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Federal, state and local government organizations are in the midst of consolidating data centers, servers and end-user computing to streamline IT infrastructure, while working to identify and secure cloud-based workloads to comply with multiple White House-led efficiency mandates.

Although some agencies have taken the plunge into public cloud services, the vast majority of government organizations at all levels still face challenges sorting through the confusion that surrounds various forms of cloud computing services. Public sector organizations are working to decipher how best to leverage the various types of cloud services, ranging from internal private clouds to government community clouds to public clouds that utilize services from external providers.

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Today, federal, state and local governments are in the midst of streamlining IT infrastructures, and identifying and securing cloud-based workloads to comply with multiple efficiency mandates. While some states and localities have fully embraced public cloud services, federal agencies tend to be skeptical of the differences they see between public and private cloud services.  In addition:

• What about leveraging government community clouds?
• What are the complexities and trade-offs of each approach?
• How can public sector organizations ensure they have the data governance in place to securely provide such services?

Using the expert guidance derived from this webinar featuring John Messina from NIST, Eric Sweden from NASCIO, and Dave Fletcher, CTO of the state of Utah, agencies will gain the confidence they need to invest wisely in cloud computing services.

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