I'm very happy to read this article that indicates that the Federal CTO is pushing cloud computing (http://fcw.com/Articles/2009/07/15/cloud-computing-storefront.aspx). I tried unsuccessfully to push a little cloud opportunity here. It didn't catch fire, but I still believe in it. Now with the CTO on that bandwagon I suspect that it would receive a slightly different reception now.
The fact that the Certification and Accreditation will be handled on the cloud side and that I as the agency should expect to just build in the connection with a Service Level Agreement that the C&A requirement is met is a significant breakthrough. That has always been the sticking point in the cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) models. I would have had a responsibility (risk) with this site that is difficult to inspect working with people I don't know. Now that someone will oversee the C&A aspect, it turns into a comodity service that I can more easily consume.
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