Trust Clouds™: Horizontal Information-Sharing Services for Governments and Their Partners

To help government think about getting started with cloud computing, Cisco Systems and Swan Island Networks have published Trust Clouds: An Emerging, Horizontal Information-Sharing Service for Governments. This paper advocates immediate use of cloud computing and related emergent social networking and Web 2.0 technologies within government… and provides a recipe for getting started. Read the White Paper The Pundits Weigh In:
	“As the white paper authors point out, Twitter and Second Life have been used in innovative ways to deal with a variety of crises, albeit by teenagers and other local citizens. A trust cloud would fit somewhere between such wide open social networks and closed classified systems.”   —John Foley, Plug Into the Cloud, Information Week
		“…governments are hesitant to adapt to cloud computing for security reasons and strict procurement policies that leave out SaaS cloud services. Swan Island is hoping to be the platform for this sector by offering high-trust, heavily securitized clouds. Its cloud platform, TIES, is hoping to take government data infrastructures into cloud by offering a more agile platform that allows secure and authenticated virtualization of all data.” Leena Rao, TechCrunchIT