Kundra Stresses Need For Cloud Computing Standards
The nation's top technology chief said Thursday that standards for security, interoperability and data portability are needed to drive forward the massive transition to cloud computing under way across government, Nextgov.com reported.
"We want to be pragmatic, but aggressive," said federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. He added the consolidation of federal data centers that the White House announced in February was the first of numerous "game-changing approaches" that will drive the move to cloud computing that the Office of Management and Budget announced in September 2009.
For cloud computing to become widespread, the federal government must develop standards so agencies don't duplicate inefficiencies in data centers, Kundra said during the keynote speech at the Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosted in Washington.
"What's important today is the [development of standards] in the area of security, interoperability and data portability" to ensure information is protected, clouds and the computer applications they support can work together, and content can be moved within and among different clouds without jeopardizing access to or integrity of the data, Kundra said. To read more, click here.
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