The Federal Government’s current Information Technology (IT) environment is characterized by low asset utilization, a fragmented demand for resources, duplicative systems, environments which are difficult to manage, and long procurement lead times, writes former U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra in this strategy paper, released Feb. 8, 2011.

These inefficiencies negatively impact the Federal Government’s ability to serve the American public Cloud computing has the potential to play a major part in addressing these inefficiencies and improving government service delivery.

The cloud computing model can significantly help agencies grappling with the need to provide highly reliable, innovative services quickly despite resource constraints.

The 37 page report outlines examples of cloud computing, a decision framework, and catalysts for cloud adoption.