Several agency CIOs have posted progress reports to CIO.gov on implementing the White House’s 25-point implementation plan for improving IT management.
The CIOs said they have begun moving computing resources and software to cloud-based solutions (where they are delivered more flexibly over a network) as called for in the plan.
For example, the Social Security Administration reported migrating its perimeter security and intrusion detection systems to the cloud, boosting performance and maintaining cost. The agency also said it is investigating moving its 25,000 email users to a cloud platform within 18 months.
USAID reported being in the pilot stage for migrating its email from 115 desktop email servers and 40 mobile email servers worldwide to a cloud based solution and expects to save $20 million over five years through reduced tech support, upgrades and operational costs. The agency said a video conferencing, file-sharing and messaging cloud-based system called AIDConnect is also gaining wider adoption among USAID’s 8,000 employees, something the agency said is making it easier and less expensive for its widely dispersed workforce to collaborate.
Labor reported moving Disability.gov to a cloud-based hosting solution and says it expects to avoid over 60 percent of the bandwidth costs while increasing capacity and that it was able to close a proprietary data center as a result.
Treasury said it has moved all of its hosting to the cloud, and is bringing its new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau online with cloud solutions for all IT infrastructure and application/data investments.
