5 ways to benefit from NIST's cloud road map now

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An article by Rutrell Yasin appearing on the gcn.com website.

This article discusses the recently released NIST road map for cloud computing, and how this can help guide companies in their selection of a cloud services provider.

The article states, "Dawn Leaf, NIST’s (National Institute of Standards and Technology) senior executive for cloud computing, said the road map provides both strategic and tactical guidance to agencies. Focusing on near-term guidance, she listed five steps agency managers can take right now to benefit from the road map."  The five steps are listed below, and narrative remarks regarding each step is provided in the article:

1. Ask cloud vendors to map their services to the NIST Cloud Reference Architecture.

2. Determine vendor support for cloud standards.

3. Compare agency business use cases.

4. Focus on deployment.

5. Focus on security.