Australia cloud plans slammed

Computer World.

AIIA says AGIMO is overplaying the risks of migrating to cloud computing in its draft cloud consultation paper, released late last year, according to ZDnet.

The underlying objective of the government's draft cloud strategy is to outline plans for moving government agencies' IT requirements into a public cloud environment over the next five years.

According to ZDnet, AIIA's Cloud Computing Taskforce states in a report: "Over-emphasising data sovereignty and possible loss of control will play to agencies not wanting to change the status quo and this may compromise higher level aims to reduce costs and increase efficiencies across government service delivery and ICT use.”

CIO claims strong criticism from the AIIA suggests the initiative reinvented the wheel for “no proven business or commercial outcome” in its submission on the services panel.