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Vendors Catch the Apps.gov Wind

by Andrea Di Maio  |  September 16, 2009  |  3 Comments

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Shortly after the official launch of the GSA cloud storefront Apps.gov, vendors that feature multiple times in the business and productivity application sections of the web site have leveraged their position.

Salesforce.com issued a press release  about its inclusion in Apps.gov, while Google announced Google Public Sector, a directory of existing Google offerings packaged with information that speak to a public sector audience. As reported by Infoworld yesterday, in conjunction with the Apps.gov launch, Google also announced the availability of cloud services designed specifically for US government agencies earlier next year (by when it aims at getting the required FISMA certification) – see also Google’s announcement on their blog.

As a side issue, I tried the new PublicSector page in other countries too. In the UK and in Australia, the page is pretty much the same as in the US, whereas elsewhere- such as Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Canada - it is a different version (and not in the local language), with a few broken links on the lefthand side. I wonder whether this is a reflection of how Google sees the government market maturity for its offering,

I expect players like Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and others to move rapidly in this space to establish their role as cloud application service providers. How ready federal clients are to embrace these new models for mission-critical applications remains to be determined.

Also, looking at the current plans of the federal administration, I cannot find much about platform as a service. This is key to address application integration in a scenario that becomes more rather than less complicated, with a combination of public and private cloud infrastructure, SaaS and on-premise applications. I am looking forward to seeing where IBM, Microsoft, Tibco and other aPaaS solutions fit into the US feds’ scheme of things.

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  • 1 Twitter Trackbacks for Vendors Catch the Apps.gov Wind [gartner.com] on Topsy.com   September 17, 2009 at 5:24 am

    [...] Vendors Catch the Apps.gov Wind blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2009/09/16/vendors-catch-the-appsgov-wind – view page – cached ← US Government Launches Cloud Application Store, But The Toughest Questions Remain Unanswered — From the page [...]

  • 2 b   September 25, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    looks like hillary up to her tricks again with government sponsored link farm word press. Jesus christ wat has this country come. That is the most hacked program around

  • 3 Defense Information Systems Agency Accelerates Its RACE To Clouds   October 6, 2009 at 10:13 am

    [...] This is an interesting example of how some federal agencies are positioning themselves as providers of private or community cloud services. As I said in a previous post, it will be interesting to watch what their role will be in the evolution of OMB-GSA strategy on cloud computing (whose first step has been Apps.gov) and whether they will find themselves competing with vendors who move into the private cloud business. [...]