The federal government has issued its
Cloud Computing Request for Quotation [1] (RFQ) (link via
Kevin Jackson [2]), which outlines the framework for Obama administration’s planned deployment of cloud technologies. The document outlines the U.S. government’s requirements for an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering with three distinct components: cloud storage, virtual machines, and cloud web hosting. The program will be impolemented by the General Services Administration (GSA) through a Cloud Computing Storefront, a catalog outlining predefined services that government agencies can provision on third-party IaaS platforms. The RFQ seeks a service level agreement of 99.95 percent availability
For an overview of the government Cloud Computing RFQ, check out this
presentation on Scribd [3].
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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URLs in this post:
[1] Cloud Computing Request for Quotation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/17914883/US-Federal-Cloud-Computing-Initiative-RFQ-GSA
[2] Kevin Jackson: http://kevinljackson.blogspot.com/2009/07/gsa-releases-cloud-computing-rfq.html
[3] presentation on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/18031511/US-Federal-Cloud-Computing-Initiative-Overview-Presentation-GSA
[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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