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Federal Agencies Continue Push To Outsource IT And Cloud Services

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, April 9th, 2014

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With federal IT departments spending an estimated 50 percent of their budgets on life-cycle support, agencies have been looking to the private sector for efficiencies. Following White House guidance, there has been a major push to outsource server hosting and clouds services to commercial data centers. As part of their contracts, commercial providers are responsible for the maintenance and security of the hardware and data under their care. While some have expressed fears over security, others see IT as just…

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