CLOUD COMPUTING
FED TECHNOLOGY: Open Platforms Can Speed up Government Shift to Cloud. The White House has ordered federal agencies to accelerate the adoption of cloud usage in 2018, and that has many federal agencies struggling with significant technical and organizational challenges in this shift. But open source cloud platforms (PaaS) can help accelerate this process and make it more manageable. Read more
[FEDWEEK.COM]
DOD: Pentagon’s $1 Billion Cloud Deal May Signal New Era in Government Buying. Congress wants the Defense Department to buy technology faster. Now it’s beginning to do just that. In early February, a small Virginia-based company—REAN Cloud—that partners with Amazon Web Services announced a nearly $1 billion deal to provide cloud computing services for the Defense Department. Read more
[NEXTGOV.COM]
OPINION: Look Beyond Efficiency When It Comes to Cloud. Cloud computing continues to permeate the federal government as agencies embrace its cost and productivity benefits. Nearly two-thirds of the federal employees responding to a recent Deloitte survey indicated their agency has moved at least some applications to the cloud. Identifying the primary motivators of cloud migration, survey respondents gave similar weight to cost savings, organizational efficiency and better data sharing. Read more.
[FCW.COM]
IDEAS: How Agencies Can Effectively Implement Artificial Intelligence. The IBM Center for The Business of Government has released a new report to help agencies understand effective practices in adopting AI and cognitive technologies: Delivering Artificial Intelligence in Government: Challenges and Opportunities, by Kevin Desouza, ASU Foundation Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Desouza reviews recent progress made in applying artificial intelligence to public sector service provision, drawing on lessons learned from commercial experience as well as burgeoning cognitive computing activity by federal, state, local, and international governments. Read more.
[GOVEXEC.COM]
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