Opening Doors to Government in the Cloud
1:33:47 | Mar 24, 2015 | Cloud Computing
As government agencies pursue OMB’s Cloud First policy, Federal CIOs are taking a hard look at issues like vendor lock-in, contract incongruity, data ownership, and reporting and policy compliance. Coupled with the Federal CIO’s recent Digital Services Playbook with its Default to Open mandate, agencies are looking to move to the cloud using more agile, open approaches.
This briefing brought a panel of government thought-leaders to discuss the use of modern technologies such as agile application development, open source, infrastructure as a service, and other shared services as an accelerating trend in government today.
We’ll Explore:
- Agency initiatives for adoption of Free and Open Source Software.
- GitHub and its role in government’s open source community.
- How agencies are using Openstack in moving to the cloud.
- Recent procurement reforms that are spurring an open approach to the cloud.