad rap from some IT buyers who see security problems emanating from the shared infrastructure that underlies the cloud model. There is also a lack of consistent terms and service level agreements (SLAs) that large government agencies (or any large enterprises, for that matter) want before investing heavily in moving IT from on-premises deployments to the cloud.
The draft was released this week by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), working with the U.S. Federal CIO Council and others. They aim to make it substantially easier to buy, sell, interconnect and use cloud environments in the government, according to NIST Director Pat Gallagher.
”The roadmap will serve as our action plan, and we expect it not only to drive federal standards efforts, but because our needs are not unique in government, we think it will help the private sector as well.”
If the government is ready to take the leap into the cloud, shouldn’t you get familiar with it too?
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