Vivek Kundra Joins Salesforce.com

Data Center Knowledge (Jan 17 2012) Cloud Computing

1. Vivek Kundra has a new platform for his “cloud first” message. Kundra, who served as the first Chief Information Officer for the U.S. government, has joined Salesforce.com as executive vice president of emerging markets. The move comes six months after Kundra left the CIO post to accept a fellowship at Harvard University. Kundra has been a leading advocate of shifting federal IT web sites and applications to a cloud computing model, shifting workloads to third-party data centers. This “cloud first” policy was part of the Obama administration’s effort to transform the government’s IT infrastructure. Another key component was a massive data center consolidation that is expected to close more than 1,200 data centers by 2015, with their workloads shifted to more efficient data centers or cloud computing platforms. (Read Full Article)

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