Cloudy Govt. Reputation?

They think The Cloud could change the government's reputation!
Just how powerful do THEY think "the cloud" really is?

I'd say the cloud showed-cause with yesterday's announcement that the White House has launched Apps.gov, an online storefront for federal agencies to quickly browse and purchase cloud-based IT services, for productivity, collaboration, and efficiency.

The White House? Sure, I would have expected this from Al Gore, after all, he invented the Internet, but shouldn't the government have like a Department of Homeland IT? Whatever.

My favorite part of this article is...

The cloud initiative is supposed to - finally! - break
the well-deserved reputation of federal IT as broken,
corrupt and brain-dead.

Again I ask, powerful do they think cloud computing really is?
It's still going to be run by the government!!!

But seriously, you should go to: http://www.apps.gov/
And check out the very well-done video in the upper right hand corner.

Now here's the other (no surprise) revelation... in the artcile we find out that "Google plans a cloud-based offering for government next year". Of course they are going to have a goverment focused offering, we all saw the movie The Net , didn't we? Sandra Bullock, before she did Hope Floats and I had to cross her off the "must see" list.

Maybe we need to pass a laws... 1) The goverment's cloud has to be certified resilient, redundant, backed up, geographically dispersed, etc. 2) They are not allowed to use Google.

That's all I'm saying.

Cheers
- R