The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced that it published the final version of the US Government Cloud Computing Technology Roadmap, Volumes I and II.
It said the roadmap focuses on strategic and tactical objectives to support the federal government’s accelerated adoption of cloud computing and leverages the strengths and resources of government, industry, academia and standards development organizations to support technology innovation in cloud computing.
Volume I, High-Priority Requirements to Further USG Agency Cloud Computing Adoption, describes the roadmap’s purpose and scope. Volume II, Useful Information for Cloud Adopters, introduces a conceptual model, the NIST Cloud Computing Reference Architecture and Taxonomy and presents US government cloud target business and technical use cases.
Link: http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=915112
