This is a great article that was published in Wired last year. I thought I would include it to help explain the push for the US government into leveraging cloud computing system. As the government redefines their business service models, they are moving towards a ‘CloudFirst’ strategy. This article helps to explain that research firms such as IDC are saying that by FY 2014 U.S. Federal government spending on private cloud will be $1.7 billion vs. just $118.3 million on public cloud.
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/why-the-u-s-government-is-moving-to-cloud-computing/
