Cloud is a big investment, and the pace of adoption over the past few years has reflected this with agencies albeit tip toeing towards cloud. In the past 12 months, however, the cloud is on the move, with IDC Government Insights predicting that a 25% growth in the sourcing of government clouds will drive cross-governmental initiatives by 2018.

5 Things Every Agency Should Know About Procuring Cloud Services

If your agency is making the move to cloud services, it can expect cost-savings, improved service delivery, and all the great things that the cloud brings. But for procurement and purchasing officials whose practices and contracting vehicles were designed to help managers provision hardware and software, not on-demand services like the cloud, it can all cause a bit of a frenzy.

Identity management is a perplexing problem – particularly in government where evolving threats render traditional ID security strategies inadequate. One of the biggest problems is that agencies aren’t aware of the gaps in their security posture until they’re audited or experience a breach.

What can government agencies expect from cloud computing in 2015?

IDC Government Insights recently released its worldwide predictions for 2015 and predicts that governments will increasingly draw on cloud computing to underpin and enable a number of key initiatives.

“Microsoft Azure suffers another outage” is becoming an all too familiar headline. A series of problems has plagued the Azure infrastructure and PaaS cloud tools this year leaving customers across the globe reeling from outages and interruptions, some of them lasting as long as a week.

CAD News for Govies is a weekly feature on Acronym that scans thousands of industry articles to present you with a regular source of CAD and GIS news, information and ideas that impact the public sector. Here’s the latest round-up:

Integrated Design Workflow Videos using Revit 2013 and 2014

One of the biggest challenges that first responders face when dealing with the aftermath of a disaster is sharing GIS data across disparate IT systems. It’s a problem we discuss extensively in this free ebook – Google Emergency Management Tools for Govies.