Cloud Computing is a major feature of the President’s initiative to modernize Information Technology. It has the capability to drastically reduce the costs of IT infrastructure by using commercially available technology based on virtualization of servers, databases, and applications.

With the government focus on implementing projects to increase efficiencies it can begin to take advantage of the many capabilities that cannot be fully leveraged by traditional data center hosting models.

Select features of Cloud Computing

• At hand computing resources for unpredictable surge demands
• Low cost automated disaster recovery
• Low cost storage with the ability to expand on-demand
• Dynamic hosting platform for production applications
• Highly flexible and reliable development environment for applications
• Repeatable on-demand test environment