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The Obama administration has long touted cloud computing as an effective means to take advantage of technology for less money, and CIO Vivek Kundra on Monday announced the launch of apps.gov, an online storefront for federal agencies to browse and purchase cloud-based IT services.

“Cloud computing is the next generation of IT in which data and applications will be housed centrally and accessible anywhere and anytime by a various devices,” Kundra wrote in a blog post. “By consolidating available services, Apps.gov is a one-stop source for cloud services – an innovation that not only can change how IT operates, but also save taxpayer dollars in the process.”

The government spends about $75 billion each year on information technology, Kundra wrote, but current procurement processes and security procedures can be time consuming and at times redundant.

An interesting article illustrating how governments are looking at cloud technologies as a way of providing their IT services, I wonder if this is not an evolution of the IT concept, moving towards rather than a centralized one size fits all solution, to a cloud based one where we offer one service which can be adapted to your business requirements, email, storage or application, one center of excellence, one infrastructure, rather than each region of the enterprise hosting and supplying their own email/storage or application? We’ll have to see exciting times are ahead.

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