{"id":1019,"date":"2010-01-18T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2010-01-18T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:00:50","slug":"technology-the-feds-struggle-to-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-the-feds-struggle-to-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology:  The Feds Struggle to Get IT Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Typically the words &#8216;Federal Government&#8217;, &#8216;IT&#8217; and &#8216;efficiency&#8217; are not used in the same sentence unless accompanied by a &#8216;no&#8217; or a &#8216;not&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The Feds have been struggling to right their wrongs and get it straight for years.\u00a0 Now, under pressure from the Obama administration to become more efficient and save money, the Federal Government is looking towards new technology to bail them out.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Top 5 Technologies with Feds\" href=\"http:\/\/newsblaze.com\/story\/2009120706032800002.bw\/topstory.html\">Top on their list<\/a> are these five technologies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cloud Computing<\/li>\n<li>Virtualization<\/li>\n<li>Service Oriented Architecture<\/li>\n<li>Open Source Software<\/li>\n<li>Geospatial Technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If one didn&#8217;t know better you&#8217;d think that you&#8217;re looking at one of Gartner&#8217;s lists.\u00a0 The Feds have aspirations to be on the cutting edge.\u00a0 More than half of the federal and IT professionals thought that these technologies hold the key to a more efficient future in government.\u00a0 But there are barriers to the realization of this goal that include budget hurdles, security issues, and employees with the right skills to use these technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that the hurdles can be cleared, projections from the research group INPUT are that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The federal computing cloud market will grow from $370 million to $1.2 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