More government data to the cloud?

• Position: INFO TECHNOLOGY - Brief article

A according to a recent report, the U.S. government spent $277 million on cloud computing in 2008, and that amount will increase to $792 million by 2013.

The report, Moving to the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing in Government, by Southeastern Louisiana University professor David Wyld, explains that while NARA received 200 million e-mails from the outgoing Bush administration, the Obama administration could generate more than I billion e-mails, thus the need for cloud computing.

There are many definitions of "cloud computing," but Wyld's report used the National...