All the leading enterprise software vendors, as well as large cloud specialists, will introduce new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings this year, making 2011 the year of PaaS, according to Gartner, Inc. These leading vendors are expected to deliver new or strongly expanded PaaS service offerings and cloud-enabled application infrastructure products.
Government Computer News – Cloud Computing
- How Michigan's consolidation plan kept wolverines from the door April 3, 2012Over the past decade, Michigan's Department of Information Technology has cut costs by consolidating resources and standardizing its approach to better meet the needs of the state's agencies. […]
- 3 tips on e-mail consolidation April 3, 2012State CIOs who have finished e-mail consolidation projects suggest starting small, communicating widely and considering a tiered services approach. […]
- Consolidation at the crossroads: 4 paths taken April 3, 2012Budget-strapped agencies are looking for savings in e-mail consolidation, whether in a public, private or hybrid cloud. Here's how four organizations did it. […]
- New in cloud: Brokers that let you select providers by the job April 3, 2012The emergence of cloud brokers can aid government agencies in purchasing cloud services and facilitate cross-platform integration and communication, industry experts say. […]
- Integrated services? The cloud alone isn't enough. April 2, 2012Agencies will need to deploy cloud and service-oriented architectures together to achieve integrated services and greater information exchange across agencies and organizations, government and industry experts say. […]