Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer
The President's budget for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) includes $75.8B in
information technology (IT) spending, which is a 7-percent increase from
FY09. Of this, at least $20B will be spent on IT infrastructure investments.
[1] The FY11 budget for IT is projected to be nearly $88B. The government is
actively seeking ways to reduce IT costs, and the FY10 budget request
highlights opportunities for the federal government to achieve significant
long-term cost savings through the adoption of cloud computing technologies:
"Of the investments that will involve up-front costs to be recouped in
outyear savings, cloud-computing is a prime case in point. The Federal
Government will transform its Information Technology Infrastructure by
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