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Federal Cloud Computing Initiative Overview

By annie shum | August 3, 2009

This is a link to a presentationon the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative by Katie Lewin of GSA on June 18. An audio recording of her talk and a follow-on presentation about the USA.gov Web site is also available.

GOAL: To achieve an optimized, cost-effective, government-wide information technology infrastructure that supports agency mission, while providing reliability and security in service delivery.
To support the Federal Cloud Computing Direction and Deployment Approach, the ITI Line of Business PMO has been refocused as the Cloud Computing PMO

Building on ITI LoB Initiative
Infrastructure defined – Consensus model, Metrics, Key Focus Areas
Key Themes: consolidation and virtualization

Cloud Computing Initiative

Continue the migration towards a services-based environment that is technology and vendor-agnostic
Enable rapid deployment of technology solutions for the Federal government without developing stove-pipes
Enable scalability for existing and new capabilities
Increase savings through virtualization
Potentially reduce cost of infrastructure, buildings, power, and staffing
Improve the government’s ability to create a transparent, open and participatory government

Sourvce of info : Bob Marcus

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