“The curious thing about this data is that spending in 2016 ramped up while spending in the cloud market as a whole – both as projected in agency reporting to the Office of Management and Budget and in Deltek-verified cloud contract spending data – declined that same fiscal year. For more details on these reported numbers see Deltek’s Federal Priorities Spotlight: Cloud Computing, 2017 report. The spending uptrend stalled in fiscal 2017, however, with $146K less spent.
Not surprisingly, the National Institutes of Health use their own vehicle the most, in addition to other Health and Human Services components like the Health Resources and Services Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The efforts NIH has spent the most on are Oracle Managed Cloud Services for HHS ($6.4M) and…” Read the full article here.
