Cloudburst

It's all cloud, all the time in federal IT these days, especially since the Office of Management and Budget ordered agencies to take a cloud-first approach to IT projects. Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for the Office of Integrated Technology Services in the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service, provides a reality check on cloud mania today, with a blog post aimed at busting four myths about cloud computing in the federal sector.

Those myths, according to Davie, are:

• Cloud can be anything.
• Public clouds are not secure, and agencies can't control security requirements.
• Agencies will lose control of their data.
• Moving to the cloud is difficult.