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GSA moves USA.gov, Data.gov to cloud

Several of the U.S. government\'s most recognizable websites are moving to the cloud. The General Services Administration has signed a deal to transition sites ...

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January 30, 2012 2:53 pm

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Several of the U.S. government’s most recognizable websites are moving to the cloud. The General Services Administration has signed a deal to transition sites including USA.gov, data.gov and several others to a privately hosted and managed cloud platform. GSA made the 20 million dollar award under its new blanket purchase agreement for cloud infrastructure-as-a-service. It’s the second such major deal under that BPA. The Homeland Security department used the vehicle to move several of its public websites to the cloud last summer.