Dec 22
2009
States offering a government Cloud Option – What is your take?
There was a recent article in Government Technology about how the states of Utah and Michigan are building cloud infrastructure with plans to package it for use by cities, towns and schools. In Utah, the plan is to provide a “hybrid cloud” which will be composed of a mix of hosted state services and commercially provided offerings delivered through a state run service catalog.
The state of Utah is banking on local governments being more comfortable putting their data in a cloud if they know the cloud is owned by an organization with similar privacy concerns. The state of Michigan wised to go one step further and provide a nation wide public-sector cloud that will hopefully help alleviate the economic pain in that state coming from declines in domestic auto manufacturing and other factors.
This creates some very interesting market dynamics. Utah may end up competing with Vivek Kundra’s cloud computing initiative and www.apps.gov and Michigan will end up competing with Force.com, Amazon, Google and other major cloud providers.
So what happens if the city of Detroit wants to move over to Gmail like Los Angeles did?
Will state run cloud computing be operated for profit?
It’s going to be an interesting 2010.
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