Open cloud: Game changing technology for govts

Governments use technology extensively to support their missions. Cloud computing is next generation IT which governments can use to change how they operate IT, how they store data and applications, and make these readily available any time, anywhere using any device. Cloud computing is gamechanging technology.

USA: Open Source Clouds On The Rise

The U.S. government is an early adopter of cloud computing and a proponent of open source, two trends that are about to intersect. Cloud computing has the potential to transform how government agencies tap into IT services, and open source is an underlying technology in several of the early government clouds that have been developed.

IBM grabs largest enterprise cloud deployment

IBM is expected to announce on Thursday the largest enterprise cloud computing deployment to date as Panasonic begins a migration off Microsoft Exchange to IBM's LotusLive cloud service. More than 100,000 employees will participate in the initial migration effort expanding to a total of more than 300,000 employees and external partners globally.

Is Cloud Computing Killing Open Source in Government?

I know that some reader will raise their eyebrows reading the title. After all, cloud computing is intimately connected to open source: Linux servers are at the basis of most cloud infrastructures, and several applications that can be consumed as a cloud-based service are either open source or based on open source components. One may be almost tempted to look at the two as being strictly intertwined and mutually dependent.