Department of the Interior and the Cloud

An interesting article in InformationWeek Government about DOI’s plans for cloud computing:

The Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) decision to invest as much as $10 billion to migrate its IT operations to the cloud, through a set of 10 competing contracts, is perhaps the most significant example yet of how central cloud computing is becoming to federal agencies — and to leading federal IT service providers. Experts also believe it will set the agency on a path toward becoming a major government cloud service provider.

http://www.informationweek.com/government/cloud-saas/government-clouds-interior-dept-sets-new/240160258?cid=NL_IWK_Gov_240160258&elq=6847d7affb1b4161b9398be61fdfb3dc