[LINK] itNews: 'AGIMO defends Government cloud take-up'

John Hilvert john.hilvert at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 17:31:30 AEST 2012


Thanks for the thread, folks.

That's what I transcribed from my digital recording of Sheridan's talk.

I think his main point was that virtualisation (along with other
technologies) already offered similar economies of scale and the Government
was ahead of the game.

>AGIMO first assistant secretary John Sheridan refuted claims that the
> >Government had taken too tentative an approach to the cloud, noting
> >that its DCaaS tender documents had been downloaded 200 times since
> >their release on 31 July.
>
> That metric is also just silly as a determiner for how 'tentative'
> they are. (John, not sticking this on you, but did he really conflate
> those ideas?)
>
> Jan
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