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Government cloud computing: the good, the bad and the ugly by wwy yrj
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Government cloud computing: the good, the bad and the ugly by WWY YRJ
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| Article Posted: 07/05/2012 |
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When the second-in-command of one of the most technologicallyadvanced states in the country slams public-sector computing --publicly -- it's a resounding wake-up call. "Don't underestimate how far local, state and federal government isbehind [in computing]," said California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom at atech conference in Silicon Valley earlier this year.
"We have towake up to the new reality." [ Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter . ] The new reality Newsom was referring to is cloud computing -- aversatile way for government agencies of all sizes to solve avariety of technological issues relating to cost, human resourcesand the ability to respond quickly to constituents' needs. Manygovernment agencies are doing just that -- albeit in limited areas,such as email and data center consolidation. But overall, progress is slow: Federal agencies are struggling tocomply with the U.S. government's "cloud first" mandate , and state and local government entities, which tend to be lesswell funded, are even further behind.
As noted by CIOs and technology vendors at the TechAmerica conference on public-sector computing in February, the cloudallows government agencies to decrease their costs and deploysystems more quickly -- all good news. And as in the privatesector, cloud computing can enable public entities to devote fewer resources today-to-day tasks like maintenance, so they can focus on moreimportant things, like improving services and increasinginnovation. But there's also bad news -- and some ugly realities -- when itcomes to cloud computing in the public sector. Current and formerpublic-sector CIOs say it can be difficult to drag governmentagencies forward. It remains to be seen whether government CIOswill be able to convince politicians and bureaucrats that cloudcomputing is the antidote for the financial and technologicaldoldrums they're experiencing.
The state of the state (and the county, and the city...) A March 2012 survey conducted by Government Executive magazine,co-sponsored by Cisco Systems, found that government entitiessignificantly lag behind the private sector when it comes to clouddeployments. The report's findings were based on responses from 429 governmentexecutives and managers in 10 countries, as well as responses from808 private-sector executives. Of the government executives whoresponded, only 12 percent said that more than 10 percent of theiragencies' overall annual IT resources were allocated to the cloudin 2011. While researchers expect those percentages to grow by theend of this year, even doubling them wouldn't represent asignificant move to the cloud.
A more-optimistic 2011 survey by Red Shift Research put the penetration of cloud computing inthe public sector at 23 percent, compared with 42 percent in theprivate sector. Either way, Thom Rubel, an analyst at research firm IDC GovernmentInsights, concurs that the cloud computing adoption rate is lowerin government than it is in the private sector. I am Agriculture writer, reports some information about gingko biloba extract , growing shiitake mushrooms.
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