Securing The Cloud
“The primary issue with security is perception. But the cloud is more secure [than traditional systems] because it was built with security in mind.” - (Eran Feigenbaum, director of security, Google Enterprise)
Federation and the Federated Cloud
Well, it’s pretty much here today. Take for example Salesforce.com which interoperates with Google Apps, Twitter, Facebook, and several other cloud-based services. Many of these services have open developer APIs to integrate into their services so this type of interchange will only grow with time.
How Ready is the Federal Government?
In this writer’s humble opinion the future efficiency of the federal government will depend on economic models similar to cloud based computing solutions. From a technology perspective, it will not be an overnight process. Most of the big cloud services providers have free sandboxes where CIOs can test migrations of some of the applications we mentioned in part 2 of this series.
This is clearly where our government technology infrastructure (or at least a part of it) is going. Let’s get moving.
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