Kundra’s Op-Ed: Keep Moving Forward with Cloud

Posted by fpietruc on Aug. 31, 2011 .

Former Federal CIO Vivek Kundra reminds us to “look to the cloud” in an Op-Ed posted in today’s New York Times. Kundra was an early Nebula enthusiast as well as a Nebula early adopter. The Nebula team worked with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to launch one of the Federal Government’s first major cloud initiatives: usaspending.gov.

In this piece, Kundra comments on cloud as a solution to egregious waste in Federal IT. Plagued by inefficiencies, Kundra urges the Government to embrace the cloud to increase productivity and lower costs. Kundra believes cloud can put a sizeable dent into trimming the $80 billion Federal IT budget.

Source: New York Times

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