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Ames Will Help Coordinate Government IT

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 16, 2009

Obama official unveils ‘cloud computing’ initiative at NASA Ames, Mountain View Voice
“Aiming to save billions on infrastructure costs, the federal government is following in the footsteps of Silicon Valley by building its own Google-like server farms and Internet applications with the help of NASA Ames researchers. At a press conference at Moffett Field on Tuesday morning, the White House’s first-ever chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, said the Obama administration began working on the initiative in March to address the “duplicative” nature of the federal government’s computer networks, “where you have 23 data centers in one agency.”
Now, Even the Government Has an App Store, NY Times
“The apps storefront, which is run by the General Services Administration, includes an array of business applications, productivity software, services like storage and Web hosting and social applications. In a speech at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, Mr. Kundra said that the cloud offerings could be cheaper and more energy-efficient and allow the federal government to benefit from the same technological advances that most consumers enjoy.”

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