Obama's CIO backs SaaS
- TAGS:Vivek Kundra, White House CIO
- IT TOPICS:Cloud Computing, Government & Regulation, Management
Who knows what changes in IT operations Vivek Kundra is planning for President Obama's White House? He's the new CIO for Uncle Sam. And as citizens we all have high hopes he'll be an improvement in, if nothing else, e-mail management over his immediate predecessors.
Still, whatever else Kundra does, we can be pretty certain he'll give a fair hearing to those who want to expand government use of software as a service. We can be sure of this because as the chief technology officer at the District of Columbia he led an effort to do just that.
The White House is not the District of Columbia. It has a slew of different requirements. Kundra is super smart enough to know this. But he's also smart enough to know that some requirements might be ripe for SaaS instead of on-premises software because he has first-hand experience.
Now he's one of the gatekeepers to deploying IT for this Administration. Even more good news for SaaS backers.
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