Body of Knowledge about the migration of public services into the Cloud
The Central Role of Cloud Computing in Making Cities Energy-Smart
Cities are home to more than half of people in the world today, and will be home to nearly 70% of our population by 2050.i As such, cities that are economically and environmentally sustainable are critical to achieving the sustainability of our society as a whole....
A Global Study of Governments’ Adoption of Cloud
How are governments planning for and adopting cloud? What are the challenges of cloud-enablement? How will the integration of cloud technologies disrupt the status quo of governance? More importantly, what are governments doing to ensure they get the most from their...
Cloud Computing: An overview of economic and policy issues
Cloud computing is a model for providing information and communication technology (ICT) services (including servers, systems, storage and applications) over a network such as the internet. By taking advantage of self-service implementation and configuration, and...
Analysis of cloud best practices and pilots for the public sector
The objective of this study was to analyse the current national initiatives for the deployment of clouds in the public sector in ten Member States, to identify and describe best practice use cases and to propose pilots for those application areas where current cloud...
Cloud Computing in the Public Sector
Cloud computing—delivering infrastructure, services, and software on demand via the network—offers attractive advantages to the public sector. For example, it has the potential to reduce information and communications technology (ICT) costs by virtualizing capital...
Australian Government Cloud Computing Policy
The Australian Government recognises that the community expects government services to be responsive to their needs and available where and when they want them. Key to realising this vision is the effective use of ICT by government, including the adoption of cloud...
Cloud Computing and Sustainability
To assess the environmental impact of cloud computing, Microsoft engaged with Accenture—a leading technology, consulting and outsourcing company— and WSP Environment & Energy—a global consultancy dedicated to environmental and sustainability issues—to compare the...
The Treacherous 12: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2016
At an unprecedented pace, cloud computing has simultaneously transformed business and government, and created new security challenges. The development of the cloud service model delivers business-supporting technology more efficiently than ever before. The shift from...
An Introduction to Cloud Computing in the Federal Public Sector
The Cloud Computing industry represents a large ecosystem of many models, vendors, and market niches each with their own approaches to exploiting the gains that cloud promises. In May 2010, a simple Web search of the term “Cloud Computing” returned over 14 million...