Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services (reuters.com)

According to Reuters, The White House said Wednesday the U.S. government needs a major overhaul of information technology systems and should take steps to better protect data and accelerate efforts to use cloud-based technology. The report outlined a timeline over the next year for IT reforms and a detailed implementation plan. One unnamed cloud-based email provider has agreed to assist in keeping track of government spending on cloud-based email migration. From the report: The report said the federal government must eliminate barriers to using commercial cloud-based technology. "Federal agencies must consolidate their IT investments and place more trust in services and infrastructure operated by others," the report found. Government agencies often pay dramatically different prices for the same IT item, the report said, sometimes three or four times as much. A 2016 U.S. Government Accountability Office report estimated the U.S. government spends more than $80 billion on IT annually but said spending has fallen by $7.3 billion since 2010. In 2015, there were at least 7,000 separate IT investments by the U.S. government. The $80 billion figure does not include Defense Department classified IT systems and 58 independent executive branch agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency. The GAO report found some agencies are using systems that have components that are at least 50 years old.

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Re:Mauve has the most RAM

[thegreatbob]

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-... good times.

Hmmmm....

[twistedcubic]

Sounds like a bad idea. I wonder which cloud provider wrote this directive?

Re:Why not?

[Hognoxious]

What could possible go wrong?

Your keyboard, or so it would appear.

So job opening?

[WolfgangVL]

This is the exact sort of thing that I would to expect to come out of a big white building full of executive level upper management morons with big bank accounts.

I'll be damn surprised if there's not an on premise IT grunt at the White-house getting his pink slip right now.

In fact, where does one apply for the position? (asking for a friend)