Cloud data-storage services are a way for private companies and government agencies to avoid having to build and manage costly new data centers as they add computing capabilities. But in the U.S. government, where concerns about security are paramount, the cloud migration is proceeding more slowly amid cybersecurity concerns.
Before cost-cutting became fashionable in Washington, Vivek Kundra, the White House's chief information officer, was working to shrink the U.S. government's enormous budget for information technology.
But as Mr. Kundra returns to academia after a two-and-a-half- year run, his vision of a leaner and more Internet-centric future for government is being met with caution by at least a few of the technology chiefs at the U.S. agencies that now have to carry it out.
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