From: CIO
Industry officials call on cloud providers to offer provisions in service agreements with government agencies that address vendor lock-in and data ownership.
By some measurements, the federal government’s adoption of cloud computing has been on a steep rise, but there remain significant obstacles that have stood in the way of modernizing legacy systems and applications.
A pair of industry officials cautioned in an online presentation this week that cloud vendors looking to do business with federal agencies will help their cause if they can address some of those sticking points, including favorable service-level agreements (SLAs), security and compliance considerations, and, of course, costs.
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