Almost half of the IT executives working for the federal government doubt that moving to cloud computing will save their agencies enough money to make it worth the trouble, according to a survey from Ovum. The skepticism comes despite the fact that Vivek Kundra, national CIO, insists that cloud computing will save $5 billion a year, reports Elizabeth Montalbano at InformationWeek.

Agencies are directed to consider cloud services first when planning new projects, but many CIOs remain concerned about the migration. The Ovum survey found that 68 percent of federal CIOs are concerned about losing control of business functions that are moved to the cloud. Another recent survey showed that government executives are more receptive to private cloud services or hybrid services, Montalbano reports.

The Ovum study revealed that IT executives in different regions of the globe have somewhat different concerns about migrating to cloud services. In the Asia-Pacific region, only 29 percent of CIOs expressed worries that cloud computing would not produce sufficient savings, compared to 49 percent in Europe and 46 percent in the United States. CIOs in Europe and Asia were also less concerned than their U.S. counterparts about losing control of business functions, with 39 percent and 31 percent, respectively, expressing this fear.

For more:
- see Elizabeth Montalbano's article at InformationWeek

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