Some federal agencies are making progress in migrating their information...
Some federal agencies are making progress in migrating their information technology (IT) services to the cloud, said a report published Wednesday by the GAO (http://xrl.us/bngidi). GAO said agencies would benefit from better planning to save costs in retiring their legacy…
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systems. The report found that seven selected agencies had identified three IT services that they would move to the cloud by February 2011 and at least one cloud service to be implemented by December 2011. But the report said some of the agencies did not estimate the costs of migrating their services and lacked plans for retiring or re-purposing their legacy services, which GAO said could delay the cost savings or benefits of the government’s move to the cloud. The report comes a year and a half after then-U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra implemented his “cloud first” policy for federal agencies. The plan urged agencies to identify three “must move services” within three months and move one of those services to the cloud within 13 months, and the remaining two within 18 months. The GAO report recommended that the agencies focus on estimating the costs of cloud migration and planning for the retirement of existing services. The report was requested by Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Scott Brown, R-Mass.