The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement are holding a joint hearing to find out the policies and procedures being put in place for the Federal Cloud. With budgets tight and dollars short the Cloud offers immediate benefits to government agencies. In a report released from the Brookings Institute
My prediction? There are going to be government private clouds for a number of different agencies because no agency is going to want to share; they all want to protect their fiefdoms.