Faux Cloud And Missed Opportunities – Government Cloud Done Wrong

December 6, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Ben Kepes.

Globally more and more Governments are leveraging the benefits that cloud services can bring – the level of adoption and understanding however varies greatly across different countries and even states – one would have thought that countries late to adopt would avoid making the mistakes that some of the early-adopters made – experience shows that this is sadly not the case. With the US and the UK adopting high-profile cloud initiatives, there’s lots of experience to take advantage of.

I took the opportunity recently to sit down for a coffee with Ian Apperley, a New Zealand cloud consultant who does a lot of work in the public sector. It’s always interesting to talk with practitioners, all the more so when they’re helping organizations move to the cloud in my home country – my focus tends to be international and often I’m out of touch with what goes on at home – apart from an involvement helping get the Cloud Computing Code of Practice up and running (more information here), my domestic awareness is limited…

So I was interested to talk with Apperley about what he’s seeing in terms of adoption of cloud services here in New Zealand, in particular the adoption of cloud by Government Departments. Apperley is no outsider when it comes to this topic, apart from consulting to different Government departments, he worked on the Government Cloud Program and saw New Zealand adopt a “cloud first” policy. So it’s not simply a pie-in-the-sky guess when Apperley suggests that the New Zealand Government could save $150M per annum by moving to cloud-based services. As an example of the savings that could be made here Apperley points out that:..

Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2013/12/06/faux-cloud-and-missed-opportunities-government-cloud-done-wrong/