{"id":11583,"date":"2014-10-07T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/oct\/08\/latest-australian-cloud-computing-policy-further-adopts-cloud-first-approach\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T23:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T23:50:20","slug":"latest-australian-cloud-computing-policy-further-adopts-cloud-first-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/latest-australian-cloud-computing-policy-further-adopts-cloud-first-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Australian cloud computing policy further adopts \u201ccloud first\u201d approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rexlibris\/755455931\/sizes\/o\/in\/photolist-29KUJg-95itEg-5utVzR-dTYA5N-bj85iH-5dyFum-79FowK-h38T8-neuu1W-aCK4t6-cninFs-3tQiwi-na51QJ-2WDYzv-6Ln4to-sYS3a-7T9kWP-oDfbFu-2LzD4-6hUFGG-mzKhMY-2a5uNt-8VxfFx-3sWhGW-8fmSsy-5pobTi-6UtUSQ-c3\"><em>Picture credit: Max Anderson\/Flickr<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest draft of Australia&rsquo;s federal cloud computing policy insists that agencies &ldquo;must&rdquo; adopt cloud so long as it&rsquo;s fit for purpose, protects user data and represents value for money.<\/p>\n<p>The 14 page paper, signed by minister for finance Mathias Cormann and minister for communications Malcolm Turnbull, aims to &ldquo;reduce the cost of government ICT by eliminating duplication and fragmentation, and will lead by example in using cloud services to reduce costs, lift productivity and develop better services.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cloud services will have their value for money determined as per the Commonwealth Procurement Rules, and security of data assesses by the Protective Security Policy Framework. The government has issued a six step outline as a &lsquo;high level approach to the process of evaluating cloud services&rsquo;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assess information against legislative and regulatory requirements<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate the market for cloud services including existing initiatives by other agencies<\/li>\n<li>Determine the suitability of the cloud service against the information requirements<\/li>\n<li>Procure and implement the cloud service<\/li>\n<li>Monitor the cloud service for performance and compliance<\/li>\n<li>Review the cloud service for ongoing benefits realisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Adoption figures show a slow uptake, according to the report. Cloud procurements in AusTender &ndash; the centralised hub for business opportunities, cloud or otherwise &ndash; have only totalled $4.7m since July 2010. The Australian government spends approximately $6bn a year on IT.<\/p>\n<p>As a result the report discusses key plans going forward, including evaluation of cloud services for new IT services, and the establishment of a Cloud Services Panel by January 2015. The key recommendation, however, is to move AusTender to a cloud based service, after an options analysis by the Department of Finance.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Agencies have made limited progress in adopting cloud,&rdquo; the report warns. &ldquo;A significant opportunity exists for agencies to increase their use of cloud services through the Australian Government Cloud Computing Policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite a few teething snags, the UK government&rsquo;s G-Cloud programme <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finance.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/australian-government-cloud-computing-policy-3.pdf\">is making steady progress<\/a>, replacing the CloudStore with the Digital Marketplace for cloud procurements. Australia currently ranks third in the latest Asia Pacific cloud readiness survey, behind Japan and New Zealand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/may\/08\/cloud-computing-india-are-we-verge-explosion\/\">according to ACCA<\/a> &ndash; an increase of four places from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finance.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/australian-government-cloud-computing-policy-3.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture credit: Max Anderson\/Flickr<br \/>\nThe latest draft of Australia&rsquo;s federal cloud computing policy insists that agencies &ldquo;must&rdquo; adopt cloud so long as it&rsquo;s fit for purpose, protects user data and represents value for money.<br \/>\nThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}