We seem to be using 1 fine at work to no ill effects.
However who will be managing their cloud?
As I posted here »
ASIO's new building.. where the blue prints of a 163 million dollar building were supposedly taken from a third party, you have to wonder at the security of the govt using the cloud.
Will they hold the employees of the cloud provider to contracts stating they won't give away federal secrets?
Will they outsource part of it to overseas, such as India?
Will regular audits of the cloud for network security occur and who will do them?
There is all sorts of implications of allowing federal secrets, issues and policies to float external to their internally locked down systems.
However on the positive side, if they do have it set up correctly with a company that knows their computer and network security, I can see it as an added bonus, because a contracted supplier might be able to pay it's staff to deal with the variety of issues, and manage to suit, where as a govt employee tends to be under-paid and or slack workers hiding in the system making lots of promises but ethically keeping to none.