{"id":2646,"date":"2012-07-16T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/16\/what-are-7-challenges-facing-federal-cloud-computing\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T10:29:22","slug":"what-are-the-7-challenges-facing-federal-cloud-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/what-are-the-7-challenges-facing-federal-cloud-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the 7 challenges facing federal cloud computing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that, while the US &lsquo;Cloud First&rsquo; enterprise project is making tangible progress, there are seven cloud lessons for the public sector.<\/p>\n<p>The report, subtitled &ldquo;progress made but future cloud computing efforts should be better planned&rdquo;, charts the progress of Cloud First &ndash; a federal policy which exhorts agencies to find a cloud-based IT solution whenever logistically possible.<\/p>\n<p>Things appear to have moved forward since 2010, when the GAO previously warned about the difficulties associated with federal cloud management.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May 2010, the accountability office found that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House hadn&rsquo;t even developed a cloud strategy.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears there is still work to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Research as recently as October 2011 found that 22 out of 24 major federal agencies were either &ldquo;concerned or very concerned&rdquo; about security risks in the cloud &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that, while the US &lsquo;Cloud First&rsquo; enterprise project is making tangible progress, there are seven cloud lessons for the public sector.<br \/>\nThe report, subtitled &ldquo;progress m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}