Uncle Sam to offer cloud computing platform for gov’t agencies?
Read Write Web has a report from Federal News Radio on the possible release of a ’software-as-a-service’ platform for government agencies, to be announced as soon as this September.
[Software-as-a-service] offerings made available will be government-approved services like email, productivity apps, document management and business process management software.Those services are intended for use by other government agencies. Even more exciting may be the application platform that’s part of the plan.
What does it mean that the Feds are throwing their hat into the ring on cloud computing?
With the relatively quick rise of so-called ‘netbooks,’ which live and rely on web services especially software-as-a-service applications like the Google Apps suite, would the Federal Government’s entry into the space change how we think about working in the cloud?
The prospect of government agencies using a government cloud platform to build and deploy web based applications like the private sector has used services like Amazon’s cloud computing is exciting. By lowering overhead and easing application management, a government cloud could yield a wave of application innovation across agencies. That’s the theory at least.
If government is to become the next hot application development sector, it will have to compete with a private tech sector that’s already deep into this paradigm and offers developers the possibility of turning cheap web apps into huge riches through acquisition by larger firms.
Read the rest of the story over at Read Write Web
Thanks for the information. You may be interested to know that Telstra – Australia’s biggest telco has just announced (on 17th August) a $500m investment into cloud computing which is pretty huge.
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