This week's Question: While companies debate the merits of cloud computing, the U.S. government has been weighing its own options. By gradually shifting to maintenance-free services that are based on the Internet and run by private companies, Vivek Kundra, the White House's former chief information officer, said that this kind of "Cloud First" strategy would consolidate data centers and save the government more than $3 billion a year. Others, however, note that the cloud has its own expenses, data protection concerns, and speed considerations. What do you think? Do the benefits of a "cloud-first" strategy outweigh the risks and drawbacks? RESULTS
- YES
- 14.71%
- NO
- 85.29%
