In its recent study, Contracts in the Cloud Promise More Contracts, An Executive’s Guide to Understanding FedRAMP, Bloomberg Government (BGOV) found that Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) holding “a government-wide cloud-services contract, such as CGI … will have an advantage in winning more work because FedRAMP gives them priority in the review process.” More...

Cloud computing provides organizations access to a vast array of virtual computing resources, along with ease of purchase. While both advantages are driving the high demand for cloud services, their combination can lead to the problem of cloud “creep”—purchasing more cloud services than you really need.Cloud creep is becoming more and more of a challenge as organizations move into the cloud. With the cloud, any business area within an organization—not just IT—can easily identify and readily purchase cloud solutions to address its specific needs. More...

Cloud computing is shifting the federal CIO’s responsibility from managing data centers to managing cloud services, especially for cloud security, even when those services are procured outside the CIO’s office. As a result, CIOs must pay close attention to the security controls its agency programs are getting with their cloud infrastructure for web hosting. More...

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