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Obama looks to the Cloud to cut US national IT budget

  • President Obama plans to get rid of double digit increases in the US national IT budget and Cloud Computing is a key weapon in his arsenal.

Cloud Computing is being relied on to help the White House reduce its IT budget by 1.6% rather than the double digit increases that have characterised previous years. For 2011, the Obama administration hopes to get by on an IT budget of $79.4 billion.

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Business Cloud Summit 2009

In the latest of our series of videos from the Business Cloud Summit 09, we talk to customers on the frontline of the Cloud.

View from the Cloud: is email dead for business?

Leading Cloud Computing industry figures offers their unique viewpoint on topical and strategic issues.

In this article Cameron  Nouri, Email & Apps Evangelist at Rackspace suggests that Cloud Computing alters the role of email in business.

"Email is clearly an important tool for communication, but it is just part of the infrastructure and not part of the company’s IP,  which drives market share and delivers competitive edge. This means email needs to adapt to businesses’ requirements, not  the other way around. As Cloud Computing become more widespread, we are already seeing a shift in how email is managed."   Read more.