Federal Budget to include Could Computing

2010 Federal Budget to include Could Computing
Nicholas Hoover, http://InformationWeek.com, Feb 1, 2010 12:24 PM

Tech spending in the U.S. government's just-released fiscal 2011 budget will go toward open government, cloud computing, cybersecurity, procurement, and performance management.

President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget includes $79.4 billion for federal IT spending, a 1.2% bump from the $78.4 billion 2010 budget level. [...] The budget paints government cloud computing efforts -- which federal CIO Vivek Kundra has looked toward as a partial solution to some of the government's data center problems -- with a broad brush, saying only that, "after evaluation in 2010, agencies will deploy cloud computing solutions across the government" and pointing to both Apps.gov and the importance of security in cloud computing.

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