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The Economics of Federal Cloud Computing Analyzed

Posted by kdawson on from the clouds'-illusions-i-recall dept.

jg21 writes "With the federal government about to spend $20B on IT infrastructure, this highly analytical article by two Booz Allen Hamilton associates makes it clear that cloud computing has now received full executive backing and offers clear opportunities for agencies to significantly reduce their growing expenditures for data centers and IT hardware. From the article: 'A few agencies are already moving quickly to explore cloud computing solutions and are even redirecting existing funds to begin implementations... Agencies should identify the aspects of their current IT workload that can be transitioned to the cloud in the near term to yield "early wins" to help build momentum and support for the migration to cloud computing.'"

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  1. Genuine Nigger Advantage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am black. Does that automatically make me a nigger or do I have to meet cartain criteria?

  2. Re:The joke of Gubbmint technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And isn't it interesting that this is happening under a Liberal government? Maximizing profits for large, normally, evil, companies while putting the citizen's data and information at risk of privacy exposure?