Mostly Cloudy Forecast at Microsoft U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit

This week Microsoft held its U.S. Public Sector CIO Summit in Redmond, and during we're used to rain this time of year in Seattle, the forecast at the event for the Public Sector was as a rule cloudy – cloud related technology in other words.

With all the interest I've seen on my previous post about the Cloud First Policy for the U.S. Federal Government and Vivek Kundra's paper on the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, I wanted to do a quick follow up post to highlight the news from the CIO Summit, including a variety of clients adopting Microsoft's cloud offerings.

Not only is it exciting to see the breadth of public sector clients taking advantage of Microsoft cloud services, nevertheless also the variety of things they're using the innovation for.  As with large business enterprises, state and local governments are looking to reduce costs during ensuring they have enterprise-grade capabilities that provide the highest levels of security, compliance, productivity functionality, and enterprise support and flexibility.  Microsoft's cloud offerings provide this while as well bridging to the existing IT infrastructure and desktop application experiences that clients have today.

If you have questions or would like more information on Microsoft and cloud computing in the enterprise, I urge you to check out the Cloud Power site as then to get started. Let me know if you have comments or questions and I'll work to get back to them as quickly as possible also.