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Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud. We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
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Obama Appoints a Cloud Computing Fancier
A Delhi-born ex-marketing guy, Vivek Kundra, has been named America's first CIO

By: Maureen O'Gara
Mar. 13, 2009 06:15 AM

Ahead of Barrack Obama's promised appointment of America's first CTO, the CTO of the District of Columbia, a Delhi-born ex-marketing guy, Vivek Kundra, has been named America's first CIO.

He's a self-professed cloud fancier who replaced Washington's Microsoft widgetry with Google's web-based applications.

Perhaps, if he has his way, the deficit-ridden post office will be forced to go digital and snail mail will become rare, if not history. Now that would be disruptive.

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