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Survey: Agency cloud migrations should be more than ‘lift-and-shift’

Federal Times: Federal managers note increased support for cloud-computing technology over the last few years, but that migration and execution may be impacting the value of cloud migration, according to a new survey by the Government Business Council and Deloitte.

The report, titled " Mastering the Migration: A Candid Survey of Federal Leaders on the State of Cloud Computing," collected responses from 328 senior employees in 30 major agencies across the civilian and defense government sectors.

While more respondents say cloud computing has had a positive impact (24 percent) on their organization than those that reported a negative one (6 percent), the survey finds that nearly 1 in 3 feds observed no noticeable impact in the years following the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy's 2011 release.

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