Even the White House wants a cloud

Even the White House wants a cloud

Even the White House wants a cloud

Date: Aug 17, 2011

There's been a lot of action in the cloud market, including Google's acquisition of Motorola. Oh wait, that has nothing to do with the cloud. Never mind. But one house, which happens to be white, is actually making some cloud moves. Nick Mehta, CEO of LiveOffice, and a handful of others helped advise the U.S. government on how to use cloud technologies and helped plan a way for the White House to adopt a cloud. He spills on how it all went down in this week's episode of Cloud Cover TV.

We discuss:

Google's acquisition of Motorola (it has nothing to do with cloud computing)
Cloud-based identity and access management provider Okta brought in $16.5 million in venture capital
The University of Washington is offering a certificate in cloud computing
Nick Mehta, CEO of LiveOffice, discusses advising the government on how to use cloud technologies
How the selected cloud advisors planned a way for the White House to adopt the cloud
How the government will change when everything is moved to the cloud
What LiveOffice can provide for enterprise IT organizations looking to use email services in the cloud
The differences in using email services in the cloud
The pros and cons of Google and Microsoft
How to transition between Google and Microsoft

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