The U.S. Government Department of Defense (DoD) agencies would like to move 57 percent of their IT applications to the cloud by 2020, but believe that current budget allocation will allow just 24 percent of workloads to make the transition. This latest market study by MeriTalk surveyed 150 Federal IT professionals from DoD and American military intelligence agencies to examine where they stand in their move to a cloud services model -- by either migrating legacy software applications to the cloud, or by developing new cloud-native applications. The advantages of open source cloud computing for these government IT users are apparently understood. Eighty-seven percent of the survey respondents cite improved agility, budget savings, and saved time as the top cloud benefits -- but the preferred approach to reach their IT objectives are split. To date, 57 percent of the DoD current cloud applications have been migrated from legacy software applications, while 43 percent have been des...
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