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Does anyone else find the hoopla over U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra’s qualifications (U.S. CTO and Kundra-buddy Aneesh Chopra caught some shrapnel) to be among the most interesting IT stories of the year? John...
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It was a relatively quiet Friday, likely due to VMworld and Labor Day hangovers. The most interesting news of the day is the announcement of U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra’s Tuesday press conference to unveil...
View ArticleWill Apps.gov Raise the Bar for Cloud Providers?
Is it possible to overstate the importance of Apps.gov to the cloud computing landscape? In one fell swoop, U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra transformed a not-ready-for-primetime paradigm into a government-ready...
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Obama Budget Spells Benefits for the Cloud
Quick, what spends almost $80 billion on information technology, likes the cloud, and is red white and blue all over? Yup, it’s the federal government, and in President Obama’s budget announced...
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U.S. CIO Kundra leaving for Harvard post
Vivek Kundra, the U.S.’ first Chief Information Officer, is stepping down to take a fellowship at Harvard University. Jack Lew, the director of the United States Office of Management and Budget...
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Former federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra came out swinging this morning with an op-ed in the New York Times, a month after he left his post. While Kundra makes the usual arguments about...
View ArticleBeyond the data center: transitioning government to the cloud
This week UK Ministry of Justice official Martin Bellamy addressed concerns that the UK government has become less enthusiastic about a government cloud, saying, “We are expecting to be able to...
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Amazon’s data center efficiency guru James Hamilton has a good post on Amazon’s new spot cloud service—EC2 Spot Instances—where excess data center capacity is being sold via bids on a spot market....
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Kundra: Democratizing data means a fundamental shift in power
Vivek Kunda, EVP, Emerging Markets, Salesforce.com(c)2012 Pinar Ozger pinar@pinarozger.com When Vivek Kundra walked into the White House as the first Chief Information Officer for the federal...
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Obama CIO: Location, location, location (and personalization) will be key to...
President Obama was inaugurated a scant few weeks ago but it’s never too early to think about the next election cycle. Tech teams for the 2016 campaign will need to hone in on location-based...
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