
The federal cloud market is set to grow by billions in the next few years, but that has not left the Department of Defense without security concerns. Fiscal year 2014 will see federal private cloud spending reach $1.7 billion, rising to $7.7 billion by FY 2017, according to Massachusetts-based research firm IDC. Private cloud means that the agency does not share its cloud with any other party. The logic behind the move to the cloud has been to consolidate data…