<p>When you have staff based in almost every corner of the globe and in some of the most remote locations on the planet, it might make more sense to use cloud services, but according to Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade CIO Tuan Dao, despite all the hype, there are still too many security and privacy issues associated with the cloud for his department.(Image: DFAT)</p><p>The department has 95 overseas posts based in five continents, with 3,600 staff members. The disparate nature of the organisation and the 44 agencies it supports means that major IT projects represent a unique challenge for the CIO. The uptake of cloud services might have been seen as one way to reduce the cost of deploying infrastructure across the globe, but that is not always the case, according to Dao, who was appointed as the department's CIO in 2010, after nine years with the Department of Human Services in ICT infrastructure.</p><p>Although government agencies are now required to consider cloud services as part of tenders for new projects, Dao told ZDNet in an interview this week that the he doesn't buy into the hype around the cloud.</p><p>"I am a firm believer in the capabilities that cloud computing can offer, but hype is what I have a problem with. I think industry and parts of government have been overzealous in thinking it is the answer to everything, when in reality, the issues [around data security and privacy] we have been trying to deal with over the last seven years have not been dealt with," he said.</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/au/dfat-cio-doesnt-buy-into-cloud-hype-7000020036/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnetaustralia+(ZDNet+Australia)">Keep reading...</a></p>