{"id":8497,"date":"2013-08-04T23:22:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T23:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/aug\/05\/nasas-cloud-computing-efforts-need-strengthening-says-report\/"},"modified":"2013-08-04T23:22:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T23:22:14","slug":"nasas-cloud-computing-efforts-need-strengthening-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/nasas-cloud-computing-efforts-need-strengthening-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s cloud computing efforts \u201cneed strengthening\u201d, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&rsquo;s roadmap towards utilising cloud computing needs a serious rethink, according to an official report from the space agency&rsquo;s Office of Audits (OA).<\/p>\n<p>In a 38-page report, the OA criticises NASA&rsquo;s cloud strategy in terms of governance, risk management and security, concluding that &ldquo;weaknesses&#8230;impeded the agency from fully realising the benefits of cloud computing and potentially placed at risk its information stored in the cloud.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Currently, NASA spends about $10m of its annual IT budget on cloud services &ndash; a meagre sum given its overall budget is $1.5bn.<\/p>\n<p>The agency appears to be reticent about going all-in for cloud however, predicting that with a legacy technology overhaul, &ldquo;up to 40%&rdquo; of its software could move to the cloud, adding that within five years, up to three quarters of new IT projects could be born in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the future, the report still damns the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&rsquo;s roadmap towards utilising cloud computing needs a serious rethink, according to an official report from the space agency&rsquo;s Office of Audits (OA).<br \/>\nIn a 38-page report, the OA criticises NASA&rsquo;s cloud strategy in terms of governan&#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-8497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497","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=8497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}