Feds trek to the cloud

12.09.2011

56% said it will neither facilitate nor accelerate federal cloud adoption.

67% said it won't make federal cloud computing more secure.

Public, Private or Hybrid

Analysts say that government agencies, like their private-sector counterparts, are trying all of the cloud options to see which models work best in certain situations.

Government entities that are implementing cloud computing are primarily doing so in one of three ways, according to Marie Francesca, director of engineering operations, and Geoff Raines, senior principal software systems engineer, at The Mitre Corp., a government contractor based in Arlington, Va.