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25 years IT industry

Andrea Di Maio is a vice president and distinguished analyst in Gartner Research, where he focuses on the public sector, with particular reference to e-government strategies, Web 2.0, the business value of IT, open-source software… Read Full Bio

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Ask Five Vendors Your Questions About Government and Cloud Computing

by Andrea Di Maio  |  October 12, 2009  |  6 Comments

On October 20 at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando I will be moderating Cloud Computing in Government: A Vendor Perspective, a panel with five vendors discussing the relevance and roadmap to cloud computing for government organizations.

Vendors in the panel (in strict alphabetical order) are:

  • CSC
  • Google
  • Microsoft
  • Salesforce.com
  • Terremark

Their choice is neither reflective of their position in the market nor of any assessment about their capabilities and strengths with respect to other vendors. All we wanted to have was a sample vendors who are currently discussing with their clients and internally about opportunities and challenges of cloud computing in government and the broader public sector.

As this is quite an interesting line-up, I thought I would ask readers of this blog to suggest questions they’d like to ask. I am already getting a few on the Gartner Symposium – Government 2.0 group on LinkedIn.

So, don’t be shy and shoot your questions by just replying to this post. I promise I’ll pick the most interesting ones for the panel and will come back with the outcome of the panel both here and (for Gartner clients) with a fully-fledged research note.

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  • 2 Saqib Ali   October 13, 2009 at 12:47 pm

    Question:

    What are you guys doing to address confidentiality issue in the cloud? Are are there plans to introduce Host-Proof Hosting for data that needs absolute confidentiality?

  • 3 Jan Klincewicz   October 13, 2009 at 8:18 pm

    So, is “Private Cloud” an oxymoron, or can individual organizations compete with cloud “scale” all by their onesies ?

  • 4 Klaus Bartosch   October 16, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    Are industry based clouds the answer to the data confidentially issue? For example, would a “Banking Industry Cloud”, or “Insurance Industry Cloud” go towards addressing this issue? Who will operate these clouds?

  • 5 Klaus Bartosch   October 16, 2009 at 6:58 pm

    When are the database vendors going to have a solution that works in the cloud for production systems?

  • 6 Louie   October 28, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    Do these cloud technologies use a windows based solution or do they use a Apple based solution. I hear so much about how Apple does a very good job of protecting themselves from viruses, so this is the reason for my question.
    Thank You