Cloud computing could save government $20 billion a year.

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A recent MeriTalk survey suggests that many U.S. federal IT professionals believe that the platform as a service (PaaS) functionality could cut federal IT costs by $20.5 billion a year by speeding up the development of software.

"PaaS or Play? Cloud's Next Move," which was underwritten by Red Hat Inc., reported on the survey of 153 federal IT professionals. The survey found that current software development is slow and expensive; the average duration for developing an application is 3.5 years.

Some 92% of the respondents believe that PaaS offers vital support for cloud computing and could reduce the development time significantly. The perceived advantages of PaaS include data center consolidation, shared services, improved agility and security, and better management of big...

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