Govt issues draft cloud strategy

The Department of Finance and Deregulation has released a draft consultation strategy for the Federal Government's migration to cloud computing.

The underlying objective for the draft cloud strategy is to "develop a pathway for agencies to rationalise their ICT asset base and to adopt cloud computing where appropriate", according to the document.

"Transitioning citizen information to the public cloud is not expected to be a viable option within the at once several years unless innovation becomes available to adequately address the risks highlighted in this document," the department wrote.

Growing market

"Agencies should take into consideration that during cloud computing is a growing market; there are however a lack of major cloud vendors having data facilities based in Australia," the report said.

Under the proposed plan, cloud services would be provided to government agencies via a whole-of-government service provider panel. When considering the vendor panel, Finance will take into account data portability, business continuity, data security and disaster recovery. Finance will as well consider building a "shopfront" for services, including a vendor catalogue of services to choose from.

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