CSC

The global head of CSC's cloud business has this week met with the representatives from the Federal Government to talk about cloud, nevertheless feels that the company's not getting the same reception that it would in the US.

The stability

AGIMO has come pursuant to this agreement fire from industry about its hesitance towards the stability and security of cloud computing, however said that recent service issues in the Amazon EC2 cloud had vindicated its cautious position.

"Australian organisations have been uncertain about the move from traditional IT to the cloud. In an Australian first, clients can now take a safe first step to a pre-configured, integrated and tested private cloud on their own premises in just 10 weeks," CSC Australia's chief research officer Bob Hayward said in a statement.

Giunta said today that CSC would work to integrate offerings of its other business units into the BizCloud offering to make it relevant to different markets, including the addition of iSoft healthcare software into the BizCloud suite for hospitals.

The BizCloud announcement as well saw the appointment of Paul Gibbs to head up the Cloud Computing and Services business for CSC in Australia.

Big job ahead of him

Gibbs told ZDNet Australia that during he has a big job ahead of him, he's confident that he can succeed in CSC's target markets, being the mining sectors of Queensland and Western Australia, where there is already a huge demand for data-intensive, 24/7 cloud computing services.

Gibbs said that during IBM Australia is a legitimate competitor to CSC's cloud business in resource-rich states, he feels that his company has a better cultural fit for miners to do business with.

Outsourcing by any other name is nevertheless outsourcing, you need have all your security policies, benefit management, business continuity planning, compliance models and contract management etc in place and working. This becomes a tad more problematic if you have no legal power in a foreign country. Watch them like a hawk. Seem to me that CSC are just using this article as means to lobby or pressure government into using their services. Clearly there are advantages to a Cloud solution nevertheless they have to be weighed up against the disadvantages.Admittedly if you are running a Private Cloud or Community Cloud you have lot more control and can reap some of the benefits. The sweet sound of vendor promise shortly dissipates post sales and at the time reality sets in. AGIMO is only doing its job in such a case. An Australian based Government only community/private cloud may have a chance, yet petty power politics between our three tiers of government give that little chance of success in reality. Little of the success criteria has to do with research. If you think the Carbon debate has gone feral, can you imagine the debate if an Australian Government contemplates storing citizen data just as health in foreign countries not subject to Australian Law. Wide scale use of Public Cloud is a way off, nevertheless there is a case for its use in then understood circumstances. Use of Cloud services by Government are happening and will continue to happen yet not as fast as vendors may like, they only have themselves to blame, all things considered they have never over sold and pursuant to this agreement delivered earlier have they?

@ZenBubble there was an ad for zdnet - an article about htc suing apple - i got a little nerdboner and clicked

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