Obama Administration unveils cloud computing initiative

news.cnet.com/ ^ | September 15, 2009 | Daniel Terdiman

[Berlin_Freeper]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a far-reaching and long-term cloud computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and reduce the environmental impact of government computing systems.

Speaking at NASA's Ames Research Center here, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the administration's first formal efforts to roll out a broad system designed to leverage existing infrastructure and in the process, slash federal spending on information technology, especially expensive data centers.

[Berlin_Freeper]

- But while some of the benefits of the administration's cloud computing initiative are on display today--mainly at the brand-new Apps.gov Web site--Kundra's presentation was short on specifics and vague about how long it may take the government to transition fully to its new paradigm.

[jessduntno]

“...reduce the environmental impact of government computing systems.”

Which is what, exactly?

[Zathras]

And about 4 years late to the party.

[Some hope remaining.]

So they can manipulate the climate data? And nobody else will be able to dispute it?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Supposedly less data centers.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Or any data.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yeah, that will be secure.

[jessduntno]

“Supposedly less data centers.”

Didn’t they just upgrade to all System/360 mainframes? Yep. Move all of our govt puters to the cloud...good idea...what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

[agere_contra]

Cloud computing: that’s vaporware to the rest of us.

[libh8er]

Cloud computing is overhyped. It’s mainly pushed by niche vendors like Salesforce. Its drawback is you are never in possession of your data, app etc.

[mikrofon]

Cloud Computing — The Obaministration taking figures out of the air...

[beethovenfan]

Well, they’ve certainly got their heads in the clouds (among other places).

[libh8er]

Kundra hinted that it could take as much as a decade to complete the cloud computing "journey."

How much do you bet 10 years later they will be asking for another 10 and five times the original budget. After which it will be a complete mess and they will start over in a new direction.

[FrogMom]

I believe they are pulling every hare-brained idea they can out of a hat to fund.

Will hasten the fall a la Cloward-Piven.

[Some hope remaining.]

P.S. I know “cloud computing” refers to something else but it seemed kinda funny to apply it to climate predictions. :)

[the long march]

Blue sky is always exciting

He is trying to establish one large location to handle ALL computer ( read data base) transaction in the government. THIS IS VERY BAD

[The Comedian]

Here it comes: Another $30 million dollar website.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[drubyfive]

Hey you, stay off of my cloud