A report from Gartner said that by 2017 public cloud offerings will account for over 25 percent of government business services, not counting defence and security.
But CIOs need to get themselves into the debate on public cloud sourcing, and kick of sourcing strategies with politicos.
By 2017, predicted Gartner, 35 percent of government shared service organisations will be managed by private sector companies. Public private partnerships are already embracing infrastructure as a service but governments will move to integration and software as a service.
And, Gartner predicts, by 2017 as many as 60 percent plus of government open data programmes that do not use open data internally will be discontinued.
And if you’ve a job in government software development, mind your back, because at least 25 percent of such jobs will be axed while governments hire data analysts from outside. Data analysis is now a high priority.
