"Federal Cloud Computing Initiative" presentation from GSA

[Bob Marcus]

This is a link to a  presentation on the Federal Cloud Computing Initiative by Katie Lewin of GSA on June 18 describing some plans beyond the GSA's IaaS Request for Quote (RFQ)..  An audio recording of her talk and a follow-on presentation about the USA.gov Web site is also available. Note the rapid preliminary delivery schedule on slide 11 for IaaS, SaaS and PaaS resources available through the Cloud Storefront. There will probably be a slowdown in the  actual deployment.  However the RFQs will be used as a baseline for future Cloud procurements by many governments and enterprises.

I have invited GSA to give a talk at the Session on the "Best Practices for Cloud Initiatives using Storefronts" on September 21.  One focus of the Session will be the minimal standards required for the  "creation of a  services-based environment that is interoperable and standards-based" as called out in Slide 10 of her presentation.  This type of environment will be necessary for sharing, interfacing, and moving resources across multiple Clouds.