The U.S. government's cloud computing portal, Apps.gov, may be a breakthrough in fast, efficient, and transparent IT acquisition, but that doesn't mean it's cheap. Witness the multimillion-dollar software modules available to government agencies on the site
Cloud Computing: Rethinking IT Services 10/07/2009
What are the disturbing in mind about cloud computing?
- Smorgasbord in the Clouds
- Cloud Confusion
- Cloud Readiness
- Cloud Maturity
Government agencies once notorious for living in the technological Dark Ages are being lured to SaaS, and it's easy to see why. They want to streamline their bureaucratic processes and reduce their operating costs. In one instance, the state of California spent just $7 for an evening's worth of hosted compute time vs. tens of thousands of dollars in server costs it would otherwise have incurred.
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