{"id":3089,"date":"2012-08-13T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2329201"},"modified":"2012-08-13T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T09:15:00","slug":"texas-cloud-computing-lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/texas-cloud-computing-lessons-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Cloud Computing Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last week  the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) released an important whitepaper that reviewed it’s multi-year Pilot Texas Cloud Offering (PTCO)<\/a>. This project was designed to allow a small group of agencies to choose a virtual private cloud-based infrastructure as a service from a marketplace of service providers made available by a cloud broker. For this project, Texas DIR selected Gravitant and its cloudMatrix technology<\/a>. This approach was selected as it maximized the opportunity to produce the broadest spectrum of experiences for customers. The cloudMatrix software helped to normalize the multiple services available, creating an \u201capples-to-apples\u201d comparison in pricing and functionality as much as possible. In addition, this solution provided a single, unified web interface for end users to design, procure, provision, monitor, and govern the services. The PTCO allowed DIR and the pilot agencies to a gain a greater understanding of cloud infrastructure offerings for state government and document options and issues with provider selection, pricing, access security, data security, credentialing, provisioning time frames, service levels, service remedy options, terms of use, billing models, interoperability, mobility, scalability, capacity management, provider compliance, and monitoring and licensing.<\/span><\/p>\n