Ever-shorter innovation cycles are having an impact on infrastructure and software. The demand for agile methods is growing. Cloud computing – that is, computing power, storage space and software accessed via the internet – could help reduce complexity. That is why Germany needs the cloud, says Isabella Groegor-Cechowicz. A start has been made with the federal cloud, and in North Rhine-Westphalia, the state administration is developing its own cloud. Holger Lehmann (ITZ-Bund), Prof. Andreas Meyer-Falcke (CIO NRW), Isabella Groegor-Cechowicz (AWS) and Philipp Möser (DigitalService4Germany) discussed the building blocks required for a successful cloud.
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