U.S. government agencies have spent more on cloud configurations than official budgets have predicted — and those agencies will pick up the pace of cloud spending over the next five years. Federal agencies will significantly boost spending on cloud deployments with various “as a service” configurations, according to two recent reports. However, the reports differ on the components used in the forecasting process. One incorporates a change in cloud deployment terminology the Office of Management and Budget adopted, while the other does not.
Fed Cloud Spending on Perplexing - but Upward - Trajectory
Posted by: John K. Higgins February 23, 2016 07:00 AMU.S. government agencies have spent more on cloud configurations than official budgets have predicted — and those agencies will pick up the pace of cloud spending over the next five years. Federal agencies will significantly boost spending on cloud deployments with various “as a service” configurations, according to two recent reports. However, the reports differ on the components used in the forecasting process. One incorporates a change in cloud deployment terminology the Office of Management and Budget adopted, while the other does not.