{"id":11249,"date":"2017-12-15T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T11:49:48","slug":"donald-trump-usa-government-needs-cloud-based-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/donald-trump-usa-government-needs-cloud-based-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: USA government needs more cloud-based tech"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced the USA government needs more information technology systems, data protection, and cloud-based technologies.<\/p>\n
In April, president Donald Trump signed an executive order for a new technology council to take over the government\u2019s IT systems.<\/p>\n
The USA Government Accountability Office<\/em> report estimated the USA government spent more than US$80billion on IT annually in 2016, revealing spending on technologies has fallen by US$7.3billion since 2010.<\/p>\n A White House report revealed: “Difficulties in agency prioritisation of resources in support of IT modernisation, ability to procure services quickly, and technical issues have resulted in an unwieldy and out-of-date federal IT infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n The White House also noted most of the government’s 6,100 data centres will be moved to a cloud-based storage system by June 2018.<\/p>\n Written by Leah Alger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump announces the USA government needs more information technology systems, data protection, and cloud-based technologies <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1158],"tags":[2383,1079,1106,2380,118,2382,2381],"yoast_head":"\n