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Washington Post

Consumers save their e-mail and documents on Google’s data centers, put their photos on Flickr and store their social lives on Facebook. Now a host of companies including Amazon and Microsoft wants government agencies to similarly house data on their servers as a way to cut costs and boost efficiency.

But federal officials say it’s one thing to file away e-mailed jokes from friends, and another to store government data on public servers that could be vulnerable to security breaches. 

A great article, adopting cloud computing might be a great way of providing or procuring elements of the IT service or infrastructure, that said there will be some end users which for issues relating to privacy, liability or operation will prefer to keep their infrastructure and services in house. What we might find is the adoption of those ‘transversal’ cross department services/applications or indeed grid/storage where I know my needs will grow and it’s cheaper to buy it in on a demand basis than keep provisioning infrastructure.

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