14 Recommendations for Federal Cloud Adoption

A new report is providing federal government leaders with strategies on how to encourage cloud adoption and keep the U.S. at the forefront of the cloud computing movement.

“Cloud First, Cloud Fast: Recommendations for Innovation, Leadership and Job Creation,” was released by the TechAmerica Foundation’s Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (Cloud2 Commission) on July 26 and features 14 recommendations that attempt to further the Obama administration’s “Cloud First” policy. The 30-page guidance document has a variety of suggestions arranged in four category areas — Trust, Transnational Data Flows, Transparency and Transformation — for both top-level U.S. government officials and for federal agency CIOs.