U.S. Schools and Government Promoting SaaS and Cloud Computing
April 2, 2009 Leave a comment
6th Mar, 2009 by Jeff Kaplan on www.thinkstrategies.com
Among my predictions for 2009, was that the new Obama administration would push legislation and take other initiatives to promote Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud computing as part of its overhaul of the government and economic stimulus efforts.
Sure enough, Obama’s new CIO- Vivek Kundra- made it clear yesterday that he is a big proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. Here’s what he said to the Wall Street Journal,
“I’m a big believer in disruptive technology. If I went to the coffee shop, I would have more computing power than the police department. Consumers had better technology than the government did. I’m all about the cloud computing notion. I look at my lifestyle, and I want access to information wherever I am. I am killing projects that dont investigate software as a service first.”
