Federal investment in cloud technology is picking up steam and should increase sharply in the next several years — but that doesn’t mean that government agencies suddenly have found that cloud migration will be either quick or simple. Federal cloud spending will jump from slightly more than $3 billion in fiscal 2014 to $9.9 billion in fiscal 2018, according to IDC Government Insights. The OMB has been encouraging agencies to look first to cloud solutions for upcoming IT requirements.
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Feds Loosening Purse Strings for Cloud Deployments
Posted by: John K. Higgins October 21, 2014 05:00 AMFederal investment in cloud technology is picking up steam and should increase sharply in the next several years — but that doesn’t mean that government agencies suddenly have found that cloud migration will be either quick or simple. Federal cloud spending will jump from slightly more than $3 billion in fiscal 2014 to $9.9 billion in fiscal 2018, according to IDC Government Insights. The OMB has been encouraging agencies to look first to cloud solutions for upcoming IT requirements.