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The advantages of early FedRAMP adoption
July 25 2012 @4:47 PM
By: Patrick Cronin
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...
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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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