GSA starts big push toward commercial cloud
The General Services Administration has made clear that it knows what it wants in kicking off market research phase for what is shaping up as a massive blanket purchase agreement for enterprise cloud services.
A wide-range of commercial cloud services will be available on a pay-as-you-go basis via the BPA: including software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service. The vehicle also will include cloud security requirements and services related to cloud implementation.
All federal, state and local government agencies can have access to the contract. GSA is pushing it as a mechanism for agencies to replace legacy IT services and products, while also leveraging cloud offerings already available through the GSA schedule.