If The US Gets the Cloud, Why Not You?

Under the leadership of US CIO, Vivek Kundra, the US government has decided to go full bore into the Cloud with what Kundra has termed a “Cloud First Policy.” Yet many private-sector IT Pros still don’t trust the Cloud in theory or practice.

Some see it as nothing more than a throw-back to mainframe time sharing or worse, a marketing term with no meaning whatsoever. Many have security issues, but those hardened veterans who still don’t want to see the advantages of the Cloud should at least consider the path of the US government IT apparatus, an amazingly large bureaucracy with a Cloud mandate.