Nov 23, 2020 6:00 AM PT
The rapid expansion in the use of cloud technologies to support remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that the U.S. government s increasingly high rate of cloud adoption will likely be sustained for the next several years.
In fact, 2020 was a historic year for federal cloud migration, according to Alex Rossino, senior principal research analyst at Deltek. Federal spending on cloud technology reached $6.8 billion in the 2020 federal fiscal year, more than double the level of 2017. I think that the federal market turned a corner in fiscal 2018 with the publication of the Cloud Smart guidance. After that agencies began rapidly accelerating the migration of systems and use of SaaS capabilities. COVID-19 only added fuel to that fire, Rossino told the E-Commerce Times.
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//]]>// >By John K. Higgins
Oct 22, 2020 5:00 AM PT
The U.S. government s policy to restrict federal agency exposure to products and services associated with Huawei Technologies and other China-based companies has gained the support of the U.S. information technology industry.
However, a wide swath of U.S. companies, including those in the IT sector, registered significant concerns about federal regulations designed to control the employment of China-sourced products by federal agencies and government contractors.
Government restrictions that prohibited the federal purchase of certain products from China were put into effect in 2019. Then, in August 2020 a whole set of new regulations went into effect to control or restrict the use of certain China-sourced technologies by federal contractors. The restrictions were adopted on an interim basis, and contractors were allowed to submit comments through mid-September. All comments will be considered in promulgating final regul
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//]]>// >By John K. Higgins
Oct 22, 2020 5:00 AM PT
The U.S. government s policy to restrict federal agency exposure to products and services associated with Huawei Technologies and other China-based companies has gained the support of the U.S. information technology industry.
However, a wide swath of U.S. companies, including those in the IT sector, registered significant concerns about federal regulations designed to control the employment of China-sourced products by federal agencies and government contractors.
Government restrictions that prohibited the federal purchase of certain products from China were put into effect in 2019. Then, in August 2020 a whole set of new regulations went into effect to control or restrict the use of certain China-sourced technologies by federal contractors. The restrictions were adopted on an interim basis, and contractors were allowed to submit comments through mid-September. All comments will be considered in promulgating final regul