Stephen Warren, VA deputy CIO:
“Unless it’s a public cloud deployment and you don’t care about what’s running underneath, cloud doesn’t save money. The cost is not less for private cloud. It’s not just the monetary piece of cloud that matters. We went with cloud for the New GI Bill (app) because (of agility) — we implemented it in 3 months (with the Navy’s SPAWAR). Our value was speed to market… The premium (you get from cloud) is not the bottom line.”
At Cloud/Gov, I noticed several troubling PowerPoint trends:
1) the overuse of pyramids for things that don’t suggest pyramids: Cloud strategy at FEMA, top 5 reasons to use cloud from GSA. Was this a hidden reference to the pyramid on the dollar? The Cloud Illuminati? I have no idea.
2)Painful eyechart slides. I now know for sure that my glasses prescription needs updating, thanks to Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia’s Cloud-as-a-snowglobe, As-is to Desired Outcome, exploding buzzword cloud slide.
Sean M. Gallagher 