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2. Vivek Kundra, CIO, U.S. government

Vivek Kundra

The federal CIO and cloud advocate has been tasked with (and budgeted for) bringing $19 billion worth of scalable, on-demand, elastic computing power into the antediluvian federal IT infrastructure. A very new broom, Kundra's successes are limited at this point, but when he speaks, 19 billion dollars' worth of ears perk up.

This number two ranking is a bit like President Obama's Nobel Peace prize; it's more about the expectation of what Kundra will do than what he has done so far.

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