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The 10 Biggest Cloud Stories Of 2011

By Andrew R Hickey CRN
4:00 PM ET Mon. Dec. 05, 2011
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9. All Eyes On Government

As the federal government continued with its "cloud-first" push to cut government IT spending and spur innovation, cloud vendors trained their sights on government contracts in 2011. From achieving FISMA certifications, which sparked a contentious war of words between Microsoft and Google to the launch of government-focused cloud offerings a la Amazon's AWS GovCloud, cloud computing companies clamored lucrative government contracts. The race to the government cloud comes as one survey revealed that roughly two-thirds of federal agencies have identified application to move to the cloud.

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