Who will benefit most from the cloud?

>> Even the government's getting into the gig. So those of you who probably have been following most of the Google groups on this have seen now there's an RP out where they're looking -- the government is really looking to modernize its IT infrastructure to lowering its costs by providing Cloud computing services to all of the different departments. The applications that they're looking at running, you know, range from kind of citizen engagement where they will have Wiki's for your different locals or your states, social networking applications and the agencies being able to use this for managing and hosting their websites. Internally the government then would be using this for all of their other service applications and the usual kinds of things such as email and productivity and desktop. So there's a large framework actually NIST that has been very instrumental in developing a lot of this in a definition of Cloud computing. But if you look at this these are all the terms we already know and I'm sorry it's quite an eye chart here but we're showing everything from service management provisioning, data security, data center facilities. Divide it up into the infrastructure of the service platform as a service, software as a service; these are all familiar terms to us. And, of course, how are they gonna deliver it, through a store front. So, again, now they want to have the government agencies over on the right being able to go into a web portal which will be a GSA Cloud Storefront and be able to then consume services provided by various infrastructures of the service vendors through The Cloud. This, I think, is a very interesting development that shows that even the government traditionally lag even further behind in inaudible is leap frogging this and going right to a Cloud computing environment. As we look more globally many of the companies here are involved, with myself as well, in a project by the world economic forum. Here we're looking to study the global impact of Cloud computing. And at a previous DABAS assumed spelling meeting they identified that they had expect Cloud computing to have a very large impact for individuals giving them greater access to information and being able to collaborate. And for society many of the developing countries may completely leap frog building traditional data centers and instead go right to Cloud computing service providers. And that this kind of leap frogging also could then further revolutionize things such as education and healthcare. Consequently because of the lower cost of Cloud computing this also should be spur for economic growth in that businesses would be able to make better decisions and connecting business in a better way because it'll be lower barriers to entry by Cloud computing and there's possibilities then for spurring job growth as new applications come online. So it's intriguing for those of you in this conference to look forward and to start thinking about what Cloud computing is going to be looking like near 2015 and who will benefit.

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