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The Change.gov group has published a video on YouTube titled Inside the Transition: Technology, Innovation and Government. In this 4 minute video the Technology Innovation and Reform Team (TIGR) discusses how the U.S. Government has fallen behind in technology and how the new administration will implement and explore modern web applications to provide services, lower costs of operations, and provide better transparency to the people. At about 2:50 into the video, cloud computing is recognized as a way to drastically reduce the cost of Information Technology compared to traditional server infrastructure, and the shift to cloud computing will be one of the most important transformations the Federal Government will go through.

Earlier this week I posted about Obama’s Citizen Briefing Book and the need to vote up virtualization ideas for the new administration. The virtualization idea is obviously related to this video, and it’s great to see the TIGR team and the new administration focused on advancing cloud computing technology in our Government.

I found out about the video from

the BlueLock.com post Obama Tech Team Realizes Government Benefits of Cloud Computing. BlueLock is a VMware Authorized Hosting Provider that delivers cloud computing and hosted environments. BlueLock has also been providing CloudCamp events in various cities around the world.

Check out the YouTube video at the link above, or watch it embedded here on VM /ETC

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