Attached you will find the slides presented at the "Cloud Computing" Hot Topic Forum. Mr Knepper's presentation covered a wide and detailed description of why cloud computing is hot, what it is, how the Federal Government is adopting it, provided strategy considerations, and briefly discussed security considerations. We recognize that the security consderation part of of the presentation was cut a little short due to time, but as mentioned in the session we will attempt to get answers to any questions posted to this contribution. Also, as soon as the video of the session is screened/confirmed, we plan to post a link to that as well.
Sources for Mr Knepper's slides are linked at the bottom of the applicable slides and for the sake of simplicity, the web enabled resources are listed below:
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1454221 - Gartner lists Cloud Computing at top of top 10 strategic technologies for 2011
http://www.opencloud.com/ - Cloud Taxonomy
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/storage/showArticle.jhtml?arti... – Novel Finds Widespread Concern About Cloud Security
http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=3177&rf=2010-12-20-e... – NASA CTO discusses Cloud Computing and Security
http://www.siia.net/saasgov/2009/studies_detail.asp?ID=4 – Case Study: SaaS in Government – Census 2010
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1586114 – PaaS in Government
http://collaborate.nist.gov/twiki-cloud-computing/pub/CloudComputing/USAIDV... - Case Study: IaaS in Government – USAID Desktop Virtualization
*Note that a number of links provided at the Hot Topic Forum are no longer available and have been deleted; if you are returning to locate a like previously viewed as part of this contribution and no longer see the desired link, it means that the link expired and was removed.
