Vivek Kundra Keynote at the Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's keynote at the Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop May 20, 2010. Kundra describes the gap between consumers access to IT and the government. He calls for cloud computing to narrow this gap while maintaining security, data portability and interoperability.Kundra calls industry and government to work together to accelerate cloud adoption by focusing on standards and helping agencies leverage the certification work done by other agencies.

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• NIST
• Commerce
• Cloud computing
• Standards
• Information Technology
• Federal CIO Council
• NASA

[usnistgov]

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[vendorvoicemedia]

As mentioned, all of these are important when considering Cloud Computing: Privacy, Security, Interoperability, and Data Portability. However, absent from your list was "Application Performance Management"

There is a need to develop tight SLAs around "End User Experience" including the ability to troubleshoot to end across the networks and systems. I think CIOs may underestimate the challenge with moving some of these legacy applications - may not work well across the WAN. @PainPoint

[BreedingTrust]

Mr. Kundra and the Government's CIOs should be applauded as they intentionally move to Cloud computing platforms to save taxpayer money, become more responsive to citizens and drive productivity improvements. I especially liked his "Snow-megeddon" example of the 4 days in Feb '10 when the Government shut-down operations, yet found more technologically advanced capabilities at their HOMES than at work.