Starter 9/22

I’ll be presenting about the federal government’s new Web site Apps.gov, where federal agencies will able to buy cloud computing applications and services. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled it just this week. Cloud computing is a model in which software is delivered over the Web rather than installed on individual PCs or local servers. The goal is to trim the government’s $75 billion annual IT budget.

As part of the program, Google announced that it is going to dedicate a part of its computing infrastructure to serve the federal government exclusively.

Please read the New York Times article that gives a good overview of the initiative:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/now-even-the-government-has-an-app-store/?ref=technology

Additional reading, if you’d like:
The official announcement from the CIO:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Streaming-at-100-In-the-Cloud/

All about the Google deal:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-apps-and-government.html

And the Apps.Gov site itself:
https://apps.gov/cloud/advantage/main/start_page.do