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Cloud Computing at full speed for the US Government

You would thing that US Government would be very last organization in the world to embrace Cloud Computing. After all, we are talking about government here; a large bureaucracy and the but of all jokes when it comes to speed of change or desire to provide good service. Besides, US Government IT systems handle some of the most sensitive and private data that requires the utmost vigilance when it comes to security. This is the very private data on the US citizens, all the data collected by the spooks (I mean it in the most positive way :-) ), the financial and regulatory data on the corporations that are the engine of the US economy. Yet, Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra has given the green light for the GSA and other government agencies to aggressively pursue cloud computing initiatives. [...]

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